Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-23
MONEY THE SLOGAN
MONEY, MONEY ONLY MONEY!
DR.. Kelly DeplOres the Fact That Good
Citizens Lend Themselves to the
Devils Work.

Writing to the Baltimore Evening
sun. Or Howard A. kellv,Cf baltimore
says:
what a melancholy list of best cit
zeus" pleading TO perpetuate the grip
Of alcoholics on this poor State. How
many do YOU think within ten years
time will feel utterly ashamed of hay-
ing lent their names to uphold this
dreadful traffic
And what reasons DO these friends
and fellow-citizens aIlege? Money
money, only money Ie YOU Jake
away liquor YOU will increase our
taxes. You may destroy our sons and
daughters. Won may rob the poor and
I'LL the courts and the penitentiaries,
and impose all manner of indirect
burdens and taxes on US, and we do
not much care only don't do that
which may send up the tax rate for a
year or two. during the period of re-
adjustment
* million dollars month. il is
said is poured down mems threats in
the form Of Alcoholics in Baltimore
city and its surrounding territory
Think of il conceive of the city as
one big composite man who To Quench
nis Unsuitable thirst drines q million
dollars worth OF alcoholic poison. All
Of it goes 10 his higher brain centres
and bengmbs his judgment. it knocks
out his stomach and mis- liver. ii in
flames his kidneys and poisons his
| heart and blood vessels, and in the
end, he usually dies years before his
time, after committing crimes innum-
| cradle and being arrested and incar-
| cerated thousands al times.
Rig business, railroads and corpor-
ations are shy OF this moderate drink
er. so he goes through life compare
| lively inefficient He never really
cares much what becomes of his
brother. end cries ont boldly. like Cain
OF ole Am ! nay brothers keeper
But in the end We hear CAMS last cry.
Ally punishment is greater than can
near
But the worst OF all the alcoholics
is utter moral blindness. Some OF the
men on that sad list in the Sunpaper
| have lost their nearest and dearest to
them by alcoholic excuses, and get
theX vote to continue TO enthrone Fling
Alcohol We shall lose money. money.
money is their cry in the feeble argu-
ment called Pertinent Questions for
| Sensible Men to Answer
How about this - roueh-and
ready economic argument in rebuttal
of such folly.a million dollars a month
| is literally poured down The sewers in
and around oar city. and we have 70
police. magistrate and courts to deal
With the alcoholic crimes. to support
almshouses. penitenuaries and Jail and
insane asylunis galore to accommodate
the alcoholic, not to mention the
wretchedness Of the drinkers home
and The misery and dwarfted lives of
the children And all we do that a
few brewers aud distillers may pile up
enormous fortunes at our expense
Where are the economies in sch 2
stupid course as that
MY friend DO YOU think il is posi-
bic fol- old Satan TO elaborate such an
argument Tor sensible men without
| showing his claws or hoofs at some
point: II is hardly likely.
Look at this hoof mark straight
from the brewery in the last para
graph in the Sunpaper. read it. and
mark it well and note It, never 10 for
get it. and ask yourself Just what
weight 90 moral issues have with this
foriorn army? These are your very
words gentlemen, Finally. it is an
easy task en- only moral claims to
abolish liquor license, but it is sensi-
bic? Is it practical? Baltimore is fac
ing 3 terrible debit
God in Heaven. whom we call Fa-
Their. what shall we answer to these
men who say that the moral argument
for temperance and 70 taking this aw-
fll stumbling block cut of the way of
| our brethren in an obvious. easy and
unavoidable one. and then dare to ask
| if thing.vhich is obviously moral and
right. is sensible anu PRACTICAL
WcIds tail me to describe the iniquity
| Of such an appeal
There are two great comforts in all
tfSs-the first is that it is invaluable
III any moral crusade TO get people
I labeled and to know where they stand
/ the second. I rejoice 70 say, is the Ger
tainty that before very long many OF
| the signers viii regret their stand
aud become stancn supporters Of total
/ abstinence.