Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-15
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF LIQUOR.

The Louisville Courier Journal is the
bright particular star Of democratic
Journalism. The liquor associations are
paving out their money 10 scatter among
the newspaper offices of Iowa a reprint
of an article credited TO the Louisville
paper on the liquor question. 1, is thus
fair to quote the Louisville Journal as
the democratic view OF the liquor ques-
ton:
The machine made Puritans of the
vale of wooden nutmegs and the act
of-assembly religionaries of the land
OF Lorenzo DOWN whose image pro-
hibition would create Kentucky and
the kentuckians-are of those grocers
VINO sand the sugar and water the
milk before they 80 20 their prayers.
II the whole ot Main street should
/ awaken some morning to find every
, house between Its eastern and western
extremities burned to the ground with :
out a dollar of insurance the ruin
would nor be greater Virginia has few
, ii any distiileries. Hence the vote fu.'
prohibition the other day cost mainly
the loss Of revenue Very serious
loss indeed. which the tax payers will
surely and sorely feel But suppose
the proposition had been to out, law
tohacco-to burn down the tobacco
warehouses of Richmond-What might
the Nirginians have thought about II
Yet tobacco is but step behind whis-
key and. when the zealots have dis
posed OF whisky they Nill of curse
turn upon tobacco. Some Of the
churches have already done so
The Courier Journal has spoken in
unmeasured terms Of the scoundreis
VINO work the temperance racket for
what they see in it. Ii not only repeats.
but II will continue 10 stiginatize and
denounce these men Z 8 the very scrubs
Of creation. Some OF them write for
the papers-eyen pretend 10 be
scitors-and they are the suiltiest be-
g Use. whilst few are the 1,?e-cst
towards or fools the larger number
are malignant and corrupt ncendiaries
Lying is their trade. They began by
urging local option Thence they adj
vanced 10 county unit. All the while
DENYING state vide, they are now pre-
pairing FOR it
An here is the Louisville Courier
Journals political creed for democrats:
The really wise and true people Of
Kentucky. the reasonable men and
women who We're reared in the demo
cratic belief that the union OF church
and state IS an abomination and that
sumptuary laws made to yex the citi-
zen il his home and To sacrifice his
right to regulate his conduct to the
profit or the moral conceit Of the fan
aticaI is villainous and deadly assault
upon personal liberty. should begin to
realize that Very grave danger is at
$50 We shall have a generation
OF Kentuckians desenerated to match
the generations We have so long de-
spised in Maine and Kansas"
Kansas stands al the head of all the
states in the union in Iiteracy. in the
number of publications and periodicals
of high class taken and read by her
people. her jails are least tena1ted in
proportion to her population. educa-
tionaliy she is better off than almost
any other state, she has fever poor.
more automobiles and altogether the
highest general standard of citizenship
! from Maine and Massachusetts orig
inally. The comparison il there is Cd
ium in II it is forced by the Kentucky
newspa per not by Kansas And from
end to end of Kansas and Iowa and
Maine there is not a Breatfitt county
or a Breathitt township
The quotations from the courier
Journal are worth reading Tor two
good reasons; they mark a political at
titude and emphasize how far the po-
litical party they represent drags be-
| hind the common thought and purpose
Of the people of this country. In Iowa
il is also fair 10 ask the democratic
| candidate for governor If he agrees
With the sentiments expressed ny mis-
leading newspaper Of his own politic;.l
| faith.