The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-03-26

COUNTLESS ATTEMPTS have
been made in this and in other states
to fool the people into voting for acts
and amendments that will bring back
the saloon with all its attendant evils
and dangers.
THE USUAL PROCEDURE is to
give such legislation harmless sound
ing titles but, by a tricky use of words
"a camouflage of language-slip a
joker into the text that will give it,
when enacted, the opposite power and
effect to that which appears in the
title.
A MORE VICIOUS use-or rather
abuse-of the intentions of voters
cannot be imagined-but what can
you expect from business founded
as was the saloon on the weakness and
cupidity of the weaker member of
the race?
RIGHT NOW IN MICHIGAN a last
desperate attempt is being made to
do just chat sort of thing.
UNDER A TITLE that sounds like
one thing, an amendment that means
just the opposite, is up for your de-
cision.
IT is CALLED the Beer and
Wine" amendment. When the "Wets"
speak of it they use the term Light
wines, ETC. but as a matter of fact
the word Eight" does not appear in
title or text-and a heavier weapon
was never used by the advocates of a
befuddled world!
FOR IF YOU WILL READ this
latest attempt to nullify Michigan's
best piece of legislation-the DRY"
act you will find that it means just
this-bringing back the saloon in it's
worst form and with it's most harmful
accessories.
CALL 1T WHAT THEY May
word it as they may, to conceal its
true intent-this Beer and Wine"
amendments right name is "The Sa-
loon Attachment"
DON'T BE DECEIVED by the
wheedling of those who have always
advised only for their own profit
and your loss.
READ CAREFULLY; weigh every
word; and make up your own mind
what the saloon interests are trying
TO get you to do.
JUST AS AN EXAMPLE of. the
difference between what they saw
about it and what they say in it:
THEY ARE SO1CITIOUS-Oh!
so feelingly solitous!-lest the poor
farmer be denied the privilege of max
ing cider from his own apples. That
would be a great hardship YOU will
agree. They weep real tears over
his predicament.
VERY WELL-Read that amend
ment and you will find cunningly con-
cealed in verbiage, yet clearly stated,
that If that Beer and Wine" amend
ment were passed the farmer could
neither make nor sell cider without
first taking out license-same as a
saloon or a brewery.
CAN you BEAT THAT for dou-
bic dealing? Yet they fondly hope
that enough Michigan voters will be
fooled by the title and by their pro-
paganda to vote for this thing that
would put the saloon back even strong
er than it was.
''OH, WINES ARE HARMLESS.
they say. Verify! Wine is the stand
by of the "Side Door" and the Caba-
ret. And the Cabaret and the "fam-
lily entrance" are the most vicious
phases of the saloon--they ruin wo-
men as well as men and degrade both.
WHY, SOME FOREIGN WINES
have almost as great an alcoholic con-
tent as the strongest whisky-and ere
ate worse form of intoxication.
"AND BEER they used to tell us
why in Germany even the child
rem drink beer. Beer drinking is uni
versal there"
WELL. WE HAVE SEEN what
Beer will do when universally usedl
Was ever people more degraded
more brutalized-more deadened to
the difference between right and
wrong?
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