United labor bulletin., 1909-12-03
TWO HUNDRED CASES OF
WHISKY, INSTEAD OF FIFTY.

we hcCOnTnenC IneSe Figures TO OT'
Parkhurst and Other Intelligent
Citizens.
Read on this page DR.. Parkhurst's fair
and intelligent article on temperance.
DR.. Parkhurst is right in his statement
that the prohibitionst, who would coerce
others, cannot succeed and ought not to
succeed.
We believe, however-and we think
that in a short time DR.. Parkhurst and
all other good, unbiased citizens will be-
lieve with .us-that true temperance can
be made almost universal by regulation,
by prohibiting or discourasins the sale
of strong, alcoholic poisons.
You cannot change mems appetites or
do away with them. They will last as
long as the race, changing gradually as
the race changes.
But you can persuade men to gratlfy
their normal appetites in a way bench
cial, or at least harmless, to society.
Men will drink if they want to; there
fore make it easy for them to drink stim-
ulants that do little harm or none. Make
it difficult or impossible for them to get
the highly alcoholic poisonous drinks.
Drunkenness in the United States dl-
minished Immediately with the establish
men of breweries and the sale OF beer.
Drunkenness dies away in regions where
beers and light wines are drunk to the
exclusion of whisky, gin and the other
poisons.
Prohibition encourages and develops
drunkenness. forcing men to drink the
poisonous alcoholic liquors because they
cannot get mild, harmless stimulants.
Alabama is one of the states that has
most recently decided to force men to
do what they will not do. By making
the selling of drink crime, by compell-
ing the dealers to sell secretly, they have
cut down the sale of harmless stimu-
lants
ONE SINGLE WHISKY DIsTILLER
IN ONE SINGLE ALABAMA TOWN
NOW SELLS TWO HUNDRED CASES
OF WHISKY A MONTH, WHERE HE
SOLD ONLY FIFTY CASES BEFORE
PROHIBITION HAD ITS WAY.
Does anybody doubt that in Alabama,
as in Maine, drunkenness will increase
because those that drink are compelled
by the minority to take the poisonous
whiskies and other highly alcoholic con-
coctions. exclusively Chicago Evening
American.
Smoke La Exploridad, the best on the
market.
MILWAUKEE BETTER
THAN ANY DRY TOWN.
Remarkable Comparison Drawn by Capt
H. H. Kline, Salvation Army Worker
of Experence-Is Aereeably Sur
prised-Heard of Brewery Center,
and Then Found City to be of Sober,
Industrious People.
An interesting comparison of social
conditions among the working people OF
Milwaukee and other cities in which he
has been stationed, as one of the officers
in industrial work of the Salvation army
Capt. H. H. Kline, head of the army's in
dustrial home, Milwaukee, who will leave
on Sept 3 to open social and industrial
center in Lincoln, Neb.
when l came to Milwaukee," says
Capt Kline, 81 had heard so many tales
about it being great brewery center,
that l expected to find the city full of
saloons and disorder and poverty and
crime.
But l have been most agreeably sur
prised. l have been stationed in nearly
every large city in the country, from
coast to coast, and from the Canadian
border to Mason and Dixon's line, and
have yet to find a city of any consider
able size where conditions were so good
Most Charges Transients.
'sIn many prohibition towns and cities
1 have learned from sad experience that
prohibition does not prohibit The diff
ference is that while the workingman in
Milwaukee gets his glass of beer and
goes home the man in the prohibition
town. knowing the difficulty of getting &
drink every time he wants it, lays in 1
stock consisting of at least a bottle
many times more. Then having it sc
ready at hand, he doesn't stop till it's al
gone.
In these so-called prohibition towns
there is more drunkenness, crime, disor
der, poverty and suffering than l have
ever seen in Milwaukee. OF all the mer
we have aided since | have been here
and they number hundreds, can safely
say that at least nine out of every ter
were transients passing through the city