The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-03
PROHIBITION IS
SURE OF DEFEAT.
LEADERS ASSERT
Most Stringent Dry Law Ever
Offered State to be Voted
On Tuesday.
WOULD DOUBLE TAXES
If 1T BECAME LAW
1t Would Also Throw 100000
People Out of Work Beaten
Badly in 1906.

The Prohibition measure, or Amend
G ment No. 3, which will be voted rnol
f by the people of Missouri next Tues
day, is regarded as the most stringen
: liquor law ever offered 10 the peopl,
of this State. 1t forbids all kinds o
, liquor into the State, except wine user
for sacramento purposes. Liquor fol
even medicinal uses is barred from tn,
, State. if the amendment carries.
But both Democrats and Republicans
agree that the amendment will moi
carry, but they believe the wet ma
iority will not be as large as it was
in 1906, when Missouri defeated pro-
hibition by q majority of more than
I21S.GOO.
The adoption Of Statewide prohibi-
ton would destroy property worth
S150,000,000 and would throw over
100000 men and women out of WORN.
These employees are now earning more
than $9,000,O00 annually in salaries.
By putting Missouri in the column
of dry States would cut off more than
S3,000,000 in taxes which is paid into
the State Treasury by the liquor inter
ests each year. This money is used for
the public schools. for the highways
AMI to meet the general expenses of
the State. In order to make uD the
deficit caused by prohibition, it would
b. necessary to levy more taxes upon
tie people. It would compel farmers
to pay more than twice as much rs
they are now paying and the burden
would also be increased in the cities.
In order that the people of this !
community may become acquainted |
with this dangerous amendment. The |
Tribune is reproducing it. The amend.
ment. which ought to be defeated. fOH /
lows:
Amendment No. > reads as follows: |
Prohibiting after July l, 1917, the |
manufacture of, the introduction into, |
and the giving, exchanging. bartering, |
selling or disposing Of intoxicating |
liquors in the State of Missouri, ex-
cept wine for sacramento purposes. |
prescribing a penalty for the violation |
thereof and repeating all parts of the !
Constitution, Statutes and Municipal |
Laws in conflict Herewith.
Proposed amendment to the COnsti- |
tuition of Missouri, to be submitted to !
the legal voters of the State of Mis-
souri, for their approval or rejection at |
the regular general election to be held |
on the seventh day of November, A. d. |
1916, prohibiting the manufacture of, |
the introduction into. and the giving, |
exchanging, bartering, selling or dis
posing of intoxicating liquors in the |
State of Missouri, except wine for
sacramento purposes, prescribing a |
penalty for the violation thereof and |
repeating all parts of the State Con- |
stitutiOn. State of Municipal Laws in |
conflict Herewith.
Be it enacted by the people of the
State of Missouri:
Section l. From and after July I, |
1917, no intoxicating liquor or liquors,
except wine for sacramento purposes. |
shall be manufactured in or introduced !
into the State of Missouri under any |
pretense. Every person who sells, ex-
changes gives, barters, or disposes of |
Intoxicating liquor of any kind to any |
person in the State of Missouri, or who |
manufactures, or introduces into, or |
attempts to introduce into the State |
of Missouri, Intoxicating liquor of any !
kind; except wine as aforesaid for the
purposes aforesaid; shall be guilty of
a misdeneanor and upon conviction.
shall be punished by a fine of not less
than three hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, or by I'M
prisonment in the county jail not less
than six months nor more than twelve
or by both such fine and i'm
All parts of the State Constitution,
and laws of the State and municipal
tiles therein, conflicting with the pro-
visions of this section, are hereby r.
pealed