The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-13

Not Juggling, but the Truth.
Not Hysteria, but Facts.

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j. BENNETT GORDON'S SCARECROW.
j. Bennett Gordon in his advertisements on Wednes-
day in the city papers charges that every whisky dstery
whisky wholesale house and whisky mail order
the United States found working side by side and hand
in glove with the Anti-Saloon League make territory
dry. If J. Bennett has the ordinary intelligence with
which he is credited and if he maintain any
of reputation for truth and veracity he will dis
claimer OF that statement in his next advertisement.
The assertion absolutely false without a shadow
OF preense to sustain it, plain English, which
not be misunderstood it is lie made of whole cloth
1t looks as though Mr. Gordon had come to Richmomd
to plead the cause of the brewers against the disters We
have objection to this and he continue stir up
strife between the brewers and the dters his hearts
content but when he charges that the dsers any other
liquor interest has helped the drys local option
contest ne is getting outside the facts altogether
ANOTHER SCARECROW.
The liquor advertisement charges that in the State of
Pennsylvania cities which smaller than Richmond
have high forty fifty drug them and
tenths nothing but whisky joints.
We challenge him to single town that fits his
description The fact u.s. there such towns and this
writer for the saloons of Richmond simply juggling his
statements.
If he is reckless in all his so-caed facs as he in
this statement of them be believed The voters of
Richmond need to take warning before he goes further
This writer further says that if we close the saloons
Richmond it will stop the people getting drink of beer
ale but the drug store will 90 merriy on lawfully selling
quor by the quart selling it without physicians prescrip
ton, merely upon the written application of the man who
wants to buy it,
A half truth is always an untruth. This writer gives
the impression that the drug sell Unfortunately
anybody who willing write application for it, He
must know if he knows anything, that the druggist
sell to except he be personally known the drug
gs and except he be who is known not to liquor
beverage and the sale must be made only for medicinal
mechanical and scientific purposes.
his awful drug store which is such bugaboo to Mr.
Gordon feature of the other and of In
diana that have gone dry and where and then
to risk unlawful sale, many of them have
been arrested and convicted that the drug saloon
Indiana is more of memory than it is reality.
WHO ARE THESE SUPPOSED VIOLATORS?
Who these men that going to the blind
tiger and speakeasy? If they all they are the
side that Mr. Gordon representing and they always
found there Speak never vote dry. Nine times
out of ten the who attempts to blind tiger is
of defiance the public by saying effect eff people
will not give us the permission to run our business
going to do it anyway
1t is the liquor traffic that always raising the buga
boo of the blind tiger and this liquor traffic which
is continually saying to the people in effect had bet
license sell Intoxicating liquors. for if you do
we going to sell it anyway.
But the people have to through this game
(which the liquor interests have been playing for these past
years. and they have abolish the liquor traffic
gardess of whether operates through licensed saloon
or through the blind tiger.
Suppose we had slaughter house in the city that
selling diseased meats in some one or more established meat
shops of the city, and when citizens demonstrated the
proprietor should say You had better let the meat
shops we'll regulated orderly for deter
mined to sell this anyway.
1t would take five minutes for the citizens to de-
teine what they would do under these circumstances Yet
that the attitude Of every brewery and dstiery and ev
cry wholesale house if Mr. Gordons picture correctly
drawn that if their liquor sold in licensed places they
will sell it anyway through the speak-easy..
SOME MORE REAL FACTS.
The following letter has been received from President
w. L. Bryan of the Indiana State University Bloomington,
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