The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-19
Prohibition or Bust"

No compromise OF any character
whatever in regard to the passage of
the prohibition bill in the next Mary
LAM Legislature will be accepted or
counIenanced by his people, said the
Rev. Dr. Thomas NJ Hare, superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League of
Maryland, recently.
cit is prob bition or bust this time"
he declared. The day of compromise
is past, the compromiser' chance is
lost. 1t is on the straight proposition
of out and-out prohibition for the en-
tire State of Maryland, most emphati-
cally including Baltimore city, that the
fight will be made this time. And we
will not bother about constitutional
amendments. The bill to be submitted
will provide for prohibition by direct
enactment, with the referendum at
tached.
'All we are asking is to let the
people get a chance to vote on the
proposition, and that is a mighty hard
one to sidestep by those who profess to
believe in government by the people.
The wise politician knows, or soon
learns, that the people really run the
Government in the United States when
they turn their mind to it.
"a clear majority in each house of
the Legislature is pledged to the peo-
pie, not to the Anti Saloon League or
to me, but direct to the people, to sup
port the bill submitting Statewide pro-
hibition to the voters of Maryland.
''There is no escaping the issue by
these majorities. The fight was clear
cut. The Eastern Shore is a unit on
the proposition; all the candidates there
were pledged to submit prohibition to
the people. We let Baltimore city go,
though we might have garnered few
legislators even there. But we concen-
trated our energies on Washington,
Frederick, Carroll, Prince Georges and
Hartford counties. We won in all but
Prince Georges, where we got half the
delegation.
'fYou know what was done in Balti-
more county. If Ensor had not been
killed, the majority over Benson would
have been 500; it was enough as it was.
"No betrayal of the people nor VIOLA
ton of pledges is excepted. We do
not anticipate even interfering with the
organization of the House and Senate,
though we want no such man as New
man as head of the Temperance Com
mittee. If danger threatens, we, can
take measures to avert it. In West
Virginia the appointment of committees
was held up three weeks, keeping the
Legislature at a standstill until we
won out.
eff the cause is betrayed, or the bill
defeated, or compromise of any kind
substituted, there will be a revolution
in Maryland. The people want this
issue of prohibition submitted to them,
and no party or machine is strong
enough to keep them from their goal.
The Elkins-Sco machine in West Vir-
gina was the strongest and wealthiest
of which | know anything. That ma
chine caused the Republican party to
betray the cause in that State. After
the axt election there was not enough
of the machine or party left for an in
quest.
We carried Ohio, except Cincinnati,
and in Cincinnati seven out of every
ten men wers vets. Baltimore is
very decent beside Cincinnati, and l
believe the VETS would only get a
majority of 20, 900 in this city-but that
is another matter, to be taken up after
we get the question directly before the
people of the State.
1.-THE Referendum amendment was !
what made it unnecessary for US to try