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

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would be made for Statewide prohibi-
ton; Colonel T. M. Gilmore, president
of the National Model License League,
addressed an open letter to Mrs.
Beauchamp, asking her certain ques-
lions about what was proposed to do
about the shipment of liquor into dry
territory and other questions relating
to the liquor business. in case Ken
lucky voted dry.
In her reply Mrs. Beauchamp said,
that she advocated an amendment to
the Constitution of Kentucky which
would forever prohibit the sale, the man
ufacture for sale. the importation for
sale of all kinds of spirituous liquors.
The open letter to Mrs. Beauchamp
from Colonel Gilmore follows:
Mrs. Frances E. Beauchamp. Presi-
dent of the Kentucky w. e. T. U.
Dear Madem:-
The newspapers report that. fol-
lowing announcement of the results of
recent county elections. you sounded
the opening trumpet of a campaign
for statewide prohibition in Ken
lucky, giving as the slogan On to
Frankfort
Before you call upon the people
of this commonwealth to enter light
ly upon campaign fraught with such
serious results, would it not be well
for you to inform them just what
you proposals are?
DO you advocate a really dry
Kentucky, with all liquor shut out
from her people, or do you favor the
Hrand Of prohibition which has brought
with it crime and disrespect for law in
other states?
The people of the great state CT
Virginia voted only a few days ago
to drive the saloon from within her
borders, but the so-called prohibition
leaders there took good care to see
that there be included in their plat
form 70 suggestion of interference
with the flow of liquor from other
states.
They were willing to destroy the
property of others within their own
commonwealth; they were willing to
have the owls boot at midday in the
distilleries of the Old Dominion; but
did not raise finger to make effect
i've the real prohibition of which they
loudly proclaimed themselves the ad-
vocates.
These same leaders helped put the
Webb-Kenyon law on the Federal
statute books avowedly to make real
prohition possible within the states,
yet here they studiedly disavowed any
intention of cutting off Virginia S liquor
supply by that laws use,
In more thar. one prohibition state,
the express provision has been made
in prohibition Legislation that there
shall be TO interference with shipments
from outside. In all the supposedly
dry states the prohibition leaders hsve
been careful to safeguard the outside
bases of supply while driving out the
legitimate wholesaler and retailer from
within.
lis this your plan in Kentucky, Mrs
Beauchamp?
After forcing prohibition en coun-
ties which have indicated they did not
want it, will you safeguard, as in other
prohibition states the supply OF
liquors from outside?
The Webb-Kenyoa law prohibit
shipment from without to prohibition
state which has enacted necessary
supplementary legislation, making il
effective.
The weapons sre al hand with
which to make Kentucky really dry
if that if what yor &nd y0Ir associates
plan.
Twill you take full advantage 81
them?
do you propose a really dry Ken
lucky, or a Kentucky thy in namt
only; a Kentucky labaHed 'prohihi
ton but lust as wet as Kentucky o.
old, overrun by the baotlegger an:
blind tiger owner or getting its li0Uol
ky the barrel, jug or bottle, from ont
SIDE?
Il assume you want the liquor trad:
driven out of Kentucky because yo!
consider it sinful, If it be sinful t.
sell liquor. wholesale or retail, why !.
it rot ECU ally sinful to indulge in Tia
use thereof?
And if this be asserted, why shOuiC
not you and your allies do your utmost
to make Kentucky really dry instead
of sa6dling her with mock prohibition,
which will do away with persona
liberty. wipe out property worth mil
lions, make a harvest for the blint
tiger owner and the bootlegger, bring
our laws into disrespeet and yet d.
nothing to really stop the consumption
of liquor?
Il speak not here of the right mol
the wrong Of the liquor business Yor
and have divergent views as SO that
What l do urge is common honesty
in the fight which you are inaugurating
upon the states greatest industry.
what l do urge is that you come
out under your true colors-that you
either fight for real prohibition or that
you confess that is not what you seek.
"What is YOUR choice?