The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29
BELIEVE THE SOLUTION OF THE
LIQUOR PROBLEM is IN THEIR
HANDS.
WISE REGULATION IS DESIRED
Claim that Prohibition Has Destroyed
Millions of Dollars Worth Of Prop
erty Without Decreasing the Use Of
lntosicants.

Cine nnatl May 2S.-EAposluohs oi
model license systems and reviews OF
! conditions in various states was heard
/ by the convention OF the National
/ Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association
today.
The principal addresses OF the morn
ing session were by 4. NJ. Gilmore.
/ president OF the National Model lii
cense League, and Percy Andrae W
Cine matt. chairman OF "A committee
which recently completed a survey OF
the results of the Rose local option
law in ohio.
Strict obedience to law and wise
regulation OF the liquor traffic were
advocated by President T. NJ. Gilmore
OF the National Model License League
today before the Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Convention
state after STATE has tried prohibit
tion." sad Mr. Gilmore. properties
worth hundreds OF millions of dollars
have been confscated, revenues worth
been lost. and the problem In practice
is no nearer solution than it was fifty
or one hundred years ago. and the con
sumption of alcoholic beverages, Ill
steal of being decreased, has increas.
ed, within the last fifteen years some
thing like fifty per cent.
The Model License League believes
that this problem can be solved by the
adoption of laws that VIII be fair to
the retail liquor dealer. and that at
the same time viii protect society
from the disreputable resorts that so
, ciety properly objects TO ana complains
Of"
Speaking to the subject Some Fal'
lacies and Moral" Percy Andrae.
!. ance Bureau told the delegates to the
Wholesale Liquor Dealers convention
today that the solution OF the liquor
, quest on must come from the liquor
industries themselves, and from no
. other source"
q Prefacing his conclusions with a re-
q view of Ohio statistics OF dry couu-
. ties showing that in those counties in
q three years the rate of taxation has
, increased. the arrests for drunken
g ness have diminished and the number
: of indictments for felonies and misde
meanors has increased" Mr., Andrae
said:
Now reconcile these facts If you
can. OF course. the advocates of pro
hibition will take iubilant comfort in
the decline of the number of arrests
for drunkenness. Whether this de
cline, however, means that less people
drink to excess than before, is al
open and perhaps debatabie question
But assuming the fact to be establish
ed. wouldn't the accompanying fac
that the number of felones and mis-
demeanors has increased seem tC
show less mileage than Oklahoma
Five show more, making Oklahom;
sixth on the list. Minnesota built l6i.
against 1882 miles
This showing doubtless will be
matter of surprise to many Oklahoma
citizens who have supposed that OK
lahoma's strict regulation laws ha
subjected this state 10 untayorabl
comparison in this particular, \ fur
ther interest feature OF the compariso
is that Texas. with regulation meas
ures in many respects identical Wit
those of Oklahoma, leads the entir
country Furthermore, II territoria
area be taken into consideration in tn
comparison. Oklahoma leads.
The other states showing more 1870
mileage construction than OklahOm
are California, Washington and NJ
vada. All the territories, includin
Alaska, Ar Zona, New Mexico an! IN
District OF Columbia, show mileage
1909 Although conditions I'm Arizon
and New Mexico are inviting for raj
way investment, there being much a
i ricultural and mining Development an
no strict reguat on of operations, al
:, although their combined area is MOI
,, than three times that OF Oklahoma IN
d state shows 1909 construction doub
3 that of Arizona aud New Mexico col
d hined. The states that show no 60
J. stluction of railway whatever in 1874
E. are Massachusetts, Vermont, Del
a ware, Rhode Island, Connecticut al
. the western states o. Iowa North D
= kota and South Dakota. Oklahoma
ss record for 1909 is just seven miles ie
o,n than that of Nebraska, Ohio, uta
m' Wyoming Missouri. Indiana. III nc
o" and Idaho combinei.