Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-26

| ing twelve and one-half gallons on an
average to each individual, but now
we consume en- an average of TWEEN
ty-four gallons to the individual
After thirty-five years of this kind
of progress we have very little EVIL
dence that the liquor business is be-
ing closed out under high license
system, We propose to pass an
amendment to the state constitution
that will prohibit the manufacture
and sale Of Intoxicating drink in Ne
braska. This is the only solution to
the problem. II. F. CARSON,
Super ntendent Anti-Saloon League.
Lincoln.
The people of Nebraska are deep
ly interested in arriving at the facts
and | would suggest that commit
tee be appointed to go to Kansas
and that the expenses of the COM
mittee be borne half by the Pros
perity league and half by the Dry
federation to make a thorough in
vestigation and report. ] would sug-
gest that the wet member be Mayor
Dahlman; that the dry member be
VIII Owen Jones of the Lincoln Jour-
nal and that the third member be
Charles w. Bryan, who in his cam
paign for governor was charged with
being perfectly neutral on that ques-
ton. JOHN G., MAHER.
I Lincoln.
The licensed saloon is a menace to
manhood and womanhood---it is the
foster mother of bootleggers, houses
of ill fame, gambling dens. liars and
sometimes-ah, too bad-Prosperity
leagues. Shame on the men who are
at the head of our state In a dinan-
cial way--a political way that will
lend their support to the breweries
and licensed saloons. l say lend their
support-it Is not, a gift-and If it
were not In some way-in the future
to fill their Golfers, many Of them
would refrain from such disgraceful
business. CHARLES HODGES,
Guide Rock, Neb,
Any sane person can see prohibi-
ton does more harm than any law
ever passed. Taxes are going UP on
everything; the poor workingman has
to pay more rent and he gets less
wages under prohibition and we have
no protection at all. II the voters
will only make up this fall prohibition
preachers will have to hunt other
jobs. 1t is all wrong and the poor
people have to pay for ice cream for
a lot Of lazy highbrows. Prohibition |
Is good thing for moonshine and |
bootleggers. L C. PETERSEN.
Lincoln. Neb.
The question of absolutely prohib- |
iting has nothing to do with the case.
The question is whether a state is
made better. healthier, happier, safer,
more prosperous by prohibition than
by saloons? II the fact that prohibit
ton does not absolutely prohibit is
an argument against outlawing the sa-
loon, why isn't the fact that regula-
ton utterly fails to regulate a stronger
argument in favor Of prohibition
R. H. JONES.
Plattsmouth. Neo.
Undoctored figures are about as
useful to a prohibitionist as chair
Is to monkey. They've got to be
doctored; it's the nature of the beast
In Kansas they have now doctored
their figures until the average Kan
san lives to be 106 years old; no one
will doubt this, of course. Now we
know that the brewery workers
thrown out of work are only a small
portion; there are men of practically
every vocation thrown out of work.
the least suspecting Is the
hardest hit, and sometimes a man &C.
:ually reaps what he sows and some
one voted out takes dry voters Job.
i Omaha. WILLIAM WRAGE.
When the prohibition argument is
1t can be seen that II is
directed against wine and beer as well
Is whiskey, but there are constant
charges made that the prohibtionists
ire fighting "the liquor trade" and
fighting whisky" when. as a matter
If fact, this is not true; they are
lighting the customs of temperate
people, who have nothing to do with
he liquor traffic; this is species of
and Is the same as coming
nto court of equity with dirty
lands. If the prohibtionists would
conduct an honest campaign for the
of strong alcoholic drinks
md drop the campaign against such
wholesome and non-injurious drinks
Ike wine and beer they would make
more progress. but they gain nothing
" misstatements.
GEORGE A. GRAHAM.
Valentine, Neb.
There is not law In existence that
) not broken by someone every day.
here Is a law against treating in sa-
oons In this state, yet I will wager
hat not one saloon keeper out of
90 in Nebraska follows that law.
Iearly all Of them sell liquors to mi
ors and to drunken people. Many
I them keep open practically all
light and after hours. They are
themselves to blame for the high tide
prohibition In the country today,
Or they do not obey the laws and
leir announced intention to disobey
he law in case prohibition carries in I
1is state instead of making votes
gainst prohibition only makes the
ertainty of the prohibition amend Z
tent carrying in Nebraska this fall
Il the more certain.
Omaha. F. A. AGNEw. I
While not all prohibitionists are
hristians and all Christians are not
it Is yet true that the
rohibition movement is essentially
church affair. Church people
Gaming particularly the preachers 4
ok upon the saloon as the rival of
lie church.
They are jealous; they are COW X
GUS 1t hurts their feelings that
lie great mass of men find more
easure and profit in the spirits dis
ensed by the white-aproned gentle
en- behind the bar than they find
the spirits they themselves some
mes try to dispense from their pull
ts CHARLES WOOSTER. y
Silver Creek, Neb. u
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