The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-01-24
DEMOCRATIC FORWARD
LEAGUE STARTS FIGHT FOR
STATEWIDE PROHIBITION
Monster Banquet Addressed By Bryan, Beekha McChesney,
Alexander and Sonrlers Is Held In Louisville.
Legislators Who Stand Not Only For Submission But For Adoption
OfAmendment By People To Be Campagned For This Year

that the success of the DessoeFatic party
in the future depends spon taking the
right side Of this question:,
The Lexington Meeting.
"They have teen ktad enough to tell you ,
that ! came az she way from Miami, w
Gratis asselAbsd here. no be entirely de-
esurntS ] tsceived this invitation after
had decided to come TO Lexingt9b
what was II Tat brought me to- ~ ind
ton? 1t was meeting OF eight.s ing
college boys and girls, assemelsaf Indred
entire Union, wh0. came there 2 com this
Ny friends, when set the " prohibition.
also, j ixed the same d. d to come here
Sss Ss r have s%pS ss%a end nfss tsH
cheered my heart to- sunny South 1t
dents, clean faces, see these college stu.
there consscratea f tEja rs eyed assembled
resentntfyS DcT the less to see Tho rem
bled hsrs. am V wiat Of Kentucky assem-
WI am no %fen crow could emniate.
SEPARATION 20 -" here rather to borrow in
deIermth~f receive strength from your
my fsep ON and your enthusiasm. Why,
A.. 20 DIS, yoq have in your midst and
fight compared with myself, and how
! am simply Beckham's lieutenant when
come to your State.
81 am against liquor because I believe
1t Is poison that. taken into the human
system, impairs the physical strength and
mental energies and menaces the family
OF the man, and have done what could
70 persuade men not to use the stuff mt
all, and l have been more interested in
the young men than In the old ones
I would Ii could rescue every old man
who has formed the habit. but. knowing
how difficult 1t is to break the habit when
| formed. 1 m
rather to the young men who have not
formed the habit, and have signed
pledges with them more. than I 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 to per-
suade while we can take advantage Of
legislation to save men from the curse
or drink. And so today we are face to
face with the legislative phase of this
question, and If you will bear with me
Tor Just Few moments i want to present
20 you two arguments that are making
this country prohibition. One is an eco
homic 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-
init the establishment of an institution
people of the community. IL anybody tells
you the. saloon is a 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 a sign
board advertising town or city that
gives the number of saloons in the town
You will find everything else, everything
they think attractive, the number OF fac.
tories. banks, business houses, colleges.
schools, churches, but l challenge you to
find q billboard between the two oceans
that tells the number of saloons any city
hos when they are Inviting people to come
among them
They say no Saloons but none of them
say Saloons You cannot find Board of
Trade, Chamber of Commerce. a Com
mercial Club or a civic organization that
puts ON its literature advertising the ad-
looms it has. If it is an advantage, w ia
don't they enumerate 1t among the attrac-
tive things? The second has been re-
f fer to by Gov. Beekham. 1t is this:
lf the saloon is blessing. why tax a
blessing when II comes to bless your
why do you discriminate between the |
saloon and other kinds of business? II |
man wants to start butcher shop in the |
town, you say go ahead. III a man wants |
to start tewelry store or restaurant or |
bank. you welcome him. But II he wants !
to start Il saloon, what do you do? You |
meet him at the city limits and you say, |
you cannot start that business in this |
town unless you give us so much.
"And then you don't treat him as you do |
other businesses. The butcher shop and |
the tewelry store and the bank can open |
when they please and close when they |
like. But you say to the saloon when II |
can open and when 1t must close. 1t can |
only stay open so long at night and can
not sell to any one unless he is over age |
and under drunk.
That is what they say to the saloon
keeper. Why the discrimination
Why Fine the Drunkard?
Els It not strange that you license man
to establish saloon to make men drunk
and then fine the man because he gets
al rl NIX ~ fptn a ..ntl
treat the saloonkeeper fairly when you
punish people for making his business a
success. Some one said 1t was like licens-
aud then filming everybody who scratched
because they itched. And. my friends, Is
It fair-is IL fair. l ask you. when a man
tablishing a saloon to make men drunk
when he gets II frst-class finished product
with his nose all painted up--is 1t fair
to hustle hir on TO the calaboose, and
Why not put him In front OF the saloon
to advertise the business and show what
the saloon can do with man when it ge,s
a fail, chance at him. And yet they say
they don't tiest the saloonkeeper fairly.
And LET me say word to the good
people OF this great wet city. You have
ers' Loan Bank, and | was Interested 90
read how proud you are that you have
been made the center OF that bank. shame
on You to- ask for a Farmers Bank when
you conspire against every farmer N yo,'l
State and would help the liquor dealer
ruin the family Of every one OF them TO
increase his business. What makes your
city great? II Is great because of KEN
lucky, because on your hills and In your
valleys you have a toiling population, and
II is the wealth they gather from your soil
that makes Louisville what II Is. And
yet your business men and your bankers
will allow q few distillers to take an OK
whip and drive them into a conspiracy
against the welfare Of the people from
whom they draw all the money that your
city makes. One hundred and six coun.
ties dry In Kentucky. and every one OF
them dry In spite OF everything your citi.
zenship OF Louisville has done. Yon tried
In this city TO defeat county option You
tried to disfranchise your farmers. You
tried 10 continue system that enabled
the saloon TO establish itself In a little
community and then extend its evil In.
huenee throughout the entire AGRICULTURAL
community. roundabout. and when your
farmers cried to you for aid your ears
were deaf and you heard nobody. but your
distlllen who does not live among the "a
looms that he owns
The plstIiier and the Saloon.
where does the distiller livef Among
the saloons thai he controlsf No. they