The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-08-06
LOCAL OPTION SNAP SHOTS.
Facts and Incidents Worth Repeating
Original and Selected.

question to vote OF the people. On
the contrary, the convention adopted
plank indorsing the present liquor laws
and commenting their enforcement.
Two hundred and fifty saloons have
been closed in Milwaukee, Wis, by or
der of the city council.
Ii you prohibit the people from drink
ing liquor, Immediately they will be
seized with an overwhelming desire to
go out and tank up. Every brewer
says that. Probably things were differ
ent in the days when God said to the
Israelites, Thou shalt not kill" There
is no record that the children of Israel
were smitten with an irresistible i'm
pulse to slaY their fellows.
Toni Piskul, of Helena, Montana, is
alleged to have been sold by his father
to John Domitrovich for SIX glasses of
whiskey. The courts refused to sane
ton the transaction. Lots of good
church members sell their sons to drink
and the devil for a reduction in their tax
rate, which they think they get. but
don't.
Our revenue may derive some unholy
benefit from the sale of alcohol, but the
entire trade is nevertheless a covenant
with sin and death. Lord Bacon.
A brewer in Massachusetts is being
sued by customer who claims he found
mouse in his beer. If he keeps on
looking at it long enough he will pro-
badly see blue elephants and purple
snakes.
A paroled convict returned to an
Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania,
saying: Rum has got me again, War
den. It's no use; whiskey is so easy to
get that can't resist the temptation
Lock me up, because am afraid that
if you don't will kill my child.
"If YOU let liquor alone:it will let you
alone" Only it didn't let Louisa
Miller alone when her husband shot and
fatally wounded her after a spree, be-
cause she had no money to give him for
more whiskey.
Keep IN mind the great Temperance
rally at Mountain Lake Park, Aug. Is,
the greatest temperance meeting ever
held in Garrett county. 1t will bring
together the greatest crowd of people
ever assembled at Mountain Lake Park
Better arrange to be present.
The city council of Wheeling, West
Virginia, has decided that the auto 90,
lice wagon, authorized short time ago
is now unnecessary, because since the
prohibition law went into effect arrests
have been few and far between, I'm
der the old conditions two wagons were
kept busy, and a third was needed but
since the saloons were closed the two
on hand have been idle large part o.
the time, and the council has concluded
that it can save the money appropria
ted tor the additional vehicle.
With normal workhOuse population
of 60 already dwlndled to %. and still
dwindling city authorities are seriousl!
considering the matter of abandoning
that erstwhile necessary institution
There have been only five arrests TO-
drunkenness in Wheeling since tn,
State went dry, July l. The workhous
population always has been made VI
largely of habitual drunkards.
The fight against liquor has come t.
stay. 1t has been a long fight, an,
when it started, 1t was weak and in
effective one. But it grew no weaker
it grew stronger. And it will grow n
weaker from now on; it will grow
stronger.
Back Of the whole thing is this on
important fact: That the fight on tn
one side is for the right, and on tn
other for the wrong. There are yer
, few instances in the worlds his.or
where the right side of question ha
been the losing side. Defeat has ofte
stared the forces of righteousness
the face, but the forces of righteous
!, ness do not recognize defeat whe
= they see it. Their ultimate aim ha
been Triumph, and they have Away
triumphed. They will triumph IN tn
: case of Local Option and for the reaso
, because we are right, and because W
= are fighting shoulder to shoulder in III
!. broken organization against disorgar
lied and disordered opposition,