THE LEXINGTON WHEMFIELD
Published Every Thursday
at
LEXINGTON, OREGON
S. A. THOMAS,
Editor and Proprietor.
OFFICIAL PAPER TOWN OF LEXINGTON
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Entered as second-class matter October
6, 1905, at the post office at Lexington, Or
egon, under the Act cf Congress of March
3, 1879.
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 19Q6.
LOCAL OPTION
Portland, Oregon, April 10, 1906
Editor Wheatfield,
Lexington. Oregon.
Dear Sir:
In your issue of March 29th you
have, a brief editorial on the liquor
question and you invite further discus
sipn of that problem through the col
umns of your paper, In the editorial
you say "we believe that an error is
being made in attempting to regulate
the business of closing' the saloons.
Webelive that it would be much better
to' license the saloon and control it
than have liquor shipped into the
community in jugs and passed around
indiscriminately". '
Now the entire history of the liquor
traffic proves beyond any question that
the saloon business cannot be regulat
ed by licensing it. Here In ' Portland,
for Instance, we have some 450 licens
ed saloons but license does not regu
late them or keep them within the
scope of the law. There Is not a day
in the week, Sunday included, but that
almost every saloon in the city violates
almost every law enacted to regulate
and restrain the traffic under the li
cense system. The fact that lawless
liquor men will persist in selling intoxi
cants in territory that is under prohi
bition law does not argue against the
wisdom and effectiveness of prohibi
tion any more than the fact that law
less liquor men vfolate every law en-
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Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas
City, Chicago, St- Louis,
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Tlokta to and from all point or the Unit
ed States anil Europe.
acted to restrain them under licenses
argues against the license system. By
virtue of its very nature the whole bus
iness Is lawless and engenders and
fosters the spirit of lawlessness and
hence every interest of our people and
our government demands Its complete
suppression.
Furthermore, the liquor men's pro
posed amendment to the present local
option law Is utterly unfair in its pro
visions and deliberately Intended to
force the saloon upon ihe people of a
given precinct, city or county, whether
the majority of the people want it or
not. The Supreme Court cf the Unit
ed States has repeatedly held that the
liquor traffic is injurious to public safe
ty, the public health, the public morals
and the public welfare, and that it Is
the source of more poverty, Insanity,
crime and misery among our people,
than any other one thing known to our
civilization.
Therefore, any law upon the liquor
question instead of seeking to make it
extremely difficult and almost impossi
ble'for the people to control the liquor
traffic, ought to make . it as easy as
possible for them to control that traffic
and so remove its evils from the com
munity The present local option law
is in harmony with the fundamental
principal that the majority shall rule
and seeks simply to give the people a
chance to vote out the traffic that is
injurious to public safety, morals and
welfare.
The liquor men's proposed amend
ment seeks to prevent the majority
from ruling and to obstruct the people
in relieving themselves from the bur
dens of the iniquitious traffic.
Therefore we ought to maintain the
present law and vote against the pro
posed amendment.
Thanking you for this use of your
columns, I remain,
Very truly yours,
C. M. Van Peet,
Attorney, Anti-Saloon League.
NOTICE OF CONVENTION
The Prohibitionists of Morrow coun
ty are called to meet in convention at
the court house in Heppner, Friday,
April 27, at 10 a. m. All prohibition
ists and friends of the same are re
quested to be present.
. J. J. Adkins )
M. D L. French )
Com.
'Trains Leave Lexington, Daily, ex
cept Sunday, - 9:25 A. M.
Trains Arrive at Lexington, Daily, ex
cept Sunday - 5:10 P. M.
Trains Connect at Heppner Junction
: with Main Line trains for all
;points East and West. .
A. L. CRAIG, G. P. A.
'Grip Quickly Knocked Out.
"Some weeks ago during the severe
winter weather both my wife and my
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W, ,Y. Morgan, writing from Ire
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telling" an Irish driver how nice ev
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and how pleasant the Irish were to
Americans. Yis ho said ; 'whin you
go down the strate everybody sez:
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Advertising.
.Many of the largest advertisers in
the country have come to the con
clusion that out of door advertising
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sults come from the placing of signs
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Comedians' Early Careers.
Few of the funny men on our
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they began their careers. De Volf
Hopper" studied law before going in
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