The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-11
ByJ. BENNETT GORDON.

BY J. BENNETT GORDON.
ben 9 e ct as as an
En item letter o & tn % has
prohibition lis blessings
truthfuy said the prohbory law has been well
orced as now Therefore am right in pesumng that the
League and the dry leaders here are willing o
Arthur capper says: The state (Kansas) $50
United population
Of 6so94s Multiply the population by 3es and YOU have
Arthur Capper admits the people of prohibition Kansas
And Mr. Capper only knows of the liquor which is sold
through channels in the state of Kansas that must the
amount of liquor which Struggled into Kansas by whiskey
mail order houses and by other However, willing
to let Mr.. Capper's figures stand as they
Kansas is known to have the most stringent pTohibtoy
state which retends to have prohibition
liquor Kansas be sold for anything but medicinal
and whoever framed the laws doesn't consider beer
s 0ee 4s M to the e Of bo and Fs
this city under the system
Of regulated saloons which prohibits minors regime Of
that make speciality of boys. That is the issue.
And when the saloons out every kind Of liquor goes out
bulky because icing it
whkey is the stock that sold in the whiskey drug stores
exempt whskey when they that drug
erss sell This latter fact explains why is that
in the United States are found working side side
and hand in glove with the Analoon League to make terri
tory dry"
It explain why is that this great organization of paid
4nn ds % nos All M % ge15
millions of sheets of literature rent expensive
buy bill board advertising and pay for expensvey printed
to go on the boards hire corps crooked
to force communities dry insofar the sale of beer
wouldn't It has been openly and categorca charged that
whiskey ng financing the Antisaoon League and evil
dence is submitted to dsprove it.
Be that may whenever League
HR e 1e leave
sell whskey And drug stores promptly into the
voted out of a community.
s. Edgar Nicholson talks business
the saloons are forced to close But he doesn't tell you that
probably I half them would be ne drug stores that Tod
state where he superintendent of the League
cities smaller than Richmond have high forty and fifty
drug stores in them and that ents are nothing but ~skey
is great campaign of *edueaton s. Edgar Nicholson is
boards and army of workers Nowhere have we seen in his
nowhere have heard his speakers give uttersno
will stop getting single drink of beer ale but the
sa ssS
the written app c of the man any who te wants to buy d
vae families Sure it will drive Demon Beer from the tables
of hunrss OF ames Of homes where nothing
But what of a ha In h minds e of these e
desirable citizens, to good governmn handicap to
1.-THE town.
So the AntiSaoon League is spending right and
left this city not to stop the sale of liquor no to bring about
the of
wikey. cheap whkey at that in town And they doing
this of temperance doing IN the of religion
doing it in the of President keys boy and boy
Voting regulated saloons that sell by the drink! Voting
4 in drug that sell by the quartz
Remember the experience of New Castle five ago?
1t listened to the Antsaloon League reormers and voted dry
while Richmond refused and voted keep the regulated saloon
What happened? New Castle became moral cesspoo. Drug
multiplied rich Drunkenness multiplied. And
let President Kelly and Professor Picke stick pin here
for the first time New Castles history there
ebauchery of school children They found drunk school
buildings. They found drunk at pares Boys and girls
in high school enticed these blind tigers besoed
One drug store proved to have sold something like 1900
of in few OIL bad