Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-20
THE LESSON TAUGHT.

: Editor Albuquerque Eyening herald.
| Dear Sir-A fine advertisements Tor
our ambitious little metropolis: such
advertisement Is likely ia siop our
share of the people who are scrnmb-
! ing, by train loads, away from the
/ vicious climate Of the north and east
and flooding New Mexico, Arizona
/ and California
a local paper says relative to the
murder OF Officer Knapp, never was
murder more bTutally wanton. The
death Of Knapp Is a terrible lesson 20
Albuquerque 'Will Albuquerque
profit by ~" Il makes no suggestion
as TO how we should profit By Il.
! Using a very common argument OF
l men who believe that high license to
sell alcoholic drinks by saloons Is bet
! ter for community Than a prOhibi.
ton law, these same men / suppose
I VIII suggest that we repeal all laws
that make Il a crime TO carry a con-
cealed weapon These laws forbldng
the carrying OF concealed weapons
have been on our statute books for
1870 years and are still being broken
daily. Il Is an awful thing to tempt
man TO break the law! Let MS result
init this anti-guntotlng law?
When man or a boy gets alcohol
= Ia HIM sufficient TO make him as dan.
gerous as a stick OF dynamite in ones
/ pocket In wrestling match. n he
cant get a gun be wiz get "a piece of
gas pipe as was the case In the muir
der in the drunken fight in the saloon
Z on last Saturday night Hence pro-
Z hibition in gun carrying don't pro-
I hihit, II Il did / would be In favor Oi
: Il Just as much as any one (StoCk
argument OF entiprohibitionist)
This Is not q TRADE against liquor
sellers either retail or Wholesale SO
long as YOU and vote To- make a busi-
ness legal in which the profit aver
ages from % to 50 per cent ga long
Twin men engage In that business. The
fault Is not with the saloon or whole
I sale liquor dealers, Il Is not they
lwho were responsible for two murders
! in Albuquerque within two days. Il Is
We who vote 10 legalize the business.
Alcohol Is a drug. not drink or a
beverage, and should be sold only by
one who IS responsible to the public
as pharmacist Here are the pOis-
ons In the same class GA a. Stevens,
tMOdorn Materia Medica, lVth edltion)
| with alcohol, under title of circulatory
tstlmulapts: Ammonia, alcohol, ether,
nitrtcs uigitalis. strOphanthus, adj
lrenalin, strychninc. sparteln, BELLA
donna, cocain. We taxpayers voted a
prohibition 10 an experienced grad
uate. state-liconsed latter strict sci
ontifc examination by the statel
pharmacists to sell these nelson's
without physicians prescription. or
the poison label But wc voted 10 al
low Minnie Carroll and Ric0rdati TO
sell alcohol
Stop a moment, MR. GOOD CTTi-
ZEN VOTER, and let that percolate--
think what that means IN this second
decade OF the twentieth century, Are
two murders IN two days unlikely
fruit with such planting?
The poison alcohol has killed ten
thousand persons TO every one that
any one OF any other poison OF It's
class has killed
One Of the most far reaching evils
OF the saloon Is that II takes boys and
girls out OF our schools. from the sec
ond 90 the fourth and fifth grades and
puts them 20 work Thus Gripping
In their education the citizens Of the
next generation.
The father being lncapGcltated boy
alcohol to make a living for HIS fam
ily, the young children are compelled
to get jobs that their petty earnings
may help out In the family expenses
Another evil of the saloon ~ that
u makes he family SO poor that cloth.
ing for the children suitable for
school becomes impossible Being In
a hue Ha.4.
homes, I frequently ask the mother
why the children are not In school
I'VE can't buy shoes and suitable
clothes" Is frequently the answer. On
deeper investigation one viii general
IS find that the father of thar family
finds money 10 buv and pay for liquor
The wife viii often admit that the
saloon is the cause OF their poverty
ask any one who reads this 10
Investigate tho cause of poverty OF any
family not caused by chronic illness
81 the iather such as tuberculosis
and see In how large a percentage OF
these families the cause Is the saloon
Ohcer Knapp told citizen of Albu-
qnerquc within week before he re-
ccivod his fatal shot from a drunken
boy, that % to 9S per cent OF an the
arrests that the police of our city
made were caused by alcohol and "
you take the trouble to Investigate the
poverty OF the poor You will find as
large proportion Of this poverty due
10 the same cause
Kansas, a prohibition state. 60 OF
the lOa counties have no paupors in
their county poor farms The state
OF Illinois has Just 100 per cent moro
paupors than Kansas according 90
population"
JOHN HlLLIARD.