The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-16

COOKIES or the hearts OF ury au-
vocates, Mayor II. c.. Gill of Seat
tie, speaking before the Open
Forum of the First Congregation
al church Sunday evening, not
only defended his drastic meth
DDS of enforcing the prohibition
law, but came out in enthusiastic
praise of prohibition and its moral
and economic effects in the state.
He advocated also the defeat OF
Initiatives Is and "a.
He observed that he supposed
he would be accused of doing so
for political effect or personal
advantage: but declared he had
no political aspirations, and as to
money, IF anybody knows of any
way of getting money out of the
dry element, | wish he would tell
me- about it,"
Referring to recent upheavals
in the Seattle police department,
he said:
About a week ago, a Seattle
paper had very severe fit, and
published rumors of blind pigs,
dance halls, etc. Another paper
followed suit.
Far From Failure
"These fits were contempor-
aneous with the appearance of
big paid ads advocating the pass
age of initiative measures Is and
~.
ut has been said in the papers
that Seattle policemen are crook
ed. Some of them are, and some
are not. Some of the banks have
got crooks in them, but you dom
see the Seattle P.-I. or the Tacoma
Ledger or the Seattle Times pub
fishing scareheads about it. Don't
get discouraged because somebody
finds crooked policeman.
Drinking has not been stop
ped entirely, and never will be
under the present law. But do
YOU call the laws against murder
and burglary failures because they
have not entirely stopped murder
and burglary.
1.-THE liquor act is further
from failure than any great
act ever has been I'm the
United States I'm the same
length of time.
THE gross violators of the law
today, 80 out of 100 times, is the
big business man. Big business
and bootlegging are more closely
connected than you think.
Points to Joker.
There Is joker in the pro-
posed beer law. 1t is the words
public carrier Anything AMI
anybody can be public carrier
even a messenger boy. Under
the proposed law, the breweries
can deliver to any public car.
rier' and he can deliver to any
other public carrier; and though
the amount In any one package is
limited to 4S quarts-which is
about all one man can lift-the
number of packages is not linn
tied. Under that law, this state
would be one vast storehouse OF
that innocent alcoholic beverage
beer. And the only act which the
bill would make illegal Is the fail
ure of brewery to pay Its II.
cense fee.
"What / want is to have
the next legislature make it
a felony for these hounds to
take the life of human be-
ing for the money there is in
it. They are murderers just
as truly as IL they shot the
poor fools who go to them.
Also I want the drug store
permit provision rescinded.
II have been called lawless for
wrecking the establishments of
bootleggers, and it has been said
the law ought to take its course.
What good would it do 70 let the
law take its course-which means
a delay of two years and a 500
fine at the end of that time--wirh
men who are willing to gamble a
$4,000 to $1,000 establishment
for the chance to sell liquor?
| Register!
II know of many people who
have come to Seattle because the
state is dry. I have been walk
ing around Tacoma this evening,
and | did not see a man with a
stagger. l never saw your town
that way before, any more than
you ever saw mine.
II have come to see what this
thing means to families and to
the community. Our cities will
be far more prosperous from ev-
cry angle than ever before, IL we
only take no backward step. In
Heavens name, every one of you