The state herald., 1914-10-09
WHY THE FARMER SHOULD VOTE
FOR STATEWIDE PRO.
HlBiTioN.
Dry State VIII Mean Lower Taxes
and Great Prosperity.


I. Because the Sons Of Farmers who
visit the city or go there to live are fire.
frequently ruined by the city saloons.
/ Vote for statewide prohibition, there
fore, to protect your own sons and the
sons OF your neighbor from the city
'grogshops which are Turing our young
men to destruction. Gen. Robert L.
Lee.
2. Because the "Wet"r Towns and
cities advertise their intoxicants In
the newspapers, and by mail circulars,
sending them even to schoolboys, and
ship intoxicants In bottles and jugs to
your sons and your workmen and thus
produce disorder and drunkenness and
destroy the efficiency of labor on the
farm and in the mills and mines.
Many public roads are also made un-
safe for your wives and daughters to
travel alone. Vote to prohibit the traf-
fic in Colorado and thus rid the state
of this partnership with the saloon.
8. Because the Saloon Costs the
states directly nearly 50 to care for the
ruin which 1t makes for every 81
which 1t pays into the state treasury.
The advocates Of the saloon have
tried to fool the farmers :,to bellev-
ing that statewide prohibition will in.
(crease the taxes. But the people must
bear the burden of pauperism, insanity
and crime produced by the saloon
The Supreme Court OF the United
States has declared:
"The statistics of every state show
4 greater amount of crime and misery
attributable to the use of ardent spir-
its than to any other source" and the
Supreme Court in the same decision
declared that "the injury, 1t is true,
first falls upon him (the drinker) In
his health. which the habit under
mines; In his morals, which It weak
ems; and In the self-abasement which
II creates. But as 1t leads to neglect
to business and waste of property and
general Generalization, it affects
those whe ~ Immediately connected
with and dss~ndent upon him. BY
the general concurrence of opinion Of
every civilized snd Christian coihmun-
lty there are few sources of crime and
misery to society equal to the dram.
shop"
Which wiz the Farmers Believe,
the United States Supreme Court, or
the special agents Of the liquor cor
|porations who are printing and dis
[tributing falsehoods and misrepresen.
atoms Of every kind all over Cole
RADIO to get the farmers to vote for
the saloons, SO that the millionaire
brewers and distillers throughout the
country may continue to destroy Colo
rado boys?
4. Because, N the Saloons are closed
In the towns and cities OF Colorado the
twenty million dollars which Is now
spent for intoxicants will be spent for
food and clothing and the necessaries
and lusuries of life. And thus bet.
ter market will be furnished for the
cattle, sheep. hogs. poultry and other
products Of the farm. People who
waste their money for drink have
nothing with which to buy the farm.
|ei's products.
For the sake OF the country boys
living In town. for the sake OF the
boys at home. for the quietness. peace
land safety Of your own neighborhood
for the sake OF reduction In taxation.
for the securing OF better market
for farm products-or all OF these rea.
sons. and for others which your own
Intelligence will suggest, vote for
statewide prohibition on November ,.
md against the licensed saloon.
Vote YES" on the statewide pro.
hihition amepdment. for prohibition
win mean loNr taxes. no more bond
Issues. and plenty OF work for Colo
rado's 10000 jobless<kmen who are
mnde unfit for employment by
,iiguor.