The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-17
ANTI SALOON.


County local option is fair and Just,
because it gives to each taxpayer of the
county the right to say by his vote
whether he wants to be taxed to pay for
criminal prosecutions at the county seat
in cases not that would never been had it
been for the saloons Of the county.
All say that it is fair and just that the
taxpayers of the county should help to
pay for the Jail and court house, where
criminals are kept and tried, then why
should not all the taxpayers have the right
to vote out the saloons Of the county
whether they are in their townships or
not, so long as the criminal is the prod
uct of the saloon, and the taxpayers pay
the costs Of his prosecution?
Why should not all taxpayers of the
county have the right to say by their
votes whether institutions shall exist in
the county that makes their taxes more?
Saloons make criminals: criminals
make taxes: and the taxes make the peO-
pie of the whole county hustle to pay
them. The less saloons there are in the
county, the less crime there is to punish,
the less taxes to pay. Every time wit
nesSeS draw their fees in the criminal
case; every day jurors sit in criminal
trial, they get from the county treasurer
their pay for the service. That pay
comes out of the people of the whole
county. And the chances are ten to one
that the criminal case would not have
been, had it not been for the open saloon.
Two men were convicted and sent to
the penitentiary, few months ago, for
killing boy in Avon; they did it while
they were drunk. The trials were had in
court house, each lasted several days,
there were large number of witnesses
present. The costs were many hundred
dollars. Who paid these costs? The
witnesses and jurors all went to- County
Treasurer Chapman's Office and got their
pay. Wheredid Chapman get the money?
He got it from the taxpayers. And who
were the taxpayers? The people of Avon
where the saloon existed, out Of which
the murder trial grew? Some Of them
paid their proportion Of these taxes. but
the taxpayers in Rochester, Huntington,
Pen6eld, Brighton, Camden, Pittsfeld,
Columbia, Eaton, Carlisle, Wellington,
Russia, and so on, where there are no sa-
looms, helped pay for these trials that
would not have been had it not been for
the saloons down in Avon. Then is it
not fair that the people of these several
townships should have the right to vote
out the saloons down in Avon that breed
crime, that make taxes they are called
upon to pay?
If the people of the county believe that
the foregoing position is correct then let
them from this time forward, on every
occasion, say so to their neighbOrs, in
private and in public, let them come
down to the great anti-saloOn rally on
April 80 at Elyria, and say so there.
Let us all rise in the dignity of good
citizenship and by supporting in every
way the principle of county local option,
wipe out of this fair county every sa-
lOOn-the hot-beds of all crime, the
sources Of about all evil, the places
where the crime originates which fills
our new Jail with young men, and takes
up several weeks of each term of court at
the expense of the taxpayers in the pros
ecutiOn of these unfOrtunates.
Let us do this as a matter Of self-pres-
ervatiOn, not only of our youth and man
hood, but Of our means and substance.
Let Lorain county be heard all over
Ohio. Let it be said that the birth place
of this anti-salOon movement believes in
its child and its destiny.
Let everybody come to this great meet
ing without any reference to his age OF
sex, politics or religion. The only thing
we want to know is, are you an enemy Of
the open saloon? If so come and say SC
by your presence and your voice.
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