The Press., 1909-09-29
The Saloon and Stafford
Beware OF Eleventh Hour Decep

| Beware OF Eleventh Hour Deception.
It is now the custom OF the license
forces to flood the voters at the
eleventh hour with W hat purport to be
facts, but are either forgeries, or facts
SO stated as to deceive the voter.
+, Recent examples of this occurred in
Massachusetts. Stafford voters
should be put on tl.eir guard by such
instances.
| The liquor dealers said that
there are 797 raupers in no-license
cities and towns in Massachusetts, ex-
elusive of Boston, but only 621 paup-
ers in license cities and towns. But
they did not state that one no-license
town contains the State almshouse,
where are 573 paupers, many Of
them sent there from license towns.
So the real state of things is that the
nO-license cities and town have actual
ly only 224 paupers.
2. Again, the liquor dealers make
the statement that in Massachusetts,
towns under license there were but
1878 arrests, W hereas in the no-license
towns there were 4, 1877. but they did
not mention the fact that there are
four times as many no. license towns
as there are license towns By their
own figures, then, one fourth as many
towns, under license, had five-eighths
of the total arrests. a significant fact
against the liquor traffic. and BASED
ON THEIR OWN FIGURES. >a
What Prof. MunsGerburg Says.
3. The liquor dealers also quoted
Prof. Munsterburg in their behalf.
They quoted, however. what he said
about prohibition. not about the
saloon. But seeing that they accept
him as an authority whom voters
ought to heed, read what he says in
the March Ladies Home Journal, on
page %. Professor Munsterburg says
there: "There Is nothing more de-
grading, and no more asrocious insult
to civilized life than the American
saloon. It has poisoned the social
atmosphere of the masses in it the
workingman squanders his savings,
and the healthy man devastates his
energies and becomes a wreck Pnlit-
ioal corruption irradiates from the
saloon into the whole public life and
q thousand ways lead from the saloon
to the penitentiary.
Remember this, Mr.. Voter, if you
see the name of Munsterburg as de-
fender Of the liquor traffic.
The above represent misleading
statements which are worse than lies.
because they appear so fair. Ask your
self If a traffic that Ia forced to de-
scend to such methods, having no
favorable facts and statistics to use,
is worthy of your partnership by your
vote. In the name of all that is true
and good and decent vote to keep the
traffic out of town and within bounds.
"Prohibition or Prosperity
Last year, in The Press, September
80, the license committee some
one with no residence or interest in
Stafford, but employed by the liquor
interests to present their side of the
case) published a large advertisement
called Prohibition or Prosperity. :"
It could not be answered then, on ac-
count of lack Of time, but it now re-
ceives an analysis which ought to
make any voter refuse ever again TO
be deceived.
In the first place, it had nothing
whatever to do with the question of
license or no-lioense in Stafford. Pro-
hibition is not the issue, and was not
then. No-License Ia not prohibition,
nor does it claim to be. Prohibition
absolutely forbids the manufacture or
sale of liquor. No.lioense prescribes
that liquor shall not be sold in an
open saloon. Thousands upon thous-
ands of voters vote for no license who
would never dream of voting for pro-
hibition. Therefore any argument