The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-24

| tried to tell him how badly we needed
the money he was spending; and then
the saloon keeper cursed me, and told
me to leave. Then, | confess, | could
stand no more, and | said, You ought
to be prosecuted for violating the mid
night closing ordnance At this the
saloon keeper and policemen rushed
upon me, and put me into.the street;
and one of the policemen, grasping my
arm like vice, Kissed in my ear, I'll
get you thirty days sentence in the
workhouse, and then We'll see what you
think about suing people. He called a
patrol wagon, pushed me in. and drove
to the Jail, and, Judge, you know the
rest. All day yesterday | was locked
up, my children at home alone, with no
fire, no food, no mother"
Her story was so manifestly true,
| that the judge did have the honor tc
dismiss this woman; but the liquor
traffic had such power in the city OF
Cincinnati, that this perjured scoundre
of a saloon keeper and those lawless
policemen were never prosecuted and
the policemen were not even laid off for
day. This case is a matter of record
in the Cincinnati police court.
Now, for few moments with the old
chestnut, Prohibition does not pro-
hibit." Who said it did? Where is
there law against any crime that does
absolutely prohibit that crime?
There will be just as much sold any.
how is the old gag" that terrorizes
so many well meaning people. Any
fairminded man who will take little
time to look up the facts will soon be
convinced that prohibitory laws only
partially enforced reduce liquor sell
ing to the minimum.
The officer of the law who says,
such laws can't be enforced" is a
dirty coward and ought, for the sake OF
common decency, to step down and out
The wicked flee when no man pur-
sueth, . but as one has said, "He makes
better time when somebody is after
him"
Whenever a liquor dealer says, 'Just
as much will be sold anyhow if the
saloons go, he is a confessed violator
of the law. For he means by THAT to
say, "the business will continue with or
without license"
ANY man who will take the trouble to
go down to the depot in Oakland any
afternoon when No So is about due, will
be convinced beyond the possibility of a
doubt of the lawlessness of the traffic
here in shipping liquor into dry terri
tory. Oh, you say it is sanctioned by
the Interstate Commerce law, and the
original package decision. Remem-
Der that is not settled in the minds of
some forty millions of our citizens, and
is one of the things that Congress will
have to face quite soon. Aside from all
this a man ought to be decent enough
to keep his goods out of a town.or COM
munity that says by the vote of its peo-
pie we don't want such goods in our
midst.
If prohibition does not prohibit, why
does the traffic raise an immense cor
ruption fund whenever legislation is
proposed against the traffic?
Why do they keep systematic watch
on all officers and candidates for office
to discover their attitude toward the
traffic. If prohibition increases the
sale of their ware why don't they join
hands with the dry element and help
pass laws prohibiting the sale of liquor?
They say .one thing and act entirely
different from what they say. And
they act it in very substantial and tell
ing way A state senator told the
speaker that he was offered S25, 900 for
his vote against measure hostile to