| Show CAN THE SALOON BE REFORMED Dr Or Abbott of the Outlook and Prest Gilmore of License League on Subject BOTH IN A SEA OF TROUBLE tilt lie Two THI trio tilt mid Nut Not lit hr 1011 In Is I l Interesting literature on the subject of saloon reform I Is contributed by Dr Lyman Abbott and Ir Hi nl T M Gilmore of the lite Model License league Here lIere its I what w hat the trades td most mt prom prominent prominent reformer think about bout the Ute drink curse cure Fe Feb b 11 U 1 1519 16 Dr L Lyman man Abbott l Dear Mr MI Abbott Your very Interest Interesting t th lug ing h letter lutter of the Ih Just received Ived and amid 1 I hate h read the same earn me very yer care carefully 1 full fully Practical I 1 agree with all Mil you yuu say NY In this letter letterI I J Mgr egr c with lIb physicists physician that tbt the ex ve use UH of Is I a prolific cause CU o of disease h aiM with sociologist that It Is Isa I Ia isa a cause cu of crime and 1 I agree with you should hould be edu crated either to avoid the u use ue e of alcohol altogether or to w ace u It In moderation I 1 agree ar with you that the moral end and educational reform I Is more mo Important because more fundamental than legis legislative legislative lath reform and nd I 1 agree 8 with you ou that each h locality should be left In treo to 10 adopt such uh method oT rat reform as a public opinion wilt will support and en enforce force fo orce Very respectfully yours your you yourT T M I President National Model License league Louisville Ky I y This Is the latest latet utterance of the well 11 known editor of Wine and nd Spirit circular In his hi anal word ord of some Interesting correspondence be tie between tween teea himself and aDd the editor of The Outlook Yew New York which I Is publish published ed Id In full In that magazine Ine March It I 1 1510 under the headline Can the Saloon be Reformed It U would be hard for Dr Abbott to much comfort In this thi epistle of agreement with his hi own conservative view views on the liquor question If the best known champion of the liquor trams declares declare su so emphatically for au u called local kcal option JUon as does doe Mr Ir Oil ill more we believe the time lime I is close at al alband hand band when the friends of prohibition and nd moral morI reform should come up higher to the loftier and more logical level Ivel of state and national abolition of ot the liquor traffic In this amazing correspondence In InThe inTine Tine The Outlook the famous editor of ot that well known magazine presents an nn al almost almost 1 most ml pitiable t I as a he ht finds and himself by his hill OK own n choosing In III exactly the same came toward the Ute liquor tr c as that taken by b the th trade trades most mat celebrated defender The surprising thing thin about this cor correspondence 01 I is that Iha t neither correspond correspondent I ent gives give the slightest recognition n to tome tit me complicated relations laUon of the llIto liquor truffle trume tr to all 11 reforms reform which demand not nol lociA Io an but state tale and national treat treal treatment ment of f the th curse cune by organized organised public sentiment The Th absurdity of giving to 10 every locality the power to prohibit It alto altogether altogether gether ther while the ramifications of the trade trad run from every license city to the end ends of the nation la Is self tr evident The Outlooks correspondence I of Interest merely as Illustrating the th dangerous Indifference and superficial superficiality ity of so o many otherwise sincere men mento mento mento to the th current pluses pleases of a question which I is already stirring every section of the land nd Dr Abbott do you think that a M thousand towns town and elites cities cIU in ina Ina ina a score of states tt now at the mercy of or Interstate liquor trade from Chicago breweries have no rights right or Interest In the protection of the treats traffic In this great metropolis of ot the west The rhe liquor trade know knows full well w ell that local Ial option would mean eternal perpetuation of Its It trains traffic They call It but they dont adver aller advertise title tier the th fact fart There ere are thousand wrote wade Thoreau hacking at the th branch bran h It f evil to In one on that Is III striking at the roo TOI Which are you ou I |
