St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 25, 1909

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The Struggle Is A pproaching the Stage When Votes Will Count Instead of Speeches---Woman Lead- er Says the W. C. T. U. Started the Movemeni-- Some Advocates Not Very Ardent.

HE fight -to put Missouri on the ° water | wagon has about got past the Mister- Chairman-and-Gentlemen stage. Oratory, wet and dry, has gone the route, and the aves and noes are called for. Whether the Mysterious Stranger gets shoved astride the sprinkling cart or not, and whether oF not thié State gets into the all-white section of Mrs. Cairns’ big map, it has been a nice di- version for our. legislators. With the lieutenant-governorship wrangle at the bez ning of the session and the prohibition agitation. starting a little later, the Senate and House haven't had time or disposition to get together on much of anything. Result—the law- makers tiave made no laws to speak of, and their time: for making them is almost up. Senator, Krone, who sees no_other good in the prohibition movement, thinks this may be a real benefit. “If the Assembly didn't pass any bills at all, the people might be just as well off,” he remarked a few days ago. But the teachers and attendants in some of the State institutions, who have been going without their pay several months, while waiting for the appropriation bill to pass, would suggest one ex- ception to this statement. And Gov. Hadley, whose pet measures have been pigeonholed while legislators argued whether saloons are _ better than drug stores, has found lumbago the least of his troubles. FISH AND GAME LAW IS ABOUT ALL THAT HAS PASSED. HE fish and game law has passed both houses, and that is about all. Even the | nine-foot bed sheet bill,“how amended by cutting off 11 inches-—-from the sheet, not the bill—has not been spread on the statutes, and after all the airing it has had, it may be tucked in at the end and covered with the blanket of oblivion. After the showing prohibition has made at Jefferson City this session, who will be so rash as to predict that woman suffrage, or single tax, or any of the weakly looking causes of today, will not have us Missourians all stirred up‘with- in the next few years? Even with crackling dry territory scattered all around, in Missouri and outside, most St. Louis- ans are still wondering how this_ prohibition movement all happened, anyway. Look up an old-time party Prohibitionist, and the chances are you will find him more surprised than~ anybody else. Ever since the ‘seventies there has been a Pro- hibition ticket every four years, but the only time most people heard of it was when a man named Swallow was the candidate for President. In Missouri, if you didn’t happen to see a 10-line item in the newspapers the day after the State convention, telling who was nominated for Gov- ernor, you had to wait until the official ballot was printed to find out. Ww. Cc. T U. MAKES WEALTHY MEN QUIT BUSINESS TO GO TO CAPITAL. HE W.C. T. U. was better advertised, espe- clally after George Ade put it into a song - im the “Sultan of Sulu.” But as for its starting anything which would make 40 of the wealthiest. men in St. Louis take a day off and go to Jefferson City in a herculean effort to stop hee why, afew years ago the suggestion wouldn't ™ Gok Ses 5s St eT 7 pec save a BBs 4 GE ey aaa as 3 ieee rad eke . Me geek é, es od ies ae Pa . 2 its leader, is given. It days when We used to wear Knee pants and march to temperance picnics carrying a big banner with the word:, “Tremble, King Alcohol, We: Shall trembling King Alcohol seemed to do was in his fear that some of us would grab too much of the free lunch. But to return to Mrs. Ingalls: “This movement,” says the gentle-voiced leader of the amendment forces, “is the result of the ed. ucational work the W. C. T. U. has been doing for the last 30 years. The voung men who supported this measure io the House received their training in Sunday schools and Bands of Hope and Good Templars’ lodges in the small towns and country villages of Missouri in the days when the W. C. T. U. was most active. And the result is that they are on our side today, and when Mr. Lloyd -tried to line some of the young Republicans up with the St. Louis members, they showed him that they were not to be coerced.’ ONE SUBMISSION ADVOCATE NOT AN ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST. HIS explanation may account for Represen- T tative Killion, the tall young Cedar County schoolmaster, who fathered the prohibition resolution in the House. But Senator Josiah W. Peck, who is 53 years old now, was a pretty big boy in the days Mrs. Ingalls mentions, and proba- bly was never in a Band of Hope at all. That may be why Senator Peck, who intro- duced the resolution in the upper house, is not quite.so ardent and thorough a Prohibitionist as some of the sisters quietly wish he were. He is for prohibition, but he doesn’t think the world will come to an end if it is not carried right away. Also, if his colleagues think best to put 4, Pom ; >; Sr \\ WS reminds some of us of'th®'*’ ia Se

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a tax rider on the. amendment, why, do it “One of the ministers told me a tax rider would defeat the amendment at the polls,’ said Sen- ator Peck to the writer the other day. “I told him if that would beat it, it ought to be beaten. ‘The thing for you to do,’ I told him, ‘is to get let them

HALL the Missouri Senate concur in the S ous liquors in' Missouri after Jan. 1, 1913? MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN WET BECAUSE Prohibition has failed to prohibit in other States, and cannot be enforced in any com- munity where local option cannot be car- ried. Its adoption in Missouri would mean loss of revenue and destruction of business interests, without giving assifrance of im- proving moral conditions. Breweries and other liquor interests. in Missouri have $120,000,000 invested in busi- ness; supply their products to all parts of the world; pay in wages annually $9,000,000; spend for materials and in operating ex- penses annually $21,000,000; pay in annual rentals to owners of business property $,- 500,000; pay in State, city and county taxes annually, $4,400,000; pay Missouri ratlroads in freight charges annually $3,800,000; maintain valuation of business property estimated at $30,000,000 in value; provide livelihood to 195,000 persons.” ' |

THE MISSOURI ISSUE. tatives, submitting to vote of the people at the November (1910) election, an amend- ment to the Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture or sale of malt, spiritous or vin- The approval of the Governor is not required. THE ARGUMENTS. resolution, passed by the House of Represen- MISSOURI SHOULD GO DRY BECAUSE Other states which have adopted prohibi- tion have not suffered financial panics or shortage of revenue. Prohibition in Mis- souri would mean a readjustment of large business interests, but would not confiscate a dollar's worth of real estate, buildings or machinery. The money now’ spent for liquor, if expended instead for the neces- saries of life, would stimulate every branch of manufacturing and producing business. Regardless of financial considerations, _ the State, on moral grounds, should cease tO sanction the liquor traffic by the license system. The financial argument made - against prohibition would have applied with equal force to racetrack gambling, now out- lawed, and could be used: in favor of the maintenance of publictotteries in countries where such institutions still exist. Prohi- bition, even when, indifferently. enforced, is far preferable to license from the stand- point of moral results.

out your arithmetic and figure how this taxation question is going to be met after the liquor reve- nue is cut off, and then get out on the stump anu. tell people about it when campaign time comes. If you can’t tell the people how the State is going to get the revenue, the chances are the amend- ment will be beaten anyway, tax rider or no tax rider.’ “If the submission resolution is beaten—and | anticipate it will be—I am going to introduce 1 bill to have a commission appointed to investigate prohibition in other states and make a report when the next Assembly meets. “A question that has been pending as long as this one has can wait a few years longer, if neces- sary, until the people and the Legislature get a better understanding of it.” Bil ce: ELDER JONES WILL TRY TO KEEP UP WITH STAMPEDED HEHD. LL of which does not sound very much like A the typical prohibition advocate, who pro- claims that a distinct and dire public stu is committed every time the porter sweeps out a saloon in the morning and the bartender opens the front door. 2 But Peck, the practical, is the mainstay.of.the movement in the Senate, and the more impatient souls on the outside have had to make the best of it . The Rev. E. F., Jones, state secretary ‘of the Anti-Saloon League and avowed lobbyist jor stronger local option measures, has also been ac- cused by, the Prohibitionists of not being one of them. Elder Jones answers, in the language of a weil- known hymn, that his fears, his hopes and hix aims are one with those of the Prohibitionists, but “he admits that he does not share aj! their anxiety to have Missouri “go the limit” at once. “I'm like a cowboy following up a stampeded herd,” says the minister-lobbyist, who spent some can: get them around of thelr.own Nhs Sarit eae, Deh Sa Rites SS. ng: os ae i ony aR YS

ae 2 ; Fin, 3 ee 5 vA m™ a2 ay ts Ah ~” Ae a ! es eG INITIATIVE OFFERS CHANCE FOR “DRY” ADVOCATES TO CARRY POINT INCE the running of the ‘“Pawnbrokers’ S Special,” as the St. Louis bankers called the train that carried them to Jefferson City the other day, things have looked as if some higher power than the Legislature would have to be invoked to get the prohibition question before the people. , The higher power exists, and one needn't spell “power” with a capital ‘P,” as if it were any- thing divine, in speaking of it. It is entirely a human power, and its game in the Missouri Con- stitution is the initiative, although some persons, confusing it with its twin brother, cal] it the _ referendum. 7 ‘ Missourians voted the initiative into the Consti- tution last fall, South St. Louis along with the rest, apparently with a light heart and never thinking that they were handing their enemies a jimmy with which to enter their homes and rob them of their cherished personal liberty... To get prohibition submitted to the people under the initiative, petitions from 11 of the State’s 16 congressional districts are required, with the names of ‘not more” than 8 per cent of the voters of each district. This, o& it stands today, would be fulfilled by one signature in each district, 11 in all. But the Legislature has the right to fix a percentage, not higher than 8, : be required. ONLY 40,000 NAMES NEEDED TO INSURE HAVING VOTE. == ECRETARY OF STATE ROACH, who will - be official recipient of the petitions if there are any, has figured the matter out on an 8, per cent basis, and says it would taxe about 40,000 names to make up.8 per cent of the vote in the 11 dryest districts of the State. ‘Forty thousand names!” say the Prohibition- iste. “Why, that’s easy. We've got more than For the prohibition folk contend that th# re- of 26,000 signatures to the petitions is far too low, and senators ani = 4 * 7 ans . * ~~ , — OR ANS ee Pe ee ao ae ee eb ee. Yada a + a Vie pti ee ‘ ae RNR so URE atin > - by rd Be Gk EEN She G yA Se mea ee we aes ee MS "

time it is admitted that several thousand of women and minors are'on the petition Mrs. Ingalls, who says the W. C. T. U, started @ majority of the present petitions, declares tha® ” new petitions will be made ready at once, if the Assembly fails to act, and that the prohibit question, without any tax riders or wait-till-19l@ amendments, will be put before the people. —j. The election is to be held within ninety day after the petitions are filed. The time Z + th Be x — be regulated by the organizers of the c ign, who can hold back the petitions until a’ ready to send them in. The dry people » ee decided yet whether they would better hold af election next fall or the following spring, or ig” the fall of 1910, the last being the time named ia the bill now before the Senate. _e “DRYS". WORRIED BY Ss POSSIBILITY OF TESTING LAW. ~ HERE is one thing, in connection with th | T initiative end of the matter which we : | the drys and gives hope to the wets. is the fact that the aforesaid initiative has been tested in the courts. If a “case” can be made of it--and who ever saw the matter that lawyers could not make | :o case of?—and it can be thrown into the Supreme Court, the “congested” docket of the Court to be good for a year’s delay, at least. So the wets, sub rosa. Senator Peck, who is a lawyer and a banker — anticipates 4 fight in the courts before the prow hibition proposition gets much farther in any form. , “And I imagine the Supreme Court will hoig its ear to the ground a little while before it Ges” cides,”"“Re remarked. “There would be nothing wrong in its doing so. The wishes of-the peogee should govern in this matter.” a ot Oa ee Perhaps, if the initiative is used, we shall fing out what the real issue is. Nearly everybody wh has been arguing before the Legislature lately ha ) accused nearly everybody else of not KnOWIE what the issue is, or of misstating it. against prohibition to the Legislature and som one on the dry side will invariably tell you % question isn’t prohibition but whether the pew ple shall have the right to decide, etc., ete, “3 Talk against the saloons, and you are i di- ately told by the wets that the issue is the Drews” eries and the number of men they employ. — | “No,” answer the drys, “the issue is the pubig morals.” At which the other side comes be with the argument that if saloon liquor the public morals, blind tiger booze exte them altogether. ; MORE VOTES NEEDED . IF ARID PROGRAM I8 TO PREVAIL, HE initiative further muddies up the id | sue, for some argue that the Assembly, 0% > turning down prohibition, will only mam it stronger with the . Others, taking a ee iS MENTPublic’s attitude toward the submission resolution, would give the “cause” official indorsement, and would line up the pow ticians for prohibition. ae That something will have-to make a lot of n@ prohibition votes, if the arid program is to pi vail, was shown by figures published two ‘ ree! ago in the Post-Dispatch. These figures 07 that in the 72 dry counties of the State, 1 rh prohibition sentiment is the tt on est, the total vote which \ made ™ was 153,000, against 123,000 cast to