Show calls it rotten legislation adlor press alres ll res will you permit toe me tile the use UBO of a little of your our space to devote to tto tho woo wol SOO sido of tte live issue which i is id befaro us s ahe election for determining whether VIi ether heaver oily city becomes n local option town towi its blind pi piga ga ond boot legi leap or whether it will wi it malin tain respectable well regulated saloons tia loona with a revenue takes place oo on the n bennt somo 0 of our citizens pretend I 1 that this matter of temper anoe choth or wo vo prefer to cull call it local option or prohibitions prohibit ionis is a morall jenun and that hns has nothing to do with it but every person knowe better and that such assertions pre in lemlek to net act is n political anesthetic to appease the moral sense till the election is over ifft it it hod had been simply a moral issue tho the people would have embraced it nl at tha hist fall election eloc tion or two geors prior thereto last fiill fall the people would not allow the subject of temperance in the form forin of state wide prohibition to be discussed by bv its advocates advocat eA in meir wee ting houses and when ft a certain republican indy organized a prohibition club in city many hinny of tho the leading republican indies proposed to join in and assist her but when tho the poli political fical lenders leaders learnold of tile the movement nw they pointed fingers at these old damps dames and they suddenly drew wout out tho the moral issue had to yield to their pout ical whims on that occasion and when politics cs control the moral vi aws of af peopled people P all their 1 l F strata of mo mora rat lUyS ly 1 thlin like lq fin hav ve seen been stab slate 0 wi wide 4 J T prohibition sustained at out last election not that I 1 believe it would bo be a success out but 1 should HIM to fee seethe the test I 1 am op 1 posed to local option because it hae ke from tile tho best beat information I 1 can collect proved af u failure thero there is no intrinsic harm barm in nl cobol and when properly used it Is ilot of a great venont to humanity liu manity besides jt it is is impossible to change the habits nna and do de sires of nien men by legislation education and mural training are tar for ahead of sumptuary laws tile tho matters to be ba dealt with by society aro are ostracism and tho the use of tho the ecclesiastic axe by the churches which would be a more offee way ot of reaching these evils than by local option when a man becomes in intoxicated and plays cards on an saturday takes the sacrament on sunday and appropriates his brothers irrigation water on monday and still remains secure in his church relationship lie he will do tile tho same thing again gi n however it the c anxo were used on but few occasions ol of this kind the evil would cealo cea 30 on examining tile liquor law you will find it unnecessary if the town goes dry to even have a blind pig or bootleg boot leg led to procuro procure plenty of lit liquor luor tile tho act was passed in the interest of the manu and disposers dis posers of liquor and it t co cost A them siumoo SiU 1 1000 and is sa one ot of the rot pieces of legislation over ever enacted in the state SOC forr of the act provides nono none of the he provisions provis iono of this act shall be construed conati oad as prohibiting or intending to prohibit ro hibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquor sor the disposal thore thereof of at wholesale at the place where manufactured by ob a license notwithstanding tho the result of any election provided for in thiis act in any voting unit berei section 20 provider provide that a manufacturer or whole r paler a or of intoxicating liquor otie oft a corporation may hayo one no doai retail license 11 t T what mure more du do they want section 27 provides that nothing contained in his conti continued aued on jast last page iba CALLS IT ROTTEN legislation continued front from first heltion blell prevent tho korving sir vini in public dining boonis of intoxicate bog ij liquor lif Hird ki with ideals 11 it if a maint rote gata thirsty till ill lie he lins has to do is if to go to 11 hotel and coll call for ft a men rind it i bottle ot of liquor drink ng as much its lo lie 10 baies for tit nt tile tho resti antt and take tile tho home this thir proviso is is lint junkes some of 0 our hotel people so to havo tile tho town lon RO go dry it enables them to sell liquor without pay ing it i local loo il license licon so hero id tf another nood good in section 07 67 which provides hint tho the provisions provi siona of thi this s not net shall not be construed to apply to tiny liny gift liy by tiny person an fn iii bonso inso of tiny liny injury to tiny one or in in caso af q for in edical purposes pur posea nor dor to thil uga of liquors in ill homes of in divid unla for family or private use ivill I 1 nill wound my hager every saturday Satur night it does not matter how sll tt tho the injury neither dooe does it require any by a surgeon to determine whether there is need ot of a stimulant tula this should be culled called tho To pory pors act it simply the selling of liquor without it wa lo 10 local liconsi licon so OW goo |