The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-15

| "' POI CVhI' DulluluS Increased %
per cent prisoners in county Jail,
one-half number one year ago. Pro
hibition Is prohibiting"
experience Of East Liverpool,
| Ohio, Is the largest city OF that state
where no-license Is in force, Is val
liable upon the question OF taxation
without saloon revenue. The tax
levy for another year has recently
been fixed, and in spite of the fact
tbat the ely "1bst" twenty six
thousand dollars, by voting out its
saloons, a year ago, the rate has
been reduced from 1926 mills to
10 .O5. The National Prohibitionist
Of August 6, 1905.
CRIME IN A WET CITY AND IN
A DRY ONE.
Boston, Mass. is the nearest large
city to Portland, Ne, says Clinton
N. Howard, a three-hour ride on a
good train. It has the most string
ent system of regulation and the
highest license of any large city in
the county.
For every 10000 Of the populltiou.
Boston has 1926 arrests for drunk.
enness, and Portland has 81.
II costs Boston SO per capita to
police the city and Portland 81 %.
1t costs Boston % cents per capita
for jails and Portland cents.
And comparing prohibition Milne
with licensed Massachusetts,. for ev-
cry 10000 population. Massachusetts
has 80 criminals in the peniteutiary
and Maine has t3.
So that prohibition Maine shows
only one-third of ths criminals Of
licena d Mssachusef fs .t--Painesvill
tOO Messenger
Ethics of the Ballot Box by the
late Charles A. Crane:
Enlightened public opinion favors
the Prohibition of the liquor traffic,
therefore I so with company of men
joined together for the purpose of
promoting the national Interest upon
this subject, Many differing aud
ggreeing with me I'm this matter have
asked me TO set down for their CON
sideration the reasons, or some OF.
them, for holding this position.
am a party PrOhibitlonist.
/, Because a license party does not
represent my convictions or my
views. My party is my agent, rep
resentative and servant in the ad-
ministration of government. What
do by my party | do by myself, If
my agents license saloons so do !.
2. Because throw away my
vote when | vote with a party which
does not represent my views. But my
vote Is never thrown away when |
vote my convictions.
3. Because license Is system of
consent to a wicked thing-the drunk
ard factory and the vice factory, for
a price paid in hand. When | con-
sent to tit becomes mine moral
ly.
4. Because license means the con
tinuance of the saloon, TO this |
cannot consent To this do con
sent when | vote with a political
party committed to the license party.
: Because | refuse TO confuse
abolition of the drink habit" with
"Prohibltion of the licensed liquor
traffic" The Prohibition party is
not after the drink habit, 1t seeks
to take away the protection OF the
saloon by law. Without this protec-
ton the saloon would be an outlaw
what It ought to be.
6. Because there Is nothing I'm
morals or psychology which makes it
right for me 10 vote against license
when that is the only question-and
vote for license when It Is combined
with other questions.
z. Because votes are the only
language law makers and politicians.
can hear To them all other Ian
guages are dead.
s, Because all of our territory isl
by right Prohibition territory The
saloon would not be among us ex-
cept as an outlaw-like a theft it,
were not for license parties. This
disposes of that wcIl-worn political
heresy which declasethat all we have
of Prohibition has come from the
two dominant parties. The fact is
that all we have of the legalized sa-
loon has come through them, and the
inherent right of the people to Pro
ibition territory has by them been
denied The United States Supreme
Court has decided that no one has an
inherent right to sell lntoxlcants,
.. Because license Is the only
thing that prevents Prohibition from
becoming ain existing fact. 1t Is the
strong hlgh tower WnereuntO the