Williams news., 1910-03-26
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
 IN TOWN OF WILLIAMS
(Communicated)

a very determined movement on the part of the prohibitionists and the mail order whisky houses to bring about local option.
 Now, to those of our citizens who are unacquainted with the liquor business this assertion seems very strange; but to us, who know the business. and have watched the progress of local option and prohi- bition fights in other parts of the country, it is we'll known that the mail order whisky men have brought about prohibition in Mis- sissippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Okla homa, parts of Arkansas and Lou isiana, and have kept Kansas, North Dakota and Maine on the so called dry list for years; and for what purpose? For nothing more nor less than the increased business they get in those dry states (that are not. t.dry): for when your state, county, city or town is voted dry, these secret, foreign allies of our good temperance people immedi : ately begin to reap profits and pile up thousands of dollars to their credit, while many of your hitherto respected citizens-men who have helped to build up your country; who have borne their share of the public burden; who have aided all your charitable enterprises and contributed to erect your churches and pay the ministers salaries, are forced to see their business become crime and their property depre- ciate and become valueIess.
 And, then, the other side of this alliance-see their sons and all others who wish to drink frequent ing the express office and then re- tiring to some secluded spot to en- joy the vile decoctions which this unholy alliance of churches and liquor dealers has forced upon them.
 Now, my prohibition friends will say that I am only denouncing this class of goods in order to prejudice the people against the mail order houses and in favor of saloons and the class of goods which the saloons serve; and they will make the claim that we sell the same goods that the mail order houses sell
 Now. as everyone knows. am engaged in the saloon business, and all fair minded people will admit that man who has been in any business for years must acquaint himself with all the different phases of his business; and during the past year I have corresponded with many of the leading wholesale houses of the United States, with a view of procuring their assistance in these local option fights, which we all foresaw was coming It is not my object in this article to give the results of these efforts, except so far as they go to sustain my as- sertion made at the beginning of this, viz: that there exists an ali ance between the prohibitionists and the mail order whisky houses, and below I give a copy of letter received from firm with which we have done business for years, and I have received several of the same import:
 Cincinnati. O., Jan. 1, 10.
 Friend Ed: Yours of recent date at hand and contents noted, and in reply will say that while we regret to see you people put out of busi- ness, we cannot help you in any way, as we think it would be against our business interests to do so. You know when our vice president was in Williams. he explained the mail fder'department to you; and. can didly. Ed, we sell more liquor in your country through that depart ment than we do to you; and of course you know the prices at which we sell you. While you pay us $3 75 fob. here, we sell this other trade our $1.75 grade and get $55O fo b. here. So you can easily see our reasons for not fighting the local option movement. With best wishes we beg to remain, yours,
 H. K. The---Co.
 P. S. This is strictly personal.
 Business reasons forbid that 1 give the name of this firm, as they are strong personal friends of the writer. 1 have another letter from another house, which says: "Let your country go dry, and we will