The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-10-15
LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE COLUMN
Practical Suggestions on Local Option
Campaign.


ton. In few days over two weeks we
will be at the polls to cast our ballot,
for or against Local Option. Do you
feel the mighty responsibility resting
upon you?
What are you going to do about it?
Vote for it? So far so good. But we
want more than your vote. we want
your personal influence in getting
others to vote for the bill. We need
your assistance in this great work of
redeeming Garrett county from the
curse of the liquor habit.
Get busy for the next two weeks.
Take nothing for granted. Visit your
neighbors and talk the matter over
with them. The liquor men are doing
their work in many ways, quietly, per-
sIstently. 1t is up to you to counterfeit
their influence.
This is our golden opportunity. Use
it to the very highest degree. Chris
tian men and Christian women use the
next Is days for God and mankind. Get
terribly in earnest. Be active in sea-
son and out of season.
Get the voters out early. Make 1t
your personal interest to do so.
Garrett county dry after April 80,
1915. How much it means to the coun-
ty, to the homes of the county, to the
tempted men and suffering women.
Make Sunday day of personal eff
fort for the cause. Get vigorous
move on yourself. Talk, sing and
pray. Be enthusiastic, awaken, arouse
others to the duty of the hour. Keep
things gong.
If you failed to register. do the next
best thing-get vote for the bill, per-
suade, entreat others to vote for it.
Do something while you may to drive
the curse of strong drink from our
midst. You owe it to your family, to
your church, to your county and to your
God, that you leave nothing undone that
you can do to vote liquor out of the
county, to get others to vote with you
to put an end to liquor selling and drum
kard making in Garrett county.
Be men. Show your colors. OPP
portunity knocks at your door. 1t may
never do so again. This is your time
to strike. This is the day of action.
The hour of decision.
The citizenship of the State of Mary
land is watching and waiting for your
decision. They are looking for great
victory. Do not disappoint them.
Get awful busy every day up to and
on November Sd. Do not wait for any
one else. Take hold and push, and
push nightly. If you ever done any
thing in your life do it now.
Who is to blame for the havoc
wrought by the liquor business? The
saloonkeeper? Yes. The drunkard?
Certainly. But are they the only ones?
What accountability has the voter who
votes for the saloon, the legislator who
legislates for it, the judge who favors
it in his court decisions, the property
owner who rents his building for saloon
purposes, the citizen who neglects to
raise his voice and his strong right arm
against the evil? Surely these cannot
escape responsibility. This is a time
to show on which side you are You
cannot escape condemnation unless you
come out firmly, steadily and positively
for the right against the saloon. There
is no middle ground.
The Valley Register, under date of
August 2S. gives the following story:
Vim. A. Sears, of Frederick, while
drunk, ran his wife and baby out of the
house into the rain. He was arrested
and at the hearing, his wife told story
of cruelty and hardship. She said her
husband would give her no money, de-
claring woman's place was at home
and she needed no clothes. He made
her take in washing and give him the
money. She said she had to work until
half an hour before her baby was born,
her husband saying: "You are as big as
| am and can work as well as l can. u
She said her husband becomes wild
when drunk and often beats her. JUS
tice Anders sentenced Sears to thirty
days in Jail, but suspended sentence on
condition that Sears would go home
and behave himself.
Why Intend to Vote for Local Option
on November Sd.
Because: There are 865, 900 liquor
made orphans in the Udited States.
Because: Our annual drink bill would
pay five years course of education for
100000 children.
Because: The licensed saloon is max
ing 100000 drunkards annually-one boy
in every five dies a drunkard.
Because: 1t has been proven that
alcohol has no food value; it is a poison,
lowers vitality, lessons efficiency, is
degenerating and destructive to man.
Because: The cost of added crime,
idiocy, insanity and pauperism, caused
by drink is double the revenue from the
saloons.