The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-02-18
MR.. ANDERSON COMES
BACK. AGAIN.
Editor Democratic Advocate :

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1t may be- thrifty and good business
for the Advocate to deliberately start
a discussion of this sort by gratui-
tous attack and then, after making a
lot Of nasty and unwarranted insinu-
atoms and untruthful statements,
serve notice that 1t will not publish
any more replies without pay. But it
is hardly the kind OF treatment one
would expect from a paper which
says % much about fairness, even il
IL does need the money. However,
the Anti-Saloon League will take the
Advocate seriously and will pay for
the space In which to print this reply.
1t is worth the price just to show up
the nature of the Advocates tactics.
The Advocate intimates that we
claim that the Anti-SaIoon League de-
feated Mr.. Farver and DR.. Waters for
the House of Delegates We claim
nothing Of the kind. We said that the
Anti-Saloon League helped elect two
Republicans who were elected, but the
League did not say it helped defeat
any particular Democrat. We do say
that the two Republicans who said
they were for the local option bill and
stuck to 1T. were elected over two
Democrats who said nothing.
The Advocate reaches it's greatest
heights Of whitening scorn and indig-
nation however, when it refers to our
statement that the now defunct Car
roll County Local Option Law had no
penalty clause, which it calls an "out-
ragious and mendacious charge" de-
nounces as dishonest, and says:
"If you had made: such statements
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have been fined for contempt; ignor-
antly, dfsbarred for INCOMPETENCE
Well the Advocate bit" hard and we
guess this gets it in deep enough to
justify reaching back for some of the
reserve ammunition which we like to
keep in the locker. The Advocate
"And YOU 81 course never told
them that the Carroll county local
law places o fine Of from $500
to $500 upon the man who sells in
toxicating liquors without a license
WAS n adopted no no license Es you eo9 G3ddeP be
issued"
We admit that it is true that the
Carroll county high license law pro-
vides penalty for a person who sells
without license. But in the laws of
1908, page 6SS, chapter 252 (the high
license law), Sec. 54A. is found this
language:
BY the maker thereof, and not suf-
fered to be drunk on his premises"
This means in plain English that it
is not necessary to. take out license
in order to sell cider or native wines
and therefore the penalty for selling
without a license does not apply to
such sales, and il the people had voted
under the Carroll county local option
law which thetLeague from the be-
ginning frankly condemned, it would
have been possible without being liable
for any penalty whatsoever to have
sold cider (nothing said about degree
of hardness) or native wines (no pro-
vision about percentage of alcohoD or
any concoction which might be called
cider or native wine, anywhere in the
county in any quantity just so it was
so it was not drunk upon the premises
Of the maker, and there was no pro-
vision as to what it should be made of,
or, assuming it was to be of fruit,
that it should be made by the grower
of the same.
Now then. tor1follOW the Advocates
own phraSeO1Ogy and construction, if
the Advocate knowingly attempted to
temperance people of Carol county it
is worthy of the contempt of honest
men; if it did not know that it had left
hole in the local option law big
enough to admit a cider press or 4
horse team of wine, it is manifestly
incompetent to draft temperance leg
islation.
The Advocate said when it thought
If had TIC in onrnnr IN this nninf
And yet the churches tolerate you.
Do they wish to be deceived ?" And
yet some church members will vote as
the Advocate says. Do they wish to
be deceived ?
As to the discussion about the Sab
bath day and all that sort of thing, the
League must ask to be pardoned if it
prefers to be governed by what the
churches are actually doing in prefer
ence to what the Advocate believes
they ought to do.
The Advocate says TT 1.-THE local
option bilD requires notice of the cleo
ton, extra printing, etc. Every one
knows that this is an expense" The
local option bill provides that the
supervisor of elections shall cause
notice to be given in the manner pro-
vided by law for giving notice Of an
election" 1t does provide for extra
printing in the sense that it requires
few extra words to be printed on the
same ballot. Does the Advocate figure
it's prices 80 closely on public printing
that it would have to charge for the
extra ink to avoid loss.
The Advocate asks a whole bunch of
questions. Most of them are the sort
that Intelligent people will understand
were never asked to be answered. Yet
we will answer even these if the Ad-
vocate, in accordance with the rules
of fundamental fairness, will give
space free for that purpose, but we
decline to pay for the privilege. We
therefore, confine ourselves to just
enough to illuminate the Advocates
method Of argument. The Advocate
quite artfully mixes up some things
that are self-evidently true with a lot
Of things that are malicious insinua-
lions. Take these two do YOU not
use the church a. your meeting
place III Why certainly, to promote
the movement generally and fight the
liquor traffic, but not for political
campaign purposes. Why should we
pay hall rent when SO many Of the
churches have endorsed the League as
their agency And what grievance
has the Advocate if she churches are
satisfied Then look at this one.
Can you successfully deny the charge
that you are in secret league with the
large breWeries 2? IT the Advocate
will kindly make such a charge" in