The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-24
THE LAW OF THE STATE
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lnWGag advertisements 70 buy whisky
by mail from foreign houses on four
other pages of their paper, they edi-
toflally deplore the fact that the state
is about 10 engage in the whisky bus.
mess. Considering The fact that the
State Capital has had it's every pos,
siblc virtue on the bargain counter for
sale ct advertising rates. this pre-
tended sorrow about the state engag-
ing in the whisky business is prop
erly understood as insincerc and ride
ulous. This legislature in adopting
this code 0t laws, keeps strictly within
the provisions Of the constitution n
providing for the dtpensary Ia towns
0f two thousand population or more.
and again realizing that often thickiy
setlcd communities are 80 remote
from these large towns as TO make
such disponsary wholly ineonvcuien,
ANA impractical TO their patronage in
Gases of necessity and therefore the
leeislature. seeking the convenience
alike OF sll communities Of the state
and mindful Of the right Of the people
to govern themselves, has provided
that at tbe next November election.
without further trouble or expense uf
a petition the question Of dspenaaries
in smaller towns, may be voted upon
hy the people, and the people thereby
permitted to settle Che dispensary
question by their own votes
In the meantime, that election oeinE
seven months in the utme, the oper't-
don Of the dispensarIes IN the large
towns will give the voters a chance 70
observe the operations of the a,spen-
sagy, and thereby from practical eN.
perience to decide whether or not thew
desire continuance thereof, and to
have the dispensaIics established
where the distance is so great that
convenience requires them In the
smaller towns.
We believe that II a dispensary Is
3 proper convenience in a town of tw0
thousand people, il is a proper con-
venience ter the people of smaller
communities living great distances
from the large towns, But this quas-
tion the people viii settle for them
selves at the next election.
notice another newspaper pub
fishes the statement that the state viii
have to sell one million eight hundred
Thousand dollars worth OF liquor in
order 10 cover the total expense of
conducting the business.
This, again, Is a false statement.
n the total sales throughout the
state in the course Of year amounts
| 10 lifty thousand dollars, the state Will
not lose one cent.
Again, II lhe sale we're absolutely
inoihlng in the course of year, the
/ state would not lose total Of fifteen
thousand dollars
The compliant that the state rs de-
grading itself aud degrading SIS wom-
Zen aud children by putting these me-
ldlcinal sales of liquor under its own
control and direction, is sudden
iawskenins Of pretended morality when
( 10 comgs from a class of newspapers
ION indNtduals who. ian the late elec-
ltion were 30 unmndml Of the morals
lof the state that they bitterly fought
Ithl adoption of prohibition
7 Remembering their attitude az th7i
iime, warn you that they are utterly
IuuHl 10 advise We who are engaged n
I if'nht|nl for practcai enforcement Of
prohibitlon ana the elevation Of moral
leonditions toiay and therefore, ap.
peel to every public officer 81 the
state OTIS counties aH6 munlclpsllsiesl,
and 10 every good citizen Of tae state,
10 Join hands IN the enforcement Of a
law which Is bound 20 dlsproVc tho
time worn statomeni that prohibition
does noi prohtif.n that is bound 90
J elevate the morals. the intellect and
tle prosperity cf our people.
fsl as aii stand together 90 prove
lby our acts and by the conditions 20
prevail ip me GRAND stats Of Okla
hons. ihaf our state may be noted Ter
7 lts deeda rather ,han for iis empty
! words. C 4. HASKELL.
Governor.