The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02

and orderly government frightful be
youd conception.
II Is the avarice of men who make
and sell, the brutal avarice of gov
crnments which license. which are re.
spcnsible before God and men for the
evcr-ieepening and widening curse.
Third, the government tax on the
liquor traffic IL never ultimately pail
10y the dlstillcr and brewer who make.
or the saloon which sells. Every dol
lar of all the hundreds OF millions
paid 10 our governments Is. i'm It's last
analysis, paid by the men who drink
II is for this reason that the Whisky
trust and Brewery combine have
never ultimately paid by the distiller
and brewer who make, or the saloon
which sells. Every dollar Of all the
hundreds of millions paid to our gov
crnments is In its last analysis, pale
by the men who drink.
II Is for this reason that the Whisky
trust and Brewery combine have never
really objected to high government tax
they favor IT,
The Model License League"
financed by the Whisky trust, stands
openly for high license, under the
specious plea that it destroys the dog
gerry and dive, cursng our cities.
None better than they know how
false and baseless is this claim. They
know 1t enables them 10 monOpollzc
the saloon business to hold tlghtc,
our cities, by increasing their revenue
and every dollar of II at the expense
of the men who drink.
/ measure my words when / say
II the men who drink, rich or poor
knew how they are robbed and plum
dercd by the Whisky trust and
Brewery combine, through indirect
taxation. there would be a revolution
ten thousand Boston Tea parties
going on I'm every city in the Union
Robbers of the Drinkcr
Let them figure IT for themselves
The cost in Milwaukee to make a gal,
Ion OF straight whisky is less than
| twenty cents. When the mon whC
| drink, buy IL out of any American sa'
loon, they pay for the same gallon
from 81 to S5-by the drink from
SIC To $50. The primary reason fol
| this is that when the Milwaukee dis
tiller pays his Federal government tax
$11O on each gallon, he immediately
adds 1t to the cost of the gallon, hands
| II down TO the saloon with his ta>
added and when the saloon Keeper
pays his high license To statc, county
ana city, it. too, Is added TO the cos
o. each gallon. ana che consumer
rich and poor alike buying It with
al 1.-The government tax added, pays
every dollar of government tax from
the nation down to the city why
DO the American people who drink
stand this open robbery? The answer
is simple-the masses of them are
angry and will neither hear nor know
the truth. They are putty soft and
plable. in the hands of the Whisky
trust and Brewery combine, their hun
dreds of paid emissares, their pur'
chased newspapers, their polltlca
hirelings
l have never understood now intel
ligent laboring men, who make theil
lmoney by honest tol, can line up VIII
the Whisky trust and Bre very com
bine against the millions of Amer
lean men and women who are hsht'
Ing them.
over in Illinois laboring man saiC
u me- MIR. Wright why don't you
B eight the Beef trust and the Leathel
trus. and the Wool trust and l1e olhel
trusts doubling the cost of living t'
the poor?"
I said to him. "Aly friend an
with YOU against these wrongs bu
why don't you line mp win me IL