The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-11-12
MODEL LICENSE LEAGUE CHIEF
QUESTIONS mrs BEAUCHAMP
Wants TO Know just What Proposals of Those Who
Would Make Kentucky Dry are and w. c. T. U.
Leader Answers Head of Wet Organization.
'.OctOber Il 1911.

: LOUISVILLE, ny.
My Dear Sir-Since you do me the
honor of addressing a circular letter to
me, in which you PROFOUND certain
questions, | will endeavor to reply
thereto. Truth is rightly and will pre-
vail.
g The eternal years of God are hers:
But Error wounded writhes in pam.
And dies amid her worshippers.
You ask me to inform the people
of Kentucky just what my proposals
are in the declaration. on to Frank
fort, as the slogan of the w. G.. T. u
This seems hardly necessary, having
such confidence IN their intelligence and
integrity. | am fully convinced that
they know just what | mean. but. if
there be any little one among tie num-
Der. will say that mean that. under
the principles of a government. where
the people are to reign, when a state
has in her various county and precinct
elections. by an overwhelming majority
said that traffic ought not to exist.
that their wish should be obeyeG and
wrought into the organic law of that
state, that the question may be settled
and the people have peace in which to
work out other governmental problems
" DO | advocate really dry Ken
lucky. etc? | advocate an amend
M nt tn hn
which shall forever prohibit the sale.
the manufacture for sale, the impOrta-
ton for sale, the transportation for
sale of all vinous, spirituous. or malt
liquors within the State, | do this
because the liquor traffic is the most
serious drain upon the wealth of the
State. is detrimental to the general
welfare of her people. and destructive
OF the inalienable rights to life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. | be-
lieve that all laws taxing or licensing a
traffic which produces crime, pauperism
and political corruption ought to be re-
pealed.
The United STATES Supreme Court
has twelve times said: There is no in
herent right in citizen to sell intoxi-
eating liquors Again the Supreme
Court says: A license to do that which
is Odious and against the common right
is necessarily an outrage upon the equal
rights of citizens.
| am fully persuaded of the wisdom
! and justice of the same United States
Supreme Court when it says: No
legislature can bargain away the public
health or the public morals. The people
themselves cannot do it, much less
their servants. Government is organic
ed with view to their preservation.
and cannot divest itself of the power to
provive for them
You ose the interrogatory form to
assest that prohibition has brought in
] to other states crime and disrespect
for law You forget that assertion is
not proof. The evidence Of competent
and trustworthy witnesses on the ground
is of necessity more convincing to the
thinking, reasoning mind than the as
sertiOn of nonresident. Every Gov ernor
and every United Ststes Senator of the
State of Maine for forty years, with one
pitiable exception, tells us t1ot pre-
hibition has had just exactly the op-
posite effect. Vixen | was in Maine,
| asked ia Sunday school that every
child who had ever seen a drunken
man, raise the hand, and not one hand
was ever lifted-and that in Portland
as well as in inland towns, it is a well
established fact that drunkenness pro.
duces crime, 50 the children's evidence
is in point. 4 distinguished citizen o.
your own beautiful city wrote to Maine
to ascertain If it coul5 be true that
Maine had had only ffy e murders III thai
current yeaE The States AttorreT' {
reply was that the ste tistics for tIat
wear were not conDlete. but aEdeC
that Main had had bat thirty murders
in SIX years The very week that thi:
evidence caE-e to ne, The LeNiI tor
Herald repoI ted that the court of Lex
ingtGZ had oocketed twenty-nine muir
Iders N nine months The most simple
minded among US can see that tn,
balance is on the m2ong side of tn,
sheet so far as crime and the 'jisres
pect of law rs concerned. But # thi.
IS not enough j car call CLOUD of wi
nesses from the Official ranks il Kan
ses, North Dakota, Georgia, Nortl
Carolina and other prohibition states
such men as Judge Pollock, Gsverno
Glenn, Wright, Trickeft, Hoch- Little
field and thousands from the privat'
walks of life.
You WIKI excuse me. Mr.. Gilmore, il
decline to accept your assertions abou
the noble men and wonaen of Virginia
many of whom know personally to bt
true, loyal, devoted citizens. secog
nize the fact that cur siew-poin ha.
much to do with our range of vision
but. honestly, Mr. Gilmore which do yor
think will seek to evade the prphik tior
laws of the state and of the nation--the
men. who. as you say, are the leaders
who helped to put the Webb-KenyOn
law on the Federal statute books OF
the men engaged in the liquor traffie7
Did not the Nestor of the liquor organi-
cation say to your Model License Lea
que; You may conceal your retailer in
| Ioool opfinp forritory Won unau avoid