The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-08-25


COunty-Manager of the Cam
paign Is Not Emissary Of til
! Whiskey Traffic-He Represen,
Business Organization.
Continued from First DaRe)
ending April 80, 1911, were $500
less than for the preceding year be
cause they had been cut out of Chi
cago in the months of Novembe
and December, 1910, on account o
evangelistic movements" The state
ment shows that there was spen
for salaries of officers and field force
travelling expenses, Office help, post
age and telephone, the sum of nearly
$4,000. Evidently there was some
pretty easy picking" for somebody
and the anti-saloon league has more
than once found itself in serious
straits to give concise published &C
count of funds entrusted to its care
in various campaigns that have
transpired in the United States al
different times.
Any course that resorts to threats
of boycott, intimidation and coercion
is in hopeless straits Past expert.
ences show conclusively that where
such methods have been attempted
they have been promptly met with a
sturdy opposition and have been
denounced by the people upon whom
1t was intended to apply these meth
DDS.
The business men and voters OF
Canyon county, standing upon their
privileges as American citizens, have
the right to believe and take sides
upon this issue as they see fit. They
do not deny this right to their
neighbors and friends. Because men
entertain other opinions is no reason
why there should be program or
procedure, the intent and purpose
of which is to deny to the AmeEi-
can citizen the privilege of exercis-
ing his own rights and beliefs.
The question is brought up in
some quarters that if the saloon is
good proposition, why should 1t
pay a license. Every sane minded
man is willing to admit that mar
riage is a good thing and yet the
principals in a marriage are COM
PEELED to take out a license. But
not alone are the saloon and bene-
dict taxed, but license fees are de-
manded for a long list of privileges
We stand for the open and licensed
saloon because it is located under
the watchful eye of the police au-
thorities. Under the regulation for
which we stand and to which we
have pledged ourselves in the reso-
luton adopted by this organization,
the saloon will be conducted In a
manner that will bring it down onto
a commercial basis and the exag-
gerated dangers of the licensed place
OF business, it can be proven, arel
unfounded. Such a system is far
to the criminal methods
employed by the blind tiger and the
boot-legger, the securing of whiskey
in drug store on prescriptions call
ing for Spirits frumenti," goods
shipped in packages from OUTSIDE
towns. dragged in in suitcases IN
quantities that invite temptation to
excessive drinking, and the attend
ant increase in crime that follows
driving drinking into secret haunts'
Ex-President Elliott of Harvard
sums up the whole case against pro-
bibition in its effects ON social ana
oolItical life. He says: Efforts TO
enforce prohibition for years have
had some unlooked-for effects on
public respect for courts, judiciai
oaths and law, legisia-
tors and public servants. The puo-
Iic has seen law dehed, a whole gen.
of habitual law breakers
schooled in evasion and shameless
ness. courts Intellectual through the
fluctuations of policy, delays, per-
Iuries. negligences and other mis-
carriages of Justice, officers OF the
law double faced and mercenary'
Legislators tlmid and insineere'
such is the character and record OF
prohibition.
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