Pocahontas star herald., 1908-09-04
VOTE AGAINST LICENSE
This Pace Devoted to the interests of the Local temperance Unions
and Contains Some Facts Well Worthy Of Close Consideration

~''''~S "iN hOuNNo VI ululihNhhSoS3
profanity and vulgarIty, do we as
an intelligent people want to license
such places, giving them the re.
spectability of the law, as places of
resort for our young men, | think
not. Let us think soberly and
honestly before we cast our ballot
on the liquor question and let us
vote for the protection of society,
of home and the rising generation.
Let us now consider the saloons
from the stand point. Do they pay
as business proposition? They
do not. The saloons are the means
through which the greatest waste
of money is accomplished, for through
them is spent annually 50, 200, 100000
which is more money than it re-
quires to run the United States gov
ernment plus the state and Munich
pal governments of the entire
United States, it is a sum of money
equal to two fifths of the value of
the entire farm products of the
United States and what do we get
in return for this great expenditure?
nothing that is of one renny's
worth to any one, but to the con-
trary we are spending this vast sum
of money for something that is a.
curse to the human race. True
enough sufficient quantity of this
money goes into the pockets of the
large brewers and distillers to make
them immensely rich but ! object to
draining the people of 81, 200, 90
in order to make a few individuals
wealthy so that they live in man.
sions and at their ease while the
masses are toiling for the money
that is turned into their tills and it
is q TACT that three fourths of the
money that is spent for liquor in
the United States is spent 10y the
people who toll for living and
thoy get noChing in return for it.
Do not we people in Randolph
county who work day in and day
out for living desire to continue
to refuse to contribute any part of
this money through the saloons, if
we do let us vote NO LICENSE.
But some will say they will sell
it any how therefore vote for
license to get the revenue and to
keep your money at home. In the
first place, who pays the revenue?
the saloon man does not pay 1t for
he never created penny's worth of
any thing and never will, the peo-
pie who patronize the saloon pay the
revenue, they pay the saloon mans
profit, the rail road transportation,
the government tax and the manu-
facturer. The people who dlink the
liquor pay the entire bill. Is it not
better to keep that in the hands of
the people to pay for the neces-
saries of life and to invest in prop
erty and for the Improvement of
property already owned, but they
say vote for license to keep your
money at home. We had seven
saloons in Randolph county in 1906,
they paid little over $4,000 90 in
total licenses and they paid to the
county So, 10000. Their sales
amounted to about SO, 900 90 each,
total of SlO5, 100000. We made
this kind of trade with the saloons,
you pay us IS, 100000 in revenue
and we will pay you over your
counters $lO5, 900 90. But vote
keep the money at home, do the
saloon men steel the liquor they
sell, no they pay for it and granting
that they make clear net profit of
so per cent when they sell $lo5, ,o00,-
90 worth of liquor they will send
out of the county S7O,Ooo.oo to pay |
the wholesaler, does any one be-
lieyo that through the mail orders
that amount of money is sent out of
the county, no not one tenth of it,
then vote no license to keep your
money at home and no license to
keep from paying the revenue for
the saloon man. We not only send
our money out of the country