The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-05-21
THE"MORALD PART EXPOSED
The Preteaded Prohihitionists Unmasked
BY Their Utteranees Through
Their Own Organ
Personal Liberty J

tfefSonai Liberty
All you need do is to wait. and they
will expose themselves. The alleged
reformers who are boosting the poll
ticians' pet prohibition scheme have
finally admitted that there is no pro-
hibition in the bill they are trying to
get through; that it is only an at
tempt to encroach on the personal
liberty of the poor. man-that the fat
and well fed politician can get all the
prohibition booze he wants. Hear
Webster's Weeklyin its issue of April
18th, on the front page conspicuous
" presented. This is what the Weekly
says:
ssThere is not a word of truth in
the statement being circulated by the
whiskey heelers that the State prohi-
bition bill makes it unlawful for
man to have more than three quarts
of whiskey in his possession, or that
it limits the quantity that can be Sc
cured at the drug store on doctors
prescription These men know better
and ought to be ashamed to resort
to such downright misrepresenta-
ton. We published the full text OF
the bill several weeks ago and will
gladly give any one a copy who wants
to know the truth The bill is con-
sentative, common-sense measure,
and avoids extremes along all lines.
Now honor bright, isn't that an adj
mission that the prohibition measure
is not moral measure; that it is q
bill gotten up to aid politicians in Sc
curing preferment and that the man
who wrote the bill and those who
are fathering it and advocating it
understand that the man with money
can get all the booze he wants.
Hear them tell you that man can
have all he wants in his possession
and that ANY QUANTITY can be
secured at any drug store. In other
words the idea is to make it lawful
only for doctors and drug stores to
be in the whiskey business-make it
so the poor man cannot afford to get
a prescription and pay the heavy
tariff the druggist puts on it. The
rich man sees that his supply is all
right and any fool sees that this
proposition which is to the effect that
you can have YER THR EE
QUARTS in your possession and can
buy ANY QUANTITY of druggist
if you have the price is not prohibi-
ton at all.
Then where is the moral part OF the
question that the prohibition leaders
talk about? 1t is all sheer nonsense.
1t is fol de rol. It is hypocrisy and it
is dishonest, trying to tell people in
one breath that you want prohibition
to save the mon from drinking and
in the next breath tell the people that
yousdon't -want general prohibition,
just enough to crowd out the poor
man and the farmer who does not
live near drug store, and that the
drug store will sell it in any quantity
and if you want to have three quarts
on your person at one time you may
legally do so.
What kind of prohibition is that?
Isn't that free whiskey if you have
the money to pay for it? Then where,
in is there any moral question when
you are voting to transfer the whis-
key business from the regulated bar
room to the drug store and the doc
tor? And the prohibitionists, mind
you, are telling you that their pet
MORAL MEASURE gives the oppor-
tunity to GET ALL YOU WANT
and they say it is down right mean
ness on the part of the lovers of per-
sonal liberty to intimate that you
can't carry three quarts around with
you under their. proposed law, and
that to say a druggist can't sell a
quart or a gallon at the time, should
cause man to be ashamed of him
self.
Shame, shame, did you say-who-
ever heard of such base hypocrisy
such high-handed and shameless tao
tics to further the cause of a few am
bilious politicians?
Vote against the measure that
gives the drug store and the docto
the right to sell you whiskey in any
qauntity and cuts out the licensed,
regulated traffic.