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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1910)
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"""'', i I j- i I Hi YOUR DUTY CALLS YOU TO THE POLLS TO-MORROW 2? ! i IS' WBk A Hrfinuii' if, Your Iuty is to vote for your own nml your fellow-brother's liberty, Jovo for your country, uphold the honor of your home, stamp out fanaticism, kill hypocrisy, keep up tho vnluo of your property, keep down taxes, avoid HtnKiiation in busincBH, and, whnt's most usucntinl of nil, DO NOT RETARD THE SPLENDID PROGRESS OF THE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY and voto for Home Ilulc, aj,'ninst prohibition and Ihe most outrun""" Beoreh law, which has niado tho host of fiiends bitter enemies, which has been tried iti other states and tfiven potty officers the rijjht to search homes during tho husband's nnd father's absence, resultfin,' in insults lo mothers, wives and daughters, and has oven resulted in murder. Do you want such a lawlessness in our beautiful stnto of Oregon? NO-A THOUSAND TIMES, NO! No fnir-minded man will voto for it; only those who wish to sco tho establishment of blind tigers and dark holl-holes will give it their support. LET US REFER YOU TO GRANTS PASS! Not until tho prohi agitator was shown up how ho wns supporting tho blind pigs, or being supported by them, did he mako a movo to arrest them, but ho could not got away from it any longer. Ho was forced to do it by tho Anti-Prohibition league. Oh I how hittor was tho pill he hnd to swal low; it sickened him to tho very bottom of his stomach, and ho has not gotten over it yet, nor will ho for somo time to como. Ho hnd better get busy in some other town next, before wo'bhow him up somo more. FEAR GOD AND NONE. THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR IS YET TO HAPPEN. It is commonly understood that this evening tho prohis will hold nn open parade. No objection of any kind could bo mndo to this, and no exception could bo taken to it wore it not for tho fact that they propose to parndo young girls nnd school children in this parade. Thoy seem to stoop to tho lowest that thoy could possibly stoop to. Just think of itl MOTHERS OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, it is your duty to call a halt hero. Xict any grown-up porson parade if ho so chooses it is his privilege but do not allow your child, who is nearest and dearest to you, to bo brought into this outrageous movement, which only educates them that bootleggers and blind tigers am the real issue wAtJi the prohi. Again we say, CALL A HALT! CITIZENS OF OREGON, ton are in one of the grandest states of tho Union. Do not stain Oregon by noting for this proposed law, only to break it immediately after it becomes effective. Statistics show that it has made more criminals in tho stato of Mnina than in any othdr state. In Maine the percentage of divorces arc larger than in other states where they had license. Below are tho statistics : Ratio, State Divorces. Marriages. Marriages. Maine, Prohibition , 14,194 80,592 1 Now York, Liconso 29,125 1,205,655 1 Hew Jersey, Licenso ., . 7,441 335,809 1 Pennsylvania, Liconso 39,080 870,533 1 Draw your own conclusions from this. BELOW IS A LIST OF ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS. to 0 to 41 to 45 to 22 Ratio, 1 to Portland Me 24 Auburn, Me 137 Augustn, Mo 110 Bangor, Mo 18 Bath, Me 51 Biddoford, Mo 40 Lowiston, Me 05 Rockland, Me. . . .' 21 Watorvillo, Mo '.... 75 And as goes Mnine, so goes Kan sas: Ratio, 1 to Kansas City, Kan 70 Wichita, Kan. . .' 20 Atchison, Kan 124 Emporia, Kan 121 Ft. Scott, Kan 52 Galena, Kan 53 Hutchison, Knn 75 The nbovc nrc prohibitory states. Ratio, 1 to Milwaukee. Wis 142 Racine, Wis 171 La Crosse, Wis SU Oshkosh, Wis 119 Appleton, Wis 102 Enu Claire, Wis 123 Green Bay. Wis 1324 Chicago, 111 232 Now York 311 San Francisco 280 St. Louis, -Mo 182 Buffalo, N. Y ,190 The above are licensed cities. Draw your own conclusions from this. If the prohis would arrest the drunks in our Oregon dry towns the result would be tho same, but they have shielded them in order to use it ns an argument in favor of their infamous blind tiger measure. Nothing is too low for them. They stoop to anything. Thoy nro nothing but deceivers. They are liko tho minister of tho Gospel who rather stands on the street corner and nrgues polities instend of stnying in his studio nnd study the Word of God so he may de liver a true sermon on Divinity; who makes his church a political club in stead of a House of God; who splits his congregation into flngrants in stend of making them a God-fearing unity. How different does one feel toward the minister who thus prostitutes tho Bible than to the minister who attends to his church ns hi slrcild nttend. The politicnl minister who meddles in public nl'fnirs is pointed nt with fingers; tho minister who prenches the puro word of God is respected by nil. His very presence brings holiness over you. Tho rcd uoscd angel, who plays prohibition in public six days in the week and gets drunk in secret over Sunday is a familiar figure n thoso slates -whoro the drink issue, fomented in tho churches, has got into politics. "Honest lib erty," snys Milton, "is tho greatest foe to dishonest licenso." It is easy for vice to affect virtue for tho dovil to quote Scripture and to pnlm off fraud ou impressionnblo people for truth Henry Wattcrson. Tho Rev. Dr. Blanchnrd, Portland, Me., spoko thus: "My eyes wore opened to the great evils of prohibition in a very few years. Tho clubs or ganized by young men, tho selling of vile decoctions by women nnd chil dren, tho hypocrisy nnd corruption, arrested my attention." And that is whnt tho prohi agitntor, who is supported JjjMheJjootlcggcr, wnnts to estnblish hero in your very midst. Are you going to allow it? Peoplo cannot bo coerced into a distaste for liquor by laws; on tho contrary, it makes (hem want it oil the more. This is a free country. It is up to you to maintain our 'freedom. The Last Gall to Voters of Oregon The Prohibitionist points with pride to Kansas, and what thoy have done in Kansas City. The grant amount of building and a splendid water system arid civic improve ments costing one million three hundred thousand dollars. In four years they say they have built one new hotel and several new churches.. They tell us prohibition is strictly enforced and give it credit for all this prosperity. But you don't sco any of our prohibition friends in Mcdford selling out and immigrating to Kansas. Perhaps they arc afraid they would hnvo to go dry, even if Kansas City, Mo., is just across the river from this famous Dry City The Paradise of Prohibition. "What's tho matter with Mcdford ? She's all right. Mcdford has spent almost ono million dollars on her water system, sewers and paving. Mcdford has more good paved streets than tiny city of its size in the United States. Med ford has built I00 houses in one year, still you can't find ono vacant. You can no get a business location in Mod ford for lovo or money. Business property is rented be fore tlie foundation is started. Owners of business prop erty in Med ford get more rent for their stores than is paid in any dry territory in the country. Hundreds of peoplo have (Some to Med ford within the last year to start in busi-v ncss, but they could not find a building. .A store building in Mcdford that rents for one hundred dollars per month you can rent in a dry town for forty dollars per month. "While Ktmsas City, Kansas, built one hotel in four years, Mcdford is now building throe now hotels to cost one-half a million dollars depondunt to a certain extent on whether the Stato goes wet. More outsido capital in- I vested in Mcdford and vicinity last year than in any city in Oregon outside of Portland. Mcdford has doubled in population two years and will double again in population in five years. If you will but vote down this farcical agi tation i'or prohibition. The business men of Mcdford are satisfied. Thoy know ft good town when they see it. They are loyal to the citr and think no phice on "earth can equal it. Who then is discontented in Mcdford. The narrow minded prohi, who takes more interest in his neighbor's business than in his own, and the Anti-Saloon League preacher, who was ordained to preach the Gospel, but who is now taking a post-graduate course in politics, hoping that the higherups may notice his activity and call him to some larger city, where he will shy his castor into the ring, "Come on you hundred headed Dragon Rum. T can kill you if you have a thousand heads." Then the fanatics applaud and some brother passes the collection box, dreaming again. Better for the "Reverend Gentleman to slay where he is a iTig toad in a small puddle than be a small toad an a big puddle. They tell you the Search Law will not hurt you. It's only intended for criminals. "Who will be the spotters aijd gum slfoc detectives if this law carries. The most de praved and despised and dissipated unreliable gentlemen in the community. They arc clothed with power of Dep uty Sheriffs or Constables and can search your house day or night and you can offer no insistence or he can shoot you in the discharge of his honorable duty. They can call in all tho bums from the alleys to make affidavit against you when they find liquor on your premises and each bum gets a fee for his expert testimony. But who pays for this? You, Mr. Taxpayer. You are the fall guy of this infamous law, which they lately repealed in Iowa after a long trial, and the loss of man' lives. In Iowa the search ers made more money than the Governor of the State, and some Justices of the Peace would not exchange places with the Judges of the Supreme Court. "Why this raiding of blind pigs at Grants Pass? It's, that by so doing they can retain Josephine county dry and cheat Grants Pass again out of the few thousand dollars these men or women should have had to pay into the city treasury of said city for license. They tell you Mcdford saloons are all violating the law by selling on Sunday and selling to minors, and many different ways. Then why don't the Prohis have them ar rested and prosecute them? Because they are trying to deceive the people. Why not bring some of the celebrated Sherlock Holmes Gum Shoe Detoetives from Grants Pass and pretend 'they are sick and must have some whisky for medeeinal purposes, which the Prohis admit is all right. They are simply guessing at it. They are also guessing at the advantage Prohibition has fiver license and regula tions. Men who have traveled all over the country have been heard to remark, that in all their travels ihey have never seen better conducted saloons than we have here in Mcdford. Business men awake from your apathy, protect your interests and the interests of your state, where mil lions of dollars will be invested in the 'development of her many resources in the next few 3Tears,oand vote down this lmmbug and failure Prohibition. ,t Vote 328 Yes. Home Rule ;-;.'; ' ' " 343 .No. State wide Prohibition . '.;.. " 345 No. Search Law TAXPAYERS ATTENTION IJugQiie "dry" for noarlv four years, paid 111 1-2 mills tax for 1909. ttugene loied all the law allowed and still had a deficit in 1909 of $82,440.39 Euggno's assessed valuation for 19.10 will bo increased from lOO to 30O per cent in order to moot continued deficits. .. W par fliy has tho public failed to hear latolv from Mayor Matlock about the beneficial intluen-ce of a 'dry" administration. Are.tho taxpayers of Jackson county and MedM,dT,'m articular, anxious to assume a doublo and treble tax burden? IS SENTIMENT OR COMMON SENSE TO RULE? 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