Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
AS TO COMPENSATION
To the Editor of the Telegraph:


After having studied the article
ITO the American Public" by T. NJ.
Gilmore, l wish TO submit letter
which hope the Telegraph will pub
lish, not as it's opinion but as the
opinion of many good church going
people.
First let us sum UP Mr.. Gilmer's
message to the American public by
saying that the compliments he
pays to our Government are true
and not oVcrdrawn and that we be-
lieVe our congressman are sound to
the core, and that, furthermore, we
believe they will remain so and that
we as the public will have the same
and even better opinions of them
after they have served us faith
fully and put from our state the
booze curse-but feel that those who
favor the liquor traffic may alter
their opinions, and their flattery may
had been in vain, for let us hope
that with dry governor we are at
last to have our dreams realized.
During the recent epidemic, it was
pleasure to pass the closed saloon
door as the guZzlers were not on the
steps about the corners as the case
may be to oggle the women as they
passed by.
If you are a close observer you
will notice that the ruined down.
at-the-heels fellows were nowhere to
be seen near their old familiar place,
but when the doors once more
opened, they, the ones who might
have been decent and useful men,
bers of society came back, and their
appearance should be enough to
cause every good-minded citizen to
set -face-about to do away with the
evil stuff.
How dare Mr.. Gilmore say expert
ment of prohibition! Experiment in
deed? Well let us allow him to have
his way and let us experiment of
| prohibition" also and let us so far
ther and say that the experiment has
been tried and it has been found a
ripping success"
oh! How nice the Compensation
problem if gotten away with would
sound to the "wet-folks."
| We have already paid compensa-
( tion in the forms of the life and
! health of our young and unsuspect-
! ing men and women,-the wives of
! drunkards have not only paid by
the sweat of their brow but by the
| Ilife-blood. and the pious fathers and
b
! Gethsemane because of their erring
sons; children have gone ragged and
hungry and have found early graves,
! because of the well organized liquor
people," They have paid the COM
pensation. Those who suffered be-
cause members of their families, or
| they themselves were Incorporate
have paid the compensation in drops
of blood and the brewer and distiller
| have become fatter and uglier,
weather. and greedier; in fact so
greedy that they want to be paid
to discontinue a nuisance.
In other words they have become
pirates.
While yet it is young in our minds
/ let us say that there was a man
named Bill, who created great
disturbance, and even deceived the
people for many years just as it
used to be noised abroad that the
! Government of the United States
could not exist were it not for the
liquor revenues-propagan gotten
out by the manufacturer, to de-
ceive the people. Well, you all
know just what happened to Bill,
and we did not pay him to get off
the nest,-we ousted him, because
he was a nuisance and menace to
the PROCESS and civilization of the
world.
Mr.. Gilmore says then let con-
gress appoint a commission to de-
termine if the hundreds of millions
that will be lost by the experiment
of national prohibition shall fall
upon distillers, brewers, winemakers
and the like or upon the people as
whole.
What q beautiful thought! The
public has been tortured by the dis
tillers and the brewers products,
families have been ruined physically
and financially - women, whose
husbands used their products, have
toiled over wash tubs. while the
wives of the great liquor men have
had lives of ease and luxury.
When there is no more liquor to
be bought, miserable husbands will
return to work and their wives will
have a happy and comfortable life
so we suggest to the manufacturers
that they get themselves decent jobs
and If they are too rum soaked to
be of any further use, let the wife
take to the wash tub Reversed
circumstances often teach valuable
lessons
When a man has no more shame
than to publish in the PAPER that
he has been thirty-ffve years in the
liuuor- r-business,-h is past putting
to shame, but the sad part is that