Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-02-26
TEMPERANCE IN INDI-
ANA.

T6mE 6kkANC6 In 4N04.
ANA. y
Ku-KLUx WARNING AND THE RE- e
TORT COURTEOUS. =
At Shelbyville, Indiana, when the
was inaugurated against
he whisky sellers, the saloon
keepers indicted the following pre-
monitory warning to the ladies hav-
ing the matter in hand, the letter is
as follows:
ITO Mrs. John Elliott, as President
of the Shelbyville Women's Tenn
perance Alliance, and to all others
concerned:
"You will hereby take notice that
from this time henceforth, if the
Temperance Alliance, of which you
are President, either congregate on
or near or about our premises or
places of business, for the purpose
of holding prayer meetings, or 9th
er meetings, obstructing the side
walk or entrance to our premises or
places of business, or in any manner
interfering with our business, or in
any way molesting us or our agents
by your meetings, we; the under |
signed saloon-keepers and liquor
vendors of the city of Shelbyville,
will hold you and your husbands
liable to civil action for damages
resulting to our business, trade and
avocation, by your obstruction, in
reference and annoyance to US and
our said business. This notice is to
be considered in force from and af-
ter its reading.
august Duprez, Milton j. Nick
um, Robertson & Nickum, S. O'Con-
nor, Silas Metzger, o. G. Keck."
I To which ridiculous nonsense
and threatening twaddle the Wo-
mems Alliance made
THIS CRUSHING ANSWER.
"Messrs. August Duprez, &C.:
'"GENrLEMEN-A letter directed to
the women's Temperance Alliance,
bearing your signatures, was receiv-
ed on Saturday, the 7th instant. As
our designs and desires seem to
have been misunderstood by you,
and as our watchwords are peace,
persuasion and prayer, instead OF
threat, menance and force, we beg
you to accept our thanks for your
letter and to receive in the kindly
spirit which dictates it this reply:
"Gentlemen, you threaten u.s.
We answer in the kindness of our
hearts.
"You warn US to cease praying
and singing in the vicinity of your
saloons, because, as you suggest, it
causes a loss of money to you.
Permit us to answer by saying,
in love and sorrow, that it is you
who are destroying our property,
consuming our resources, sapping
our health, blocking up our side
walks with your drunken men, and
putting us to tens of-thousands OF
dollars expense to restrain and pun,
| ish the criminals you make.
"Governor Leslie, present Cover
nor of Kentucky, in recent mes
sage to his Legislature urging the
passage of law prohibiting the
: business you are engaged in, says:
"In a careful examination of for.
ty-two hundred and fifty-nine pc
= titions filed in this Office since Jan
E uary l, 1870, asking Executive elem
ency, it has been found that three
Thousand one hundred and six o
that number charge their troubles
. upon the use of intoxicating liq
: uors.'
"That is, the disgrace and un
told suffering and expense of con
victing of three of every four per
: sons who commit any infamou!
+ crime and are sent to the peniten
tiary therefore, must be set down a!
the result of the business in which
you are engaged.
"Gentlemen, you are damaging
our property yearly, and we pa.
q these damages partly in our heav!
e taxes. But for your business, Jail
t would almost be unnecessary. Gov
ernor Leslie's astounding statistic
! prove this. Yet in our own tow
e we haye recently had to build jai
l. at a cost of $57 900. The interes
on this sum for the allotted age O
man-three score year and ten-a
e 10 per cent, would be 1899, ,0OO.-
5 The interest per year is $500. Th
y old Jail cost this people $l1 1,OOC
The interest on that sum from lS5
(the date of its construction) t
e 1874, at 10 per cent, is $l9, 800. Ad
J. to this $1,000 for repairs, and W
Ie have a total of $35, 800. This mus
) be added to the cost Of the new jal
> The minor. eighteen years old, wh
gets his liquors in your saloons to
~ day, has lived long enough to Sc
- us invest in jails alone the enormou
8 sum of $92, 800. The interest o
. - that sum is $4,000 per year.
= Gentlemen, permit us to call you
attention to the record of infamou
= crime In our community. The cor
- vlction to the penitentiary from ou
= : county average three per year. Bas
" sing our calculations on one geners
a tion of our race (thirty-three and
Of third years), the convictions. i
ID round numbers, are just one hui
$. dred, Now, the average cost
d, conviction is one hundred dollar
d. per man. That is $4,000 NOR
re The grand jury costs 81 900 pc
e. year. That is $4,000 more for
re- generation. Add the salary of th
,e Prosecuting Attorney, (1,000 pc
at year,, and we have $33, 900 more
,e A grand total of $4,000.
II "Gentlemen, a partial investiga
tion shows that the city of Shelby
vile has made permanent inves
ie ment in buildings for the Polio
q, Court, guard house, DC, of say on'
TX half of the city buildings, whIc
u cost $4,000. That would be $40
e more. The police of our city CO!
w $4O0 for the year ending the day W
le received your letter. The Mayo
D. Marshal, Attorney and Clerk COS