The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-06-03

Claims Will be PAID Dy Kansas City,
Kan, about June 1.
"The city has been described In
glowing terms by the prohibition ora
tors all over the country and thus
meets its current expenses by insreas-
ing it's bonded Indebtedness.
at has also been stated that II was
difficult to secure Office rooms in Kan
sas City. i have in my hand a pic
ture showing 10S of more than 400 va
cant store rooms which have been va
cant in that city ever since Mr..
Trickett made the prohibition law ef-
fective; or when some have been rent
ed temporarily, it was at so low a
rental that the taxes would scarcely
be met from the rental
"Thus fades one of the beautiful IL
lusions that our prohibition friends
have loved to paint in glowing col
ors. Like mirage of the desert it
vanishes when you approach to exam
| ine the promised oasis. Many OF the
splendid word pictures drawn by too
ardent advocates of prohibition have
proved to me to be equally Elusive,
| equally an iridescent dream; either
drawn from an over-excited magma
] tion or wilfulIy and purposely mis-
stated, as was the case in the matter
of the deposits of the Commercial Ma
| tional Bank of Kansas City, Kansas.
ain one month the drug stores Of
Topeka returned a record of $4,000
sales of liquor for medical purposes,
ranging from gill to one gallon in
amount. What was the epidemic that
lnecessitated this7 Stomach trouble? :?
In prohibition districts the drug store
sales, where records are required to
be kept, show an alarming amount of
stomach trouble.
while John P. st. John was gov
ornor of Kansas he made some
speeches in the east in which he de-
clared that there was not a saloon in
the city of Topeka, Kansas. A gem
3 tleman at one of the hotels in Topeka
on reading the governors affirmation
said to a personal acquaintance of
mine: Come out with me and | will
show you some saloons in Topeka.
The two went out together to twenty
/ five saloons where drink was being
sold and men were drinking.
Saloons in Topeka.
Then the gentleman said to my
acquaintance: Governor st. John tells
the people in the east there is not a
saloon running in Topeka; have TAX
en- you to twenty-five. These are but
few of them. THERE ARE AT LEAST
A HUNDRED SALOONS RUNNING
I OPENLY IN TOPEKA TODAY. Thus
it is seen that the affirmations of the
prohibition governor need to be treat
ed before they are accepted. ! have
found a great tendency to prevaricate
on the part of the prohibitionists.
Some of it however is accounted for
by the fact that they are sincere in
their ignorance of the real conditions.
"Prohibitionists are good deal like
the ostrich in one particular; hey
think that by hiding their heads in
the sand they can create FOOLS para
disc, and that what they don't see
does not exist.
Prohibition as a solution of the
problem of drunkenness stands con-
demned at the bar of experience.
Statistics prove it to be rather con-
duciVe to drunkenness than remedy
therefor; morally it leads to the eva
sion of the law, dsrespect of author
ity, personally, hypocrisy and perjury.
! Financially and economically it
spells municipal poverty, depression
Of business, increase in taxation and
the necessity Of more and more rad
ical stringent effort to properly and
adequately enforce the law.
"Socially II means bitterness and
strife for community; old friends
separate and neighbors become sus-
picious and fauIt-tnding with one an
other. Meanwhile drunkenness in
creases and the cause of true temper
ance is not helped.
The Anti-SaIoon league stands self
condemned because it will not co-ope-
rate for the enforcement Of existinu
laws; their agitation is for the one
purpose of stirring up the prejudice
against the saloons.
The Anti-Saloon League stands self
condemned because they will not CO.
operate for the enforcement of exist
ing laws; their agitation is for the
one purpose of stirring up the preju-
dice against the saloons.
Unchristian Arguments.
ITO harass the saloonkeeper appears
to them to be the work done for tenn
perance. AS the candidate for the
presidency on the national prohibition
ticket said in Canton last year. He
would consider that he was doing
good work for prohibition if he could
merely make it necessary for the sa-
loon to be moved across the street
What narrow mindedness, as one pro-
hibitionist said to me recently: q
hope your son will become a drunk
ard What lack of charity what to-
tai lack of Christian spirit. They are
even willing TO see drunkenness in.
crease II 1t will only add a little
strength to their unchristian argu,
ment.
There are laws enough on ouI
statute books TO do away with many
of the abuses that are charged agains
the saloons of Canton. One gentleman
said to me recently: "A strict enforce
mant of the axistinR laws wouIJ ra