The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-07


Ohio, president of the National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers association in his
address at the sixteenth annual con
yention of the association held AT the
Hotel Sherman, in Chicago, Yesterday,
said:
Gentlemen OF the Convention:
We meet today in annual convention
TO celebrate the sixteenth anniversary
Of this association.
The influence of the National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers association was
never greater than it is today
Internal Revenue.
The relations between this associa
ton and the department Of internal
revenue continue TO be cordial. The
policy of the department to enforce
compliance with the law and regula-
ton, which has been so heartily con
Cured in by the members of this as
sociation, will result in great good,
Anti-SaIoon League in Politics.
The national superintendent of the
Anti Saloon League has stated that
the Anti-Saloon League intenIs to con
CCntrate its efforts on the election of
United States senators and representa-
dives who will be pledged to pass fed
eral laws 10 remove liquor from the
protection of all interstate commerce
laws.
No more important matter can come
before this convention than that of
preparing ourselves to prevent the
Anti-Saloon League from carrying out
its boast to control national legisla
ton; and | recommend that, before
We adjourn, some plan be adopted ma
tion-wide in its scope, which shall en-
able us to give this question the at
tention it imperatiyely demands.
Prohibition the Cause of Illicit Dis.
tiIling.
There is no doubt that the trade suf-
fers in the minds of the public, be-
cause of the tremendous increase in
Illicit distillation. but it is a matter
of great comfort to know that no mem
Der of this associatin has been charg
ed with "moon.shining.
Illicit distillation prospers almost
exclusive in those states that endeaVor
to enforce statutory prohibition. 1t
seems probable that with the opening
OF prohibition states to proper license
laws, the government will be able
practically to stamp ont all moonshin-
ers and others engaged in unlawful
dstlling.
The illicit dstiller. and his twin
brother. the Illicit dealer, are the off
srrins of prohibition.
We deplore their existence, but We
repudiate all responsibility for bring
ing them into the world.
Wood" Alcohol, Dangerous to Life.
We have been unsuccessful in our
attempts to induce the pure food or
internal revenue department to force
distillers of wood alcohol to change
the name of their product to one omit
ting the word alcohol
Continued efforts should he made to
accomplish that end, as many lives
are lost, and much ignorant and un-
fair criticism of the trade results from
the use of the word alcohol" in con
nection with distillate of wood.
Wood alcohol is in no sense what
the public knows as alcohol
1t is an active poison, and because
Of its misleading title is often igno-
rantly used. with fatal consequences,
instead of grain alcohol.
County Option.
The attempts of the Anti-Saloon
League to enforce prohibition, through
county option, on cities opposed to it,
are responsible for the unfortunate
conditions which prevail in cities thus
prevented from governing themselves.
IS further consequence. there now
exists an era of boot Logging" and
blind tigers" unprecedented in the
history of this country.
In several states, many large cities
that voted wet" are forced to remain