The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-15
NATIONAL MODEL
LICENSE LEAGUE
AN ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE BY T. NJ. GILMORE,
PRESIDENT.

4-DAl1 y me ny SrpL. "a ne "a
tional Model License Leasue today
Jegan the dis .-iDution Of an address
TO the American people, written By T..
VI. Gilmore, pres deLt Of the t!gtui-
zay on. The address IS as follows:
/ 1t has come at .a5. The admission
is nov made by the National Prohipi
tioList, the otficia organ OF ;ha pro
hlbition party OF America, that all of
the work Of the prohIbiionists and Cf
the An,iSaloon League in favor Of
. local option and statewide prohibition
has been a blunder.
In an article headed on the Wrong
+ Track" the National ProhibtiOnist
says tina. the figures show that the
whole prohibition movement has been
a lamentable failure as a means of ad-
yancing the cause Of temperance.
The suggestion is made that al!
Of the old methods be discarded, and
that a prog am calling for national
prohibition be adopted
National prohibition would he
/ bigger blunder than statewide pro
I hibition. In the filst place, it would
| deprive the government of about one
third Of its entire revenue. In the sec
ond place it would bankrupt the gov
ernment to enforce the law. In the
third place it would not be adopted
| If the people believed that it would
seriously interfere with their ability
an1 right to purchase and use alco-
holic beverages.
Backed up by the indisputable sta
/ tistics OF the United States govern
ment, ! make the assertion that while
/ tho prohibition area has increased
during the last fifteen years, the per
capita consumption of alcoholic bey-
erages has also increased until today
! it. is 80 per cent greater than 1t
was when this movement began, and
that 1t Is a gallon and a pint greater
this year than it was last year.
I'VE we're using in 1895, 74,000,O0O
gallons Of distilled liquors in this
country; but during the last fiscal
year we used 128,0O0,0OO gallons. In
1895 we used 1,O73,OOO,OOO gallons Of
beer, but in the fiscal year 1910 we
used 1,844,OOO,OOO gallons.
"As these figures cannot be success
American people If the result of pro
! hibiion Is satisfactory? | want to ask
the earnest men and women who have
| listened 50 attentively 10 the Anti
Saloon League, and have given so lib
orally to swell its Golfers, and who
have worked so earnestly and persist
emily in its ranks, if they are salts
! fled to continue to support move
ment that does not regulate the liquor
/ traffic-that does not put the retail
| liquor dealer out of existence-that
does not reduce the consumption of
iluuOIb DuJ' On lle NOihulny, buDoi
tutes one or more blind tigers for
each open saloon, compels the people
to buy liquor by the case and keep
1t in their residences, destroys vast
revenues, destroys respect for law,
renders 1t not difficult, but easy, for
minors and inebriates to secure all
the whisky they want, supplants good
whisky with inferior whisky, and good
beer with so-called near-beer, which
the brewer will make, but which he
will not drink, and which has resulted
in a so per cent increase in the con |
sumption OF alcoholic beverages in |
this country Within a period OF fifteen .
years.
"The Anti-Saloon League does not
believe that prohibition will prohibit,
and such men as Helt, Robinson and .
the editor of the National Prohibition
list declare emphatically that it is
not prohibiting anywhere, and If these
laws are not expected to prohibit, and
If the men who advocate them are
sure that they will not rohibit, what,
may ask, is the reason for their
adoption?
win anyone say that the people OF
Georgia, or Tennessee, or Alabama
are using less liquor today than tn y
did prior to the passage of their
prohibitory laws? And If such is not
the case. then where have these states
been benfited? And what can they
show in retun for the tremendous
sacrifices that they have made
AS president of the National Model
License League declare that the
information from every section of the
country, and from all offices where