Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-10-03
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.
The Difference.

FRosrBURG, Mp, September Is, 1908
To the MINING JOURNAL.
There is a great difference between the
methods OF the Anti-Saloon League and
the Prohibition Party.
AS the names imply, the Anti-Saloon
League is against the saloon" the eff
feet or offspring of the liquor traffic, and
would kill the child; the Prohibition
Party strikes at the cause, or parent OF
the saloon, and would kill the father.
The one embaraSses the legitimate
| child; the other denies the right of pro-
duction. The one works in political Dur-
ties committed to the perpetuation of the
traffic; the other is p"rty pledged to
its destruction. The one is cowardly
and works in secret; the other is brave
and works in the open. The one would
have honest men become dishonest; the
other would have dishonest men become
| honest. The one employs the tactics of
pirate; the other the tactics of IA states
man.
No intelligent person nowadays denies
that the liquor interests are compare.
lively safe and secure in the fostering
care of either of the license parties. Many
saloon men-perhaps all. are identified
with either one or the other of these
parties; therefore, vote cast for the
nominees of either is vote cast with
the saloon-keeper, the brewer, and the
entire liquor interests.
Let me illustrate:
If the election last fall in this county
and State was conducted honestly and
| have no good reason to doubt it, the
friends of the saloon and liquor interests
overwhelmingly defeated the friends of
prohibition and no saloon. But let us
suppose that the Prohibitionists and
friends of no saloon had defeated the
friends of the saloon and liquor interests
i'll the same ratio, do you think there is
liquor man in the State who would
ask or expect the Prohibitionists to
champion license law?
No!
Why?
Because the liquor man has better po-
litical sense and knows that it would be
politically wrong, without reference to
morals or any other consideration. II
w0"ld be politically TrOng.
Now, if it is politically wrong for the
Prohibitionist to champion or support a
license law or measure, it is just as much
of political wrong for a license man,
Democrat or Republican, to champion or
support a prohibition law or measure
If this is not true, the declarations of the
parties lie.
And yet i'll the face of all this the
Antl-Saloon League endeavored to make
our Democratic and Republican legisla-
tors dishonest by trying to coerce and in
timidate them into championing laws
and measures repugnant to the interests
and parties they were elected to repre-
sent i'll a particular manner.
The Prohibition Party meets the enc
my in the open political field and sub
mlts under protest to the will of the ma
jority, when that majority favOrs the
perpetuation of the license system. The
Prohibition Party comedies to the domi-
nant political parties the same courte-
sizes and consideration it would expect of
them If 1t should become triumphant.
This letter, therefore, is written to
show that the Auti-Saloon League is not
the Prohibition Party, and rice rersa, and
to dlfterentlate between methods So
many people cannot or do not under
stand the meaning of temperance, absti-
nence, Anti Saloon and Prohibition. that