The Van Buren press., 1912-08-17
Facts a MiSnOmGr,

4 AS'g VI lf'iNllNNlOlt
Z From the Ozark Democrat.E Enterprise
! The Local Option and Self
League of Arkansas ,
'ieX-GOv. Dan w. Jones, president,
4T. A. Wright, secretary-treasurer.
d This organization is printing a
Spaper, called "Facts,n and j. II.
.Naud is editor. The purpose of
5this publication is to defeat state.
.twjde prohibition. The title of the
3sheet is a misuomer. While some
'iot its statements are correct the
luse it makes of them and leaving
4Out other statements demonstrates
Ethat the paper is not a good Judge
5of facts. The object it has in
smakIug statements is to prove
l,hat statewide prohibition is a
stalIure and will be in Arkansas.
This paper bases its assertion that
.proh,Oitiou is "A failure wherever
.tred ON false premises, towit: the
statements Of liquor sellers and
.tue failure Of enforcement Of the
.Iaw IN large cities. II is pot nee.
IcSsary to argue that whisky sell.
GERS are not competent witnesses,
for the reason that they are iuan.
.caIIy Interested And everybody
fkuowS that no law is reasonably
lcuforccd in few, If any, large
scJJies. Bat the paper seems to be
,iuspjred by satan himself and
itrlrs TO prove that statewide pro-
Ihibjljou is ;he producer Of crime
3aud poverty. Now everybody
skuoWs that that is what whisky
}produccS The paper has little
lenough respect for some of the
lualiou's houOrcd dead to use their
iuamcs in trying to show that state.
iwjde prohibition is wrong, 1t
IcHms that Jefferson, Lincoln,
Jefferson Davis aud other eminent
lmen now dead were against state.
.iwidc prohibition. Perhaps some
iot them were in those days, but
,wc do not believe any Of them, if
}uOw alive, would do service for
5thc Wholesale liquor sellers by
jopp0slug statewide prohibition,
3And the paper shows n large
tamouut Of audacity in using the
4uancs Of prominent candidates
sto further It's efforts TO defeat the
iprohibiuon amendment. by whose
authority does that paper use the
inamcS Of Wilson, Taft, Roosevelt
tand Robinson 10 that cndi We
Fare sure neither OF those dislin.
lgulshcd men have consented TO
SlL II they have It will be TO hurt
iot their respective parties. We
do not believe the Hon, Joe r.
I RkublnsOn, Democratic nominee
)ior governor, has consented for
tthat paper 10 use his name aud
iluauouce against statewide proa
.hibItlou, That paper advises the
,detcat of that measure, aud while,
I, ~ claims TO be for local option, is
silent on the license questions
The truth II there are grounds tor,
believing that mlsnumcd paper is,
| lIhc servant Of the liquor Dealers
association, llas either Of the
lmcu connected with that publica.I
,tion ever voted against saloon H..
lccuse' and how do they stand
luoW on that issuc' It that paper
IiS the dDssemiunt0r Of truth, thcj
good Lord deliver us from suchl
Truth promoters, lta mOll0II
l"libcmtN Enlightenment, Iruth',
Nov what do the people think of
Ilhat kind Of assumption The ou.'
~ truth that can he attributed TO,
THAT paper IL that II is doing its !
.bcst TO continue the liquor busiI
ness IN the large cities Of the;
.slNtc, II wants those liquor
.cUrscd cities tu continue 10 send
their crUmc.rroducing liquor lutoy
no license couuDlrs, The slnlc,l
wide pt0muliouDels want to slopi
the Uholy stun from dcsccOting'
dry territory hy iJp 100 often