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

the traffic.
Prohibition does prohibit when officers
of the law, sworn to enforce it, want it
to prohibit This is fact too we'll at
tested in American affairs to be real
healthful for the traffic.
There are many facts, figures, and
illustrations to prove the above as
sertions, but space is too limited here
to bring them forth. We can give a
few very briefly. Kansas is dry, Ne
braska is wet. For every barrel of
beer consumed in Kansas, twenty-five
are consumed in Nebraska. For every
barrel of beer consumed in Kansas, one
hundred and sixtY-nine are consumed in
poor old wet Missouri. This large diff
ference is due to the abominably wet
city of St. Louis which has the great
brewing interests, and is one of the
worse governed cities in the world, and
one of the most vile plague spots to be
found anywhere.
The state of Maine does not have a
fertile soil. Thousands of her people
h ave left the state on account of its Sc
we're climate. Yet the United States
reports for 1900 show that Maine had
less state and municipal debts than any
Their state in the Union, and had enough
money in the treasury to pay half the
state debt. Maine has one-ffth of the
population of Ohio and one-sixth that of
Illinois, yet she has fifty per cent more
savings bank deposits than Ohio and
two and one-half times those of Illinois,
showing, per capita, seven and one-half
times as much savings bank deposits as
Ohio and twelve times as much as the
prairie state.
Put it in another form. Maine sent
to the penitentiary, in 1908, 65 convicts;
licensed Missouri sent in the same year
| 887 convicts.
The figures are endless showing the
advantages of dry over wet territory in
the financial, social, educational and re-
ligious life of people who keep liquor
from their homes.
The traffic is an anarchist. The fam
Gus sentence is true, at can never be
legalized without sin. And the man
who by vote or influence, by signing a
recommendation or going on the bond
of a saloon keeper, commits sin, and is
indirectly partner in the business and
becomes responsible for the awful re-
suits of the miserable business in the
community. Liquor interests know no
politics. To them Democrat and Repub-
lican mean nothing save chance to
perpetuate this miserable business. The
church has the balance of power in this
county, and all the forces of evil know
it. Why not stand together as the
wicked forces stand together, and let
"Gambrinus" know that he is wanted
here no longer.
The ban of public sentiment, public
decency, and the legitimate business
world is upon the traffic. A young man
who drinks today even in a moderate
way can't get responsible position if
it is known that he drinks. He is not
wanted anywhere, even the insurance
companies turn him down.
A traffic that stands thus in the esti-
nation of the public conscience is
doomed, and must ere long take its
place in the past and live only on the
pages of history. Would that it could be
blotted from there so that future gen.
erations could not read the slckenlng
record of its awful history.
To the voters of Garrett county: Our
day has come. We have waited. The
womanhood of the county has been out
ragged by this traffic long enough. The
endless string of DRINKS that are taken
to the county Jail attest its baneful in
fuence. Minors staggering drunk in