The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-09-01

He talks for the Lord, but he votes for the
REFRAIN-
For they were both rum votes and they sane.
ton the license plan
One was cast by Jolly old brewer
And one by a Sunday School man.
They have thus voted to fasten
the liquor traffic on the nation and
| see no harm in attempting to regu-
late and control that which they
nave helped to perpetuate by their
party vote and utilization.
Now l am here to tell you that
these men don't mean to be incon-
sistent, but they are just the same,
not from bad motives, don't think
SO for minute, but it is because
they are raised that way; they are
mistaken, they don't stand for what
the church stands for, and that is
true not only of one church but of
all the other churches as we'll They
meet together and pass singing re-
solutions and go right on voting the
wet ticket and that is why at the
last general election there were 252,-
600 prohibition votes cast in the
United States while there were hun
dreds of thousands of men who
voted the wet ticket-men in the
church, mind you.
We were speaking about the anti
saloon method. That is their meth
cd. They wont vote the prohibition
ticket, they don't want national pro.
hibition; they know the church will
not stand for it and so they invent
ed what they call local option, which
amounts to letting the faucet run al
! Washington to flood the country
then when a lot of it leaks into this
town they go around with their 10
cal option mOps and want to mop il
up. In a certain asylum they have
way of testing a man to see if he
is sane or insane. They take the
man into an empty room with a fau
Get in the wall, then flood the foo
! with water. They give this suppos
eddy insane man a mop and tell hin
to "go to it" They watch him tt
see if he is sane or insane; if h
attempts to mop that water up with
out shutting off the faucet, they sa.
he is "looney" sure, but if they Sc,
that he walks up to the wall ant
shuts the faucet off and then start
to mop they will say that he is san
, and not so badly "chipped" after al
Now here is the fact; you couldn'
get enough power in the Unite
States to haul the preachers and tn
church members up to the polls t
vote the prohibition ticket; the
. won't do it, they believe IN lettin
the faucet run because people wan
it and because we need the revenue
r that is the proposition in a nutshell
that is why you can't have DIR
town; the people believe in the l
uuor traffic flourishing on ever
. hand; they may prohibit the saloo
D in some places but they don't sto
e the drinking.
The great trouble with local OF
> ton, as l have found out, is tn;
d it is too Internally local and tc
: wretchedly optional. Local optic
Il does not prohibit drinking or II
. drink business, it only prohibits tt
saloon method of selling. | say thi
and | am conscious of telling the q
n solute truth when / say 1t, that l
IS cal option simply drives the LOU
n business out of the saloon and In
k the drug stores, the bling pig, Il
It EXPRESS offices and the neighbour
n towns. That is the exact truth al
% YOU can't help but know it.
y You take tho government repo
3 last year and II was somethil
e amazing. The Internal Revenue d
partment at Washington issued
n report for 1910 and said: nc
Ie withstnnding the great increase
l. so-callod dry territory, the hQu
1t business has increased more tn
ID ever in all its history" Now that
q solemn fact, You see some ma
,r that give you pretty good ia
s. and description of what is call
IN dry territory, (dry on paper) dry
re- name but not dry in fact Let !
lr read you Il statement that cal
n from the Presbyterian General :
IL sembly recently: When all
lowanee has been made for false a
IL garbled statements, the fact
le mains that there is an alarming
I'd crease in the use of alcoholic
at ouors in the United states as
Of whole. Only harm can result by
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