New Britain herald., 1915-12-13

from a liquor firm in Kansas City. Mo-, going out of business to snow that the liquor interests thems selves know full well what the results of their trade is. This letter bears the heading:
 Kentucky Distillers Distributing Go. Dstillers Direct From Dstillery. Finest High Grade Straight Whiskeys, Brandies, Wines, and Gins. Our Brands Are Standard Brands. Known the World Over. 1 Keeley Institute,
 Dwight, III.
 Gentlemen:-
 Our customers are your prospective patients. We can put on your desk a | mailing list of over 5000 individual consumers of liquor. This list is the result of thousands of dollars of ad- vertising.
 Each individual on the list is reg ular user of liquor. The list of names is new live and active. We know be- cause We have circulated it regularly We will furnish this list in quantities at the prices listed below.
 10000 to 5O,000 $4OO % 10000 3OO.OO
 
 We will not furnish this list in lots of less than ten thousand.
 DiscOntinuance of business Janu ary 1st is the occasion of selling our mailing list.
 Yours truly,
 KENTUCKY DISTILLERS
 DIST. co.
 w. Franklin, President.
 "I have another letter of the same character here from the same firm to the Neal Institute, Chicago Both of these institutes are well known con- cerns for the reform of the drunkard, and yet this house recognized that they had been making of their cus- toners. through their business, the fu- ture patrons of these reform institutes l trying to undo as best they can the 1 damage already done by the liquor ! business. This is a rather strong ad- mission.
 Tt would not be hard to show. had i we the time, that every cent which the united states and the states and ] the cities receive from revenue from l the saloon is eaten up by the neces l sary prosecution and care of Jalls and aims houses and poor farms, etc, in- i creased through the effects of liquor ! habits. Many men, who are study ing this matter carefully and impar- l tially declare that 1t costs the L. s. and it's cities at least five times what they receive in revenue, to care for the conditions caused by drink. Busi- i ness is beginning to see this.
 Here is a common rule which al 1 most all the railroads of this country operate under The use of intoxi- 1 J1fS 1l,tx cd Their Use, or the frequenting of places where they arc sold is suffi- cient cause for dismissal Many of the best railroads. such as the Penn sNlvania. vii not allow drinking either on or off duty.
 "A very interesting study is that Of the condition of the army since the doing away with the canteen as compared with before, and also a study made by Hugh Fullerton. prob ably the leading baseball writer to- day as to the effects of liquor on ath- ! letes. Connie Mack, manager of the i famous Philadelphia Athletics. says. T have twenty-five players. Of that l number fifteen do not know the taste of liquor. Baseball men today are not of the drinking class. The fact is that big, league player has to be l l goes to the minors. It is the survival of the fittest.' Fullerton says I have watched this drinking in athletics for ] long time and there are no two sides to it. One of the greatest baseball | machines of the present generation was shot to pieces by beer.
 Question of Enforcing the Law.
 ''Very often we hear it said that you cannot legislate morals into peo- pie. You cannot make people good l by law And that is true in a sense, although when you stop and consider we are educating by law. Our boys and girls must go to school. It is true 1 that you cannot make them learn, but you can throw around them an en- vironment by compulsion which certainly is responsible for the better education of many of our children, who would otherwise neglect this 1 privilege. And in the same way, while it may not be possible to en- tirely keep men from getting liquor i who have gotten the habit yet it is possible to protect boys and young ] men from contracting the habit by legal restriction. We hear much in this regard also as to personal liberty,