The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-05-12
HENRY D. CARBARY, NEWSPAPER HEAD, WHO IS A TEE
TOTALER, BELIEVES THAT STATE WILL SURELY
GO "WET" AGAIN NEXT NOVEMBER
BECAME DESERT THREE MONTHS AGO
Millions Spent For Business Is Bad In Denver and
Theatres Closed : City Officials Cannot Stop
"5ootleggng" and May Be Recalled

Alarming reports to the effect that
Colorado, a ter only three months Of
prohibition, arsady is tired of it, have
been in circU lation for several days.
The following was taken from the
Butte (Mont) Miner, and would seem
to have bearing on the subject:
Henry d. Carbary, former general
manager of the Rocky Mountain News
and the Denver Times, and who is
now organizing a company to start
the Denver American, a new morning
newspaper, is stopping in Butte for
few days sightseeing.
Asked how prohibition is working
out in Colorado, Mr.. Carbary, who is
teetotaler himself, never having
even tasted of beer or spirituous liz
uorsr said:
Nav Be "Wet" Again.
"Colorado's experience of the past
two months has amply shown the
fallacy of the prohibition theory in
general The state went prohibition
January l of this year, but not dry.
Dissatisfaction with conditions under
the present regime has become so uni
yersal that | confidently look for the
repeal of the prohibition law at the
coming November election and the
substitution of high license, model
local option law that will eliminate
the Objectionable features of the sa-
| loon.
The promise of better business, in
creased property valuation, lower tax
es. less crime and better government
mellifluously shouted from pulpits, pub
! lie platforms and street corners dur
! ing the campaign by prohibition advo
Gates has not been fulfilled
1.-The daily publication by the press
of Bookkeeping raids, and the severe
/ castigation of the Denver police de
partment by the Denver Express anC
/ the Denver Times for their inabi,lty
to suppress the illicit sale of liquor
and stamp out prostitution is changing
public sentiment The conviction is
becoming settled in the mind of think
ing people that prohibition merely
shut down the plant and confscate,
the property of the local brewer ant
closed the saloon, while it opened ta'
dive and converted the cellars of thou
sands of homes in the state into mag
azines for the keeping of assorted Ia
uors. wines and malt beverages.
Under the Colorado law there /
no limit placed upon the amount c
liquor ore rlay keep in his home 10
his own family uses. To my min
this is the most despicable kind @
hypocrisy and is tantamount to an az
mission by the prohibition advocat
that If the supply of liquor was CT
OF absolutely, the people would vot
AGAINST prohibition as an abridgmen
of their constitutional rights.
Law Doesn't Prohibit
when prohibition went into effeC
In Colorado II was conservatively est
mated BY Denver newspaper that nc
less than five million dollars wort
of whiskey. wines and beers were pu
chased and stored in Colorado homes
yet, despite this preparedness again'
drouth. which those who had neve
lived in n prohibition state evidentl
believed was to prevail. the traffic
liquor and beer between Colorad
points and Cheyenne. Wyo., Sa
Lake, Utah, and Kansas City, Nc
since the first of the year has grow