Pocahontas star herald., 1908-09-04

of making the proposition to you ''
vote for license for revenue, t
saloon man should make the trr
proposition, vote for license so y'',
can pay the revenue so that it
create more crime, so that you 4
pay more taxes to prosecute me
criminals and send more of your
fellow men to the penitentiary.
They try to scare the farmer a.
laboring people to death by sayi
look at the great amount of tie
farmers product that goes mo
liquors and look at. the employment
for men it affords, when the truth
is according to the United States
statistics, that the liquor industries
combined pay to labor a little less
that per cent of the value of their
production and about Is per cent
for raw material Let us see what
they do for the farmer, according to
the statistics, they use one half of
one per cent of the farmers product,
enormous isn't it? In distilling
whiskey they use seven bushels of
corn out of every thousand bushels
which is less than three fourths of
one per cent of the corn grown by
the farmer yet we hear the cry what
will the farmer do with his corn if
they stop making whiskey. Lets
see what be will do with it, the dis
tillers of the United States fatten
hundreds and hundreds of hogs and
cattle with slops from the distill and
put them on the market in compe-
tion to the farmer and what they
get out of them is clear profit save
the expense of paying the man who
feeds them. What will you do
with your corn when the stills stop,
Just feed it to cattle and hogs to
take the place of the still fed stock
that goes on the market and it will
amount to twice as much to the
farmer as the amount paid to him
by the distilleries and that is not
all, if you will keep out the traffic in
liquors more men about our towns
will own horses and cows to be fed
and they will buy the farmers corn.
Gentlemen can you figure it out
where the saloons are worth a penny
to any man except tie men who are
engaged In manufacture and sale of
liquors, then from a business stand
point we must vote no license.
The liquor papers and liquor men
say that "prohibition does not pro.
hibit," "there is more liquor sold in
prohibited territory than there is in
license territory" and will in the
next breath, admit that they do not
mean a word of it by organizing
and calling for large sums of money
to fight prohibition. l could cite
you to some of our states and cities
of the United States and to quite a
number of our counties in the state
of Arkansas to show you that pro-
hibition when in the hands of
honest men in Office and men who
are in sympathy with prohibition,
then it prohibits, but | need not call
your attention to any but Randolph
county and the town of Pocahontas
for the past eight months can tes-
tify to himself that prohibition does
prohibit.
When we start to the polls on
Sept. l4th lets go asking ourselves
these four questions.
Do | want l saloon next door to
my dwelling, no, then vote no at
the polls.
Do | want saloon near my
neighBor, no, then vote no at the
polls.
Do | want my boy to become a
drunkard, no, then vote no at the
polls,
Do / want my girl to become the
wife of a drunkard, no, then vote no
at the polls. J. G, MILLER.
The national convention of Catholic
Total Abstinence Union met in
New Haven, Conn. The resolutions
adopted, denounce the liquor traffic.
appeal for the sanctifcation of the
sabbath, and ask that liquor dealers
be excluded from all Catholic societies
Thn convention reeniNnd q nnessarn ~