The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-29

/ once to legalize o mild, wholesome
beer and that then workingmen and
others would willingly pay tax OF
three cents per glass, and that would
enable us to get rid of our corpora
ton taxes and shoppers in our Of
fices?"
June "a this association reported
to the house clerk of congress: Dur
ing the five months from Jan. / to
May 81 its expenditures totaled $780,
464, and its receipts were $177,251." In
other words, they spent 81 900 a day
$30, 900 a month-for campaign ex-
penseS and propaganda.
This association put In 100000 to
win Massachusetts for the vets. ]
should like to know how much it will
spend in N. D. in this coming CAM
paign for repeal.
Massachusetts, has very large for
eign population who brought from the
home land the very habits that keep
them poor over there.
The next morning after repeal car
ried the day, 100 men were promptly
at brewery gate ready for the work
and beer promised them before cleo
ton. So far as heard from, these
promises are still to be fulfilled. Here
in Massachusetts,. the state police pa
troll the highways. Repeating the state
enforcement law released 5000 state
and city police from any duty in re-
gard to liquor violations.
During the week ending Oct. %,
1890. with the law and police on duty,
l74 licenses were revoked or suspend
ed for drunken and reckless driving.
In the meantime the law was re-
pealed and during the same week of
1881 1882 licenses were revoked or
suspended for the same reason and
20 people we're killed. and 1t was nee
essary to pass stringent auto laws.
I have kept no record Of accidents
and fatalities from drivers under the
influence Of liquor. but very recently
within a radius of not more than Is
miles these accidents have occurred:
Mrs. Mary Carr in Holliston. wait
Ing for bus. was run down by the
drunken driver of loaded truck;
skull fractured. both legs and arms
broken. caused almost instant death.
On a hill at Ashland, near here, in
a given time there were nine auto ac-
cidents from the same cause, though
no fatalities.
In another direction. within two
months of each other. there were two
head-on collisions, involving IA per-
sons.
Last of all, four cars demolished
three persons (including prominent
Boston lawyer and his wife, were
burned to death, another suffered a
broken neck. one manned for life and
nine in all in hospitals on the danger
list. Two drivers, not drunk, just
lit up as the saying is, with glass
or two of beer. driving so miles an
hour on the wrong side of the pike
are responsible for these two horrors
and the papers are full of such hap
penings.
For the sake of some beer are the
voters of N. D. willing to shoulder
such responsibilities? think not.
Beer doesn't seem to bring back
prosperity in England. for The Lon
don Economist reports: while nine
brewery companies in 1928 declare net
profits of 7,655,495 pounds, the net
profit of nine coal, iron, steel and
ship building firms were only 92,916
pounds. So it seems we must look
somewhere else for prosperity than to
booze.
North Dakota elections will have
added interest for me this year. Kan
sas has taken no steps backward and
I miss my guess if North Dakota
doesn't stand up even with her.
It will be best if North Dakota
voters can fully realize that all this
hurrah and ballyhoo is to get someone
to foot the bill for $50 millionaires in
the east. The tail hopes to wag the
dog eventually.
Don't help them to do it.
If, after election, you see dark