The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-10-06
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VINO WANT SALOONS
IN LINCOLN COUNTY,

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The following statistics show who
It is that are asking that the saloon
with all its horrors be brought bach
to Stanford. These figures furnish
food for thought. They show who
are in the lead in this movement and
whom the people who advocate the
restoration of the saloon are fol
lowing.
Take, for example. the three vot-
ing precincts which include Stan
ford, known as Nos. /. 2, and 3. The
petitions fled with the County Judge
from these three precincts contain
the names of 172 white men, 1s9 col
ored and 1874 whose race is un-
known. These white and colored
petitioners paid taxes this year
amounting to only $1,003.49. The
taxable property of these three pre-
cincts is approximately $4,000. 900,
exclusive of the banks. whose cap
ital and surplus are S29g.OOO, and
assessable. The taxes of these three
precincts are more than $33.000. So
that the petitioners referred to rep
resent less than 1-33d of the taxable
property of these precincts.
A number of reputable voters have
asked that their names be with
drawn, claiming in many cases that
they signed under misrepresentation
and misunderstanding rs TO the OBJ
ject of the petitions. Ii il clear
that it is not the men who bear the
burdens of taxation that are asking
for saloons in Stanford. Il is not
the men whose taxes maintain the
white and colore6 schools, who sup
port the churches. who build the
streets and sidewalks. wine pay the
Judges aud jurors and who build the
residences and public buildings that
adorn and beautify the town. They
are not the men who do the bust
ness of the country, who buy the
grain and stock. who carry on the
commerce of the town and county.
The law wisely provide that a
man who has signed one of these
petitions in an umthoughted mo-
ment, perhaps without realizing Just
what he was doing, may withdraw
his name. upon mature deliberation.
Men are often swept into things
hurriedly. without reflection. who
afterward see their mistake and are
glad to correct their errors when
thew have a chance TO do so.
IL is very serious thing for a
man TO aid in any way thing
that it wrong. Everybody admits
the evil of the saloon. Nobody even
pretends that the saloon is Il good
hing. The saloon has no defenders.
The only excuse made for it is that
i is lesser evil. and this is not true
Be ii remembered that the men
who sign the petitions for an cleo
ion are the people who viii be re-
,ponsible for all the evil that the
saloons will produce. They will be
for every drunken de-
Jauch. for every quarrel. every
Drawl. every murder. cverv crime
hat will be committed under the
influence of the liquors sold over
hose bars, because they and they
alone have made it possible for sa-
oons TO exist. They are not re-
,pons;ble for the evil that the blind
Tiger does, because they did not
,ring it into existence. but Ihey are
he fathers of the saloon
The face of every broken-heart-
I'd mother. whose son is made a
irunkard in these saloons will haunt
he men who signed these petitions.
fhey stand related to the saloons
hat may he opened in Stanford as
he signers of the Declaration of In
do to our liberties. With
,ut these brave men we could have
10 free government. without these
VIC can have no saloons.
Men, as you love your home, rs
you love your neighbor. as You love
FOUR country, go and undo The great
.rime Won have committed against
al these. by Withdrawing your name
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