Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-20
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by the dram sellers and taken to the
polls. Also a considerable number OF
ladies from the families OF military off.
GERS and Others were induced by the
plea that license would benefit the pub
lie treasury, to vote against prohibition.
But the w. q. T. u. worked vigorously
and o large majority of the women OF
the territory threw prohibition votes.
But for their ballots unquestionabiy the
result would have been reversed. A
small number OF ladies of decidedly tenn
peranoe sentiment, but equally decided
against woman suffrage, refused to vote.
The Adnaace.
BY THEIR FRUITS TIE SHALL KNOW THEM
Compare the liquor traffic with other
trades-we call up the blacksmith, and
say, You get money, ONE UP here and
bring specimens of your work" He
would come and holding up a horse shoe,
would say, Here is my work; every
time ] put a shoe on q mans horse he is
better of. and | am better off, if he
pays me-
Now we want to test the man Of the
dram shop by the same standard. 'Come
up sir, you must come into the same
scales of political economy and be weigh
ed. you toll not, neither do you epin,
yet few wprkmen can wear such clothes
as you do. What are you giving for
what you get? Bring q finished spsci-
men Of yonr work; hold it up and show
us its line pointH.'' What would he
bring What does the dram shop
manufacture? Ii has always manufao.
tnred drnnkards-frst, last and all the
time. A dram.shop keeper is as much q
drnpEped Ynu Gap oc n A N fLak 1855
shoes 10 o shoemaker. You GO down
the street, and seeing q new wagon, stop
TO admire 1T, and say, III
wonder who made i.g ~ did SIR,
answers the wagonmaker. rs may be
dressed In poor clothss but he is proad
as he oontemplates his finished work.
While visiting q fair With q friend /
stood at q pen looking at q cali. .I
wonder who raised that calf said my
friend; II did, answered the farmer
standing near. and Strengthened HIM
self up ns much as TO say, II am proud
OF my work" AS you pass along the
street you often seeother work finished,
sitting on the curb or wailowiDg in the
gutter. Stop and AJAX Whose Job is
is this?" Will the drunkardmaker run
out OF his factory and say, II did that
work" Why will they not defend their
work. When they have finished a man
they kick him out in the street. Ii the
liquor business iB respectable its pro-
ducts must be--they have their own
work and acts to meet and defend; this
much and NO more.
THE FARMER AND THE SALOON.
The great argument used for lioenainp
the saloons is that a revenue is thus
secured to lessen taxation ;license money
will build sidewalks, support schools
and do many other things which other
wise would have to be paid for directly
out Of the pocket of the tax PAYERS.
Professor Foster ani DIR. Herrick John
. have in these columns, 80 well
shown the fallaoy of this claim, we
spend no time on 1t now. There ia
another phass of the question to which
we wish to call thce especial attention of
our farmer friends. It ia this; license
money does not decrease your taxes one
cent; but the saloons do incrsase your
taxes enormously. You are not faxed
to build side walks, light the streets. or
do any OF the things it is claimed the
license money does Y6r' the town. But
You are taxed, and that right heavily. TO
pay the connty's bills for courts, tails.
poor houses, care of the insane and
things like that. The land Won AVN
pays the bulk of the county taxes: be-
side that, you are often taken from your
work at the busiest season OF the wear
to sit on grand or petit %iuries, two three
or Tour weeks At e time, when every davis
absence foots up a dead loss to you.
VIA do these courts do? Examine
The docket OF any county we're liquor is
sold and see il whisky is not at the
bottom Of fully one-half the criminal
cases. A man goes into a licensed
saloon, gets drunk, zones ont e raying
iunatlc, murders another man, and ynu
try, CONVICT and hang him, or put him In
prison Tor life. Such q case in my own
country lately cost in couyt expenses
$4,000. The county, whicn means
mainly the farmers, footed the bill while
the city pocketed the Thousand dollar
fee for the license which allowed the
liquor that did the deed, to be sod.
Again, we have just built o $4,000
jail. and il ia pretty well filed with
frnits OF the saloon. You paid q larger
proportion OF the $4,000 than. the CITY
did; it affords aaocomCdationsn to vary
few Of your class, and you receive NOT q
cent OF the license fee paid BIZ the
saloons that had the biggest ahare n
filling 1T. The poorhouse and farm are
Just out side the city limits aud yop /
feel battered when the state authorities
report it the best kept institution
OF the kind In the state. Well nan
1or you are back OF that institution. SO
iar o. money goes, for the taxes wont
pay, IN large measure, sustain it. Rnt
sss physician, hirnseAa drinking man,
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