Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-05-04
Drys Question
Candidates

Saloon League Of Oregon. A sum-
mary OF the replies received by the
league will be printed later:
Portland, Ore, April Is, 1916.
Dear Sir. Believing that every
candidate for public office desires to
be frank and open with the public
regarding his position on vital ques-
tions which are likely to come before
the coming session of the state legis-
lature, we are asking every candidate
for the senate and house of represent
atives in the coming primary to re-
ply, for publication, to the following
questions
l. What is your occupation?
2, The dry law now forbids the
sale of any beverage containing so
much as one-half of one per cent of
alcohol by volume. Will you vote
against all attempts to increase this
percentage?
g. The present law permits drug
gists to sell ethyl alcohol only, and
in amounts not to exceed two quarts
in 2S successive days, to any one per-
son or family. Will you vote against
all attempts to permit the sale OF
other uncompounded intoxicants, or
to increase the amount of pure ethyl
alcohol permitted to be sold to any
one person within any 2S successive
days, unless upon the written state
ment of a reputable licensed and reg
ularly practicing physician that a
greater amount is necessary for ex-
ternal use or application only?
4. The present law forbids the So
licitation of liquor orders by mail.
Owing to the common rule of law
which deems sale to be made where
delivery is made to the common car
rier, we are unable to reach the mail
order solicitors who are violating this
law. The United States supreme
court has granted relief to West Vir-
ginia, basing their decision on the
following words which appear in the
West Virginia law and not in ours:
I'm case of a sale in which a ship
ment or delivery Is made by common
carrier, the sale thereof shall be
deemed to be made in the country
wherein the delivery thereof is made
by such carrier to the consignee.
Will you put these words into the
Oregon law and relieve Oregon moth
ers, wives, sisters and daughters
from the insulting solicitation by mail
for liquor orders? (This does not
abridge the right to send for and
receive liquor, but would stop mail
solicitation.)
5. Will you vote to require that
druggists, when selling alcohol not
denatured and not incidentally COM
pounded, sell only to persons with
whom they are personally acquaint-
ed, or who are vouched for in writ
ing by some reliable person who is
known to the druggist, which vouch-
er shall be filed with the purchasers
affidavit in the county clerks office,
and forbidding the sale by druggists
when they know or have reason to be-
lieve that the alcohol so ordered or
sought to be purchased is intended
to be used in violation Of or evasion
OF the law?
6. Will you vote for a measure
forbidding the keeping or storing OF
intoxicating liquors in any store or
other place OF business or OF public |
resort, or in any public storage house |
or warehouse, except that unaccepted /
shipments of liquor in the custody OF
common carriers may be kept in the
regular storage room or warehouse
of such common carrier?
7. Will you vote for a measure
justices of the peace and
requiring them, when complaint is
made by reputable citizen or citi-
zens. to summon witnesses before
them; to place such witnesses under
oath and question them regarding
their knowledge of liquor sales and
liuuor nuisances; reduce their testi-
mony to writing, If the evidence ad-
duced seems to warrant prosecution;
require said witnesses to sign their
testimony, and to forward such testi-
mony 10 the district attorney; and
the justice Of the peace,
At his discretion, to require the wit
lesses to give bond or recognizance
or their appearance to testify before
he grand jury, or to give testimony
n the trial before the said justice or
,ther magistrate as the district at
.orney may elect, but such bond or
'ecognizance not to run beyond the
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