The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-23
MODEL LICENSE
 LAW ADVOCATED Convention Adopts Resolutions
 On Liquor Traffic PROHIBITION ALL WRONG Delegates To Meeting Declare That Saloons Must Be Regulated ana That They Must Not Go Be-
 yond certian Number.
PROHIBITION ALL WRONG

Louisville January 22.-The first speak or at the morning session of the Model License league convention was T. De- Quincy Fully, secretary of the La" Ell forcement society of New York city. MT Tully said the society he represented stoou for the enforcement of all laws and es- pecially the excise law in New fork.
 we broke with the Anti-Saloon league in our state," said MT. Fully, when they called for a temperance law
 Continuing. he said: "The passing Of local option laws in Kentucky ana piie going dry of numerous states means noun ing. It is by no means an indication tna' the pepo!e of the country want temper ance, but that they want the eontrol anu manner of running saloons changed.
 .eThere is no doubt that if New fork city was given the privilege of local op- tion that the 10000 saloons would be voted out. Why? Because the majority or the people want the abuses of the saloons cor reeted At the bottom of all law-break- ing. petit intrigue, small and large graft, debauchery and vice, is the lawless sa- loon. It is the harbor for most or the country's iniquity. With its disappearance by the enforcement of the excise laws, the
  homes and larger industries. It will mean the taking out of the hands of the ma chimes and political cliques the govern ment of any of our cities. The better class of our citizens will control affairs for robbed of his bottle, through the en- forcement of the laws, the club of power will be snatched from the thief and the thug"
 Resolutions Adopted.
 The convention this afternoon adopted the following resolutions:
 Whereas. The people of the various states are being urged by certain organ nations to prohibit the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages, which would destroy millions of property and throw out of employment hundreds of thousands of men:
 Whereas The states of Georgia, Ala bama and Oklahoma did, during the year 1907. adopt measures for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and for the destruction of rev. enues aggregating millions of dollars per annum; and
 Whereas, We as members Of the wine, spirit, beer and collateral trades are op- posed to legislation of this character from the standpoint of self interest, and equally so because of the fact that centuries of experience go to show that such laws, while destructive in their nature, are ab- solutely impossible of endorsements and Whereas, A large proportion of the press of this country is giving encouragement to this movement, not because of any faith in prohibitory legislation, but as a protest against the lawless element in the business; and
 Whereas The wine. beer and whisky trades of this country are in favor of absolute obedience to the law; therefore, be it
 Prohibition Fails. Resolved, That law merely prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and permitting the purchase and use of these beverages, while pro- viding destructive revenues, does ant must inevitably fail to prohibit either the use or abuse of alcoholic beverages. That prohibitory laws under which oul business is forbidden as a lawful pursuit only shows as a result an increase in th' per capita consumption of wine, beer and whisky. as exhibited by the indisputabl, evidence offered by the internal revenue department of the government and result In the development of an illegitimat'
 traffic in liquors.
 That we are opposed to sumptuary leg islation on the ground that such laws arr in conflict with the spirit of our liberties and that they bring about demoralizatioi