The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-11-12

mosphere which follows prohibition as
light radiates from the sun.
You. law-abiding citizen. seem
FROM your allusion to the Webb-Kenyon
law to understand just exactly how to
make that law effective. If you. as
one good citizen will draft bill. which
your National League will respect, a
bill which half dozen lawyers known
throughout the State will agree will
enable Kentucky to get the protection
that ought to come from the Webt-
Kenyon law, |. as as another good citi-
zen, will gladly pledge you that | and
the Kentucky WOman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will stand by you to get
the bill thru the next Legislature.
I'VE both want prohibition that
will prohibit
''Oh. for financial reasons?
"Saddling her (Kentuckyl with mock
prohibition, which will do away with
personal liberty, wipe out property
"Ol III liIiiilOilos Ildl est ltl
blind tigers and bootleggers, ."
ami yet do nothing to really stop the
consumption of liquor. Mr.. Gilmore,
your last assertion refutes your first
statement. If prohibition will do moth
ing to really stop the consumption of
liquor, how does it do away with per-
sonal liberty to drink all the person
wants? That checkmates the first
statement, does it not. Then, as the
blind tiger and the bOotleggers are.
according to the testimony of the wis
est head who is defending the traffic.
your agents. you are, BY this confess
ion estOpped from railing against the
prohibitionists for bringing our laws
into diSrespect, are you not?
How do YOU reconcile the statement
that prohibition makes blind tigers and
bOOtleggers with the fact that every
license city has large number of blind
tigers, as is proven, not only through
detective service, but also by the num-
Der of Government tax receipts. For
instance. in New York under license
there are l, 100 more tax receipts issued
tnan saloon licenses, and this is true in
every city under license.
Wipe out property worth millions?
Mr.. Gilmore. who proposes to destroy
any property? Kentucky needs factor,
les for useful products, canneriess
creameres, etc. Can these building
not be adjusted to these uses? The
machinery costs the distiller no more in
proportion to profits than that of the
moonshiner, whose little still is seizeC
and destroyed by the Government
whenever it is found.
lis not destruction of property &
sort of bugabOo like the eternal cry
that prohibition campaigns make divis-
ION. stir up strife, create hard feelings
while the fact is, that a prohibition
campaign draws the people nearer to.
gether, creates sympathy and love more
than anything in which | have evel
taken part, and have participated il
scores of them
What are the facts? The United
States Government by unwise and IN.
| just legislation, has made a great mon.
opoly of the liquor traffic, has destroy
ed the personal liberty of the citizen tC
make his own corn into whisky, and
for consideration, has given this priv.
ilege to favored class. a corpora.
ton trust, or monopoly: for such tht
Model License League makes the liquo
traffic. And this monopoly of a priv
lege, wrested from the hands of til,
people, has been able to clear from so
to SOC percent on the investment. Tn
people pay FOR the distilIeries and IN
breweries from five to eight times eac
year. Nc one wishes to destroy an
Legitimate property. On the contrar
we would right a wrong. Kentucky ha
permitted the diversion Of some twent
five million two hundred and sevent
thousand seven hundred and forty do
lars from legitimate line OF trade W
prchibitionists propose to restore ii
baisnce by putting this sum wh>re
viii yield richer profits, bless and Ell
rich, rather than impoverish ana bIigl
the people: where it will increase, il
stead of decreasing efficiency where
Will feed tie hungry, clothe the naket
and give employment to six times
riany iabcrers ms are now employed
the traffic where it will make happ
igIomes, III which future citizens, free
from the Tong line of hereditary curse
(which ce1fe upor the children of drinl
ers, shal9 have d chance to grow int
noble, happy and healthy manhood an
| womanhood.
''Whe0 ] catch a vision, as i al
sometimes permitted to do, of whs
Kentucky and Kentuckians would
: without drink, it not only inspires m
to greater activity, but it creates j
=, me a great longing that such men a
you, and MANY others of the trade
who will not blur their brain or bligh
I their offspring by 'Ssing strong drink
; ! would unite your God given powers t
help destroy this crime of crimes, tn
| liquor traffic.
Il - Sin is a want ,sf conformity unit