Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-09-25
WHY THE FARMER SHOULD VOTE
FOR STATEWIDE PRO-
HIBITIoN.
Dry State Will Mean Lower Taxes
and Great Prosperity.

and Great Prosperity.
1. Because the Sons of Farmers who
visit the city or go there to live are fire.
frequently ruined by the city saloons.
Vote for statewide prohibition, there
fore. to protect your own sons and the
sons of your neighbor from the city
'grogshops which are Turing our young
men to destruction Gen. Robert E.
Lee.
| 2. Because the "Wet" Towns and
cities advertise their intoXicants in
The newspapers, and by mail circulars,
sending them even to schoolboys, and
/ ship intoxicants In bottles and jugs to
your sons and your workmen and thus
produce disorder and drunkenness and
destroy the efficiency Of labor on the
farm and in the mills and mines.
Many public roads are also made un-
safe for your wives and daughters to
travel alone. Vote to prohibit the traf-
| fic in Colorado and thus rid the state
Of this partnership with the saloon.
8. Because the Saloon Costs the
states directly nearly So to care for the
ruin which it makes for every 81
which 1t pays into the state treasury.
The advocates of the saloon have
tried to fool the farmers into believ-
ing that statewide prohibition will in
| crease the taxes. But the people must
bear the burden of pauperism. insanity
and crime produced by the saloon.
| The Supreme Court of the United
States has declared:
"The statistics of every state show
a greater amount of crime and misery
attributable 10 the use of ardent spir-
its than to any other source" and the
Supreme Court in the same decision
declared that "the injury, it is true,
first falls upon him (the drinker) in
his health, which the habit under
mines; in his morals, which it weak
ems; and in the reimbursement which
it creates. But as it leads to neglect
to business and waste of property and
general decentralization, it affects
those who are immediately connected
with and dependent upon him. By
the general concurrence of opinion of
every civilized and Christian commun-
ity there are few sources of crime and
misery to society equal to the dram
shop"
Which VIII the Farmers Believe,
the United States Supreme Court, or
the special agents of the liquor cor
borations Who are printing and dis
tributing falsehoods and misrepresen-
utions of every kind all over Colo
rado to get the farmers to vote for
the saloons, so that the millionaire
brewers and distillers throughout the
country may continue to destroy Colo
RADIO boys?
a. Because, If the Saloons are closed
In the towns and cities OF Colorado the
twenty million dollars which is now
spent fer intoXicants will be spent for
food and clothing and the necessaries
and luxuries of life. And thus bet
ter market will be furnished for the
cattle, sheep. hogs. poultry and other
products of the farm. People who
waste their money for drink have
nothing with which to buy the farm
er's products.
For the sake OF the country boys
living in town, for the sake of the
boys at home, for the quietness, peace
and safety of your own neighborhood.
for the sake of reduction in taxation,
for the securing Of better market
for farm products-or all of these rea-
sons. and for others which your own
intelligence will suggest. vote for
statewide prohibition on November 3,
and against the licensed saloon.
Vote YES" on the statewide pro-
hibition amendment, for prohibition
will mean lower taxes, no more bond
issues, and plenty of work for Colo
radios 10000 jobless men who are
made unfit for employment by
liquor.