Appealing to the Bankers
By Editor
THE liquor interests are turning in every direction to seek to gather influence to withstand the rising sentiment of prohibition. For instance, a circular has been sent out by the National Liquor Dealers' Association to the bankers of the nation calling upon them to use their influence to defeat the Hobson-Shepard resolution before Congress, looking toward nation-wide prohibition. The circular appeals to the banker on the ground of the business that will be destroyed if prohibition should carry. He is urged to both wire and write his congressman, protesting against this Hobson resolution. Of all the people that the liquor interests should appeal to, the bankers are the very last; for it has been the universal experience, where the saloons have been put out, that bank deposits have been thereby greatly increased. So from the standpoint of mere dollars, it is to the banker's interest to favor the Hobson-Shepard measure. But we must not forget that this is not a fight for dollars, but it is a struggle to save men and women from destitution and misery and from all the rest of the evils that the licensed liquor traffic is producing in all nations throughout the world.