Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-23

ernor of Ohio, what is your judgment,
Mr.. Harrisi
"Public sentiment is reaching such
point when such thing as laws per.
mitting the dealing in tonxicating
liquors will not be known upon our
statute books"
Looks that way, and there is evi.
IDENTIFY reason.
Mr.. H. W. Meyers, one of our fore
most merchants, advises us to retain
saloons in Salem. AS governor of
North Carolina, what do you think
about it Mr. Glen:
IA man must take a square and un.
mistakable stand for the right or fol-
the wrong, for righteousness or for evil
for happiness or for misery, for justice
or for oppression AS for me, I am
heart and soul against the liquor traf.
fic. Statewide prohibition is the one
end for which all true temperance peo.
pie should contend, as giving the great
est good to the greatest number, the
fundamental doctrine of our democrat
is form of government" f"
The best Of men will disagree, you
see.
DR.. w. II. Byrd, legislator and ply.
sician, advises us to vote for the Ii.
censed saloon. Let us ask DIR. r. D.
Crothers, Of Walnut Lodge Hospital,
Hartford, Conn, what he thinks about
it. He says;
"The latest and most authentic sta
tistics show that over 10 per cent of all
mortality is due to the abuse of alco.
hol, and fully 90 per cent of all dis.
cases is traceable to this cause; also
that over so per cent of insanity, idiocy
and pauperism springs from this
source. All authorities agree that from
rs to 80 per cent Of all criminality is
caused by the abuse Of alcohol. These
and other authenticated facts indi.
cate the necessity Of more exact med.
ical study of alcohol and its effects
and influence on society and the indi.
vidual."
Strange that two great doctors should
take such seemingly opposite stands.
Ex-Supreme Judge Slater, Of Salem,
advises tho voters to sustain the Ii.
censed saloon Listen to the language
of the U. s, supreme court in the case
Of Crowley VS.. Christensen, 1877 U. ST.
SO, supreme court report l3, which is
the most crushing blow ever given to
the liquor traffic by any judicial tri.
bunal:
"By the general concurrence of opin.
ion Of every civilized and Christian
community, there are few sources Of
crime and misery to society equal to
the dram shop, where Intoxicating Ii.
quors in small quantities, to be drank |
at the time, is sold unfortunately |
to all parties applying, The statistics
Of every state show greater amount |
Of crime and misery attributable to the
use Of ardent spirits obtained at these
retail liquor saloons than to any other
source 4" " There is no inherent right !
in citizen to sell Intoxicating liquors
by retail, It is not a privilege of n
citizen of the state, or citizen of the
United States"
To Mr., Ray i. Farmer n citizen and
who advises us to retain the
saloou we commend the words Of Gov.
ornor Altgeld, Of Illinois He says;
"The saloons become lounging
places whore characters and habits Of
industry are destroyed, whore habits
Of drinking and carousing are formed
that pull down not only the individual,
but his family; and every time the
drmkard and his family sink a notch
lower, the moral effect tends to blight
the family Of the saloon keeper, the
brewer and the distllcr who created
The condition from which this ruin pro.
'ccds'
TO A. N, Gilbert, Of Salem, who adj
yisos us to vote for the saloon we reply
again in the words Of Lincoln,
"Thc liquor traffic Ia a cancer in
society eating out the yitals and
destruction, Attempts to
regulate 1t will not only provo futile, !
hut viii aggrayatc the evil"
Mr. II, Cartwright before taking
your advice to vote for saloons let MS
ponder ON these words OF Gladstone,
OFT (thc liquor traffic. has done
moro to miurc England than war; pes
.icucc and famine combined
Mr. John r. Roberts, YOU advise us to
vote for saloons In Salem Henry viii |