The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-15
REV. LAUGHBAUM SAYS
VOTE Fer DIS'ENSAUY

Chickasha, Okla, May 15.-rhe
journal has the foliowingi
The dispensary feature viii be
voted upon at the election this fan.
~ Il doesn't carry thon there will be
no way by which one can lawfully
get whisky So give as generously as
you can TO the cause
These were the closing remarks ot
the Rev II. 4. Laughhaum, OF the anti
saloon league nc the Methodist church
last night The Anti-Saloon league
is already beginning it's campaign 70
carry the dispensary feature Of the ce-
Gently enacted prohibition law
The speaker said in part: n is the
best law that was ever enacted. There
are a whole l1t OF peopi5 that aic
stirred up over the dispensary feature
of the law ! want to tell you that il
IS the best provision for tEe legal sale
OF whisky ever enacted
"Why | underetand that dem 1T
Chickasha they had a man that want
ed to take the place but he was n
Mason and he wrote che grand master
about the matter, and that gentleman
told him he could not take the posi-.
T tion OF dispensary agent The prohihi-
, tion law is on trial in Oklahoma. When
North Dakota was admitted as q state
( prohibition amendment was voted
on at the general election Just as they
I did in this state 1t carried, but the
people failed to elect officials that
were in favor OF carrying out IFS proyi-
sions . The law was not enforced IN
two or less years the people voted a
repeal of the law There Is danger oI
/ the same thing in Oklahoma
ITO give vOu some concrete illus
trations of the law. suppose that tho
Rev. Butler took the Job OF dispens-
I ar ylgant here He could partition on
few shelves IN his library Suppose
that Brother Bishop has typhoid fevol
and Or. Riddle prescribes whisky fol
him The Rev Butler does not have
10 give the man who comes 10 osyct th,
prescription filled the amount asked
for. lie can say. Brother Bishop lives
here in the city. ! will give him JUS
what think necessary.
Some good prohibitionists arr
aroused over that portion OF the law
that says a man can be given a half
gallon Of spirituous. one of vinous ol
three gallons OF malt liquor in on,
day The dispensary agent can us,
his discretion about giving a man whis
ky A very close tab viii be kept on
Brother Butler II be takes lhe position
He must each Monday send writ
ten report TO the Rev Lozier, head o
the system He must send al
moneys, less 10 per cent
But YOU say that 10 per cent won
lpay for q mans salt. and IL won't. Tha
was one provision of the law ! object
TO But il was passed, and we vii
have TO do the best we can with it
The people who are taking charge o
the dispensaries are mostly ardent nro
hibitionists, who want 70 see the Law
a success At Davis a hardware MAI
has partitioned off one corner of hi
store; at WynnewoOd an editor ha
put II IN his office"
Tho speaker reviewed the nrohib
tion law. told of its provisions for th
+ ousting of county officers who did no
. do their duty and explained the prr
! vision in regard 10 'two per cent" o
} the whole he thought it was the bes
law that mad ever been enacted
, The ladies' of the Presbyteria
church viii hold a cooked food sci
SATURDAY. in the w T. Power plumb