The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-08-27
LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE COLUMN
Practical Suggestions on Local Optic n
Campaign.

If the liquor traffic can show that any
man has ever been made better father,
or better husband or citizen because
of his drinking alcoholic liquors, we will
confess to being in the wrong.
Fifty per cent. of our EXTREMITY poor
are made so because of the drink habit.
Consider the value to the state if this
80 per cent. of the submerged could be
reinstated on the road to prosperity.
More drinkers are wanted by brewers
and liquor dealers. Total abstinence
and Prohibition are becoming so popular
and so general that unless a crop of new
drinkers is started and cultivated, the
traffic will be in yet harder lines.
Every possible inducement is offered
to enlist new drinkers. Not only are
all kinds of bait used to entice boys
and Young men to drink, but all possible
means are used to get women to cult
vate the drink habit.
Although Colonel Ball, the prohibition
candidate for governor of Texas, was
/ defeated, the next legislature will have
l6 prohibitionists to Is anti-prohibition-
lists in the Senate and Il prohibitionists
against sc -prohibtionists in the
House. The defeat of Colonel Ball is
attributed to number of complications.
Kansas has no swollen fortunes and
no saloons. It's jails and poorhouses are
tenanted mostly by bats, and the tramp
has disappeared from its highways. Its
people are Industrious and progressive,
and the wealth they create is distributed
in such manner that it creates the great
est amount of happiness and the least
misery, The poverty of the state is in
proportion to its taxable incomes. The
Trenton State Gazette, August 3, 1914.
whisky never got anybody any
where except to jail" declared Henry
A. Larson, Chief Officer of the United
States Indian Service in his address be-
fore the Summer Institute of the Indian
Service at Chemawa, Oregon, on Aug
ust H. in denouncing the liquor evil.
Have you noticed the numerous beer
advertisements on bill boards and in the
newspapers, in which pictures of women
are used? Has YOUR attention been
called to the persistancy with which
these advertisements herald the alleged
pleasure and benefits to be derived from
having certain brands of bottled beef III
tho homo anI hour iS
sary to health and happiness?
A cold blooded murder was commit
ed at the Mentour house in West
minister, Md, on Monday, July q. Here
is a concrete case of a murder commit
ed in a saloon by man who had been
drinking Just before he shot2his victim.
The Westminster Times says that the
cost Of this murderer's prosecution will
be greater than the total annual, license
money from all the saloons in the coun-
ty.
Samuel Gompers, president Ameri-
can Federation of Labor: None better
known than the so-called leaders in the
movement for labor reform the curse
of liquor and the hinderance it is to the
better education and activity in that
field of operations.
John Mitchell, vice president A. F. l..
IF brewery is closed down, in its
place springs up factory. 1t saloon
is closed, in its place comes store. 1t
is simply process we'll known to union
men, the same process as follows the
introduction of machinery. 1t is read
justment, changed condition of socl-
ETY.. Almost every disturbance in the
ranks of organized labor can be tracked
back to some connection with..a saloon. :"
John B. Lennon, A. F. L. Wage
workers have been the mainstay of the
liquor traffic on the North American
continent. but, thank God, they are go
ing to knock it out. The saloon does
not produce thing which is a benefit
to the human race. 1t is a non-pro-
ducer and must be supported by those
who work Every man and woman
SUOulu De dS dlliSI Tie lIquOA llollS ilOiil
start to finish. -
Thomas L. Lewis. president United
, Mine Workers: eff you want to know
where the miners of America stand up
on the temperance question. I'll tell
YOU. In our constitution, we have a
clause which forbids any member to sell
intoxicants, even at picnic. That s
what we think of the liquor traffic.
Some people say that the saloon is a
necessary evil. don't believe in that
kind of doctrine. Because the liquor
traffic tends to enslaye the people. to
make them satisfied with improper con-
, dtions, and keep them ignorant, the
, leaders of the trades unions are called
on to fight the saloon"
P. NJ. Arthur, of Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers: Every friend
of the workingman will vote against
the saloon every time he gets aschance,
| and to close it up, not only on Sunday,
) but upon every day of the week"