The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-16

ied the nfuhlDltiOn law and they know
IL IS what The people want-a measure
that win prohibit the sale of intoxicat
ing drink except for medicinal pur.
poses and at the same time provide
Ia way in which liquor absolutely need.
ed for medicinal purposes may DO
obtained without irahciug with a
bootlegger
At meeting OF the Guthrie district
conference OF the Methodist church.
North held last week. a resolution was
adopted endorsing Senate Bin number
81, as an act that gives promise OF
great good IN thee ause of temper
ance and reform. and assuring the
state government of the hearty sup.
poat of the conference in SIS attempts
70 enforce the law.
SO lt Is All over the state The intel
ligont and wide-awake peohibitiosists
can no more De fooled by the clamOr
of brewery representatives like Braun
aud t0nal and lying newspapers like
the state Capital than they were fool
ed last iall by the arguments offered
by these same people in favor OF the
licensed saloon
Invited to speak before the Metho-
dist district conference in this city
Governor Haskell defined the situation
in few tersc words After explain
ing The prohibition bill bsicily, he de
clared.
The situation is not all complicated
There should DC no difficulty IN your
arriving at n conclusion There are
but two platforms for YOU to choose
between. You must either stand
with me for the prohibition law and
it's enforcement or you must stand
with Adolphus Busch and the rest of
the bFewors for the licensed saloon.
Guthrie. Okla. April .... state
Superintendent OF Agencies. Robert T..
Lozier. on Monday opened the bids
submitted by about twenty wholesale
wbiskey houses for supplying the
Slate Agencies for the first three
months. an dawarded the contract to
the Sunny Brook Distilling company
of Chicago, Illinois.
An order was Immediately placed
with this house under the bid. for a
carload of whiskey This whiskey will
be the total supply of the entire state
for a period of three months A car
load Of whiskey contains not more
than six hundred cases. Each case
contains three gallons For three
months the state agencies Of okla
homa will dispense 1900 gallons. If
there is proper demand for that much
rhc ,lrload viii all be in bottles and
will be divided as follows: Four.
eights of total in pint bottles: two
eighths of total in quart bottles and
he remaining twoeights in one-half
pint bottles This viii make 200
pint bottles 500 quart bottles and
200 half-pint hottlas. or a total OF iG
200 bottles OF all sizes. These bot
Ties must be sent out by the State
AEescy intact. They must be sold by
the local agent without breaking the
seal In three months i6.200 packages
of whlskey may lie sold IN state Of
a million and half of people, and
yet the enemies of prohibition are
trying "a breed discomfort with the
SYSTEM claiming that It
viii only mean that the state has gone
into the saloon business During the
days of the licensed saloon there was
not a month when the single town OF
Oklahoma City did not consume more
liquor than the state superintendent
has ordered for theree months for
the entire state.
Estimating a grOwl man for each
Eve Of population, Oklahoma has about
three hundred thousand adult male
citizens. 10000 packages Of liquor
means that each package must intox
Icato and dcmoralize seventeen men
for three whole months II tho Guthrie
state Capital, the Oklahoma City
Times and the Muskogee Phoenix are
10 be believed. And 14,f00 of those iG-
D00 packages are pints and halfplnts
In reality the only people who are
crying out against the State Agency
who don't really know better and who
are not doing Il purely for political
effect are a few honest folk who have
never had an opportunity to read the
pre- Visions Of the law and whose ideas
of a State Dispensory are drawn nom
The experience og South Carolina
The Oklahoma dispensary Is not to
be compared wita the south Carolina
ln South Carolina the
state simply tool, a monopoly on the
saloon business and sold liquor 10 all
romers, without any questions being
asked
ln Oklahoma the stete has said hat
saloons must cease 10 exist and that
tho only liquors sold must be strictly
FOR medicinal purposes and then to
make sure that this p1rt of the law
would bp observed the state took
charge of the sale of this liquor for
medicinal purposes.
70 secure a drop of liquor lawfully
In Oklahoma, a man must have FIRST.
a prescription from reputable phys
.riani calling for liquor as a medicine
after a careful personal diagnosis Of
he patient
Second the man nrcseutiug the pre-
5cription must make ahidavit as 10
The purpose Tor whio hhe desires the
liquor Third he must sign q state,
ment TINT when ho received the n
mo rthe seal was WhrOken and he
must remove II from the premises In
.hat condition.
II the doctor prescrlbes whisaey
nhere 81 IS not needed. he IS punish.
able by a heavy ano and imprisonment
and his conviction would result IN tho
forfeiture Of his license TO practice IN
me state. u man purchasing the
liquor uses Il for any purpose Ohter
han his affidavit shows II was intend,