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"Dost thou think because
be no more cakes and ale?"
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Prohibition Is Vicious as a Public Policy
Closed saloons bring ab6ut evil conditions. Think it over.
If you don't believe it look up the government census reports
on crime. They show that there is actually more crime in pro
hibition 'communities than in others. '
The Pilgrim -Fathers brought
over 25 casks of beer in the May
flower. - The -.ship's "manifest
Prohibition Raises Taxes
v You don't have to look further than Oregon to prove it.
. Eugene, Albany and 20 other dry; towns in this state had to
. raise their taxes after prohibition went into effects
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Prohibition Is Not Necessary
There are plenty of laws now to control any abuses in the
sale .of liquor. And this suggests the question: "Where are
the dives the prohibitionists are always talking about?"
Prohibition Is Wrong Morally
..' .If it is wrong for Carrie Nation to smash a man's property
with a hatchet, it is wrong for 10 men to ruin it with a ballot
box. The principle is identical. Think it over.
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William Penn, the famous
Quaker, who foundeH Pennsyl
vania, '.'built and ran a brewery
on his farm.
George Washington owned
and operated a distillery. A copy
of his distillery 'ledger is in the
Omaha Public Library. I
Prohibition Sign of Stagnant Community
The leading nations of the world are the greatest con
sumers of beer. The Mohammedans are prohibitionists. Are
they more moral or progressive than ourselves ?
Abraham Lincoln owned a j
H tavern in New Salem. -111. A rnnv
of the liquor license issued to him
I and his partner Berry is still pre- jj
I served there. h
Prohibition Depresseis Busirtess
Only three states in the union have ever suffered a ,de
t crease in population. Two of them were prohibition states. -
Times are hard. Prohibition agitation tightens business. Ac
. tuar prohibition -would make it , worse yet and this without
, counting the hundreds of men it would put out of employment.
Where Does Prohibition Stop ?
Shall' the vegetarian prohibit meat markets ? Does the
Christian Scientist try to suppress' drug stores? " Would it be -right
for them to do so even were they in the majority?.
Prohibition Betters Nothing
If the laws governing the conduct of saloons are not al
ways enforced as they should be, how wjuld such a sweeping
law as prohibition be enforced ?, "If the footmen tire you, how
will yoij,run with horses?" ,
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