The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-01-22
LOUISVILLE GRIND
MODEL BOOZE LEAGUE
Fine OTat0Fy For Audience |
EeniuGy'S Great Booze
Center

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Louisvlle KY. Jan. 22 National
regulation Of che liquor lraldce was
urged BY Dr y. n Callen ol plttahnfg,
Kansas d speaker at the convention 81
The Model License League today TThe
liqur question the speaker said.
belongs IN politics. n has fhe aanaa
right there that the tariff question has:
V Is o national question, not q question
that can be determined ln veatry
meeting, or even IN one state logiala
ture, Xxx x and Il should be gov
erned and regul ,ted from the head Of
the nallon. The uuited Atatoa owna
every drp Of liquor and beer "a the
country today There Is not dlsilllef
In lle state OF Kentucky, OF any other
state, Char darca 70 make me d present
Of a gallon or whisky today, that cost
him to make and store twenty-five
ccnts unless he first pass Uncle sam
lsl10 and the state, or stntea that set
sn laws % prohibit the sale Of this
product are ln a measure bOycOtltne,
not only a product Of the government,
but product that phi6 In the forty
years after The Civil War over fifty
seven Der eent of the entire cost of lha
war, or ID ihermords elghtyshrae Dor
eant OF The combined cost Of che navy
end pension departments
II tie Federal government neaas
lhe revenue II collects from llunoril
should lend lls protection 10 the man
who dsponses the product aud Who
pays the gnYornmetu TAX
Prohibition IS not q temperanee
movement as applied TO tie sale and
use Of stimulan,s Prohibition Move.
uienla seek 10 wipe out ihe legal hala
Of an aleah nc stimulanta and bever.
aeea-iiat is, n we ere 70 believe She
advocates 81 the cauae who are stump
lag the country but prohibition d0es
i0t meau hat out Ia Kansas where
live Prohibition Gus there means
aoan The pn hlbIilon luN cut THERE
l the nower thel upholds gfai and 81
ables ishono officials 10 play feet
and loose With DE alntiath.
+ hoiieYE slHt vide prohibition
would asfe be mentioned II IL Were
raneralB understood hy cur ppaalH,
that prohibition bnt the name lot
lew lhal Hges a4s axe o. liquors out
Of responsible haaa and places It g
ihe hands oi men Who are desperate
on9nah 10 deity the laN ihal instead 9i
pfdlectng tire ycung from The fempia
tlon 10 drink. brings the rllest deeoc
( iions 10 he very shadows oi the h0mp
laud that tllefe Is uo way 10 protect lhe
youth from the Influence ol the boot
J leggef who Is here today and there &C.
morrow. who has no responsibility. and
whose only aim like thu * meny 0f hla
more respectable brothers. Is m0aey,
only money
lf Il should be More generally "a
defslGod .hei the quantity Of liquor con.
sumed IS as great o. greater In g pro
htbilion state Uhau h theirs that there
Is no regulation 0f ihe GALES 0r of the
ouantliy OF tha sDaIl sold 10 revenue e
the state from such sales 10 prohibit
zion states and THAT oiiur tne proaafr.
tf becomes d peHserulof @hO alter
nately pFatis and proseeues.
epfohhHIoa means not temperance
ont laWiesanfsg ana the more poNef-
fal Tho movement becomes aud fha
more numerous lts advocates, the
nearer va approach the feign oi an
awhy and untlawfy
Dr. Calleu discussed the effect # tns
aniillaaof law In Kansas particularly
fa sallnh and piliaburg 81 g temper
anee movement he said prohibition ~
Hallna Is failure both morally ana
financially. and the end Is no yet fhia
was true Of other elites IN the state,
I he asserted