Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-16
pisriLLERs OFFER TO SELL
NAMES OF CUSTOMERS TO
KELLEY INSTITUTE.
LETTER READ sEFoRE HousE
COMMITTEE CAUSES SENSATION
Distiilsrs Admit Therein That custe'
mers Are Prospective Patrons Of jag
Retreat-Hobson Temperance Rsse-
luton Argued Before the Conn
n,ittss.

Washington. April ia shot from
Illinois. which temperance advocates
say will be heard round the world,
signalized the opening of the argu'
ments on the Robson prohibition res
olution before the house judiciary com
mittee yesterday.
The ammunition was supplied by ths
original Kelley liquor case at Dwight
Ill. in the form of an admission by
distillery company that its customers
are prospective patients of the dipso-
mania sanatorium.
This admission is contained in let
ter TO tn. Keeley cure company signed
by the Kentucky Distillers' Distriout-
ing Company of Kansas City, w
Franklin. president. The letter was
presented to the committee by William
II. Anderson, president Of New 1ork
Anti Saloon League, who said ne re-
ceiged it personally from the presidea;
OF the Kelley concern.
Offer Of Consumers Names.
The letter in full follows:
Kansas City. Mo-. Dec. 3, 1873
Keeley Institute. Dwight. H.: Gentle
men-Our customers are your pros
pect;ye patients. We can put on your
de.k,a mailing list Of over $4,000 in
dividual consumers OF liquor. The list
& the result of thousands of dollars o.
advertising.
zach individual on the list is reg
i,iar user of liquor. The list OF names
is new, live. and active. We know De-
cause we have circularized it regularly
We will furnish this list in quantities
at lie prices listed below, remittances
to accompany each order: 10000 to 80 :
o0o. $500: 10000 s2oo: 10000. $500.
eve viii no, furnish this list in lots
of less than 10000 Discontinuance OF
business Jan. is the occasion OF ouF
selling our mailing LIST
Letter Causes Sensation.
The reading Of this remarkable COM
,n,,ricati ton caused a sensation in the
committee. 1t was greeted with APP
p]ause from the 'drss' and with So
ence On the part OF the wet con-
tingent.
Miss Anna Gordon. OF Illinois. acting
president OF the Wcman's Christian
Temperance Union. read an argument
in, support Of the Hobson resolution
which vas prepared by the late Mrs
Lillian NJ. X. Stevens. Of Maine. presi-
dent Of the organization. The paper
predicted the ultimate success OF the
prohibition movement.
Representative Hobson opened .ae
argument in favor Of his resolution
~~nhfhstfor rNn9fltN.
tional amendment. He said the resolu-
ton represents the sentiment OF the
believers in organized morality.
Wan. Voters to Pass on Question.
I'VE do not propose today to go into
the merits of temperance. but to asa
YOU to give the people Of the various
states the right to pass on the mat
ter. he said.
The people In the states have
RICH. to pass on such organic matters
There has never been matter which
had behind it SO great public sensi'
ment. No matter what individual
members think OF the question. or III
! merits. we think the people have
right to be allowed to decide it. Oul
position is that it is in accord will
the spirit Of our institutions that thu
committee ought to put the question
squarely up to the house OF representa-
tives and then our position Will b
/ that congress ought to put it square
/ ~ I'D 70 the United States. majority
of the people having requested II.
/; Must Go to States.
Congress can never handle Thu
/ problem; il must go 20 the severa
] states. This would not crrtail tn
rights of the states. except in the mat
( ter of sale. Any action Of the stat
! in the curtailing Of the sale Of poison
/, excep, to its people would be left un
| touched. 1t would not invade state
rights, except insofar as any stat
would go counter to the principles In
| voIved.
This resolution will destroy the or
ganized businessman after that tn
/, individual cases will take care o
themselves. The moment you kill tn
monster liquor interests. you give tn
next generation a chance to grow Vi
sober. You may drink. but You don
| want your boys to drink. Only tn
LIQUOR dealer wants the boys to be de
drink or not, will be with us on thi
| issue"
/ Chairman Clayton expressed tn
opinion that the proposed amendmen
goes considerably farther than pro
hib:tinS merely the sale Of che liquor
/ 1t swouid appear, he said. that the onl
manufacture of liquor allowed woul
be for private use-each drinker bein
compelled to operate private dis
tiHery.
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