Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
C0IllVSPLEA
kB0OZElv WAR
5aloon League Leader
kutes Argument Of
Liquor Dealers
NTS TO BIG WASTE

Raw Homer w. Tope, district super.
fnt Of the Anti.Saloon League. 1926
Exchange Building, today struck back
xuNments put forth by the liquor in
~ that II is for the good Of the nation
4ep John Barleycorn in the saddle"
Jn4 the war.
he plea of the rum interests that the
on do not adopt national prohibition
- forth In big advertisements published
pswspapers all owe; the country. The
N1or for these advertisements Is the Ma
~ Association Of Distillers and Whole
Liquor Dealers. with executive offices
,jucfnnati, O.
ne advertisements lead Off with the
1<ion:
lido you think our Cover nment should
onscate the property of its citizens with
y compensation
Here is Doctor Tope's reply to that
ut is the old old compensation pleai
plea which the booze forces have harped
tor years. In the first place the liquor
1Biness is not n vested right At IL a vested
tong. The statement of the liquor inter-
"a Is misleading We are not confiscat-
- property and have no intention of con-
>cafing property. For instance. the big
4tswery In Flint. Mich. has been trans
I6fmed into a church in this place where
&ops were formerly brewed into poison for
4ho masses. citizens are going to church
md absorbing the highest ideals OF life. A
4een turned into meat-packing establish
aenf, place where nourishing food, in
lead OF poison. Is being prepared for the
00nsumers of that district In Portland.
Qfe., one brewery has been turned into
&annery where more men are employed
han were at the brewery and at better
wages: another brewery in Portland has
oeen made into furniture manufacturing
TN Lynchburg, Va. twenty-one out of
EWenty-two places where booze was sold
Ire being used for other kinds of business
Business that is constructive and per-
|6rming real service to humanity. one is
3olug used as a grocery store, another as a
|estaurant. a third as shoe shop. another
- q flower shop. etc. No property has
<een conhscated in any case. Many more
v6ople are employed than under the brew
~ regime. 1t has been established that
wen saloon keepers and bartenders can
md employment outside the rum business.
man who can drive a brewery wagon
~ drive any other kind of wagon. More
Nan lose their jobs through liquor than
|&rough prohibition.
The only thing we are doing Is closing
DAd business. Alcohol is a poison and
menace to life, health morals and public
welfare. This statement issued recently
~ the Health Board of New York is signi-
EcAnt: Man is a brute with n highly de-
xoloped brain power. Alcohol destroys the
6fain, leaving nothing but the brute.
6elieve In national prohibition as war
MEASURE, and Congress has the power to
l<op the sale of Intoxicating liquor. We
must be sober to win this war"
I'VE have no need ror poison shops in
this country. and science has decreed that
the saloons are poison shops. Alcohol is
~ much a habit-forming drug as morphine
and heroin. The Government has enacted
= law restricting the sale of those drugs,
md the Government should take the same
1ftitude toward alcohol"
b The second question asked in the liquor
follows:
do you know that the annual revenhe
S4id the Government by the liquor indus
~ exceeds the total annual interest on the
2ew $1,000, 900, 900 war loan?"
N An reply to that, Doctor Tope said:
&&fFor every dollar In revenue that we re.