El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-18
We HAVE SHOWN


THAT there are only eight prohibition States of the
fory-six States in the Union.
THAT all eight of these States could be put in
smaller than that occupied by the State of Texas.
THAT IN the election of November. 1910, Florida.
Alabama, Missouri, South Dakota Oregon and Washington
all defeated statewide prohibition amendments.
THAT of the remaining eight Maine, which has had
statewide prohibition since 1885, WILL all probability re-
peal statewide prohibition In September of this year.
THAT within the next two years the State OF Okla
homa WILL all probability repeal the statewide prohibition
laws of that State This will leave only SIX prohibition States
out of the foysix-Kansas, Tennessee Georgia, North
Carolina, Mississippi and North Dakota
THAT statewide prohibition in all of these States is
farce. and failure
THAT the bootegger the blind tiger and the whiskey
dealer continues the sale of his large proportion
licensed States So far and effective has this proof
gone that the prohbionists themselves forced to admit
that these correct the OF Oklahoma
admitting that would require the passage and enactment OF
four federal laws before prohibition could be effective
THAT not a single president from George Washing
ton to William Taft, including Thomas Jefferson and Abra
ham Lincoln has favored either national statewide
prohibition
THAT United States Senator Charles A. Cuberson
and United States Senator Joseph w. Bailey oppose state
wide prohibition
THAT Governor Coquitt and ten congressman oppose
statewide prohibition.
THAT the Dallas News the Galveston News, the Dali
las Times Herald Fort Worth Record Fort Worth Star
Telegram the San Antonio Express the San Antonio LIGHT
Gazette the Houston Post the Houston Chronicle the Ell
Paso Times the Waco Tmes-Herald the Beaumont Enter
prise the Austin Statesman the Denison Herald and $50
other newspapers of the State all oppose statewide prohibi-
tlon
THAT the democratic and republican parties have since
their formation opposed national and statewide rohbi-
tion
THAT under the flags borne by the State of Texas It
has never any favored statewide prohibition and when
ever presented has always overwhelmingly defeated such
proposition.
THAT there is a fundamental difference between tenn
perance and the statewide prohibition theory that every ef
fort to promote temperance by mandatory legislation has
THAT the real issue In this campaign is whether the
people shall abandon the present perfected local option sv
tenn for experiment legislation which has proved futile
twentynine of the foysK States which have at one time
OF another considered prohibition.
THAT an effort to enforce code of living on an ,n
willing community destructive of the American principle of
local self-govemment
they exist today and that law the subject nee
essary.
THAT the advocates of the statewide theory first an
noced that they favored smpuary legislation effect tenn
and then changed front and declared that they do not
desire prevent the of alcoholic beverages thereby COM
hitting themselves the platform of advocating the passage
Of law which they admit be enforced and they don't
expect 10 be enforced