Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-10-24
CROWD ATTENDS
OPERA HOUSE
MEETING

is squal; the millionaire's vote
counts the same as the poorest
working mans. Men sometimes
vote wrong, not from any lack of
desire to do right, but from lack
of knowledge of the facts. l have
come tonight to tell you some
facts.
PERSONALLY l feel as though /
had come to argue a question with
but one side to it. | have never
heard any argument on the other
side that l thought could be sus-
tanned. The liquor business is an
evil, according to every state
court, every state legislature, the
Supreme Court Of the land.
States under what is known as the
police power of the state pass laws
regulating the liquor traffic. The
police power of the state is that
power that lies in the laws of self |
defense of the state. We can all
resort to self defense if threaten
ed. Upon the same principle states
may defend themselves from that |
thing which menaces them in the
form of the liquor traffic.
Zone of the great arguments
against dry laws is that they en-
croach upon mans liberty. Is there
a single law upon the statute books
of Delaware that does not en-
croach upon mans liberty? All
law means that man shall live for
the good Of the many-to prevent
) anyone from going out and doing
just as he pleases to the harm of
his neighbor. We are all familiar
with the man who tells that in his
fathers boyhood the decanter was
on every sideboard; that even the
minister was treated to a glass of
wine upon his visit to the home.
My friends, it is the commercial
izing of the business that has put
the great harm into it. The man
who can afford to waste his money
on this stuff has it in his home;
the poor man goes to the public
house to get it, and it is the bus
mess of the saloon keeper to sell
all he can and make the better liv-
ing. Decide whether or not you
will vote to give some man the
privilege of making money in this
way, or to protect the American
T home. It is useless to tell an in
= telligent audience that Is percent
of our crime, rs percent of our
:. insanity are directly traceable to
! this cause.
1 ''1n Sussex county before dry
I laws wereNin effect, the Grand Jury
was seldom in session less than a
/ week, sometimes longer. Now it is
! unusual for it to be in session two
days. It's up to you, men. You
d have the responsibility; you are
your brothers keeper. You must
see that the temptation is removed
from every man. What is the use
in Sussex having voted to remove
this thing from the county, and
then sending her boys to college
> town, where in the very beginning
: of his manhood he is thrown open
to things of this kind? What is
# the reason that state after state
" has gone dry? Why have so many
l. southern states gone dry? We all
know it. The people in the south
! know, that their large colored pop.
y, ulation, when full of whiskey be
g come beasts, and dangerous
- Sometime ago after an investiga
ton, the Baltimore and Ohio Com.
s. pany went before the Legislature
d asking to have laws put upon the
y statute books of Maryland, forbid
E. ding the selling of booze to a mar
g wearing their uniform.
81 appealed, sometime ago, to The
# head of a certain department il
% behalf of a young man who was
+ reported to me as very worthy
4 one. He told me, Mr.. Houghton, VIZ
,r want good men; we are going tt
g keep good men when we find them
r. This man is discharged because hi
was under the influence of alcoho
when on duty. We have too many
" lives entrusted to us to risk TIL
II mistake of a drunken man. Al
~ cohol affects a mans efficiency a
least 40 percent. That's why 81
many states are voting dry.