Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1926 — Page 8

— XXXXXXXKX X X X X X X X ! R ! « The PEOPLE’S VOICE : x : X This column for the use of our I X readers who wish to make sug- I X gestfons for the general good 1 X or discuss questions of interest. ;■ X Please sign your name to show ' X authenticity. It will not lie : X used if you prefer that It not be. '. xxxxxxxxx x x x x x x :i Propoganda There seems to be quite a resent, bianco between nn optical-illusion and propoganda for they are both deceptive and misleading, and make things seem, as they are not. This being true, 1 wish to date with out malice the real for goodness, honest truth concerning the liquor business, realizing, however, that 1 will be criticized for the following statements. this will not cause me to waver in presenting real facts because cf spiritual or political affiliation. I have always faced opposition, with a smile, even though I was in the minority, when I bad good reasons to think I was right, therefore no political organization, or business enterprise can expect to prosper or even hold their ground already gained, when such organizations or business enterprise resort to trickery, by using deceptive literatiire to further their cause which in many cases is beyond the boundary line of reason. In dealing with the public, I come in contact with various kinds of individuals, and I regret very much to state that the most unrealiable and dishonest characters were staun-h advocates for prohibition, while some of the most generous honest, and reliable j citizens were men that voted wet. It would be breaking the last cord I of reason for me to leave the impres- i sion that the dryis are all dishonest ; and the wets honest, for as a rule, you’ll find them pretty evenly divid- I ed. Neither will I resort to propoganda j for the purpose of shielding either side. I As my sentiments are and always were j against the liqitcr traffic and I have . always done all that lied within my ; power to defeat this element, but at I the same time I have always tried, to 0 use good common sense when looking | at this big question from both sides, fl I will put my honor ami prestige in | the balance, by stating from my earli- . est recollection that drys were the “ first ones to use propoganda in order I to defeat the wets, and the ground that j they have gained, may be contested j and lost, because the wets are using If the same weapon that caused their defeat, being propoganda. „ I have always entertained the idea ]z that when a public speaker made • ueh I a misleading statement, as follows; (L "Ninety percent of our crime was cans- |j ed by intoxicating liquor,” they always S reminded me of a polly-parrot, because § through gross ignorance, they wore 3 merely using the literature that had 5 been sent to them from headquarters. jJ and swallowed and digested it without E using enough intelligence to make a E proper investigation, and these facts ffj were presented to the public in such a g manner that thousands joined the ar- 3 my of dry crusaders, with the expect- a ation of seeing the crime wave diminish in proportion as our nation was E being cleared of saloons. E Eventually, we enjoyed the distinc- g tion of being called a saloon'.e s na- g tion, by the solar plex blow that was 3 given Old John Barleycorn, because <3 of the enactment of the Eighteenth Jj Amendment, the distilleries and brew- E eries were forced out of business and U today we are presenting our moral and y spiritual standard to the world, with a n crime rate that is equal to a non- 3 Christian nation India. 5 Men that were convinced by the Jj propoganda are naturally asking the 1

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X question, were we not deceived by the “ promises mad<- by the drys or what is * the cause of our great crime wave? Again they try to shove down their *. throats that this It merely the after * effects of the war. and I would like *. to know wliy the European nations are *, not experiencing similar condition a when they were in the war a great ~ deal longer titan wo were? Those are {indisputable facts ami a however true they m ty bo, I am going ( to be fair and unwhlasnd in presenting 'the other side of the question. i- Every reasonable person knows that j the liquor traffic has contributed to the 1 t moral delinquency of our nation, to what extent Is difficult to ascertain, but wo know that this has been exagcrated, beyond nil common sense and 1 good reu on. and the.se facts alone' are giving the wets a good chance for ( a comeback, and 1 firmly believe if there is a class of men in tills country i , that are on par—or even lower than I , the saloon keeper, it is the goody. ,t goodys that voted dry and have enough i I .

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY, MARCH 30. 1920.

» liquor <toro<l In their cr-llars to run a i grog ishop. Ami when wo see grand- ’ mothera with bobl>o<| hair, nn<l the tap • of their waist in about to hold a re- ■ onion with the bottom of their skirts, 1 It. brings my mind io the thought 1 there are other ins besides drinking Regardless of tills propaganda, we can not afford to let this "hell’s commerce" to be estaldlshei] again wt our nation, for a statement tiiat It rotten to the tore, is the one which insinuates that the Volstead law has been an utter failuA', or there only remains to mourn at the casket of this eollosial giant the operator.* of private stills and a few thousand miserable bootleggers. And when we take into consideration the value ct a soul, and' the mi ery of a poor broken-hearted' ' mother earing for a brood of distressed <'hiidren. caused by the hellish atmos-' phere of a home, that is caused l>yj the disgraceful tactic* of a drunken husband, wo erally realize the fact ' that individuals who are using their' influence for the purpose of changing

Jour temperance laws or either Ignor- • ant or the vormlt of a buzzard, would [> leave nn odor, that would perfume the ■ stench that comes from their quarters , where there honest and most deprived t human scavengers are assembled for the purpose of bringing back into ext istence "Hell's Commerce." The contaminated breath of these :■ moral leper.- would petrify the liver i of a pole cat. A glimpse at the be- • smirched cuiisciences would cause an i African monkey to drop his liend in • shame for they have the audacity to i tell us Hint light wines and beer will - be the means of dispensing the moonshiner and bootloggers. I wish to inform these hell hounds that people are not drinking wood ulco'iol and ninonshine for its tu-te. They are using it for its effects. And if they .cun not 'get a kick from your light Wine and ! beer, It will not in the least interfere with bootleggers, Therefore instead of having one public nuisance you want to 'add another burden to our list. According to the wets' own argument, if it isj

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