The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-03-25

wholly prevent any person going to
the devil when hc is determined to
20. we can make it very risky bus
inc-, for the man who Is helping
him along. vice D. everywhere to be
met by Christian effort; crime everv-
whore to- be- put down by the str ne
hand Of the law, and the cn'our-
apcmont Of vice for the sake of gain
t. the blackest crime u the reg.
i-try of hell. If there Is no way by
which Washington or Guthrie or the
sovereign people whom these repre-
sent can secure the reign If the .
saints. there are ways for preventing I
the rule of the scoundr"ls. And law /
has failed of its purpose when II |
has not apprONimated tO what Glad /
stone defined a. the ultimate object |
OF all law. to make it easy for the I.
people to d. right, and difficult for |
them to do wrong"
The peril Of the open saloon is
that II Is the open rule of the
scoundrcls' We have enough cor
ruption. grating. etc. ia oklahoma
politics as it is, without adding to it
10y swinging the gates wide open
tu the worst element I'm our com
try. the saloon men and saloon SYM
pathizcrs. What would be- the con1i.
tim of our state politics IL the thug.
the blaCkleg the whore. the gam
blcr. the district "Bath-Iiouse John
were brought into the state by the
open licensed saloon
Men will tell you that as much
or more whiskey Is being sold under
/ the prohibition era rs under an open
liceneed saloon regime The assor-
ton Is false ON the face of tiff
SO. why are the liquor men fighiiuS
so for the defeat of the prohibition
/ clause in the constitution, Are jhey
willing to give mp a part OF their
profits. for the sake of !es3'i2ing
the business in which they are en-
gagged? The saloon has never been
law-ahiding: it has broken the law,
dCiied the law, trampled on the
law-but never obcyed it. If "A man
wants whiskcy now, he must buy
!, from some boOtlegger or dirty
gro; with the open saloon, he
could buy IL without evasion oI
Z h.. t..
sneak" into some rear room ol
alley, with the open saloon. he could
buy II over the counter from a man
authorized to do such business. by
the state Men who never though,
of drinking. who never would pat
roniZc bOotlegger or negro. wh'
would not even have ii shipped tC
them from distant cities, would he
tempted. led. invited into these
places Of business. and would drink
For the sake of unborn children
for the sake Cf growing boys. fol
the sake of men who are now sober
let us still make the liquor traffi'
criminal. and brand it with th'
mark of outlaWry The state car
not AFFORD To be a partner in crime
for little money. The state cas-
nor afford to raise drunkards Tor
little revenue The state can not az
ford T. breed adulterers and fallel
10 Women for the sake of it'll" cast
In hand. The state is set to execute
the law: it can not 90 into the Law
= breaking business.
Statisticians tell us that the large
pcrccntagc OF crime. poverty. want
suffering. death. and marriage inf
delity. T., caused by liquor. Can w
AFFORD 10 take one dollar from th'
. saloon tor license, when 1t take
eight dollars To pay for addiuoha
jails. Officers. trials, insane asylum
al caused by the open saloon
Trading eight dollars for one i
mt very profitable business. How
many paupers has Carter county
How many of them caused by drink
b How many murders have been com
mittcd in Garter county in the las
year? How many of them were caus
ed by drink? II the open salool
were To murder, pauperiSm
crimnality. immortality. would In
crease. Can We afford It?
The majority of murders commit
Ted in Carter county have been b.
/ negroes under the influence of liG
uor Every student of the "blacI
u problem knows that liquor Is IN
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