The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-11-25
AGAINST OPEN SALOON.

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This man also writes that If no con-
certed effort is to be made to stop this
kind os liquor selling and that If Hills
boro must have the unrestricted boot
| logger or the restricted saloon he is i'm
favor of the latter.
l think the writer is warranted i'm
stating there is bootlegging going on.
For the good name of Hillsboro / wish
it wasn't. would be proud to be able
to truthfully deny 1t. / would like to
hurl this back as base SANDER on our
town proud of its many splendid fami-
lies, living and dead. But 1t is my
belief that only the truth has been
told and probably not all of that. Can
it be that all physicians ars very
particular in their writing prescrip-
tions for liquor? do not know.
Have you ever looked over the record
or liquor purchase book open to the
public on every druggist counter? l
am candid in saying the list don't look
very good.
/ have been on the same car with as
many as twenty men on their way TO
Fayetteville i'm times gone by to pur-
chase booze. Now they have to go on
to Norwood. The second car down to
Norwood last Sunday bore six colored
individuals with suit cases. The Post
Onice and Express Company's money
order departments could tales unfold
that would harrow up many Of our
souls. Several days ago | saw almost
a wagon load Of beer kegs and cases i'm
an express wagon going down High
street. Yes, yes, and we almost had
drunken race riot the night of last
election. One can smell booze every
day on some mems breath. One night
last week three drinking men and
woman were locked up i'm same room
the calaboose. But, my friends, all
this booze is not bootlegged. 1t can
be obtained in many ways.
We all know what "bootleggsr" is
is. "One-Who-Voted-Dry" has well
described him. over thirty years ago
in Indian Nation l first heard hisname.
Uncle Sam tries among the Indians to
keep down bootlegging and booze
selling, but i'm civilized community
he will issue license to sell booze even
If that community has voted dry.
lie has done that in Hillsboro. |
The penitentiary and death stares the
bootlegger in the face among the
Indians. Still he takes the chances
and usually delivers the goods on
horseback at night.
Do not imagine we will have no
drunks because we have no open dog
geries. Some will get drunk, people |
will talk about it, others lament it,
wives weep about it and hell will 90 to
pay just the same.
And all this debauchery, viciousness |
and outlawry seems to be regarded as
an argument against local option.
can not see how it can be so regarded. |
This is not a new condition for Hills
boro, ] am sorry TO say.
What agencies are ceaselessly at |
work to make local option failure
First, last and always are the brewries
and distillers.
It's the brewery's business and pur-
pose TO make local option failure If
possible. 1t is bending and will con-
tinue TO bend every energy in that
direction. That's what the breweries
are doing all over the state. 1t mat
ters not TO them how many drunken
debauches, how many free for all
fights, how many broken heads, how
much distress, how much sorrow and
how much want for food and clothing
follow. They are fighting for the
perpetuation, the very life of their
business. Arrayed with them in the
effort are plenty of men who have
been mad ever since local option car
They will go the length Of drinking
more and acting uglier than ever
before TO make local option appear
ridiculous. They want their booze
and they want it handy. What mat
ters it to them about the moral, social
and political atmosphere of the COM
munity? What matters 1t TO them
whether there is anything to buy
clothes and food for the wife and
children Whiskey and beer are the
first and highest consideration to
them and they are ready TO insult any
one for daring to make manly and
determined effort to get rid of a traffic
that has not single logical reason for
its existence.
Oh yes, we know that every device
and deception that human ingenuity
can invent is resorted to in an at
tempt to show that local option is
failure; that more liquor is being
drank now than before, and whole