Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-03-18
town and country people who are I'm
terested in the building OF the cleo
trio road"
MOVEMENT AGAINST SALOONS
IN THIS COUNTRY

HON. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
in the March number Of the Ameri-
can Magazine writes as follows In
reference TO the movement against
the saloons throughout the United
States:
Another method which states are
using In the control Of capital is pro-
hibition, In spite of the Fourteenth
amendment to the constitution Of the
United States. persons and corpora
tions having millions Of dollars invest
ed in many of the states, are being
deprived of their property without
due process of law" The closing Of
the race tracks in Missouri and New
York, which has been followed by a
slump in racetrack gambling all over
the country, has deprived thousands
of people Of property which they
considered Just as sacred as do the
railroad holders Of coal mines in
Pennsylvania, and probably with abou
as much equity. And when one es-
Inmates the amount Of property de-
stroyed by the growing sentiment
against gambling in every American
state during the ten years now pass
ing, it is hard to realize that the
Fourteenth amendment should stand
idly by and see all this wrong done.
while it is SO active in behalf Of the
public service corporations. But the
greatest destruction of property in
the country without due process of
law has been done in the brewery
and saloon business.
The anti-saloon sentiment Of the
nation seems to have gone to work
about ten years ago and worked with
out much results for half decade.
But since 1904 results have been COM
ing regularly. Statewide prohibition
now prevails in Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi. North Carolina, North
Dokota, Oklahoma. Kansas adopted
80. !. ..,,.ss,. - ~ ,asnar o,t,as
until 1906, and Maine has galvanized
her old law into new efficiency. Pro
hibition now has abolished the saloon
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