United labor bulletin., 1910-03-11
OPINIONS ON LOCAL OPTION.
Newspapers Do Not Seem impressed
With Its Success.

Prohibition and its smaller brother,
county option, have attracted the atten-
ton of the press in many parts of the
country with negative result that in
many cases has caused pain to the many
who advocate prohibition as the panacea
for all evils that flesh is heir to. The
expressions of opinion on prohibition
from the press are generally against the
doctrine as is evidenced below:
ATLANTA. GA. CONSTITUTION.
There are twice as many houses va
cant today under prohibition, as there
were when there was no prohibition"
NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADvER-
TISFR
Prohibition has failed utterly wher-
ever it has been tried
ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DBMOCRAT.
When you try to make temperate
folks by getting them to drink cold water
only, you will have also thereby a lot of
bigots and fools"
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.
"Only the impractical doctrinaire ex-
poets that the time will ever come when
any system of laws can be devised to
prevent intoxication and it's results of
degradation and crime"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
There is more liberty. more freedom
from espionage in MOSCOW or St. Peters
burg during the Nihilist panic than in
cities and villages of Iowa under prohibit
ton regime"
CHICAGO JOURNAL.
Maine has an ever-present local issue
that always predominates. For many
years the state has been prohibition. The
druggist, the grocer. the shoe man and
the furniture dealer have sold whisky
without restrain. Hotel men have boast
ed openly that they preferred to be fined
a couple of hundred dollars two or three
times a year rather than pay a high IL
cense as in Massachusetts. Prohibition
in Maine is a political weapon. 1t is the
basis of a condition of terrorism"
OMAHA, NEB., BEE.
"A prohibitory law which stimulates
stealth, hypocrisy, and which familiar
ICES communities with law-breaking un-
der the support of a Public sentiment,
that violations imply no moral wrong, is
dangerous for the well-being of any
state"
NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE.
THE crank does not seem to under
stand that man may oppose prohibition
without having a deep-seated affection
for rum"
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
"All the figures, logic and cunning
society of prohibition cannot alter hui
man nature. They may legislate until
doomsday and it stul will remain true,
as it has from the mmemorial, that hui
man appetite cannot be controlled or re-
strained by law on paper"
ST. PAUL PRESS.
Prohibition has decnned yisibly and
irreparably In the states where it has
been enacted into Law or incorporated in
the constitution, it S less popular than
ever. People openly admit its impotence
in enforcement"
THE NEW YORK SUN.
THE fanatical promoters of prohibit
ton driven from excellent to expedient
in their hopeless az smpt to accomplish
the impracticable. viii never rest con-
tent until they have law making the
act of drinking liquor Or beer in itself
criminal offense"
WASHINGTON POST.
ut strikes us that \ study of the finan-
cial problems connec ed with the prohibit
ton movement would be advisable. Re-
form is fine thing, tut IT is costly. Until
the government has reorganized Its
IN ethods of taxation. the prohibition
movement will not 5e one of sentiment
alone. The fiscal system is based upon
recognition of the liquor traffic as lawful,
subject to federal License and taxation.
If the states make The traffic unlawful,
and destroy the revenue. they must for