The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-07
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, tlon. Practically every farmer in the
state makes cider. and Maine hard
cider would make a jackrabbit sit up
and laugh in the face of bulldog.
There Is liquor agency in every city
and there are more arrests for drunk
| and disorderly in the cities OF
, Maine than In the cities of any wet"
state In the United States. Only last
/ MAY the mayor of Portland. Me. took
stand In favor OF drunkards' farms.
The state is we'll equipped with Keeley
cures. Prohibition there has been an
abject and utter failure. The bank de-
posits in Maine. per capita. are smaller
!, than in the neighborlng states; the
aims house and the insane asylum
population is greater.
crlminality Is Greater.
Criminality. the speaker argued, is
greater IN the dry" cities than It is
In the wet ones. He gave statistics
from the census report to prove this.
Milwaukee has 365,100 population,
2.14o saloons, open Sundays, and great
breweries: but under strict regulation
the city has the smallest ratio or
drunks and disorderlies-one to every
1913 Inhabitants. Compared with this,
Columbus. Ga, has one to twenty
, three; Augusta, Ca. one TO one; Sa.
vannah, one TO eighteen; Wilmington,
\. c.. one TO twenty-three, Lewiston,
| Me, one TO twenty-five; Portland. Me,
one to twenty; Bangor, Me-, one to
| thirteen
Mayor Joiner OF Atlanta, Ca. was
quoted as saying that there were 1000
\ l. H.. Ii, Ill
empty as a result of prohibition, that
100000 had been sent out of the city
for LIQUOR within eight months; that
drunkenness was on the increase and
that prohibition was an abject failure.
There is blind pig" said the
! speaker right In the capitol building;
there are $50 saloons in the city where
near beer" is supposed to be sold ex-
clusively but where all kinds Of drink
Is sold.
Schools Suffer In "Dry" States
Conditions in the other prohibition
southern states were depicted as
Mayor Rose found them on a recent
business trip through that section, In
Mobile many of the schools were
closed for lack OF revenue. The
Birmingham Register was authority
for the statement that In Alabama the
jails were full, the courts were con-
gested, crimo was rampant and vio-
lence was on the increase.
In Oklahoma City, under prohibition,
three stairways out Of every four lead
TO places where liquor Is sold.
For every person who dies from al
coholsm two die from whooplng
cough, twenty-five from consumption
and twenty. eight from stomach
troubles. Prohibitionists could do
much more good by lighting the white
plague"
The business side of the question
was discussed at length. Last year.
according to the speaker. s109. 900. 900
was paid 10 the farmers OF the coun-
try by the liquor interests for barley,
rye. hops and other products In the
cities OF the country S4.000.000 is paid
In revenue This would be cut of un-
der prohibition. and public improve
ments must be abandoned or this
amount raised by other forms of taxa
ton Last year $5G000.O00 was paid
by the liquor interests and 100000
mouths fed. Prohibition would cut out
ali OF this. and these laborers would
have to go elsewhere for work. crowd.
ing out others
For Personal Liberty.
The speaker made a strong plea for
personal liberty All other losses
brought about through prohibition
would pale into significance. he said
beside the loss the nation would sut.
fer in the destruction OF personal lib.
erty He quoted Tolstoi and other
great foreigners in saying that If this
nation were ever destroyed it would be
in the frittering away of the liberty oi
the individual
Army records were produced TO show
that the anti-canteen law had proved
failure in the army posts
Financiers, said Mayor Rose. arc
afraid Of prohibition, not because it Is
prohibition but because II Is an exhi
billion of radicalism and Is likely tc
6e followed by other forms Of radical
Ism. Money is the greatest coward III
this world OF ours and Will not e
where radicalism prevails Radical
ism may climb into the saddle, II ma,
| stand UP In the stirrups and ride fol
| time. but conservatism will fnall!
| uuhorse II and sanity Will rule in tn,
| end Prohibition and antisalo0I
movements nave mdue luorS uIunk
ards than has the liquor traffic. Where
| prohibition goes the bootlegger, th'
| ollndtiger the speak-easy. the kitchen
| saloon, the club locker follows. Th
| prohibitionist is the political partne
| Of the boot-legger. Every boot-legGe
| Will vote for prohibition,
| Arguments were advanced to sho,
| that prohibition confiscated the prop
| erty of the brewer aud that this wa
| violation of the American Idea O
| the rights Of property.
| After showing the evils OF prohibi
tion as he views them. and admittlnl
that IN many cases the liquor busines
aS II is conducted IS a disgrace TO civ
ilization. the speaker argued f1r regu
lation as the solution OF the problem