The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-20
Member Of Liquor Dealers AssO-
citation Replies to Federation
Attack on Convention
ASKS FOR FAIR TREATMENT
Delegate Claims that Prohibition in
Maine Does Not Prohibit ana that
Prohibition Territory Shows
Higher Average Of Arrests
(From Wednesdays Daily


The Civic Federation S mouth piece
in recent article in the News felt
highly insulted at the convention held
and resolutions adopted by the Wis
consin Liquor Dealers Association.
The convention certainly was as order
ly as any ever held by the Ants, and
no doubt there was five times the
amount of money spent here by the
visitors that would have been spent,
had the convention been one of super
animated federationists or over enthusi-
astic prohibitionists.
Mr.. Knocker of the Federation! The
resolutions adopted may look to you
like joke.
IN not surprised at that, as most
Of your ilk never could see these
things in broad Light, SO we can ex-
crse you for that.
So far as the Wisconsin Liquor Deal
ers' Association endorsing the mayo
action in seeking a license for the
-Four Corners, is concerned.
It had as much to do with the same
as the Federation had, not one bit
more We read every few days of
some gross immortality committed by
some of the leading members Of the
branches Of the Anti-Saloon league, yet
I would not accuse the Federation OF
approving Of the same. Be fair! An
other thing I can t understand Mr.
Knocker, is why you spend your valu-
able(?) time in our city, where it is so
wet? If I felt as bad as you do about
Kenosha, should move to Zion City
where it Is 50 dry your tongue would
parch in your throat; or go to Bangor,
Me-, the home of blind pigs where
they had prohibition for decade,
and where there were but $500 arrests
for intoxication last year.
Does that look good to you Mr..
Knocker? What is prohibition doing
for Rockford? Car loads Of people &c
to Freeport, Beloit and other wet
neighboring cities to get their drinks,
buy clothes, groceries, etc. Does that
look profitable to Rockford? Not to
any sane person.
What did VIM. E. Curtis write re-
Gently from the south to the ''Record
Ferald in regard to prohibition down
there9 That while it did a great deal
towards keeping liquor away from the
negroes-which it was intended to do
it had gotten many young men-who
formerly had taken an occasional
d1in1-into the habit of sending for
whiskey by the case, and was making
wuskey drinkers of them, SO it was
question if it wasn't working more
harm than good, and that they were
talking of repeating the law This
from prohibition writer.
If the Ants would try and reform
the business, their movement might
become popular, but as long as they
insist on the abolition Of the same, ana
their TRADE continues against the bust
ness as a whole, and they think the
universe belongs to them, and that they
can dictate to the people what to drink,
their work viii fall fat
MI. Holman Day writes in Apple
ton s Magazine, that there is more
drunkenness in Maine, the great prohibit
ton state, than in the other New Eng
land states, where there is no prohibi-
ton law.
During the past year in Portland
there were ffty-fve arrests for intox-
ication to the thousand of the popula-
tion and in Bangor one hundred to tho
thousand. The average in all Maine
cities was twenty-five ana one-half to
the thousand. For all New England,
the average was only eighteen and one
half. Does this look as though prohibi-
ton was a blessing?
a Delegate.