Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20
A Plea for DOwDtrodden Saloons
Keepers.

ED. BULLETIN Il hear that the City Fa-
theirs are about to insist on contribution
of 5000 each from our worthy saloonists. 1t
seems to ma that they have Int upon a very
| iniudicious way of fostering the useful oecu>
pations, and in the name of deeply ITO bel
injured yet strangely acquiescent commnn'-
| ty. vehemently protest. If the city must
| have the money, let it be raised from the
preachers or milliners, or from any other
class save those poor, downtrodden, mnch>
| abused but inotensive vendors of gentle
| beverages, who, as general thing are COM
prised of such delicate fiber as to be quite
incapable of obtaining a livelihood after the
manner Of common people.
] don't remember, Mr. Elitor, OF ever be.
fore having felt so outraged as when heard
Of this hagitious scheme. | can't recoliect
any iuovation partl ell to it since the lands
ing of tile Msynower, or the advent of Tom
Curtis new omnibus. These poor, persecu
ted dispensers of lager seem to have fallen
upon evil times. The present age is be-
coming unaccountably prejudiced against
their calling, and some absurd people really
seem to think there is reason for it. Only
last week | ventured 70 ventilate my notions
vi tUeSc fHdttcIs W SuIth II bt Jtt3 (tuF
Captain is my next door neighbor,) when
he became SO excited that | really had TO
stop him. He blamed those saloon folks
for all the arson, larceny, murder riot and
crime ever committed, and said one couldn't
pick up a paper that didn't tell Of one or
more lives lost by liquor drinking. "Stop,
Captain" says !, "Those stories are got up
bv fanatics, and I've noticed they always
happen a good ways off. Here in the State
OF Iowa, and Buchanan county, we don't
have such troubles" "We don't eh! We
don't2' says the Captain, Il thought he
stood about six inches taller than ever saw
him before.) "Why, the life wasn't nearly |
kicked and pounded out of a drunken man |
in Hazleto,, by q saloou>keeper las; winter. |
was it? A few years ago, right here in In
on Main ST, a man wasn't shot |
dead in q drunken carousal, was he On !
" last winter drunken man wasn't browns
cd within one hundred rods OF the Court |
House. was he? Another drunken man IA
few weeks ago, didn't lay down on the h.
r. track, within the city limits, and lose his
liz. by the cars running over him, did he
Another one in our county last winter, while
didn't lose his lie by running
= lesiu on DFluIF, VIA hc AhDl ''t
man in our county last winter, a member OF
a party Of hymenial serenaders, wasnt Shot
dead because he and his party refused to
leave the premises OF an tier until they had
been supplied with whisky, was he? Q,
no We don't-arc don't have such troubles
in the State of iowa. Buchanan County!
Now, Van Puddle" My name is Van Fud>
die. Mr.. Editor. as you viii see when you
come 10 the bottom Of this page,) mo" Van
Puddle, voa know about each of these cases,
and vet YOU say that IL Buchanan county
re don't hare such troubies 7 Captain
De Tot says |, ''Stop! II you can't talk
On this subject without twi'ting on facts,
you'd best not talk at all
With that turned on my heel and left.
Mr. Editor, we live in land of freedom,
and for one don't calculate to see our lib
critics abbreviated, Especially in regard to
liquor selling,) without an effort to prevent
it. | do not doubt you are willing to look
at the matter through my glasses, and as to
he two hundred daliar ordinance, aforesaid
and enumerated. | trust you will be found
lighting tooth and toe nail against it. The
A nerican Eagle Is tremendous big bird
Let US all be watchful that he doesn't lose
even SO much rs a tal!>ieather.
Anxi0nsly yours,
ILIIcIT VAN PUDDLE, ESQ.