Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-08-22
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Do the minister's members IT, and other citizens of
TINS county who are working to for prohibition coming
option election ond the the county an
end will be put to all agitation this county thereby great good ac
compShed So they indeed and reckon without
er hos Ohio Organization otators who
are responsible for the present contest here
ea A % the life oh organization the only check
advocates for tits ogone conclusion the county
votes for prohibition then these professional agtators will use that &c
basis on which to agitate for atewide prohibition
There who willing vote out the raanino
the legitimate liquor traffic But that The agitators would
still not be satisfied The victim after brought
prohibition of the liquor traffic would be the industry The same
forces the prohbtoni who working the prohibition of the IL
quor trafc have already started crusade of nsus nature
against tobacco
They have started this tobacco by first denouncng
and securing legislation against their sale
tent prohibit the sale already for in
Louisiana the Session Assembly bill was
duced by prohibition member TO barter or
by wholesale or retail OF tobacco cigarette cigarette papers, Noting
this the tobacco interests of Virginia that if the probbon
successful the campaign for statewide prohibition now wagng in
that state their business would be and have
entered the fight defeat statewide prohibition The Richmond Va
Evening Journal of July regard this st natural
that the Richmond tobacco trade should be alarmed prospect of
crusade being naugued against tobacco present fight for the
prohibition of the sale of liquor within be successful Recent
lend color the report the the present cru
saders well known figure the fight statewide prohibition fold
the Journal sometime that just fight for
prohibition liquor law was I'VE going tobacco
The tobacco interests of Virginia the handwriting On the
far as the purposes the prohons nc
oent upon ne people " our own State to likewise realize of
the prohibition agao Nor whisky all for as long "a
these professional agaors with and thereby Gain notco
endancy same time building nm tbei gan p
rights ana freedom OF individuals and destroy legitimate business and
revenue Their crusade will point to pu
anm being conducted in the ath
without Biblical authority and would finally reunion of &
ana wpng out our constitutional freedom
OF religion worship and bring history of the drastic
times and horrible conditions that existed when Church and state
were combined giving the church the ruling hand political affairs
Some OF the good people in this working for nr
ton have not stopped consider this sequence events and have
only had before their eyes the wpng of licensed sar
futile endeavor to keep liquor lone drunka hut
an extremely narrow view and the prohibition question when
spreads out until becomes life itself in
ong it does all the rights and privileges make life worth Ill
for free men and Tor free women and therefore, these rights
and privileges now up to the people of this county take the b
by the horns and stop the prohbtns right where thew ore
OF giving them further encouragement and further political control
They would now have splendid precedent adopting this attitude
as the people of Texas have just decided majority Of so
nat all prohibition agitation in that State ended and
efused to allow prohibition constitutional amendment TO be ~
at the next general election. They action ON the ~
is time Tor an END OF such agitation and that there other issues Of me-
vital interest TO the State demanding attention. despite the conS
Glamour Of the professional prohibition agtators Wv usu
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