The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-04-28
PROHIBITION.

Judge Anderson, of the United States
Court, who has just finished long drawn
out trial of election boodlers in Indiana,
has this to say about the saloon: my
notion is that the saloon will have to go.
| believe that the time will come when
the people will rise up and smash the
saloon, at least as we have it now. The
evidence in this case shows that thessa-
looms were the center of nearly all the
corruption in the election at Terre
Haute.'
This is the evidence of all men con
nected with the conduct of the courts,
whether local, state or federal. 1t is the
experience of all people who observe the
trend of affairs.
Some of the papers of the State of
Kentucky are avowed advocates of the
whisky trust. This is true of some of
the leading organs in the City of Louis
vile. The Courier-J ournal and the
Louisville Times seems to be advocating
with their usual vehemence in their
editorial departments, those things
which rebound to the interest of the
whisky trust. On the first page of the
Louisville Times of April 23rd there is
an account of horrible murder, with
flaming headlines ''SLAYs HIS You've
WIFE IN A DRUNKEN FRENZY" This is
an every day occurrence in the daily
papers. Their news columns are filled
with horrible details of crime brought
about by the use of intoxicantS. Yet, in
many of the leading papers, are
editorials written in the interest of the
whisky trust. Flaming advertisements
of wholesale and retail liquor houses are
also carried.
This country has been long tolerant of
the whisky rule. The people have been
exceedingly patient and they have look
ed long for relief by local option laws
and the local self-government idea. But
so far the whisky interest have been able
to almost destroy to a large degree
the benefits to be derived from local
option. The passage of the Webb
Kenyon bill aided to some extent in re-
lieving the community of the sinister
influence of the whisky element, but at
bill in Congress, the Kentucky Legisla-
ture passed bill permitting whisky to
be shipped from any part of the State
into dry territory. With the passage of
this law, the boot-legger was able to get
in his work directly and Immediately,
and the result has been an astonishing
increase in the illegal sale of liquor by
the boot logger.
The time has come when the liquor
interest must be driven from the State
and from the nation and torn up root
and branch. This can be done effective
ly by nationwide prohibition. The
eyes of the people of the United States
are now conferred on William Jennings
Bryan as the Moses to lead the people 10
glorious victory for National Pro
hibition.
In the State, the issue is between wet
and dry. Try as hard as they may, the
candidates cannot avoid The issue. The
people intend that the question which
has been held back and kept in the
background, shall be forced to the
front, and they intend TO say authorita-
lively that this State shall be dry.
Without hedging without efforts to win
favors from anyone, and with an abso-
lue disregard for the personal opinion of
any man who has offered for office, this
paper declares emphatically, without
hesitation, mental reservation or evasicn n:
first, for Nation Wide Prohibition; sec
ond, for Statewide Prohibition. If
these two things cannot be obtained
then it favors local option and the coun-
" unit law.