Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-30
WAR IS DECLARED
Liquor men WILL Fight PROHI.
BITION SENTIMENT,
Liquor interests Appeal to Farmers
and WOrkinqmen to Fight TEN.
peranCe f!Ovement. Big Posters
displayed 10 Show fhe Injurious
Effects of Prohibition


SEATTLE, March 2S.-War, grim,
bloody and to the death, has been de-
clared by the liquor dealers of the
State of Washington against the An
ti-Saloon League and the general pro-
hibition movement and just to let the
enemy know that they are supplied
with plenty of ammunition and have
the entrances to their strongholds
well mined they have fired upon the
invaders.
placard, three feet in length,
printed in black and red, was posted
this morning at several prominent
drinking places in Seattle calling at
tention to crises the saloon men de-
clare will be inevitable in case the
prohibition movement is not checked.
Rev. Royal w. Raymond, the new
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Washington this morning
took up the active management of the
state organization, and as Raymond
has reputation preceding him from
New York and Maryland as a persis-
tent fighter, this step on the part of
the saloon forces is taken as an indi-
cation that the Northwest is to be
the scene of the greatest battle ever
waged in the United States between
the liquor and prohibition forces.
A copy of the poster taken from
one displayed at the lower entrance
to the Bismarck Cafe on Madison
Street, is as follows:
Facts for farmers, manufacture
ers, distributors, insurance agents,
transportation companies and wage
earners:
brewers, maltsters and distillers
of the United States consume in their
products every year:
Corn, 36,361,975 bushels, worth
$27,274,2OS.
Barley, 62,76O,OOO bushels, worth
$62,76O,OOO.
Rye, 5,595,OOO bushels, worth $3,-
916,SS9.
Sugar products, hops and assorted
grains, $16,35S,00O.
Labor producers only, $54,542,-
900.
Coal and other fuel, $5,00O,OOO.
Bottles, SIS, 100000.
Lumber, rubber goods, steam en-
gines, machinery tools, steam fittings,
plumbers supplies, wagons, har-
nesses, building supplies, ,liltering ma
terials, chemical supplies, paint and
varnish, furniture, brushes, house
products, advertising, signs, print
ing, $15O,O0O,O0O.
Fire insurance premiums, $15,-
100000.
Railroad freight and express, $780,
100000.
Making a total paid in to produce
ing sources of the United States of
$369,S51, 1,O97.
have a total investment of upwards of
$3,100, 100000, and they pay annual
ly state and government license, real
estate and personal property taxes
aggregating the enormous total of
sS4,500,0O0.
THE continued growth of prohi-
bition and the destruction of the
brewery and distillery interests will
result in the farmer and the allied
trades in all lines Of manufacture be-
ing made to suffer great losses
through the destroyed markets for
their products.
Farmers! Can you afford to longer
allow stump speakers, who pay no
taxes and who are employed by city
organizations who pay no taxes, to
add to your burden by compelling you
to maintain public institutions that
are now supported by the business
concerns that these interlopers are
trying to kill?
"The unemployed OF the United
States just at the present time num-
Der many thousands who are clamor-
ing for food and shelter. The prohi-
bition movement, If allowed to ex-
pand, will certainly aggravate these
conditions by adding many thousands
to the number of unemployed and
overlooking the taxpayers by COM
pelling them to shoulder expenses
now bourne by the industries that
the prohibitionists are attempting to
put out of business.
| every farmer, every workingman