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pates in tie benefit Nothing has
been more definitely settled by sci
ence thani that drinking by mothers
predisp2ss5s the offspring to the use
OF haG< prming drinks. Here is a
big ad. It calls beer drinking the
happy haFtit. and another that shows
the whole family, including a 10
year-old 10y and a 15-year-old girl,
drinking Here is the Hollister Dis
tilling Cos asking the mail carriers
for lists af boys to whom they can
mail theig. advertisements. Another
recommeg,ls malt whisky to all who
want 10 say young; to nervous, run
down woMen; and to delicate, unde-
veloped Children" Here is a picture
of a toy aarsing bottle. illed with
whisky, gwen to boy by Il saloon
keeper. Here is another nursing
bottle gt3tn to boy OH Fourth
drink trade creates an appetite in
clildl ensi5 Here is d picture of 16
hollow ttFs, filled with whisky. col
Street, Cincinnati, showing how the
Iected fr- N children of Portland,
Greg. IRE is a picture of the ci-
gars, bot4ed whisky, and revolver
sent in j, lots to all who answer an
ad. in asslewspaper OF Jacksonville.
Fla. HeAs are envelops actually sent
through #lle mails. To the occupant
of the heAse.'' Here is another. un-
stampedsand marked private mail. -
Here ares.medicinaP' advertisements
in direGtSSiolation Of the recent de-
cision ofslhe Supreme Court.
They sly, Diabetes may be driven
l. ,elr
and that ounces of their brand
would cIse even the severest cases,
when tIIv most careful scientists tell
US that diabetes is caused by whisky.
Here is4one that says. Pure rye
whisky las STAYED off many cold,
many attacks of malaria and grip;n
home should be without it." Here's
another which claims there is food
value insbeer as we'll as beverage en-
joymentS9 when there is no more
food in ahese intoxicating liquors
than in / rotten egg. Here is an ad-
vertisenf3nt in which beer is advised
for athlstes, but Willard, the world s
champitsl, was raised in Kansas and
never teaches drop of it, and Con-
ME Mack won't allow a man on his
team if.She uses it at all. Here is a
letter extolling a Baltimore brand of
whisky 1t is signed by W. ]. Mac
kay. It says: You certainly must
be interested in things intended for
your pelsonal use and are undoubt-
edly int need OF whisky" ETC., but
this letter did no harm. 1t was ad-
dressedtto Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts.
Here are advertising contracts Off
feTr
this contract shall be void if any
legislation detrimental to the said
Interests of such company shall be
passed. But the bait did not get
the fish. for $40 daily newspapers
have signed the pledge, and their let
ters ART on record in our office, de-
clarin 81 that they will not receive a
dollar bf liquor money or advertise
liquors on any terms.
The Rational convention of adver-
tising tnen in Chicago applauded to
the ecf prohibition speeches and de-
nounc4d liquor advertisements as
false assd ruinous.
Hers is an advertisement of free
wI,islxzis 70 get you started. and any
boy or -Eirf VINO can Write 1ams
can fill in the address and get a bot
tie free. Here are deceptive pack
ages for private persons only, with
confidential, so that
Young people and women may get the
dope without the knowledge of ia
theirs OR husbands.
All bther liquor selling is under
some restriction against selling to
inebriates, to minors, etc. This mail
order business is under no control.
For 2 cents the United States be-
comes the hired agent and solicitor
of the liquor trade and runs an un-
ceasing "mail-order rum shop, with
no restrictions whatever. This in
cites the people in dry territory to
the violation of law. 1t feeds the
avarice with hunger
gold dust" 1t floods the
country with a seductive incentive to
self-potson. What is liquor adyer-
Using for if not to get people to
drink who do not drink? The Unit
ed Stakes excludes from its mails all
obscene literature, contraceptice de-
vices, lottery tickets, and advertis-
ing; makes it a prison offense to put
liquor in the mails, not
because it is a liquor, but because 1t
is a poison. Why should men be So
licitedl to poison themselves?
HERE is a Washington advertise
ment signed by Milton S. Kropheim
being mailed to the boys in Virginia.
now dry, urging them to come to
town and make a ''bee-line" for his
place.
One year ago the Methodist Board
of Temperance, Prohibition, and
Public Morals of the Methodist
Church followed up the results of
this k ind of liquor advertising and
a record of the killings, sui
cides. the rapes, the wounded in
fghtsl the accidents, the child vic
Tins of John Barleycorn's Christ
mas;'i and l hold in my hand the
most lawful record of crime: II
including children; Is
155 wounded, all during
last Christmas week. Additional re-
turns after publication greatly in
creased these figures. If one were
to look over the list with names,
places, and circumstances, he would
get the impression that the world
the birth of the Redeemer
with nothing but crimes. But it is
a record of what following
the advice Uncle Sam brings to us
from the liquor dealers led to in a
single week 1t represents ruin to
about 500 homes, murders, suicides,
rape. wounds, at cents apiece.
Is it right for the United States to
assist the liquor traffic in hunting
down. men, women, and children who
would not drink if not induced to do
so?
Is 1T right for the United States to
assist the liquor trade in making alb
stineht classes into drinking classes,
especially women and children?
THE illustrating of liquor adyer-
Using with women in a suggestive
way Shows the trend of this propo,
gandh. Here 1 have basketful oi
sucfi ads to show you.
The liquor interests are using the
malls to create an appetite in young
boysi and birls, using the arrrmhn
boysi and girls. The Hollister Dis
tilliMg Co., of st. Paul, solicited from
rural mail carriers lists of names o1
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