The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-03-06
SALOONS.


EDITOR ADVANCE: Why cannot we
have i saloon here in Wortl,ington?
Lu Verne has one or more; Jackson has
two or three; Sibley has one; Spirit Lake
has one; and yet their taxes are not as
high rs ours. The saloons ply Il heavy
license which goes to tighten the taxes
or fill the official pockets, which is just
the same, and then see the amount of
money that is kept at home, where 9th
crwise it would he sent away to other
places, and they be built up at our ex.
pense, and besides there are lots of
young fellows, Oh whose hands time
hangs heavily and no where to go, that
would he in constant attendance on 4
saloon, and you would always know
just where to find them. Now you
don't know whether they are off on the
west lake ice-boating or on the east lake
skating, or perhaps they are down in
east part Of town sparkling S;.llie, or in
the north part of town flirting with
l}etsie: Well, you can't tell where they
are. You must just keep hunting till
you find them, and perhaps lose two or
three hours Of valuable time, besides
wearing ont your boots and getting
tired and cross, whereas, if you had i
good saloon on Tenth Street, you could
60 right there ana find them every time,
do let us have saloon.
And then some poor fellow who could
not get i living by work, could make
\ good living by keeping this saloon,
and the money that is how sent away
would be paid to him, and he paying it
to the merchants and they to the farm
ers for produce and then. well then We
could pay our little taxes. Let us have
Il saloon.
And then how dis" grecable it is when
you want to see i man, tia: has no
particular place of business, to he obliq-
Ell to 60 to his house and inquire for
him and most likely meet his wife at
the door (lle never comes to answer the
bell. o, no.) Then you stand looking
as il you had passed two weeks in !;
"blizzartl'' with your old red boots on,
will. the toe gone from one, and two
thirds Of the top blown off from the
other. coat I'LL in strings, and your
overalls, one leg M:.tle out OF an Id bag
and the other OF blue den.ms, and MI
blown to flinders, and your hat, well,
you havn't got any hat. 1t is i thing.
s!lapeless. nameless. so [ won't try to
describe it. but don't you feel mean
though, and wonder if she wont ask
her husband what that old tr,mn
wanted, and all because there il no al.
loon in town. II there had been Won
could have found your man there. done
your business with him, and went back
home without being thus hum,liated
let us haYe i saloon.
And, besides, it would be very con-
venient when 4 farmer went to town to
have 4 place to 60 and get warm, If
We 50 into 4 store there is seldom more
than two chairs and one Of then, usl,-
ally broken and the store keeper or lis
clerk is in the other one, and you must
stand up it you want TO get rested or
sit down on the counter, and if you 90
to = hotel to warn, yourself. lust is like
y rs not the landlord will growl at You
Tor coming there and soaking up heat.
with wool ut seven fifty yer cord, and
neverraying anything for it, and il YOU
want something to warm you internal.
Iy, it will cost you from forty to iifty
cents to get i warm meal, when. if we