Denver labor bulletin., 1916-11-04
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THE LIBERAL PARTY
STANDS FOR THE
BEER AMENDMENT

The Liberal Party believes that the
beer amendment is a scientific business
like proposition, and that the adoption
will do much to improve economic and
moral conditions in this state.
The Republicans and the Democrats
declared against the amendment in their
party platforms, and thereby pledged all
their candidates to do everything in
their power to defeat it.
Under our so-called prohibition laws
which it is fair to assume, the old par
ties intend to maintain - intoxicating
liquors of all kinds are being shipped i'll
here 1t is estimated that registered
shipments alone now cost the people
half million dollars a month and that
amounts equal in cost if not in quality
are being smuggled in.
In the meantime our twelve brewery
plants and millions of dollars worth of
business property and residence property
are going to waste and thousands OF men
are standing idle or working part time.
How to improve these conditions, there
fore, is burning issue in this campaign.
Candidates on the old party tickets
promise to improve conditions by hiring
more officers to arrest bootleggers. The
election returns will show what the tax
payers think of that plan. According to
the County Treasurer's books, the as-
sessed value of Denver property is $45,.
353, ,S45 less than it was before the brew
cries were closed, while taxes have been
increased 1857 ,53S. An army of detectives
will increase taxes still more, while the
adoption of the beer amendment will
lessen the temptation to send money out
of the state for prohibition whisky,
which is the worst kind. 1t will lessen
the demand for such drinks by furnish
ing consumers with a legal chance to buy
fresh beer at fair price in their own
homes, and at the same time it will keep
saloons closed.
Both of the old parties now claim to
be dry" and to prove it, both are cam
paigning against the beer amendment,
which they have raised into the para
mount issue. Yet, neither of the old
parties offer any solution of the labor
question which proves that something
must be done by the people who own
the vacant houses and by the working
men who lost their jobs when the brew
cries closed.
The adoption of the beer amendment
will improve conditions by furnishing
more opportunities for labor, but access
TO land on equal terms, which affords
the widest possible opportunity, cannot
be secured until the people gain the
power to rule themselves. As things are
now, the people in Colorado submit TO
the rule of men who are nominated in
party assemblies and party primaries,
and it was to abolish these absurd cleo
tion laws and TO establish a fair system
of proportional representation that the
Liberal Party was organized. Therefore,
we urge all good citizens who are tired
of machine rule, to vote for the presi-
dent of their choice, and then make a
cross mark on the official ballot after
the names of the candidates on the Lib
eral Party ticket, which follows:
Governor-Douis i. Leeder.
Lieutenant Governor-Harry w. Muhl-
enbrock.
Secretary of State-Charles Williams.
State Treasurer-Cyrilus b. Ayres.
State Auditor-Harry Ehrman.
State Senators - Huston III. Mars,
Morris Harrison, Peter f. Snow.
State Representatives-Paul II. Marrs,
mann, David w Buchtel, John Salmond,
William F. Pabst, Roy f. Roberts, VIII
liam p Byers. Harry McClintock, Thorn
as i. Lynch, William H. b. Mason, VIII
liam Alderman, Felix Thies, Edmund
Bruder
Congress--George ]. Kindel
District Judge-Orrin N. Hilton.
County Judge-Isaac Dunn.
District Attorney-Barney Haughey.