The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-13
Flaming Posters Being Sent
Over State by Brew
cry Combine.
SPECULATION CONFIRMED.
NOW ASSURED " DEMOCRATIC
STATE LEGISLATURE 10 ELECT
ED, REPEAL OF LAW Is GER
TAIN.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. b. That the
brewers will make tremendous effort
to secure the repeal of the county local
option law IL the Democrats should
carry the legislature this year is shown
by the fact that they are beginning a
bilI-post campaign with a view to
pre1udicing public opinion against the
county local option statute. The bills
appeared on boards in Indianapolis
yesterday.
This is the most direct evidence that
has yet been obtained connecting the
brewers with a movement to repeal the
law which was written upon the statute
books at the recent special session of
the legislature.
The Terre Haute Brewing company,
of which Crawford Fairbanks is the
head, Is sending to bill-posting agents
throughout the state lurid bills Of large
dimensions which are to be posted as
conspicuously as possible. Seven sheets
are being sent to each bill poster, with
instructions to post them in such way
as to form a large bill about eight by
ten feet in dimension.
Across the top of the completed bill
will appear in immense red letters the
following:
Effects of county local option"
Across the bottom, in letters almost
as large and fully as red, will stand out
the following legend:
County local option means prohibi-
tion with all its evil effects
The intervening sheets between the
top and bottom streamers will be de-
voted to printed matter that will at
tempt to show in detail the so-called
"evil effects of prohibition. Evidently
the brewery combine sets especial store
by one sheet entitled, Bankruptcy
Follows Prohibition" for the instruc-
tons to bill posters specify that two
copi of it shall be posted on each bill
board, one on each side of another
sheet in red and black type.
The sheets with bears the caption,
Bankruptcy Follows Prohibition"
deals with conditions at Kansas City,
Kans., and presents pictures of 1oS
storerooms in that city which the pos
ter says have been made vacant by the
adjustment of saloons from that town.
THE Camera Can't Lie is the brew
cry comment on this series of photo
graphs.
Then follows. in bold faced type de-
scription of what prohibition did" in
Kansas City, Kans.
Appeals to Selfish Interests.
The red and black sheet of statis-
tics" as 1t is called in the letter of
instructions to bill posters, deals with
the statistical side Of the liquor traffic
and appeals to a large variety of citi-
zens from the standpoint of selfish in
terest alone. 1t is addressed to farm
ers, manufacturers, dealers, insurance
agents. transportation companies and
wage earners."
Then this circular proceeds in part
as follows:
THE continued growth of prohibition
and the destruction of the brewery and
dfstilling industries will result in the
farmer and the allied trades in all lines
Of manufacture being made to suffer
great losses through the destroyed
markets for their products.
Every farmer, every workingman
and every manufacturer in the United
States should now assert his rights and
use every effort to suppress this grow
Ing evil of prohibition, which is jea-
pordizing the livelihood of upward of
six millions of people and threatens to
participate the greatest financial crisis
this country has ever known.
Letter Of instructions.
The letter which the Terre Haute
Brewing company is sending to bill
posters is as follows:
Dear Strive are shipping you by
express paper for eight sheet stands
contracted for by us through Proctor
& Collier. These stands are to be post
ed with seven sheets arranged as fol-
lows: Two sheets across the top, read
ing. Effects of County Local option
Post the three individual sheets
through the center of the stand from
RICH to left, as follows:
Bankruptcy sheet. Red and black