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FIGURES PROVE PROHIBITION DOES NOT DECREASE CRIME COSTS OVER TWICE AS MUCH TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN "DRY" GRAYSON THAN IN "WET" McLENNAN COUNTY, TEXAS As Usual, the Taxpayers Have to Shoulder the Burden of Reform, Which Has Doubled the Sum They Formerly Gave Toward Public Improvements HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOMME In this picture French officers are taking a "wee nip" between rounds. Wine is the favorite beverage of these doughty warriors. Why is it that the Prohibitionists never cite the German of French soldiers as "horrible examples" when they declare that liquor drinking impairs human efficiency? Vol.18 NO.28 FIGURES PROV DOES NOT DE COSTS OVER TWICE AS ME "DRY" GRAYSON THAN COUNTY THIS FACT PUNCTUR As Usual, the Taxpayers Have Reform, Which Has Double Gave Toward Pu Grayson county, Texas, has been "dry" for ten years and is one of the communities "pointed to with pride" by the Anti-Saloon League wind-jammers. McLennan county, its neighbor, is one of the "unredeemed," but the Denison (Texas) Herald shows that it costs more than twice as much to maintain order in Grayson county as it does in McLennan county. Says the Herald: "Grayson county enjoys the reputation of being one of the cleanest and most moral counties in the state. Her citizenship is known far and wide as being of an unusually high order, and the record the county has made in all the various walks of life since it moved into the dry column has been quoted from every stump in the state where the virtue of prohibition has been proclaimed. "Disclaiming intention of distracting from the reputation our citizens enjoy for peace and quietude, and for the advancement we have made in education, arts and sciences, yet we feel constrained to call attention to the fact that if we are a law-abiding people, it is costing the taxpayers an enormous sum to keep us in the straight and narrow path. Records Prove It. The records of the Comptroller's office show that from September 1, 1912, to August 31, 1913, there was paid to Grayson county officials for enforcing the criminal laws of Texas, $17,235.25; for the year ending August 31, 1914, $15,815.37; for the year ending August 31, 1915, $25,975.01, making a total paid to Grayson county officials by the state in three years for enforcing the criminal laws, $59,041.83. Certainly a most astounding amount, and considered in any light and from any standpoint, must be amazing to the taxpayers. It will be well to bear in mind while considering the stupendous sums paid by the state for the enforcement of the criminal laws in Grayson county, account is not taken of the fees imposed and collected in misdemeanor cases—offenses tried in the justice and county courts, where the defendants pay the cost themselves. When this is taken into consideration, the thinking man may be able to form some conception of what it costs to maintain the judicial machinery of this goodly prohibition county where HEADQUARTERS The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY DEC. 16 1916. crime is popularly supposed to be classed with the lost arts. "For the purpose of comparison, we have secured the same data for McLennan county, whose population is given by the census report at 75,000, with a city containing practically half the total population and which is not, unfortunately, under the benign influence of local option. The population of Grayson county in round numbers is 65,000, and it has no large city with a cosmopolitan population, which is generally admitted to be breeders of crime. According to the Comptroller's record there was paid to McLennan county officials by the state for enforcing the criminal laws during the year ending August 31, 1913, $5,505.72; for the year ending August 31, 1914, $10; 291.89; for the year ending August 31, 1915, $12,569.03, or a total of $28,366.65 for the three years in wet McLennan as against $59,041.83 in dry Grayson. Prohibition Theory Shattered. "The claim is made and insisted upon by those who favor prohibition that crime is less flagrant in counties where the saloon does not exist than in those towns and communities where the liquor license system of dispensing intoxicating liquors prevails That the saloons of Texas and the wet towns of Texas are burdening the taxpayers to support the machinery of the courts to try causes having their origin and inspiration in the open saloon. According to the data above given, and it is absolutely correct, it would appear that in so far as the two counties mentioned are concerned, it cost twice as much more to enforce the criminal laws in a dry county. "This article is not written in defense of the saloon or as an argument that the Grayson county local option law should be repealed. Its purpose is to show the fallacy of the contention that the adoption of prohibition lessons crime and reduces taxation. Before Grayson county was placed into the dry column, the money it received from the licenses helped bear the cost of government and of enforcing the law. Now it received no revenue from that source and the burden of the law enforcement has more than doubled "The figures are presented as food for thought and perhaps it may lead to investigation, followed by explanation on the part of those charged with enforcement of the law, as to why it cost more to maintain order in Grayson county than it does in McLennan. INSULTING COUNCIL. [Cincinnati Post.] The oldest clown in the United States is dead. However, we still have Billy Sunday and the Cincinnati city council. HE ALWAYS WAS A BAD FINISHER [New York American.] Poor Bryan; he didn't even do as much for Hughes as Roosevelt did for Wilson. THIS IS CROOEL. [Washington Herald.] William Jennings Bryan denies that he is to move from Nebraska to North Carolina. This leaves in doubt the question as to which state will have real cause for enjoying Thanksgiving. SHOULD PAY LIQUOR MEN CHICAGO BUSINESS MAN ADVOCATES COMPENSATING DEALERS No Private Property Is Safe From Puritanism, Says Edward A. Gore—Foreign Countries All Reimburse Victims of Prohibition, Only America Confiscates Declaring that prohibition, in establishing the principle that the property of the liquor man can be confiscated without compensation, is establishing the same rule with respect to any other industry that Puritanism may select for destruction, Edward A. Gore, influential member of the Chicago Association of Commerce, took occasion to give his views on compensating the liquor man. "The treatment accorded the liquor man is unjust and un-American," he declared. "Once let the principle become established that property in one line of business may be destroyed, that the owner may be despoiled of his property, and the same rule will be held good with respect to other property that those who are overcharged with Puritanism may select for destruction," said Gore. A Challenge To Liberty. "We have long held ourselves up to be citizens of a country which invites the oppressed of every land to come to its shores and here find freedom of opportunity, here find the protection of laws guaranteeing equality of all. In the light of the treatment the liquor men have met with, I am afraid that that proud boast of America must be challenged. Freedom has been ours, but there seems to be an element of Puritanism in our country which would tread freedom down and erect in its stead something masquerading in its habiliments which even the old Puritan would have repudiated as representing what must be the principles of this country. We need to stop and take note of the fact that if this thing is to continue, the liberties of which we have boasted will all meet away; and the man who claims to be a free man in America is making a claim that he can not sustain. "You are familiar, no doubt, with the legislation that transpired in Switzerland when it was proposed to destroy the absinthe industry; you no doubt recall that when that matter was pending in the legislative body in Switzerland a member of that body arose and said that he did not think that compensation was necessary because in the United States compensation was not provided when prohibition prevailed; and immediately from every side of the legislative assembly there arose a protest to the effect that no matter what the United States had or had not done, the legislative body of Switzerland would enact no law that had about it any suspicion of dishonesty? As a result, the measure finally adopted provided for compensation to the farmer who raised the absinthe plant, to his employees, to the distiller who distilled it and his employees, to the dealer who marketed it and his employees. Now is the time for your Xmas shopping and this store is an ideal place to make your selection A few suggestions Keep this list it will paoxe useful. DIAMONDS T. Millers Train No. 5 leaves for Henryetta at 8;00 a.m. instead of 9;30 a.m. arriving at Henryetta at 9;55 a.m. Train No. 1 new train for Dewar, Henryetta and Denison, leaves at 12;45 p.m., arriving at Dewar, the first stop, at 2;10 p.m.; Henryetta, 2;20 p.m.; Denison, 8;00 p.m. Train No. 2 will arrive from Denison at 2:05 p.m., and depart for Joplin at 2;15 p.m. instead of 2.45 p.m. arriving Joplin, 7;00 p.m. 45 minutes earlier. Train No. 6 from Henryetta and Dustin will arrive at 6;00 p.m. instead of s;50 p.m. Note that toains 1 and 2 operate to and from Denison, instead of trains 5 and 6, and do not stop between Muskogee and Dewer. Passengers for intermediate points will use trrin No. 5, leaving Muskogee at 8;00 a.m. and No. 6 arrive 6;00 p.m. Service! In every respect the M. K. and T. 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PRICE $1.00 A YEAR e for your Xmas this store is an ke your selection this list it will paoxe usefu our Xmas re is an selection will paoxe useful. Men's Watches Watch Chains Cigaret Cases Cigar Cases Cameo Plus Cameo Rings Diamond Rings Set Rings Clocks Scarf Pins Sewing Sets Mocasins Poker Sets Whist Sets Umbrellas Jewel Boxes Shaving Sets Cuff Links Bracelets Photo Frames Cuff Link Sets Card Cases Gold and Silver Thimbles. Souvenir Spoons Chests of Silver Toilet Sets Ivory Toilet Sets Ebony Toilet Sets Cologne Bottles Cameo Brooches Dog Collars Silver Salt and Pepper Sets Gladstone Bags Ladies' Leather Purses A small deposit will hold any article until Christmas. ONDS illers second St. ME S RS A The Y Comp 52 Times a The Youth's Companion 52 Times a Year—Not 12 IT is more than 52 num- bers filled to the brim with delightful reading it is an influence for all that is best in home and American life. Three W Three Weeks Free The Companion is $2.00 a year, but to those who do not know the paper we shall be glad to send three current issues free of charge, so that they may test its quality, read its wholesome, diverting fiction, its contributions by famous men and women, its various departments, etc. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 114 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE --- --- --- DEATH RATE DECREASES AS USE OF LIQUOR INCREASES Saturday Evening Post Contradicts Claim of Hobson, and Other Prohibition Orators, That "Alcohol" Destroys 2,000 Lives Each Day—America's Mortality Rate Lowest In History HEADOUARTERS IN THE SOMME THE GAMES ARE ON THE TABLE In this picture French officers are taking a "wee nip" between rounds. Wine is the favorite beverage of these doughty warriors. Why is it that the Prohibitionists never cite the German of French soldiers as "horrible examples" when they declare that liquor drinking impairs human efficiency? The Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia, editorial page, issue of October 21, 1916, gives some very interesting information which ought to be read by Mr. Hobson and other prohibition agitators who would have us believe "alcohol" destroys two thousand lives each day! We quote from the item mentioned: "The death rate in the United States last year was the lowest ever reported—thirteen and a half for each thousand inhabitants. Fifteen years ago it was seventeen and a half; so we may say that about four hundred thousand more people would have died in this country last year but for the better care we take of our health—mainly by public sanitation. This ratio, of course, is for the "registration area," which embraced only two-thirds of the population. Probably the remaining third fared in about the same way, though the fact that it is not enough interested in the matter to make a proper report of vital statistics raises a presumption against it." Accepting the figures of the Saturday Evening Post, the year now approaching its end shows the best record of any as to the nation's death rate. Use of Liquor Increases. The figures of the Internal Revenue Department in Washington for the same period show a steady increase in Internal Revenue receipts. The books of every distiller, brewer, wine dealer and wholesale liquor dealer in the country show increased withdrawals from bond and increased sales to dealers and consumers for the same period of time. Were our prohibition friends capable of learning anything, these facts and figures should be highly discouraging to their unsupported claims as to the accomplishments of prohibition. On the one hand we have an enormously diminished death rate and on the other a largely increased sale and consumption of wine, beer and whisky. The prohibition agitators will meet these facts and figures with their usual evasion and misrepresentation, but facts, and especially government figures, are stubborn things to deal with. Same people who are honest with themselves will draw the conclusion that the nation is going along under HEADQUARTERS In this picture French officers are Wine is the favorite beverage of thes Prohibitionists never cite the Germaples" when they declare that liquor EXPRESS CHARGES ON LIQUOR SHIPPED INTO DRY GEORGIA IN NOVEMBER, 1916, $20,000. Who says Georgia is "dry"? It will be remembered that a prohibition statute was adopted in 1907 by the Legislature and not by the people. However, this law proved so ineffective that a second, and more stringent, statute was passed in 1916. The Atlanta Constitution tells just how effective this law has proven. In the following article it relates how the express charges, alone, for liquor shipped into Georgia, amounted to $20,000 last month: Records for liquor shipments, since the enactment of the new pro- hibition statute were broken during November, when more than 5,000 packages of liquor in excess of any other month were reported. In November 50,622 consignments were registered at the ordinary's office. This, of course, does not include the great volume of liquor smuggled into this territory. The funds of the state were swelled $3,186,19 by the 10-cent re- venue of each legally shipped package. The figures for each month since the inauguration of the law are as follows: May: 7,741; June, 20,065; July, 27,678; August, 30,124; September, 31,759; October, 45,273; November, 60,622. constantly improving conditions of sanitation and sobriety, and while using liquors more freely, it is using but not abusing. In almost every city the colored death rate is substantially higher than the white. In a number of cities, including Northern as well as Southern towns, it is double that of the whites, and in a few places much more than double. For all registration cities in which the colored population formed ten per cent or more of the total, the colored death rate—in 1914—was twenty-six per thousand, against fifteen for whites. As to the higher death rate among the colored population, to which the Saturday Evening Post draws attention, it is due now as it always has been, to the wretched habitations in which they live. This is especially true of the cities where they are unfortunately crowded into the districts not deemed desirable by whites. That contains about the whole story of a falling death rate, for undoubtedly the colored population of cities lives under less sanitary conditions than the white. Liquor Didn't Kill These. Of the million and a third persons—roughly—who died in the United States last year, about one-quarter were under five years of age, and over two thousand were under one year. It is there, probably, that attacks upon the death rate can be most successfully made; for there is no doubt that an important part of the infant deaths is preventable. Ignorance, not alcohol, is accountable for the large percentage of infantile and juvenile mortality. The falling death rate is a result of social action, a steadily cooperative product. This has been most vigorously applied in cities; so the city death rate is lower than the rural. And yet, it is in the cities that liquors, especially among the unsanitary, are the more freely used. Every, statement and all the figures of the Post's item tend to refute the prohibition asseveration that the increased use of liquor is the cause of increased mortality. The year's record shows just the contrary—greatly increased use of liquor and enormously diminished mortality. National Bulletin. IN THE SOMME photo by Paul Thompson, New York City. he taking a "wee nip" between rounds. he doughty warriors. Why is it that the n of French soldiers as "horrible exam- drinking impairs human efficiency? THE "HOLY CIRCUS" HAS A NEW ACT "Robinson Crusoe, Jr." Chorus Girls Perform at "Nut Sundae's" Big Show Billy Sunday's "Holy Circus" is branching out. Now it's a musical comedy, or, more accurately speaking, a burlesque show. A dispatch from Boston, Mass., to the New York American states: "Up-to-date evangelism and musical comedy united forces this afternoon at Billy United's tabernacle when the entire Robinson Crusoe, Jr., company attended services and five members of the troupe hit the trail. "The chorus girls sang several numbers they had rehearsed. "Sunday said to night he had refused a $1,000,000 offer from the movies." What could be more appropriate? Sunday, the "money grabber," is a prohibitionist. And Robinson Crusoe was lost on a desert isle. HE'S 'NUFF TO DRIVE 'EM TO DRINK. [Baltimore American.] Mr. Bryan is now trying to commit his party to national prohibition. But Respectively, wishes he would. LOOKY HERE, WM. J. BRYAN These English and Japanese naval officers are drinking a toast to the British-Jap alliance. And it's not grape juice that they are quaffing. No sirree! A neat argument against prohibition is the fact that the German, French and English armies, which have borne the brunt of the fighting, allow their soldiers to use liquor. IN THE TRENCHES This is part of the famous Sachse in the East. This section is six feet not Prohibitionists—they are red-blo —Photo by Feature Photo Service of the famous Sachsen Regiment of Germany this section is six feet under the trenches. T ists—they are red-blooded, wonderful fightin THE MARINE Photo by Feature Photo Service, New York City. This is part of the famous Sachen Regiment of Germans in the trenches in the East. This section is six feet under the trenches. These soldiers are not Prohibitionists—they are red-blooded, wonderful fighting men. NEW VIRGINIA DRY LAW IS SHATTERED Citizens Disregard Prohibitory Measure Which Went Into Effect Only Last Nov. 1 Virginia's first prohibition law became operative last November. It had no sooner gone into effect than Virginians began to break it. This article, one of many, is from the Virginia Pilot and Norfolk Landmark: With Guy T. Horner, special representative of Commissioner J. Sidney Peters, representing the common WHILE THE WHILE THE MEN FIG THE WORKING STATION Copyright by American Press Association, New York City. Owing to the fact that brewery workmen are battling for their country, their jobs have been filled by women. Here is a scene in the bottling department of a brewery at Ipswich, England. The girls are assisted by boys of not yet military age. Copyright by American Press Association, New York City. Owing to the fact that brewery workmen are battling for their country, their jobs have been filled by women. Here is a scene in the bottling department of a brewery at Ipswich, England. The girls are assisted by boys of not yet military age. By Feature Photo Service, New York City. In Regiment of Germans in the trenches under the trenches. These soldiers are moded, wonderful fighting men. wealth, two dozen offenders against the new prohibition law were arraigned before Justice J. M. Arnold in police court. Twelve of the cases were sent on to the Corporation court, three continued to future dates, and the remainder dismissed on motion of Mr. Horner. The session lasted from 9 o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock at night, with a short recess at noon. Practically all phases of the new law were touched upon in the course of the hearings. During the week's crusade the plan of co-operation between the police of the various cities of the state has been in operation. Several of the cases in police court came about as the result of activities of police borrowed from Newport News Senator Mapp, author of the prohibition bill, was in police court as a spectator. MEN FIGHT Midland Valley R. R. Special Round Trip Fares For The Christmas and New Year Holidays to Points On The Midland Valley Railroad For Full Information Phone PBX 4260 or 495 Muskogee, Okla. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Muskogee County, Sate of Oklahoma: No. 5390 Eulah Trammel Plaintiff, Vs. Leo Trammel Defendant. The defendant. Lee Trammel, will take NOICE that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plantiff Eulah Trammel, for Divorce for Destition and Crueltp, and unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Eulah Trammel, on or before the 20th day of January, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgement rendered accordingly. In Witness Wherof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 8th day of December, 1916. C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, Tom L. Fuller, Deputy Clerk, Geo. W Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. The latest informatin that we can get is that the factional fight in the Second Baptist Church between the Rev. J. W Perkins forces and the opposition has been settled by Judge Leopold, and Rev. Perkins has won. We hope the Brethren will now dwell in peace and abide the decision of the Court. Rev. Perkins, has been here for many years and has built with the assistances of his officers and members the splendid church building where they all worship. We have known Rev. Perkins, for many years before he came to Muskogee, and we are proud of the young mans success. On account of factional fight in the veryious churches of our city during the past few year the progress of the race has been much retarded and now we hope the fights are at an end and the ensuing year will be one of peace and prosperity for all the churches regardless of denomination. There are many frauds traveling over the country and giving Oklahoma a black eye by percending to sell oil lots that will bring a fortune to the buyer. Some of these frauds tell the people that part of the money will be given back when they drill a well. We warn our people to beware of the frauds and come and see or send one of your own number to investigate before putting your money in property in this State. We don't mean that all men who deal in real estate are dishonest, but you should investigate and get a man's standing before parting with your cash. The Republican party at last has come to a realization of the fact that the loss of the Negro vote in the south by the disfranchising route caused their defeat, and if they had been true to their loyal black voters in years gone by and protected them in their right to vote, they would not have met ignominius defeat in the last election. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise and when you a art on your holiday trip pick the railroad who's add you see herein and you will have a pleasant trip. The Negro Bar Association of the State will convene in Boley of December 28th. The craft is expected to be present. A number of citizens have propounded a question to this of fice which we shall put to up to the bar association at Boley. The question is this (What if any jurisdiction has the City Superintendent add Board of Education over the appointment of teachers in the minority school's). The Lantern in its last issue gave "The Tattler" quite a roaring for publishing the name those supposed to have been registered as Democrat. We new did publish the names of Republicans because they are too numerous and evidently The Tattler was so proud of the few Negro had joined the Democrat that the could not resist the temptation to publish this accusation. They doubtless published so names who are not Democrat but this can be charged to the anxiety to make a good showing. A Negro Democ at is monsteraity born outside of political work and we don't blame the fett who were wrongfully placed in the gang for kicking. Hon. J. Coody Johnson, of woka was in the city Thur and paid our sanctom a call. Johnson is the backbone sinu the Black Panther Oil Co. one the richest corporation in the David R. Twine, Copora Company C 5th Illinois Regin and family are at home visit Pater and Mater. When the poral has recovered his health will return to his home in Chic Coal For Sale The Henryotta Nut $6.00 per ton Sippes Coal Comp Phone 96 421 Sq. 5th St. In the Superior in an Muskogee County, State of O Malindy Franch, Plantiff. vs Henry French Defend Said defendant, Henry Frank take no ice that he has been in the above named Court be above named plantiff for an lute divorce from him the defendant, upon the groun extreme cruelty, gross neglig duty and abandonment, and f custody of the one minor ch of said plantiff and defe and that he must answer petition of said plantiff filed in, on or before the 1st day of 1917. or said petition will be as true and a judgement for plantiff will be rendered acco, together with the costst of plantiff in said suit laid out expended. C. H. Shoffer Clerk of said By E. Alhie Deputy W. H. Twine, P. R. Pri Attys, for Plantiff. Situation wanted by a fir hanest and reliable colored who has years of experience work as Matron Seamatre teacher of Domestic Scieke Address M. 1418 1-2 Wc Ave. Kansas City, Mo. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRE ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogees. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be in- dependent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h——l to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingritude. HAS STOOD THE ACID TEST. [Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] We have no patience with those who assert that there is no strength in the United States navy. Any institution which could survive three years of Daniels must have the goods. AN EYE TO THE FUTURE. "What's the idea of your working so hard for prohibition?" "I want to be recognized as one of the deserving patrons who helped to elect the ticket," replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. "Maybe they'll give me the job of hunting around for any illegal liquor and destroying it." A SUNDAY ARGUMENT. (Washington Post.) A Michigan automobile is suing for damages because a neighbor's horse attacked his machine on the road, and Billy Sunday cites the case as an argument for prohibition without knowing what the horse had to drink. LIQUOR MAN REIMBURSED COMPENSATED AFTER HIS PROPERTY IS DESTROYED COURT AIDS HIM Montana Judge Declares That Saloonist's Stock Can Not Be Confiscated Without Payment, Except as a Last Resort, and Then Only In Case of Absolute Necessity The Supreme Court of Montana has handed down an opinion holding that a saloonist's property can not be destroyed without compensation except as a last resort, "available only in the presence of imminent and overwhelming necessity which brooks no delay." A dispatch to the Butte (Mont.) Miner from Helena says: During the "Muckie" McDonald rebellion in Butte in the fall of 1914, the saloons were ordered closed by the state. Colonel Dan J. Donohue, commanding the Second Montana infantry, seized some liquor from the barroom of a saloonist who disobeyed the order and ordered the stuff poured into a gutter. The liquor dealer afterwards brought suit and secured a verdict for $300 in the district court in Butte. In affirming this verdict, the state Supreme Court said today: "Under constitutional government such as ours, the destruction of private property without compensation to the owner must be the last resort, available only in the presence of imminent and overwheming necessity which brooks no delay. In failing to allege facts sufficient to disclose such necessity, the answer fails to make out a justification for the trespass, and for this reason the offered evidence was properly rejected." RAILWAY PLANS TO RUN LIQUOR TRAINS C. & O. Puts On "Specials" For Persons Carrying "Wet Goods" Into "Dry" West Virginia Those who believe prohibition is prohibiting in West Virginia are respectfully referred to the following dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., to Pierre (S. D.) Journal: Orders issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad today announced the creation of two special train beginning tomorrow on which persons carrying legally labeled liquor will be permitted to travel. The trains will move each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between Ashlien, Ky., and Charleston. Each passenger may carry one suit case filled with liquor, the case to be no larger than 24x13x8 inches. Persons will not be permitted to transport liquor on regular trains, a regulation which has been in force for some time. TO TEST IDAHO'S "DRY" LAW IN SUPREME COURT Highest Tribunal In Deciding Case May Hold Prohibition Legislation Is a Violation of the Rights of the Individual as Guaranteed By the Federal Constitution HUNTING FOR TROUBLE HUNTING FOR TROUBLE THE WATER WAGON BOLIN KIRBY William Jennings Bryan, who has never been right on any great public question, announces that he will try to make the Democratic party indorse prohibition. In this particular, it is well to remember that all national parties, in convention assembled, refused this year to put a national prohibition plank into their platform. Even the Prohibition Party spurned national prohibition, declaring that the scheme was not conducive to true temperance. William Jennings Bryan, who has never been right on any great public question, announces that he will try to make the Democratic party indorse prohibition. In this particular, it is well to remember that all national parties, in convention assembled, refused this year to put a national prohibition plank into their platform. Even the Prohibition Party spurned national prohibition, declaring that the scheme was not conducive to true temperance. Idaho's drastic "dry" law may be held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. A test case is now before the court and it may decide that Idaho's prohibition is a violation of rights of the individual guaranteed by the Federal constitution. The Bolse (Idaho) Farmers' Review has the following to say concerning the case: Idaho is greatly interested in the appeal pending before the supreme court of the United States in its case against Ed Cran, arrested and convicted at Moscow for violating the prohibition law of this state by having in his possession a bottle of liquor. The case is one of the first of its kind on record. Had Bottle of Whisky. Crane was arrested in Moscow on a criminal complaint sworn to by Grant Robbins, chief of police, charged with having a quart bottle of whiskey in his room in the Hotel Moscow. He was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Will J. Morganidge in the prohate court and bound over to the district court for Latab county. Before the cage came to trial in the district court a writ of habeas corpus was obtained from the state supreme court. It was admitted by Crane and his attorneys. Judge J. H. Forney and YOUNG BOYS GET CRUNK ON "JICK" Jamaica Ginger Used As Substitute For Whisky In "Dry" Colorado When a state or city goes "dry," the drug stores do a rushing business in Jamaica Ginger, or "Jick," which contains heap much alcohol. The Denver Post hereby tells how popular "Jick" is in "dry" Colorado: The character of "Jamaica ginger" has been put formally on trial in a case filed in the state supreme court. M. N. McLean, a drugist at Lamar, has appealed to the court for a stay of execution from the sentence of the district judge filing him heavily for selling the ginger in two and four ounce quantities without a prescription. McLean says that he and his clerks sold the ginger only for what they believed to be medicinal purposes and that they were not trying to outwild the prohibition law, which forbids the sale of intoxicating liquors or substitutes. Witnesses at McLean's trial testified that the ginger, when diluted with A. H. Overmith, that he had the liquor in his possession, but it was maintained that it was for his own use and benefit and not to sell or give away. No evidence was produced to show that he had tried to sell or give away any part of the liquor. Crane's release was asked for the reason that the liquor in his possession was for his own use, and that the legislature of the state had no right to declare that the more possession of whisky was a criminal offense, unless he had it to sell or give away or reach the public in some other way. It was urged that Crane's rights in the premises were guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, and that these rights could not be abridged by the laws of any state. He'a Still in Custody. The supreme court of the state held adversely to Crane. It upheld the constitutionality of senate bill No. 50, the state law under which the action was instituted. A writ of error was taken to the supreme court of the United States and there the case is pending. It is on the supreme court docket as case No. 300, October, 1916, term, and is expected to be reached early in January, 1917. In the meantime Crane is nominally in the custody of the sheriff of Latah county under the commitment of the probate judge. milk or water, had a "fine kick" in it and made an excellent substitute for whisky. Evidence was given showing that many of the purchasers of the stuff were young boys of 18 and 19 and that the druggist sold from two to four bottles of the stuff daily, although a done for medicinal purposes is a half teaspoonful. "LAND OF THE FREE" [Detroit Press] Editor of The Press: Sad to say, once in about every fifty years or so a great wave of fanaticism sweeps headlong over this fair country. We are being overwhelmed by some such wave today. If a man or a clique of men would try to make you stop eating meat, for instance, you would be indignant, insulted, outraged. So would all of us. We would rise up against this infamous band, one and all, and cram their measure down their own throats. Now what is the difference between this and prohibition? It is exactly the same theory. Does that statue outside New York's harbor mean anything to you people? Is it a symbol of America or a farce? Liberty does not mean exemption from tyranny without, but also protection from tyranny within—it means personal liberty! And prohibition will mean the death of this cherished symbol of the United States of America.—Foreign Born. NOW YOU SAID IT. It now is said that William Jennings Bryan may be a candidate of the Pro- hibition party in the next presidential campaign. Admirable arrangement. Both the party and the candidate are too used to defeat to take it to heart. NEITHER HAVE WE. [Cincinnati Post.] Has Mr. Hanly congratulated Mr. Wilson. We haven't noticed. OR EVEN NEAR IT. Bill Bryan is going to have an awful line getting that Democratic donkey to the trough of prohibition. A GOOD SELLER. [Blohmond (Va.) Times-Democrat.] "Is this cellar prefectly dry?" inquired the prospective purchaser. "Well," responded the talented agent, with a knowing wink, "it always had been until the prohibition law went into effect." THE HUMOR OF PROBIBITION. [Clashmont Enquirer.] A liquor firm in Covington, Ky., recently received an order for whisky from a woman in prohibition Virginia. The whisky was sent by express, but was later returned by the state authorities. The package containing the whisky bore this label, which was attached by the dry powers that be in the state, that once had George Washington as a citizen: "NOTICE. "The Virginia law says that a female must be at the head of a family with children in order to receive liquor shipments. The woman who ordered this whiskey is a widow without children. According to our state law she will have to go dry." Can you beat it? EVEN IF HE'S A "DRY." [Milwaukee News.] Missouri snowed Prohibition under by 124,000 majority. That ought to be plain enough even for the man from Missouri. Confidence in the superior uplift of Kenesha life receives a rude shock by the report of the State Board of Corrections. A social and moral mil- lenium claimed to be regular fixtures of the dry belt appears to have missed connection down there. The crop of crime is just as abundant and the penitentiary as crowded as in states less disposed to boast of civic righte- ousness.—Ohaha (Neb.) Bee. THE FIELD Instead of trying to abolish the saloon, the German soldiers, who are highly efficient, physically, and mentally, although not Prohibitionists, took the saloon to war with them. This shows a Canteen or military saloon behind the front in France. Instead of trying to abolish the saloon, the German soldiers, who are highly efficient, physically, and mentally, although not Prohibitionists, took the saloon to war with them. This shows a Canteen or military saloon behind the front in France. FOUR STATES VOTED "DRY" AND FOUR "WET" IN 1916 HOWEVER. THE POPULATION OF THE MOIST QUARTET IS 7,952,180 AND THAT OF THE PROHIBITION RECRUITS 4,962,328 USE OF LIQUOR RAPIDLY INCREASES Federal Statistics Show More Drinking Is Doing Done Now Than Ever Before—In 1855 When Over Half of the Union Was Dry, 14 States Repudiated Prohibition Joseph Debar, president of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association of America, makes the following answer to the utterance given to the press by the Rev. Parley A. Baker, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "The statement made by the Rev. Baker that twenty-four states have outlawed the drink traffic, is misleading and untrue. In recent elections, in each and every instance no attempt was made to prevent the consumption of alcoholic beverages for personal use. Indeed, the Anti-Saloon League fully recognizes the impossibility of voting any territory 'dry,' in fact, that organization simply urges upon the people the closing of the main channels of distribution, operated under license, regulation and control. Before attempting to do even this much, it substitutes for the main channel another avenue "Only twenty-three states are 'dry'—many of these by act of legislature and not by vote of the people. In March of this year Vermont repudiated prohibition by a two to one vote. The population of the twenty-three 'dry' states is only 32,306,341, while the population of the wet states is 59,665,926. The population of the states voting 'dry' last Tuesday is only 4,962,328. The population of the states voting 'wet' is 7,352,186. These states are Missouri, California and Maryland. All of these figures tell their own story and show that on Tuesday over 2,000,600 more people voted 'wet' than 'dry', while there is still twice as many people living in licensed states as in so-called prohibition states. Protect Individual Rights. "The states referred to have not outlawed the drink traffic. On the contrary, they have in various ways arranged to protect and perpetuate the right to use wine, beer and whisky by securing laws which designate the quantity that an individual may buy or receive for personal use. "The further statement by the Rev. Baker that most of the territory in the remaining states has abolished drink through the instrumentality of local option is not true in any sense. "Some districts have voted against licensing the saloon, but in all instances the right of the individual to secure wine, beer and whisky for personal use has been protected by the efforts of Mr. Baker and his colleagues of the Anti-Saloon League. "The Rev. Baker complains that neither political party was willing to declare for national prohibition. No national party can in honor afford to do this without providing compensation to the interests destroyed. "No national party can go before the people favoring confiscation of property. Only 350,000 Prohibition Votes. "As to the claims of the Prohibitionists, Chairman Oliver V. Stewart of the Prohibition National Campaign Committee, in an official statement says he does not hope for more than 350,000 votes with the final count in 1916 election. When this is contrasted with a total of more than seventeen million votes just cast, its insignificance is apparent. "Any and all attempts of the Anti-Saloon League to show suppression of the liquor traffic and reduction of the consumption of alcoholic beverages, through the addition of 'dry' territory, are absolutely controverted by the official statements of the United States Internal Revenue Department. "While it is true that four states, Michigan, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota, voted out the saloons in recent elections, in each and every instance no attempt was made to prevent the consumption of alcoholic beverages for personal use. Indeed, the Anti-Saloon League fully recognizes the impossibility of voting any territory 'dry,' in fact, that organization simply urges upon the people the closing of the main channels of distribution, operated under license, regulation and control. Before attempting to do even this much, it substitutes for the main channel another avenue of distribution, namely individual shipments for home consumption and personal use. The two effects resulting from these Anti-Saloon League methods have been to greatly increase the price of wines, beers and liquors for personal use, and to cut out a revenue received by the states, cities, towns and counties. People Didn't Vote. "As before indicated in many of these 'dry' States, state-wide prohibition was enacted by the legislatures and not by vote of the people. Efforts to secure a direct vote on this question by those favoring individual liberty in these 'dry' states have been constantly suppressed. "As for the country at large, it is rapidly approaching the same condition which existed a little more than half a century ago. "If history repeats itself, the reaction against sumptuary legislation is about due and every indication points to the fact that states now 'dry' in name will repudiate present laws for exactly the same reason that so many states repudiated prohibition back in the 50's. Many of these states are suffering not alone from the loss of revenue formerly derived from license, but from a general contempt for all laws that seems to invariably follow in the wake of 'dry' legislation. "While four of the states recently voted 'dry', it is well to remember that in many other states—those under prohibition as well as under license laws—elected aowedly liberal candidates over nominees whose utterances and records were strongly in favor of prohibition. Use of Liquor Increasing. "According to the monthly reports of the Internal Revenue Commissioner, for the fiscal year, increases in taxes on whisky, wine and beer have been such as to indicate the largest output in the entire history of these industries. "Indeed, not only history teachers but long experience proves that license, regulation and control offer the only practical solution to the so-called liquor problem. That this truth is becoming more and more universally recognized is best evidenced by the fact that not only great cities, but the large industrial states as well, refuse to again try the experiment that proved so costly in the 50's." SPEAKING OF MONEY If people in "dry" states save their money, as the "dry" spouters claim they do, why is it that the savings accounts in Kansas are only one-half as large as the savings accounts of the rest of the country? Kansas has been "dry" for thirty-five years. Prohibition has had ample time to show its effects—to bring untold "blessings" upon the people.—Omaha (Neb.) Protector. Land values have decreased in the last five years; 5,000 people have moved away, having gone to some other place. A number of one, two and three-story brick buildings in the little city are unoccupied; sidewalks in front of most of them are in bad repair; windows are broken, and the people who own them face the condition of not being able to rent or sell, but must pay heavy taxes all the time. All over the city there are empty residences. Bootleggers Vote Dry. Bootleggers all vote the dry ticket. They pay about 27 or 28 cents a pint for whisky-express charges and all—and sell it for $1 a pint. They get beer in barrel lots, express sold, for 16 cents a quart, and they retail it at 50 cents per quart. So, you see, they are doing a big business in a dry state. The bootleggers of every city in Oklahoma are organized. Some one of them is raided nearly every day, and as soon as the raid is made the others are notified by telephone to get the stuff in the clear. As soon as the raiding is ever, they start up in business again. I know of an instance where a place was raided and a barrel of beer and a case of whisky taken. Inside of thirty minutes after the raid the place was open again and doing business as nothing had happened. Some of the members of the organization had supplied the liquor to make up for the loss in the raid. I have known quite a number of men who died from drinking whisky which they had purchased from unlicensed bootleggers. They sell the most poisonous of drugs for whisky. Knowing these things, I would rather have a wide-open saloon than the infernal bootleggers. At one time the state of Oklahoma was prosperous, but it is practically bankrupt today. Missouri, Arkansas and Texas get all of Oklahoma's surplus money for liquor. That puts the money out of circulation at home, where it should stay. This condition makes hard times. ELATES EVIL OF MAINE'S DRY LAW Former Citizen of That State Says It Has a Real Liquor Question The Chicago Tribune contains an article of Mr. William Tinlon, which we quote in full as being brief and to the point: "J. M. Burley writes The Tribune that Lewiston, Mo., has very little drunkenness. I wish Mr. Burley could make a personal investigation of conditions in Lewiston and as a result thereof he would find very little about conditions in Lewiston to indorse. "I moved my family from Lewiston four years ago. For twenty years I resided in central Maine, and if there is a whisky question anywhere on earth it will be found in that state." "Governor Cobb of Maine, who during his term of office endeavored to give the people of Maine what they voted for (prohibition), significantly said after his experience, with prohibition: 'If I, for the moral, social, and economic welfare of the young people of my state, had to choose between prohibition—such prohibition as I found it possible to enforce—and free rum, I would stand firmly for handling whisky over the counters of my stores as freely as I do sugar.'" THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION KEEN ON TRYING THE IMPOSSIBLE. [Philadelphia Evening Ledger] Has Mr. Bryan forgotten the old saying that you can lead a donkey to water but you can't make him drink? BIFF! OUCH! OOOOOH! Now that the "dry" campaign is over a number of local attorneys—not prominent—can give up the job of reforming and go back to the business of selling insurance, making collections and getting divorces for those who can not afford to hire a first class lawyer. This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and taken then as a toxic The fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not give or sicken. Sell like hot cakes; our apical scheme of giving book with picture sells everywhere; we have the big book, both sell for $1.25; we pay express; all agents should write us; anybody can sell; two outta fifteen cents AUSTIN JENKINS CO., 78 st. Washing on, D. C. THE CAFE The canteen and the bottle are conspicuous in the vallant French army. Wine helps the deadly French fighting machine to get into action, the same as gasoline furnishes the motive power for an automobile. DRYS FEAR IOWA CITIZENS WILL PUT STATE WET AGAIN PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEIR FIRST CHANCE NEXT NOVEMBER TO VOTE ON MADE-BY-LEGISLATURE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT Newspapers Are Titled With Stories Illustrating Public Disregard For This Measure—Man Accused of Giving Liquor to Small Boy—Many Other Violations Person wishes he would dry up According to politician, Iowa is so disgusted with the prohibition law that was passed by the legislature and not by the people that the state will probably go "wet" next November when citizens get their first chance to vote on the question. The "Drys" admit they are in danger of losing the state. Persons who have fondly believed that prohibition prohibits were given a severe jail when they read the following article in the Mason City (Ia.) Globe Gazette. A triple alliance to fight liquor in Iowa has been formed by the Business Men's Temperance Association, the Iowa Prohibition Amendment and the Anti-Saloon League. Four Campaigns Planned. Four great campaigns are planned by the organizers of the new association, which will probably be known as the Consolidated Temperance Association of Iowa. They are: To prevent the re-enactment of the Mullet law or any similar law by the legislature. To prevent registration providing for a special election on the prohibitory amendment in case it is passed by the legislature. To combat bootlegging. To insure the passage of the prohibitory amendment in two years at the general election. The organization plans to operate on the funds now being given to the three organizations. The Business Men's Association, which has paid its way through sale of stock will notify its members that the assessments herecatter will be paid to the amalgamated association, and the other two organizations will notify their financial supporters to give their support to the new organization. "The Association feels that now is the most critical time in the history of prohibition in Iowa," one of the organizers said: "It will fight any movement to re enact the Mulet law or any similar law or the passage of liquor laws to go into effect in case of the coefectment of the prohibitory amend-ment." The Association also feels that prosecution for a special election on the prohibitory amendment would well-night insure its defeat. The officers declare the wet states near Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota will "colonize" the state with voters previous to the election, and these, together with the 'right vote the single issue will bring out in some of the "dry" farming districts will prove disastrous to the cause. c. "Save the Boy." A story from Ethan, Ia., to the Sioux City Tribune shows how a prohibition state "Saves the Boy." The story follows: Elmer Torbett, living near this city, was arrested on the charge of furnishing liquor to minors, in violation of the law. It was charged that he gave a quantity of beer to Marion Tifft, a 16-year-old youth of this place. After hearing the evidence in the case, Judge Herbert discharged Torbett after giving him a warning against his use of intoxicating liquors. Here's another, sent from Dubuque to the Ottumwa Courier: The local authorities have raided many blind pigs since the first of this year, but the one they broke into recently took the prize. The business of Fred Glesler, a tailor, took a big leap during the last few weeks. Apparently he was getting some very "high class" business. High-powered cars stopped in front of his store and remained there for as long as an hour at a time. Police investigated and discovered that the tailor was pouring beer and other drinks into glasses instead of sewing on buttons. His place was raided last night and a large quantity of liquor was confiscated. Bootlegging Cases Ft. Dodge (Ja.) Messenger: William Kennedy, indicted for boot legging, has furnished $500.00 appear ance bonds. O. H. Bohanan, indicted on the same charge is still in jail Miley Cunningham, also indicted, has furnished bond. Des Moines Capital: Fifteen hundred quarts of beer and 150 pints of whiskey were poured into the Das Moines river today by Deputy Sheriffs Henderson, Griffin and Bonham. The stuff was confiscated in raids. Burlington (Ia.) Hawkeve: Chief Jerry Despain, Officers Bohn and Harrison recently arrested Geo. Slission at the northwest corner of Central avenue and Jefferson street for bootlegging. A barrel of bottled beer was found on the premises and seized by the police. One plain drunk spent the night at the police station. He was arrested twice in one day for drunkenness. What. a Joy Ride? Two men, two women and a gallon of booze were "incarcerated" by the police at 3:30 a.m., following a raid at the house of 407 Fourth street, S. W., made after the officers had noted the quartet riding around town in a taxi cab, all they allege, intoxicated. All will have hearing before Judge Hayes at 5 p. m. At the same hour Henry Redeker, the taxi driver, has been summoned to come and explain to the mayor why he was hauling a party of persons alleged to have been drunk, and carrying a gallon jug of booze around town in the small hours of the night. The Ottumwa (Ia.) Courter, in a dispatch from Ft. Madison, adds: Special counsel F. M. Steer and six operatives in the employ of the state department of justice came here today to present to a Lee county grand jury evidence against twelve restaurant and soft drink parlor proprietors, against whom permanent injunctions have been asked under the state liquor laws. This also is from the Courier, under a Hampton (Ia.) date line: The diligence of peace officers here results in frequent raids in booze joints and in most cases the arrest of one or more bootleggers. One of the most recent was a pickup of one W. C. Allent, alias H. White, N. White, M. White, etc., who was arrested, pleaded guilty and given the usual sentence. PROHIBITION SAYS 1,000 CHILDREN ARE IN BIG FAILURE RUM TRADE IN PORTLAND (ME.) TRADE DECLINESKIODIES FIND THE BUSINESS PROFITABLE BANKER AND MERCHANT CALL "DRY" LAWS A FARCE AND FALLACY Business Men, Farmers and A Taxpayers Suffer From Evil Effects of Sumptuary Legislation While Much Liquor Is Consumed at Enormous Prices The detrimental effect of prohibition upon the business man, the taxpayer and the farmer is shown in newspaper interviews with two business men of the "dry" states of Washington and Idaho. The Butte (Mont.) Miner, which printed the interviews, says: Fred M. Hinkley, a banker of Clarckton, Wash., who has been in Butte on business, says that prohibition in Washington is not only a farce, but that it has hurt business to a remarkable degree. Property values have depreciated, while there has been a burden of taxes taken from the citizens, and the working of the law recently voted by the people of the state is turning out in just the same fashion as elsewhere in so-called "dry" territory, he said. "Can you get a drink in Washington?" Mr. Hinkley was asked. "Get a drink?" Uh, you can get a barrel of the rottenest stuff in the world and a little bit of good liquor if you want to pay triple the price that ordinarily prevails, and the price is being paid. Bootlegging Galore. "The working of the prohibition law in Washington is the same as in other states, not only in the west, but in the east as well. There is bootlegging galore and the situation has become vile," continued Mr. Hinkley. "For instance, the man who would never think of taking some with him a quart of liquor, but who would be satisfied with a drink or two at an open bar, now must get a lot of 'rot gut' in quarts and pints. The man with money can, of course, secure all he wants and at a fair price, but the working man, the laborer with a family, who wants a little stimulus after a hard day's work, has to dig down deep to secure a personal privilege. "Not only that, in respect to drinking, but the community is suffering directly from the effects of the law. A burden of taxation will have to be placed to meet the running expenses of every city, county and the state. Idaho Man Ta'ka. P. W. Green, a well-known business man of Idaho, who makes his headquarters in Lewiston, Ida., was also in the city yesterday and had about the same story to tell. He says that it is getting almost impossible to secure farm and orchard labor in his locality, for the simple reason that men won't work in "dry" territory, yet Idaho is far from being dry. "The farmer is suffering, the orchardist is suffering and the business centers are suffering," says Mr. Green. "People who vote for prohibition don't stop to consider all the angles. The farmer and his help, who used to visit at periods some business center find it unnecessary. They go there only to get what they actually need to return home with most of the money they brought with them. How About Business Man? "The larger cities of Idaho are absolutely ad. Heretofore, when a man would make a trip to the city from his farm, with his money to spend, he would also take along with it a little relaxation. He would take a drink or two, go to a show, visit his favorite merchants and spend his money freely but judiciously, and return home with a little bit of the small amount of happiness doled out in this world. Now it's all changed. The man who has to go to town does his 56 per cent less business, returns to his farm or country home as quickly as he can and leaves the business man or merchant standing sadly in the doorway. "Prohibition is the greatest fallacy the world has ever seen among many. It never has worked and never will." PROHIBITING THE PROHIBITS. Under a Baton Rouge date line, the Crowley (La.) Signal carries this story: Representative Zaunbracher of Acadia parish, announced last night that he will introduce a bill requiring all prosecutionists in the state to register with the clerks of the district courts and with the registrar of voters in the parish of Orleans. The bill will prohibit a prohibitionist from buying, receiving or drinking intoxicating liquor, and liquor dealers or saloonkeepers will be prohibited from selling intoxicating drinks to a prohibitionist. Violation of the act will be made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment in the parish jail. SHERIFF TELLS DETROIT NEWS STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF PROHIBITION'S FAILURE IN MAINE, THE ORIGINAL "DRY" STATE t As Spies, Lookouts and Liquor Carriers — "Kitchen Bars" Are Favorite Resorts Officials Powerless to Curb Illicit Traffic Which Debauches Young and Old Probably Michigan wouldn't have gone "dry" last month if the following story had been printed in the Detroit News, and other papers, before, instead of after, the election. The News has just sent George E. Miller, a staff correspondent, to Maine, the original "dry" state. After a thorough investigation, Miller reported that prohibition in Maine is a failure. Writing from Portland, Me., he says: "You can fill the palm of your hand with water and retain it there in plain sight as long as you choose to hold your hand still. But if you strike that palm with your other palm where is the water? You will not have destroyed any of it. It will remain in existence, but here will it be?" "That. Did Sheriff William M Pennell, of this county of Cumberland, "is the Illustration I used to use in the days when I was actively in politics and ardently exposing the fallacy of prohibition. It is a graphic illustration. Under prohibition you can close the galen. But you can't stop the traffic in liquor. You only scatter it. You multiply the kitchen bars, you start up the bootlegger, and I know from my own experience and observation you draw into the trade in whisky and beer numberless children and minors. Prohibition Is Wrong. "I think few men know more about the evils of intemperance than I. I have been sheriff eight years in all. If prohibition would stop intemperance and cure the evils of it I would be a prohibitionist. But it does not. Temperance and prohibition are not synonymous terms. Although I am a Democrat, that is a point on which I do not agree with Mr. Bryan. He speaks as if the two words meant the same thing to him. Either he does not know or he is insincere. I think he does not know how the great mass of the people live. "When I was elected sheriff last time I ran against a man who had been earnest in trying to suppress the traffic in liquor. It was claimed he had made Portland a dry town. I charged during the campaign that at least 75 Italians were conducting kitchen bars in the city. He said there were not that many. Yet between January 1, when I went into office, and the first of the following May I had 72 Italians in court for running that kind of a bar, and I did not get all of them at that. The principal of one of our schools, in a position to know something about the subject, said at that time there were not less than 1,000 school children engaged in one phase or another of the rum business. They were used as solicitors, spies, lookouts and carriers. 'Blow' was the word they shouted to each ether on the approach of a deputy sheriff, and they could pass the word through a district almost as fast as by wireless telegraphy. They made it extremely difficult to detect the trade in liquor through the kitchen bar. "They talk about a state constabulary. We have tried that once, though it was so long ago that I do not know much about the way it worked. But we did have the Sturgis commission, which I flatter myself was provided largely for my benefit. I then was sheriff here, as I am now. That commission was created by the state legislature for the ostensible purpose of enforcing the prohibition law. It had funds and a force of deputies and it went into every county in the state except this one. I went before that commission of my own volition and told them I knew they were playing favorites in their prosecutions. I said I KNOW and I am here to tell you. The commission did not last long, although it spent a large sum of money and did not suppress the liquor traffic. They Like This Sheriff. "I am a temperate man, but not a teetotaler. I have held the view for a long time that prohibition is a failure and have preached my convictions wherever I was. I was first elected sheriff in 1902 and ran for re-election on the platform that prohibition is a failure and was re-elected. That was in 1904. In 1906 I ran for the third time and on the same platform and making the same arguments and again was elected, this time by the largest majority of all, the county at the same time going Democratic for the first time in 50 years. "When I speak of insincerity I recall the action of the ministers of Westbrook, a city in this county. They held a meeting one evening to discuss the liquor traffic in their town. I heard of it and attended. I was bitterly abused by the various speakers who assured a crowded house that conditions in Westbrook had never been as bad as them, as they were about to conclude the program I went to the front of the hall and demanded to be heard. To my surprise I was applauded. Permission was given me to speak. I said I had heard their complaints made in that public place, but had never received a complaint from any one of them on which I could act in my capacity as sheriff; that I had appointed deputies for Westbrook with instructions to enforce the law stringently because that was what the town had voted for, it having cast its vote against me and my platform that prohibition is a failure. I wanted to give them what they had voted for as thoroughly as I could. I told them that any citizen among them who would come to me with a complaint and facts on which I could act would get results as far as the law would reach. "Not one of them either at that time or at any other made such complaint or offered me any assistance in enforcing the law in Westbrook. So I say if I am reminded of the insincerity of some of the prohibitionists. "I say you could not stop the sale of liquor in a place like this if you had all the money and all the men you could get at work. It simply can't be done. You would not get more than a spoonful out of a gallon. Here is the water front miles in extent and hundreds of motor boats. Here are the railroads. And here are the state highways with the state line only two hours away by automobile. When my last processor was trying to enforce the law there were half a dozen machines making daily runs to Portsmouth each bringing back gallons of it. I believe he caught two automobiles while he was in office. Ho Lets Saloons Run. "It simply is not in the books to stop the traffic in the stuff. They can do what they like and say what they like. I know. Why, we have had more than 60 amendments to the prohibition law, trying to make it drastic enough to become effective, and it never has reached anything like effectiveness. I have in mind one man here who served an aggregate of between five and six years in jail and paid fines of not less than an aggregate of $12,000, and you could not make him stop. His son is running a place here now." "Under my administration I permit a certain number of them to remain onen where I can see what they are doing. They have to close at 10 o'clock every night, which means 10, and not 10:01, and they know it. Saturday night they have to close at 7:30, and that means 7:30. Sunday they must be closed and they must be closed on every holiday, on election day, and on every other occasion where there is any unusual excitement and a crowd in the city, as when there is a circus in town. When there there was an encampment of soldiers here they were closed for 10 days. They obey because they know of what will be done to them if they do not. In fact I can close them all inside of an hour at any time. Can't Suppress Traffic. "The prohibitionists say if you can close them for a day or 10 days or on Sundays or holidays, that proves you can close them for good. It does. I admit it. But it does not prove that I can suppress the liquor traffic, which, as I understand it, is the purpose of the prohibition law, at least in theory. In practice I am afraid it is used as the plaything of politics more than as a real sincerity, honest agency for the suppression of what is admittedly a great evil against which mankind has been and is struggling. I know about the evil of it. I have seen much of it. I know that the man who comes to the jail to serve a sentence for drunkenness is not the man who buys a drink across the bar of a saloon. He is the bottle buyer. He drinks diluted alcohol and he is a 'steady boarder' at the jail. He and his kind keep up the half-pint trade. "I can say much more against the grog shop drug store than against the open bar where beer and ale are on draft. The saloon I can close, but the drug store is open for business day and night. Some of them are at it 20 hours a day. They sell the half pints. They are the worst offenders and the hardest to convict, because they are permitted under the law to have liquor on the premises. And yet, to advocate and carry out what is manifestly for the best interest of the community you have to bear the stigma of being called a grafter and load yourself up with enemies. I am glad to say I am through and out of politics."