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From A Practical Standpoint

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Editor Argus:- It does not seem to me tüat Washtenaw citizens can desire to return to the oíd proaibition days when whiskey was practically free and saloons were inore numerous than dow without the restrictioiis that now hedge them in. Those of us, who have lived here many vears remetnber wel I enough how things weie then and we had enough ot' a prohibition that did not piohibit. We don't care to pay S30,000 a year for the name prohibition. We want intemperance curbed asmuch as possible. We want it checked, and ihe way to do it is not to encourage the building up of social clubs where the young can pass their evenings playing cards and diinking spirituous liquors. We think that would iucrease the evils. And yet who is there that doubtsthat many such clubs would be at once íormed and that many who have not formed the habit of drink ing would join them. lam a temperauce man myself and I believe that if all tiue temperance men would reason out the effects of the local option law for themselves and not be blinded by the outcry raised agaiust the saloonkeepers, they would unite with me in TOting the measure down.

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Old News