The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-10-22

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MIR. Brown told his hearers that they
would be up against what he called
manufactured sentiment. He told them
that during the campaign little girls
would be carrying banners on which
would be inscribed vote for me;
can't" He cited an instance in one
campaign in which a tot marched in a
procession in rags carrying banner
saying that his father was drunkard
The lads father happened to be a trav-
cling man, who returned home to find
his son in the procession.
Doesn't Cure All Ills.
The Anti-Saloon League has been
successful in Michigan because it has
pressed all available material into serv-
ice. All get together and work hard,
then a county will go dry What's the
result? Well, in Clinton county there
are now large number of voters who
realize that local option is not the
panacea for all of the ills and ailments
that afflict the human family
Has Been.
THE local optionists sought to
/ frighten the business men OF st. Johns
and as a result the vote, when the
majority being 331. But there has been
change. No reflections is cast upon
the business men for signing petitions
to have the question re-submitted.
Il claim that no person should tell
another what he must do; it is IMAM
erican and the sooner we. stop il the
better it will be for our great coun-
try; the sooner we stop it the sooner
the now unsolved liquor question will
be solved We are on the temperance
side"
Mr.. Brown cited instances to show
the result in st. Clair county if local
option passed, in view of the physic-
ians bill He told of how St Johns
man had been unable to get alcohol for
his sick wife; a woman couldn't get
brandy for her mince meat, and a man
who had been taking a mixture OF
whiskey and quinine could not obtain
the whiskey, without going through
much red tape.
Prohibition is not a success. If it
was a success why did it not continue
in the states in which it was adopted
with the exception of Maine only. All
have gone back to the license system.
Local option does not prohibit Every
for St Johns on the interurban line
that runs between the two cities. Out
of 10 pieces of freight that arrived in
ST. Johns one afternoon, eight contain
ed whiskey. Two hundred cases of
st. Johns between May Is and June
Is on the Grand Trunk railway from
Grand Rapids alone
The speaker told of the increase in
taxes in Clinton county and added In
crease in conducting the affairs of the
county. lie stated that there have
been more arrests since the county
went dry. but that he could not give
the figures as they had been left with
the board of supervisors now in session
at his home. He told of the practice of
getting evidence against men by the
use of spies and of how a barber who
had given a man a drink in his wood
shed instead of in his home had been
charged with a crime and was waiting
the decision of the supreme court.
Prohibition does not prohibit but IL
does demOralize the business interests"
continued Mr.. Brown. Your organiz-
alton is in the interests of temperance.
Why? Because, / say that we are on
the temperance side of this great
question.
Every time a man violates the law
he degenerates Our country leads all
others. DO we want to say that liquor
is raising havoc with our people and
that we must stop its sale? Is the
strongest country going TO take away
the freedom that our forefathers fought
and bled for?
IF local option is q success how
could the dry counties get signers to a
petition TO have the question submitted