| Show IOWA PROHIBITION We are learning that prohibition does not prohibit says aa Iowa newspaper in commenting on the police court record telling tell-ing of the fining of four young men for drunkenness Learning Where have you been living all these years that you did not learnlong agol Certainly not in any prohibition state or in any city having prohibitory ordinance Prohibition never did prohibit and never will until the human V race loses iu appetite for intoxicants and then prohibitory laws will not be neces I I sary It IB frequently denied that prohibition I prohi-bition even lessons the consumption of liquor much less suppresses it ahd we occasionally oc-casionally see official figures going to show that this position posi-tion is correct However this may be the experience of Iowa with her anti liquor law is simply a repetition of the experience ex-perience of every other state and every other community which has attempted to prohibit the sale and consumption of intoxicants in-toxicants Next to the reduction of the tariff the main issue in the Iowacampaign this year i is the question of prohibition and the Democrats are gaining every day by their advocacy of the sensible proposition that the liquor traffic which cannot be prevented pre-vented should be regulated and controlled by wise laws based upon high license An exchange tells of the situation Linn county coun-ty where the majority for prohibition was 1000 and whera the majority for its rapeal this year it is thought will be fully 1600 The paper referred to the Cedar Rapids Gazette says We want local option high license law one that will shut off 100 drinking places in Cedar Rapids alone will put into the treasury ol the county from 815000 to 130000 par year to lessen the burden of all th tax payerso the c9uuty < M V V V r V to that extent will enable Co Jar Rapids to put on an additional license that will help to ke cp the city from increasing its indebtedness assist in advancing public improvements and in turn develop the general Interests of tho city do away with saloon blackmailers who now get tho money that should RO to tho benofit of the taxpayeis and In various ways be a step in tho line of reform and progress as compared with the vile condition of affairs that now exists ex-ists The Republican platform declares this to be conspicuous Issue this year The experience of the few years during which Iowa has vainly tried to enforce prohibition pro-hibition is turning the people from the Republican Re-publican hypocrites who are trying to make it appear that they are better and more moral than their opponents by professing pro-fessing a desire to do something which they know cannot be done j jj j |
