Newell reclamation news. [volume] (Newell, Butte County, S.D.) 1910-19??, 1916-05-11
I...YAN DEN0UNCES
THE DRINK TRAFFIC
Scys That Stopping Saloon
Business Doesn't De-
stTOy Building.

Dallas. Tex--At the state conyen
ton OF the Anti-Saloon League, he'd
in this city in March, William Jen
nings Bryan was the principal speak
er In his address Colonel Bryan
said:
If YOU try to close the saloon some
body says that you are interfering
with The business OF the town and
hurting the town They know better
Why is it that the boards of trade and
the chambers of commerce are sc
careful to advertise the schools, the
churches and all the attractive insti
turions OF a town and never mention
how many saloons they have?
And the saloon keepers understand
II you tell one you are going to have
prohibition he tells you that II you
do not have saloons you will have
something else. They say you VIII
have blind tigers Well, would rather
have a blind tiger after my boy than
g tiger that can see. II they are blind
you have to 90 TO them, and II they
see they will come TO you. If they
are blind they will go into the back
alleys and dark places and If you IL
cense them they will take the best
corner in your town and invite your
| boys to enter
The Personal Liberty Fake.
They no longer talk about personal
| liberty | remember when personal
| liberty WAS the thing they most talked
about They have learned now there
is no definition of personal liberty that
is recognized IN any respectable com
munity that includes respass ON the
| rights of others; that no mans per
sona liberty can be used destructively
against his neighbor. Therefore. the
personal liberty argument has gone.
Every mans rights end where his
neighbours rights begin, and the chill
dren of our city have a right to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness,
and that right is higher than mans
right to crafty his animal appetite at
the expense of the children.
About Destroying Property"
They say that you are destroying
their property rights. When you say
that a saloon can not be opened in a
building you do not interfere with the
building. You do not take brick
out of the wall when you close a sa
loon. And II building in which sa
loon is closed today is occupied by q
bakery tomorrow. because there is
then money that used to go for liquor
to be spent for bread. the town is
none the poorer.
IF you close a brewery you do not
destroy the building. In Oregon
found that the breweries have been
turned into loganberry juice factories
Loganberry juice. by the way, Is the
closest thing they have to grape Juice
in Oregon.
mo Democrat need apologize for
being in favor of prohibition. OF the
nineteen prohibition states ten OF
them go Democratic al every election
and other Democratic states will soon
be added to the list. 1t viii benefit
both parties to get rid OF the liquor
! WtiCu OWCS AJtSiaiiSC " iAN
party, and ia interested in no prin
ciples OF government 1t Is solely
concerned with the money to be de
rived from the sale of liquor.
'-Wny not meet combination with
| cooperation? The liquor interests
combine against society; why should
not the Democrats and Republicans
cooperate against the liquor inter
ests? Let us for one day lay aside
the tariff question. the trust question,
the money question and other ma
tional questions upon which we differ
and unite to free the state from the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquor, and then we shall be ready
for the larger task which is not many
years off--the task Of Kidding the ma
ton OF alcohol, its worst enemy, and
| re III, Hn,,or traffic {fo preafpe1 avfl D