Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-01-11
9OCRATIC FORWARD
4GUE STARTS FIGHT FOR
TATE-WIDE PROHIBITION
Banquet Addressed By Bryan, BeCkham MCChesney
h|exander and SOmmers Is Held In Louisville.
sldoSho Stand Not Only For Submission But For Adoption
OfA6bDdment By People To Be Campagned For This Year

selves at the expense Of party organiza
tiOn, and, my friends, | need not tell you
that the success of the Democratic party
In the future depends upon taking the
right side OF this question.
The Lexington Meeting.
"They have been kind enough to tell you
that ! came all the way from Miami in
Southern Florida. to speak to you Demo
Gratis assembled here. To be entirely ac.
cllrate, | received this invitation after
had decided to come TO Lexington, and
what was II that brought me to Lexing.
TOM II was meeting Of eight hundred
college boys and girls, assembled from this
entire Union. who came there to help or
ganiZe the fight for national prohibition.
My friends, when | set the 2sth for coming
to Lexington and was invited to come here
also ! fixed the same day, and these two
occasions have amply justified me in TAX
ing the trip from the Sunny South IL
cheered my heart to see these college stu
dents. clean faces, clear eyed. assembled
there consecrated to this great cause. And
II cheers me none the less to see the rep
resentative Democrats OF Kentucky assem-
bled here, and with no fOaming beer or
stimulating whisky showing an enthusiasm
that no drunken crowd could emulate
II am not here because | think you
need me. | am here rather to borrow in 4
spiration and receive strength from your
determination and your enthusiasm. Why,
my friends, you have In your midst and
at your table one who Is a veteran in
this fight compared with myself, and how
ever he may aid me outside Of Kentucky.
l am simply Beckham's lieutenant when
come to your State.
am against liquor because l believe
II Is q. poison that, taken into the human
system, impairs the physical strength and
mental energies and menaces the family
OF the man ana nave done what ] could
10 persuade men not to use the stuff at
az, ana nave been more Interested IN
the young men than In the old ones. l
would III could rescue every old man
VINO ms FORMED the habit, but, knowing
now dlmcuit IL Is TO break the habit when
u Is once formed, have devoted my time
formad ~ ,be eue h,t sUuhs hen WHO na'e nos
pledges with them more than / can re-
member and | stand ready until | die to
sign with, anybody anywhere and at any
time and promise never to use intoxicat-
ing liquor as beverage
economic and Moral Phases.
-"But am not content merely 30 per
suade while we can take advantage OF
legislation to save men from the curse
OF drink. And so today we are face to
face with the Legislative phase OF this
question, and If You will bear with me
for Just few moments l want to present
TO you two arguments that are making
this country prohibiti0ne One Is an eco
nOmic argument and the other Is moral
argument. The economic argument is this.
that as the use of Intoxicating liquor Is
an evil, no community can afford to per
nit the establishment Of an institution
that cannot live except as itSinjures the
people of the community II anybody tells
/ you the saloon Is n good thing for the
community, let me give you two answers.
each one conclusive
The first Is that you may travel over
this country and you will not find q aign.
hoard advertising town or city that
gives the number OF saloons In the town.
/ You VIII Ind everything else, everything
they think attractive, the number OF fac
/ tories, banks, business houses, colleges
schools churches, but challenge you 10
hnd a billboard between the two oceans
that tells the number OF saloons any city
mas when they are inviting people 10 CONF
among them.
lley say no saloons, but none OF them
sM saloons You cannot hnd Board OF
Trade Chamber OF Commerce, Com
merclal Club OF a civic organization that
puts ON IT'S literature advertising the ad
vahtages OF o town the number OF sa
lo0hs " mas, III IL Is an advantage, why
uoh lley enumernte II among the attrac
i've tbihgsf The second has been re-
isrreI 10 ny HoV. BecRham IL Is this: I:
~ tue saloon Is blessing, why tax q
oIes,,ng When u comes 70 Dless your
why 40 you discriminate between the
saloon and other Kinds of businesst IL u
man wants TO start butcher shop n the
! town. you say go aheau' " man wants
w S'"It leWery STORE OF restaurant OF
oahk, you welcome MIN But II he wants
W s'nrt saloon VIVA, 10 You dot You
mee' nlm at lhe city units ana you say
town unless YOU give Ms So much '"-'
And then YOU don't treat him as Won do
other businesses. The butcher shop and
t"' JeWelTS SLOT" anu Tue bhhk can open