The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1914, Page 3

OALT YEARNS T 0 SEE ROMEO HAGEN LAID COLD; THE HARDER HE'S HIT, THE By Fred L. Boalt There isn't anybody in the world who can knock out Romeo Hagen the beautiful baker, I used to think there was, if he could only be found ‘That was when I was young and optimistic, Now I know ft simply can't be done. Tam a fight fan, I have ex pertenced about all the emotions that fight fans know, But my ring side experience will never be com: | plete until I see Romeo Hagen, the beautiful baker, knocked cold. I want to see him prone and sen: less on the boards. I want to see the referee standing over him counting 10. I want to see the referee hold aloft the right glove of the victor. If thia supreme pleasure ts to be denied me—and I have given up hope—then I would like, at some far distant day, to stand beside the doctor who holds the autopsy on Romeo Hagen's clay Wants to See the Works Not that I have a grudge against him, Outside the ring he is an amiable man, though Inclined to be brusque with strangers. I merely want to know what he is made of. I am sure the materials are not ordinary flesh and blood and bone. I would like to examtne his heart, his solar plexus, his nervous sys tem and his backbone where it meets the base of the brain. would like to know why these points, ally vulnerable to pugilis tle attacks, never, in Romeo Hagen. yield to treatment. Thousands of Seattle fans feel as I do. Romeo's ts an eccentric beauty ‘The cubists couldn’t paint him. The futurists might make a stab at it The post-impressionists could hint at the pristine glory which ts the beautiful baker's. All Knobs and Humps When I try to picture him as I have seen him, when his bathrobe has slipped from his shoulders and he stands forth tn naught but breech-clout and a stolid grin, words fail me. I can only say that he is all knobs and humps; that his flesh has a marble pallor; that his features are not where we expect to find them: and that there is always in his eyes ‘& look of dull, pained surprise. Many’s the time I've gone to the } ringside with hope running high jthat I was at Inst to see Romeo Hagen knocked out. This or that | a siege fellow had been brought where or other to de-| aa he the beautiful baker. Dr. H. G. Lorenz America’s Eminent HYPNOTIST Stop making Cocaine Fiends. No pain with Hypnotism In Surgical and Dental Operations. See the Great Lorenz Tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday at the RAND OPERA HOUSE 1984 SEATS 10c WIDER HIS SMILE “OLD KENTUCKY” Effort to Influence Congressmen Causes Sharp Correspondence; } and a Ringing Editorial From Henry Watterson, Editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal The bone-crushing blows fell on Romeo's solar plexus, heart and Jaw but always the beautiful baker smiled in pained surprise and waded itn. He ma to keep sort of & rough mental tally of the potats |hia opponent has made, and he Jevens the acore in the last round | Tho flesh-mashing, blood-letting |death-dealing blows fell again and jagain, but always Romeo stood all | square on his knobby legs. Sor times, when an exceptionally heavy | wallop would further disarrange his| | features, he would blink Sometimes he knocked the other fellow out. Sometimes he lost on points, But never have I seen him go to the boards We thought we had |night. If anybody Romeo the k, 6., Ike Cohen, the Iron Man of California, could, He had }been brought from San Franc for just that purpose. A Forlorn Figure We went to the Pacific |ctub, under the Grand theatre, | see him do it We had heard of the Iron Man Flesh and blood, we ould not withstand his jwaults, As for any one hu Iron Man—Ha, ha! Ha, } makers are flea-bites to him | Sleep punches he finds pleasantly soothing to his nerves. him last nid = hand Athletic ; lous As ting the saw him. We even began to feel a little sorry for the beautiful baker For the Iron Man has red hair on his head and red hair on his breast | His arma are like a locomotive's }piston-rods, his legs are like the legs of a grand piano. His back re semblea a stone wall of easy nonchalance. He hummed a |iittle tune. He yawned and smiled Heigho! The gong rang But Romeo Just Smiles The Iron Man fushed gaily | deautiful baker rushed sadly ! The ‘The at Romeo. Romeo recetved tt on the point of his chin, and smiled fr patned surprise. The Iron Man executed a few ele phantine but graceful steps, and slammed his left into Romeo's stom ach. Romeo smiled tn pained sur prise. The Iron Man rushed to close| quarters and hammered the beaut! ful baker's kidneys. Romeo smiled fn pained surprise. The rc ended. In jsunk in thought [cesses are not rapid, but they reasonably logical. He that the Iron Man had something coming to him. Again the gong rang. And Romy Wasn't Hurt They met tn the center of th ring. Slam! Rang! The Iron! Man's face lost {ts expression of| |boredom. He attended strictly to | business. | would have laid Jack Johnson low Stomach and jaw-stomach and Jaw! Rémeo smiled in pafned sar. prise, and waded tn. In the third round—btut go on? The Iron Man could not measure up to his task. He tried manfully By all the known laws of pugilism | the Intermission Romeo was! His mental pro why) As un. should have been a pulpy mass. & matter of fact, he was scratched He evened up the score tn third and fourth rounds, and referee properly called It a draw PUT HOUNDS ON TRAIL OF MAN WHO BREAKS PEN SACRAMENTO, Oct. 17.—Guards and deputies with bloodhounds are | scouring the hills in the Folsom dis trict today for Convict Frank Creeks, life who escaped from the prison Friday night, Harold Flash, serving a 20-year term, and ight Sergeant J. B Drury, were killed, and Guards Frank Maher and Kerr were | seriously wounded in the fight | The break was planned to catch | Sergeant Drury and Guard Kerr as |they came into the prison, bring the the} termer, Joe | four revolvers to the inside guards. | | Armed with knives, Flash and Creeks leaped tipon the sergeant {and the guard: Drury fell first with | three knife wounds In his head and | three tn his body | and stunned. } After Drury fell the convicts took the guns and keys from him and started for the prison yard As they rushed out the door jopened fire, and Convict Flash | dropped dead with a bullet wound in the head. Before other guards could be lealled Creeks had disappeared among the rocks in the quarry and | made good his ¢ | Creeks was serv TABLE BUS PLAN ‘There will be no municipal * connecting the two of the city car line t least he finance com the elty council tabled esterday ing a life term b fons | while | mitte jthe for 4 whi 5c NEW CIRCUIT 5c Sunday to Wednesday 2—BIG UNIVERSAL FEATURES—2 “THE PADRONE’S WARD” _ (Two _ Parts) “BLUEBEARD” (Two Parts) “ACROSS THE COURT” (Comedy ) Be Be Sc Be Be Se Se Sc Sie Be Be Se Sc Be Se 5c to| ad been told, | t) We were disappointed when we| | He entered the ring with an air, Tron Man almed a prodigious biow| nd] reasoned | He delivered blows that| and physiology, the beautiful baker) Kerr was struck Kerr} divis- | Rautdaspratbevnereteeeteee ee tee STAR—SATURDAY, OC } Under the caption, “Frog Under the Log,” Henry Watteragn, the VYoteran editor of The Loulsvilie Courier-Journal, July 28rd, published ditortal the state superintendent of the AntiSaloon League of Missouri an » candidate for Congress. | torial follow under date of an brought out by correspondence between prospect! The correspondence and the edt lowing letter to every candidate for Congress | St. Louls, Mo., July 13, 1914. My Dear Sir: In case you are nominated and elected to Congress | would you vote for and support the Sheppard-Hobson national prohl- | bition resolution? Our friends throughout the state are pressing us | for Information on this great issue, and we will be especially pleased to have you frankly give us your position. This Information will not be used to embarrass you if your anawer ls in the affirmative, and will even be held confidential if you re quest it. An early reply will be especially appreciated. Youre truly, W. C. SHUPP, State Superintendent, Mr. Watterson’s Criticism. Here wo have a perfect tustration of the furtive, ethods of the hetr Aishonest cam: prohibitionists and at the name time conclusive | hypocrisy and cowardice. “If you are for us,” perintendent, “we'll say nothing about {t. Go on and a clandestine canvass for votes ¢ as many as you can on |the sly, We'll not embarrass you by telling a living soul,” the infer Jen ng—"“but, If you are not for us, you are in league with the devi! and we'll go after you hammer and tongs We are giad to learn that at least one of his convictions. The foregoing letter was sent to Jacob E for Congress in the Tenth Missouri district, Mr. 'Candidate Meeker’s Reply. | St. Louis, Mo., | Mr. W. C. Shupp, | State Superintendent Missouri Anti. Sir: In regard to you the first organization that hi had the temerity to endeavor to secretly pledge men in advance of even their nomination. You, a pretended reformer, strive to adopt the most vicious method known in American politics to lead men to misrepresent rather than © repr mt their people. Here is my “frank statement”: 1 have fought prohibition ali my tife. it on the | ground of principle, and if so fortunate as to be nominated and elected | to Congress | will not only vote againet the amendment, but | will aid jin every way In organizing a movement to utterly destroy this vicious political heresy. Never will | vote to lower the fiag of freedom and in its place hoist the black flag of social despotism. Respectfully, JACOB | patgn | proof of Shupp | mak Me Meoker July 15, 1914. loon League, City. Again Mr. Watterson Criticises. The Courier-Journal puts it to each candidate in Kentucky and demands that Ké speak up and answer explicitly, “are you fn favor of state-wide probibition,” and “do you, or do you ‘not favor nation-wide | prohibition 7” |" It will not do to pretend that the question is not an issue. It ts lan issue. It is an ineue that will not down, The mongrels who are | playing polities for office will not let it down. The arafters of the Third House at Frankfort will not let {t down. The local gangsters in the cities and towns who are playing for ring rule will not let it down, The scurvy newspaper and would-be newspaper bosses will j not let it down. “What the Rogues Said in 1911” | All these rogues told us In 1911 that County Unit would end the agitation forever. “Give us County Unit,” they cried, “and this dis. lturbing question shall be forever eliminated from our politics,” They simply Hed. { Scoundreliam and fanaticism go ever hand in hand. The crazy |purtst and the rascally politician care not what injuries they inflict jupon the States, what imposttions upon their fellow citizens, so that jthe one may ru and the other may rob. | “Makes Nowhere for Temperance” Makes Everywhere for Misgovernment. No single issue Injected into the public Hfe of the country has wrought such havoc upon political integrity and disseminated and diffused such poison through the veins of the body polttic as the liquor question. Making nowh for temperance, it has made everywhere for misgovern t. Wearing the mask of the reformer the states- ner in the lobby unite to blackmail the corporations and to rob the people, blind and unseeing, applaud in the name of morality and religion. Inevitably the Hquor interest, representing property and paying taxes, defends itself, however {t may. Thus is constructed an endless |echain of corruption, the actual drink evil scarcely touched even in states where prohibition has prevailed. This {s abundantly shown by the revenue statistics, Now there {s a plan to go outside the states and having failed to establish teetotalism by simple, home-rule process, to try the virtue of nation-wide prohivition “The Sheppard-Hobson Plan” | This wild and drastic measure is embodied tn a joint resolution |to be passed by the two Houses of Congress providing for aeconstitu | tional amendment to that end. It ts called the Sheppard-Hobson plan. The more unprincipled and timid among congressmen have contrived to stave off a showdown until the coming autumn elections, But be- neath the surface tt will be in perhaps a majority of congressional districts a leading, 1f not a determinate force. “The Old-Time Abolitionist” ‘The modern probibitioniat, like the old-time abolitionist, finds the ground route his most effective method, When he ts in power, where he is not he becomes a hypocrite. He never In Tennessee we see uni he is a desy stands out in the open until he is smoked out }him a b nt and tyrannous Pharisees, lhe lies low and keeps dark. No one of his candidates dare call his soul his own until the Third House at Frankfort is fenced round and the gangsters of invisible government have set up their ring rule In cities as in so ‘many of the darker counties. When all is ready intolerable conditions existing in Tennessee will be imported to and shall behold the end of straight polities, either or Republican, and the advent of Fusion politics, playing and bell in private | | | the | Kentucky Demoerntt reform in public |State- Wide Prohibition Means Destruction. ate-wide prohibition in Kentucky means the reduction of land values 50 per cent and the increase of all taxes 50 per cent. It means the annihilation of hundreds of millions of property. It means hun- dreds of thousands of men out of employment. And It will be as surely proposed by the politicians and newspapers who are now fig- uring to evade It, as next year dawns. hey will make it the para mount issue in the state election of 1915. It {# none too early, there fore, for Democrats at least—If we have any Democrats left—to be «in to look about them, to survey the lay of the land and to take account of the actual array of forces. Editor Watterson’s Advice. If the Democrats of Kentucky permit the alliance between the potwollopers and the puritans—the grafters and the fanatics—-so to intrench itself in the Third How at Frankfort as completely to dom- © the legislative sessions and »ntrol the official activities of the state, the will do it with their eyes wide open, for The Courier-Jour- nay will not stand Idly by and see it done without timely warning and protest It la nothing to » Courler-Journal ything to The Courler-Journal to hay and honest politics. And so, if the ople show themselves so blind as not gee what is as plain as day they will not‘be able to re pach us when trouble comes with acquiescence, or silence, or any failure jot duty Never yet have we anticipated events that they have not come to pass, nor sounded the alarm that there has not been fire. we who get the offices e equal laws, reasonable taxes In Missourt the State Anti-Saloon League in sending out the fol-| ndidate has the courage | k of July 13, permit me to say that yours Is) whilst the Innocent at home, | In Kentucky for the time being | It is] TOBER 17, 1914, PAGE 3, ! HOW MUCH GRAPE JUICE CAN CAL- IFORNIA PRODUCE AT A PROFIT? | The Lake County B | 7th, carried a communte | product of “grape juice.” | The letter so thoro introduction will be unp The letter follows Dear Sir; In answer to your statement that the California “dry are claiming that in case the prohibition amendment carries at the | Fall election there will be no loss to the grape growers of the state, | as thelr grapes can bo manufactured into grape juice at a good profit, I wish to say that tho statement is entirely misleading, and wish to correct It, not only for your benefit but for the public as well I am one of the largest individual grape growers in San Bernar dino county. In 1908, J, with a number of other grape growers, took stock in the California Vineyards and Improvement Company, a corpor ation organtzed for the purpose manufacturing grape juice, with the hope of finding a more profitable market for our grap | After two years of experimenting, with the assistance of expert grape Juice men, some of them from the Concord district of Michigan, we succeeded in plactng on the market as good a grape juice as has| lever been manufactured. | In 1910 we placed quite a number of orders with merchants and dealers throughout the state, In 1911 we falled utterly to get any of these same dealers to duplicate their orders. On {nvestigation we found that most of these dealers that we | had @old to in 1910 had their stock still on hand and that there was | Absolutely no call for the stuff. We were compelled to quit the | business. | | In 1912 we offered our entire stock of grape juice on hand at $1.25 per case of two dozen quarts (about the price of the bottles and| package) and found no takers | The following winter we sold the entire stock to the California Wine Association for distilling purposes at 6 cents per gallon and | were glad to get it. Our experience is the same as that manufacturer in the state. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. We can make the finest grape juice but we cannot make the peo-| pe drink tt While I am a Prohibitionist, people in order to win the cause. Trusting that this may be of use to_you as well as the public, Respectfully yours, ‘a published at tion from a Lakeport, California, on grape grower relative August to the hh explains the whole matter that further of every other grape juice 1 do not believe in misleading the I am, BE Improvement TON BALLOU, Secretary California Vineyards and Company. HON. ALVIN M. MUEHLER’S ADDRESS Before the German-American Women’s League of Tacoma on the Subject of State-Wide Prohibition. | edge of the character of these me STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION IN: I submit that if it Is wrong to sell Mquor at all, {t is just as wrong | to sell it prohibition as under a license system, and there cam & no argument regarding the financial loss to states and communities * by the adoption of prohibition which loses to them the present revenue | the liquor business, For myself 1 maintain that drinking of liquor is not wrong If the Supreme Being had intended th or drinking of liquor it would been shaping the Universe and Nature, to have from all fruits, | © flowers, grains and grasses those parts which produce alcohol. » Science has shown that there is not a fruit, nor a flower, nor @ ¢ shrub, nor grain, nor blade of grass that does not contain the primary elements of alcohol, or from which alcohol cannot be made by distiie ing or fermenting. In view of this undisputed fact I am bound to believe Ahat aleohol © of Stself 1s good, if not a necessity—and if I am right then the moral |) | attitude whould be against only the abuse instead of the use of alcohol | I maintain that prohibition liquor laws are immoral and debauch- | ing. Such laws are immoral and degenerating because they encourage re und the manufacture, the sale and the , t there should be no making © for Him, im 7 ve in prohibition territory the of adulterated and poisonous strong drinks in place of the non-Injurious beers and light wines. In proof of thia compare the production of distilled spirits in 1908, as shown by the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for 1913 (see page 78). Annual Production. Gallons. «127,140,924 + 133,450,755 - 156,237,526 + 175,402,395 - 178,249,985 - 185,353,383 Here, then, is the evidence that, notwithstanding thé Anti-Saloon League's boasted claim that one-half of the United States is proh' territory, there is produced and consumed more hard liquor than | before. Do not forget that the above figures do not cover the hw of lilleit stills in prohibition states, nor the thousands of ers of poisons sold by bootleggers as liquor. Now let us consider the economic situation—closely allied with all moral efforts, for no moral effort can be justified which creates greater degree of misery than it aims to prevent. If e ch individual will ofrefully consider his or her own knowk edge of habitual drunkards in any community you will find that the number {8 insignificantly small. If you will go further and investigate every fact in your on knowl, in almost every case you will fit that they were primarily neither inclined to work, nor to lend any | material stance to the progress of their community. While sympathizing with these men I belfeve that it is sentiment which would prompt us to multiply these miseries a sandfold by voting for prohibition and thus throw out of emplo not less than ten thousand men who are today directly employed be the liquor industry of the state of Washington, and other t! dependent for a Livelihood upon the over $6,000,000 annually e: for food and necessities by the employes of the liquor industry. The liquor industry of the state of Washington expend. an over twelve million dollars for supplies, including rents, a hops, | ete.; over two milion dollars for federal, state and municipal licenses and over eight million dollars for wages—making = total of overy twenty-two million doliars expended in this industry. To destroy an industry with such an enormous expenditure would | mean financial run to thousands of people, and to the state an eco The German-American Woman's League of the State of Wash-| ington held its meeting occurring on Wednesday of last week in Fra ternity Hall, Tacoma, | Mra. Jacob Scbaefer of Seattle, the State Organizer, was present and invited the indies of Tacoma to attend the meeting to be held by the Seattle Branch of the League on the 27th inst. in Odd ralewe'| semple of this City, | The purpose of the meeting {n Tacoma was largely to listen to} an address by Hon. Alvin M, Muehier, Who had been Invited to speak upon the subject of “State and Nation-wide Prohibition.” The Address of Mr. Muehler. I deem it a special privilege to appear before the women of your | organization and therefore your invitatfon to me ts doubly | The women of Washington will play an important part in the| coming election. For my part I feel that the women of this State | | bave demonstrated that they can «safely be trusted in any political jemergency. My experience has been that they have a more open | mind and are more free from deep-seated prejudices than are men. They are more quickly influenced by an authenticated trath The campaign now on to make & prohibition state of Washington only two important phases—the moral and the economic. | Women everywhere are bound to consider first the moral side of | the question. Their votes are bound to be cast for those men and measures representing the lesser degree of immorality and the greater | measure of righteousness and justice. I submit to you that there {s not a case on record where prohi-| bition tn any extensive territory has elevated the moral condition of | that territory. On the contrary it has been degenerating and debauching in its effect. In other words, we are repeating today the history of the pai in which every attempt to remove temptation from the path of man has been a dismal failure. If I simply stated these facts and did not attempt to prove them you would have a right to ask me for my authority. I hope the women of the state of Washington will require of every speaker, and all state-| ments, printed or spoken, proof of thelr genuineness. The campaign inaugurated by the Anti-Galoon league of this state | | 1s for state-wide prohibition, and we must make our comparisons with | states that have gone through prohibition experiences. In New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut—all tried and all, after an experience covering a period of years, failure and have since adopted local option laws. Maine is the only one of the New England states that continues to maintain legalized prohibition, and this notwithstanding the fact that it has debauched Its people and corrupted ite official Liquor is sold openly in the cities of Maine and has been for many years, with little or no effort to enforce the law. In Portland (Maine) little news girls and boys volunteer to show strangers the well-beaten path to the blind pigs. , The latest government statistics at hand show that Portland, with & population of 58,571 in 1910, had over 3,000 arrests for drunkenness. Bangor with 24,803 Inhabitants, had over 1,700 arrests for drunk- enness the same year. These figures represent a greater average of | drunkenness than will be found in any “wet” or licensed territory. | Michigan had state-wide prohibition for a long period until the | result was conceded to be a complete disgrace to the people of the | te. The yoke was then thrown off and the tlcense system adopted. | In Georgia, where state-wide prohibition is on the statute books, no pretense at enforcement is made in the cities. In fact the state and cities license so-called “near-beer” saloons with a full knowledge | that they are openly selling intoxicating !Iquors. You can buy liquor in Georgia cities as openly as you can any- where in the State of Washington. You ask for the brand you prefer and get {t with the original label on. ft challenge and prohibitionist to deny thie fact!! In Tennessee the saloons run wide open tn the cities in direct violation of the state-wide prohibition law. Alabama tried prohibition until its learned men, Judges and states- men, sickened of the condition created, demanded a local option law, | which was secured three years ago. Representative Hobson, one of the most prominent speakers of the anti-saloon league, recently campaigned over the state of Alabama, as a candidate for United States Senator against Congressman Under. wood, whom he repeatedly charged with being opposed to prohibition. As an evidence of their disgust with prohibition, the people of Mabama repudiated Hobson at the primary and endorsed Mr. Under- wood by a majority of over 30,000 votes. | In Oklahoma no reliable eitizen can be found who will deny the open sale of liquor in every city and {ts surreptitious sale everywhere, The Internal Revenue Department shows that Oklahoma citizens have 1,107 tax stamps for the sale of lquor, and every intelligent man }in the state knows that there are thousands of blind tigers and boot- leggers who pay no tax and are not enumerated in these figures. Kansas, pointed to as the banner prohibition state, is shown by the 1913 report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to hold 735 tax stamps for the sale of liquor and to have In its borders twenty- eight wholesale liquor dealers, ppreciated. | prohibition declare It a | | materially | nomic and financial disaster from which it would not recover in this: generation. In closing I beg to submit the fact that if you vote for prohil you will vote only to close up the industries of the state of Wash-# ington—breweries, saloons, etc.—for the benefit of brewers In any ad-/) joining wet states. You will be voting to bankrupt and ruin thousands of people of Washington have and who have for assisted tn the progress, and have largely ei taged in employing and paying the taxes of the state of Washing. ry The anti-saloon league measure makes a Purchase and importation of liquors into the crime to manufacture beer within its limits. The state of Washington has a national reputation for gro the finest quality of hops and barley, making it possible for W. ton breweries to turn out a quality of beer that Is second to none im the world, These breweries have built up an export business valued at over, |two million dollars annually, and which brings that sum of money# [from foreign countries back into the state of Washington to be | out for wages and supplies, and circulated within the borders of thi state. The estimated value of the hop crop of the state of Wash for 1914 1s $1,800,000, The anti-saloon league program would this crop absolutely valueless. Its program is to make the whole tlon dry. From a taxpayer's standpoint, “Je provision for e, but makes it i initiatory bill No. 3 will heap ane) other burden upon us which, with a decreased income, will make almost impossible to bear. Local brewerles use $800,000 worth of Washington's barley annually, If the anti-saloon league program is carried ont the of this crop and of the 216,000 acres required to produce it will bey, decreased, If we wish to destroy the material progress of the state of Wash-¥ ington—lose an Immense revenue—decrease the valuation of pro —empty thousands of buliding and increase our taxes, the best way! would be to vote for this bill. But Washington citizens, both men and women, have hereto shown a type of intelligénce which precludes the possibility of a result, PROHIBITION LAWS Do Not Prohibit the Salef and Use of Liquors in this issue of The Sunday Times may be found several impor) 4 tant articles bearing on the effects of State-Wide Prohibition, They: may be enumerated into the following heads % A letter from Mr, Benton Ballou, Secretary of the California Viness | yards & Improvement Company of California, to his local publication, bearing on the proposition of making grape Juice from grapes as substitute for wine. . An address by Hon. Alvin M. Muebler before the chairman off] American Women's League on the subject of State-Wide Prohibition., Henry Watterson’s criticism of State-Wide Prohibition in Ob Kentucky. 2 All this matter appears upon this page, and all persons desirow of accurate information touching this all-important subject are spectfully requested to read the same. Keep in mind the declaration which The Times has repeatediy.s made touching its attitude toward State-Wide Prohibition, to-wity “Prohibition laws do not prohibit the sale and use of intoxicating: liquors,” but exempt all taxes therefrom under the theory that tho © law does prohibit. The Times has published the proof that prohibition does not pro~s hibit so many times that it Is becoming almost monotonous—but it fi fecause of that fact that the Editor is absolutely opposed to any, scheme that frees liquor from the burden It ought to bear in the line! of taxation, and which it does now bear under high license and local, option. 3 rhe question of right or wrong involved in the manufacture and» sale of liquor is not at issue at all-—but the question of whether “prey hibition prohibits” is the vital issue. And simply because prohibition does not prohibit—while high license and local option controls in the one case and prohibits In the other, are the reasons Why The Times stands for high license and. | local option now, as it has stood for eighteen years under the control of the present management. (Reproduced From Seattle Times of August 16th.) (Paid Advertising, Wage-Earners’ League of Washington.) bie