Evening star., 1913-02-27
NOTFOR PROHIBITION
Jones-Works Bill Defended in
Letter to The Star.
SOME SALOONS TO REMAIN
Never Before Has There Been Such a
Union of Local Forces for Any
Measure, Say Correspondents.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
A full-page advertisement having ap-
peared in your paper for February 10
which contained many statements con-
trary to the facts, we ask you to make
the following corrections:
The Jones' Works bill is not prohibi-
ton measure in disguise. as 1t would per-
nit twenty licensed places to remain ON
Pennsylvania avenue between the Capitol
and the Treasury instead of the forty
seven we now have. and would only elmi-
nate about one-half of those in the bust
ness sections of 9TH, 9th and 18th streets
This bill would not affect the present
licensed places until the first Of next No
vember This affords ample time for
those in the saloon business to seek en-
ployment elsewhere and will not entail
hardship on their families. as claimed.
The bill contains ample safeguards
against the abuse by drug stores carrying
on a prescription order liquor business.
AS to turning the liquor business over
to speakeasies and blind tigers, statistics
show that in several of the so-called
model license cities of the country there
are more speakeases and places selling
liquor without payment of the license Zee
than there are in prohibition territory.
This is true of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
Cincinnati and other cities. Illegal liquor
places abound in license as we'll as ia
prohibition territory.
Provision Protects Drinkers.
The civil damage provision in case of
injury to Intoxicated persons after re-
quest from persons to whom they are re-
sponsible that liquor should not be sold
to them is in harmony with procedure
in nearly every state in the Union.
The cry that lessening the number of
saloons will cause a depression In prop
erty value is unfOunded, as experience
has been to the contrary in cities where
the number of saloons has been reduced
1t is "a well known fact that the action
of the Central Labor Union against any
change in the present excise laws mas
been repudiated by three of the largest
labor organizations of the District, name
": Typographical Union, having a mem
bership of about 1,So0 March IL, l9iZ'
and about the same time also by the
Machinists' Union, having a membership
of about ], 400, and the Carpenters Union,
of about 1,40O members.
The statement has been made that the
agitation for the Jones-Works bill has
been purely the effort of the Antl-Salooh
League. IAN alien body" The Anti-Sa-
loon League represents the church and
temperance organizations in united
action.
Local Forces Combined for Measure.
Never before has there been such
union of local forces on behalf OF any
measure. The Housekeepers' Alliance,
which is not temperance organization,
financed the printing of a quantity of
maps showing the proximity OF saloons
to public schools, and these maps have
been effectively used in advocating the
measure. This map aroused much inter-
est among the women Of the Mothers
Congress, the Federation of Women
Clubs the Collegiate ,Alumnae, the Mon
day Evening Club. the Women's Society
of the Unitarian Church and other church
and civic clubs of women who are much
concerned over the nearness OF saloons
to so many of our public schools.
Pressure for the Jones-Works bill has
been actively conducted by such local or
ganiZations as the Ministers Association
of the District, practically all the Prot
estant churches, the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor. Epworth
League. Sunday School Association.
Young MEMS Christian Association the
board of education. Alley Improvement
Association, the Anti-Saloon League of
the District the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, both No. l and NO. /;
Good Templars. as well as the Anti-Sa-
1nterchurch Temperance Federation, In
ternational Reform Bureau and other or
ganiZatiOns.
GEORGIA A ROBERTSON, chairman
of committee on civics and sanitation
of the HousekeeperS' Alliance.
REV. DONALD MCLEOD, chairman AL
lied Temperance Forces of the District. |
ANDREW WILSON, president Anti-Sa- |
loon League of District of Columbia.
WILLIAM KNOWLES COOPER, gen.
era. secretary, Young Mems Christian
Association.
MRS. EMMA SANFORD SHELTON, |
president District of Columbia Wom |
ans Christian Temperance Union.
EDWIN c. DINWIDDIE. grand chief
templar, District of Columbia Grand
Lodge Good Templars and superin-
tendent of the national temperance
bureau.
E. w OYSTER, Columbia TypOgraph-
ical Union No 1Ol.