The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-05-23
W. 7. U.COLUMN
Mrs Merrill Pipkin, Press Supt.
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In license town the merchant gets
what is left after the saloonk eeper gets
all he can.
For every dollar spent for education
America spend six dollars for drink.
There Is but one thing worse than a
saloon, and that is-another saloon.
OF COURSE prohibition doe, not pro.
hibit, but 10 they really sell rs much
N your town on Sunday as they do on
Saturday,
The only good side oi saloon is the
outside.
The best way to get rid OF blind pigs
j, 10 elect officials who have eyes.
II your children were made of pig
IRON the politician would favor their
protection.
What i, the only thing in the world
that will make father pawn his
haby's shoes
What commercial club advcrti,c> ,a.
looms A. the attraction Of town
II YOU support the saloon with yonr
ballot. to be consistent YOU ought to
support 1t with your hoy.
Every fifth home must furnish boy
for the saloon; what number h. your,
When wine glass Is rlgh side mp 1t
is upside down.
Because YOU cannot pfohha murder
why mo, UgcG,t IT.
ANY lowcr would blush {. uu4 itself
800 % hc,' gudcu
The trouble with the poor mat club
that II keep, the poor mau poor.
The thing that made Milwaukee IA.
mons Will max" YOU drunk.
Local ur,inu D, the creeping pirAiv-i,
ni the liquor traffic.
II saloon Us a good thing why
charge ), such 8 heavy license
In a dry town only sneak rIn
sell liquor
Who will be the drmkaris twenty
YEAR from now
Sixty.Gvc ira,crnal orders will not
allow liquor dealers to Join them
When some men think they feel their
oats, what they really feel is their rye.
The slogan of the Anti Saloon League
Is not Prohibition with a party behind
IT, but prohibition with the people
behind It. American Issue.
Lust of Money Not Appetites.
A thousand times ! have said, aud so
long as God gives me power To speak,
will say, 1t is the cold .bloolcd lust OF
money in men who manufacture and
sell, and not the appetites of men who
drink which II responsible for the
alarming use of Intoxicating liquors IN
America.
The Whiskcy Trust and the Brewery
Combine are literally forcing upon he
American people the habit Of drinA.
Deliberately, aud with devil : cunning,
the Whlskey Trust and brewery Com.
bin" have twisted, warped and hidden
the real issue before the An crtcan pco-
pie.
Through the great newspapers they
control, through thousands Ois paid
cmis~arlcs. they have taught millions
Of honest men to believe that this
crusade against the liquor traffic is
crusade against men who drink; they
have deceived them into the belief that
il is a war upon their liberty
What is the truth' There j. not one
word i'll any temperance law III Amer
ica which says to the adult grown man,
YOU shall not drink, not one word
which says, you shall not keep liqdor
for personal use within certain limita-
tons. Our war is not upon men who
drink, but upon vast class OF men
who have realized the possibility of
making money out Of the passions and
appetites of men. upon the same prin.
ciple that classes Of men in our great
cities are making millions out of the
business Of gambling, out OF the bust.
ness of prostitution. We make war up
on these men, not upon their victims.
Every man who thinks, must know
that the value OF the property of the
Whlskey Tfus, and Brewery Combine
depends absolutely upon the sale Of
their goods. II their combined capital
today amasscd since the civil war, is
thourand million dollars its value ab.
solntely depends upon the one fact
that by pushing their trade steadily,
persisteHtly, relcuilcssly, they have
taught the people OF the republic to an
nually consume two billion dollars
worth OF the product Of their stills and
breweiies.
TO maintain the value Of their prop.
crty, they must not only hold the men
who drink, but within the limit OF the
lives OF the men who drink today, the
Whiskey Trust aud the Brewery Com.
blue must teach a new generation to
drink.
As men realize this truth they stand |
amazed, appalled, at its irightful inn
port. Think Of 1t, thousand million |
dollars in the hands of dangerous, un.
scrupulous men, absolutely dependent
for its value upon the wreckage OF the
finest virtues OF American manhood,
and for its future value upon the ruined |
of millions of American boys.
Is there anything in all this world
that is of more importance to you