The Winslow mail., 1913-03-08
Wet and Dry Election Ordered for March 25th
"By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them

disregard of the prohbitory law engenders
dsrespect for all law.
1t bunts the and leads evasion suberfuge
and hypocracy resulting frequently in perjury.
bghng affect the material prosperity of the people
is strongly marked.
It cuts off from communities the derived from the
liquor business without essenng the evils of ntemperance
1t largely public expense in the vain effort
force the law
It adds seriously to the burden of taxation
depreciates the value of real estate throws many
out of employment
1t dscourages investment Capital has learned to shun
prohibition localities
tits yrannca and nterferes unwarrantaby with the rights
of the citizen.
The long list of states which have tried and repudated
prohibition shows to be destructive of moral welfare and
prosperity.
No legislation has been extensively fairly
tested than that of prohibition During the last sxtytwo
years has been tried the statewide scale many sections
of the country the periods ranging from five years Nebra
ka to yve years in Vermont BY its record by what has
done and by what has failed do prohibition must be
judged On of that record written the words
failure folly farce Nowhere and at time in all it's his
tory has prohibition accomplished single of it's avowed
objects Nowhere has it abolished the liquor traffic No
where has prevented the consumption of liquor essened
the evils of inemperance Neither statewide system
under local option has prohibition made the slightest
tbuton toward the solution Of the liquor problem The
solitary service that has rendered society is that of fur
nishng warning example of the extreme folly Of attempting
tc egslae into mems lives. IF prohibition had been
why have Of the eight states that
adopted the system fifty abandoned and gone back
to the policy of license and regulation? The people Of those
states adopted prohibition in good faith They honestly and
earnestly desired to wipe out ntemperance They realized
that it hndrance to material prosperity and moral
gress. Now, to claim that prohibition measuraby
successful in these states is to insult the intelligence Of the
people of New England No sensible person believe that
these states would have deliberately repudated system
that they had adopted high hopes and with high pur
pose they had found that that system making for
briefly prosperity and good citizenship The cusades of pro-
hbon have only failed to solve the liquor problem, but
have complicated the problem with difficulties The states
that adopted prohibition found themselves confronted with
evils instead of the old disease f ntemperance and
the remedy of prohibition And the disciples of
Neal Dow making the promises md predictions that
made of old and that have proved so futile
In view of the fact that it is always easier the
enactment than the repeal of laws of ted moral purpose
the reputation of prohibition by these is most sgnf
can't The only conclusion consistent with and common
that the people, after hard experience found
that they had built false hopes and that conditions
better but far under prohibition than they
had been under the license system