Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-23
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frankness with the voters
Of Ada county to state as dry ar
gument, the prosperity of these
North Dakota cities. and not also
frankly state all the conditions
which bear upon it. 1t is also sig
nifcant that abnormal prosperity
seems to have crowded so close to
the doors of the saloons that Fargo
and Grand Forks should be cited by
the drys as the particularly favor
able of examples of prosperity under
prohibition.
Has Kelley Institute
incidentally Fargo has a Murray
Institute and Kelley cure Grand
Forks has one of these institutions.
three liquor cure institutions suO-
ported by the patronage of North Da-
kota liquor victims, under the pro
tective wings of prohibition in a
state of 100000 people.
What other state offers such
tangible and significant proof of the
earnestness OF its citizens in the
search of sobriety?. To become ac-
luainted with actual Markings of the
prohibition laws one must leave the
places where it is neither flesh, fish
or fowl and study conditions in the
interior towns and counties; visit the
express offices and note the express
receipts of intoxicating liquors in
comparison with that of other com
modities and don't be surprised if
you find they exceed the sum total
thereof visit the freight depots and
count the plain packages piled
within; the cases and kegs of beer
waiting delivery; see the 'empties' On
any station platform for return
Hunt Up blind Pigs
Then hunt up the blind pigs and
the boot leggers. If you are not
known prohibitionist you can easily
ind him. Get one of the boys to
Fouch for you and see the sudden
wetness of a thirsty soil. Now go
cut upon the farm'of one of your new
found friends and wait for the grand
est example of the mall. Shortly he'll
arrive in an automobile or buggy;
the soliciting salesman of the whole
sale liquor dealer of all the states
east of the Dakotas, but particularly
those of Moorhead, East Grand
St. Paul and Duluth, and in a sample
case under the buggy seat are the
samples, price list and order book
that brings not the saloon to the
nearest town, but the wholesale
house to the very door yard of the in
dvidual farmer backed by the per-
suasive powers of that commission
hunting salesman.
Can Buy Whiskey
you can buy and you are coaxed
TO buy, whiskey by the gallon in as
large a quantity as you wish, at pri-
ees from 50 up to $40 gallon, with
81 as the average, the trade standard
sent mostly c. o. D., though very.
very many have standing and run
ming accounts with the wholesalers.
and do much ordering by telephone
Liquor is contraband of war; it
knows its enemies and its friends and
the byways are more frequented than
the highways. 1t is hidden traf-
fc and haunted traffic. but well pro-
tected by its friends and the laws of
the United States regulating the traf-
&c between states. 1t is about the
most thriving thing. withall, within
the state, outside of crops-the lat
ter ter, incidentally, the source of
North Dakotas prosperity-not the
law-after all.
Admitted in Same Year.
Idaho and North Dakota were adj
United to statehood in 1890. one IN
der constitutional prohibition, the
other withfth open saloon. Twenty
years have elapsed; North Dakota
has, and seems, therefore, to require.
three institutions for the cure OF the
liquor habit under the benefcent in
huence of prohibition How many
has Idaho? No denial can change.
the law of cause and effect. The ef-
feet Of drinking liquor must be dem
onstrated by such outward and public
evidence as the institutions for the
cure of the disease.
The mails of North Dakota are
flooded with the price lists and cata-
logues of the wholesale and retail
liquor dealers, distilleries and brew
cries of the entire country to an ex-
tent often annoying. How much is
this the fact in Idaho?
Farmers Can Get Liquor.
do you not suppose that this
Ia 5000 .f-o,,lotfop Of avnancfua.