Show I. I DRY TOWNS WET VIET AGAIN DECLARES U. U S S. S SENATOR James E. E Martine Says People Learn That So-Called So Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition Pro Pro- Lowers Civic Standards I J Illinois towns and those of or other states that are voting out their saloons now are sure within the next two or three years Scars ears to return to the wet wot column according to James E. E Martine Marline United States senator from Now Jersey who was In Chicago yesterday with a n. party of or seventy Washington legislators arid and members of or their families on the tho way to Honolulu for an nn Investigation of ot local conditions conditions conditions condi condi- there I I 1 was sorry sorn to notice that a number or of Illinois towns voted tho tim saloons out this week eok said Senator Martine They will regret their action In time Prohibition has proved Itself all an over tho the country after years of ot experiment c to bo be tho the worst k kind nd of or farce It Is a failure and a failure of or hypocrisy It changes a day light business open and above aboveboard aboveboard board and subject to regulation and observation tion Into a sneaking midnight ht hucl huckstering in dark corners that is not susceptible to ob observation observation observation ob- ob or regulation It docs does not prohibit for statistics show that the consumption Is as large lars as ever The Tho only change o la is Is that It lowers the quality of ot tho liquor sold and arid that It turns a legitimate business into an outlaw outlaw- trade a change thru which everybody connected connected con con- with It It whether producer or consumer suffers a 3 moral degeneration Prohibition Not New When the good people of ot this awl and other states lates vote out a a. set of ot saloons they think rhe think that they are doing a new thing They the world orld Is getting better that folks are growing Into higher Ideals and that In a L short time tb the liquor business will be no moro more and drunkenness will have bavo disappeared from the faco face of or the earth But these people should look up the tho history history history his his- tory of or prohibition J If they did the they would find that the dry Idea like other Ideas has its ups and downs that It comes In waves catching tho the popular fancy tancy The Tho people get getan getan getan an Idea that prohibition will raise ralso conditions They get worked up over It and enthusiastic for the they vo they are doln doing a a. good thing Then tho the state goes coes dr dry After Atter a a. year ear or two or three tho the eyes of a a. majority havo have been en opened to tho hollow mockery of ot prohibition They seo see that It does not prohibit that It only makes conditions condItion worse As M R B. result they thoy become disgusted and vote veto the tho state te wet again nc Wet y He lie S Says 1 This has happened time and again I have gone bone thru the tho Gough Cough prohibition campaign campaign cam earn the tho Washingtonian campaign and a a. dozen others Each the people grew en enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- thU thinking they were backing a a. real reform But nut In a a. year or two or three they wore disillusioned and returned to the old normal regulated revenue producing system Each time tho people said that the saloons were doomed and that wo we would have havo eternal rational prohibition But each time the tho fact tact that human beings are aro only human asserted itself and tho the saloons camo came back as ns the lesser Of or tWO evils e o I This Thia must inevitably ine occur again In those states where the drys aro arc now winning vic vic- vic vic- tories I am familiar with the situation in all aU states stats particularly in Maine Georgia and North Carolina Everywhere I find it a a. complete completo com corn pleto failure In Geor Georgia la which has been pointed out as so 50 shining an nn example o prohibition this is particularly so Any honest Georgian will admit this at once The condition in Atlanta is ludicrous Hoke Smith tried to defend it it but could not The Tho saloons aro as wide open as ever The only difference is that the they sell cigars In the front room and beer and rum In the back room In Inthe Inthe Inthe the biggest and finest hotel in Atlanta I 1 saw more highballs and cocktails than I have havo over overseen seen goon anywhere elso else in my life ute One Year In I orI have seen prohibition prohibit Ion tried In our own ownell ell city Plainfield N. N J. J Ono One year ear was enough ln in place of oC a reasonable number of regulated saloons operated under the law and amenable to supervision hundreds of or little opened up Tho The locker system flourished and we produced a crop of ot clubs with a membership of or no moro more than five men each ach Doing business like rats rals in holes supervision was Impossible Knockout drops and every kind of ot vile vUe substitute for decent liquor came camo into common use As a result during that one dry year wo we had five times the number of ot arrests for drunkenness and disorder that we normally have At the end endot of ot tho the twelve months everybody voted tho the town wet a again aln in order to have not prohibition prohibition tion with Its unlimited booze but regulation with its limited number of ot saloons open and susceptible of ot police observation and control and paying the city a license of ot 1000 each The people of or the tho West will find as a a. result of ot their present experiments with prohibition prohibition pro pro- that lowering in place of or raising their civic s standard and that they will be forced back to the license system in order to bring things back to their present level Jevel Chicago Poe Pott April SS 2 1 1915 15 |