The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-23
BURDEN OF PRoHBITToN2 N2
Would Throw ss2e, ,eeo, ,ooo Additional
 Taxes On Public.

t5e In the final analysis, 1t is the tax payers who are hurt most by prohibit ton. And the main burden of pro hibition's harmful effects are borne by farmers and small townsnaen whose votes in most eases have made pro- hibition possible. West Virginia, Kan sas and other dry, states are in bad financial condition. Nobody knows it better than the taxpayfng public. List to what the San Francisco Taxpayer, one of the leading ournals of it's class in the nation, has to say regarding ssProhibition and the Taxpayer.
 s'No one is so seriously affected by economic changes, particularly those of a destructive character, as the tax payer himself This journal as it self with any agent of destruction The city Of San Francisco aIones with out consi dering fhe vast interests in the interior. has over $I00s s00O,o00 of property directly in sympathy with the Hquor interests. It is all well recommend a transportation of such a vast property to other uses, such as suaiphoussss salvation Army barracks, prohibition halls and other things possibly more useful.
 The Eternal Enigma
 4 s.Baat the fact remains that the anointed are just as much concerned
 
 are the unsavede A rose by any other name smells just as sweet. So when alcohol in diminished measure. as sold openly and legally under the form of wine. beer and pure liquors, is suddenly outIawed, such of our purist friends who are engaged in the busf- ness Of prohibition for revenue only, are perfectly content with tn eTnisdi- rected course alcohol pursues when guided by prejudiced and fanatica1 II I'M. e. mends the substitution of an, insi dious and destructive alcoholic compound. tin fMe home of a. neurasthenic woman for a light wine or brew of hops and malt does not meet our views at all. The Church of America has suffici e1at foes seeking to undermine it's struc- kture, without further inaugurating a propaganda Of hypocrisy Every honest ehurchnan recognizes this sin as an incurab1e and malignant n1ala dy.
 i've are not so sure. but that. pro hibition has many strenuous advo- eatess among that class of men who sell livery stable or squirrel whiskey and other deadly and villainous com pounds which are eating out the vitaIs of our people,
 We confess to our perfect willing ness to join in the prohibition move l ment as soon as leader can be found who is untfnctured by hypocrisy. If a. single Anti Saloon Leaguer in this country can be found who is promi- Enently recognized as a true lover of the people and student of economies we should like to meet him. When the greatest Americans honestly tell LIS that the fruits of the field are de- structive agents when used intelii- gently and judiciously, then we are ready to join the white-robed mob of purists. At present we dare not unite for the reason that Dante in Para disc Lost showed us the fate of those Svhited sepulchres and it makes us Isshudder at the prospect
 tsOutsfde of the penitcntiaries, pro Intuition does not exist in a single state in this Union in fact. It is true it does so by edict. But what law enforce Tncnt can we put into effect against a people who carry the high est ratio of arrests Tor murder of any civilized nation No, MT. Taxpayer, fifty years is long enough to expert ment with a nebulous theory. With a standing army of over one million ax-consumers. regulating the con duct of our affairs, we think we have sufficient espiona ge. without adding another. host. Prohibition is purely a. political move and is inaugurated pri- marify for the purpose of fastening an additfonaI burden 4on an already distracted taxpayer.