The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-31

they know, while wards" dreaming and
waking moments are much like the taxes OF
Dukesmith as they are now and as they are
when multiplied.
Ward" says again:
The prohibition state of Iowa pays for 600
MORE government licenses than the free
whiskey, no-license state of Kentucky, with
but $4,000 more population. Maine has one
license for every 113 voters throughout that
prohibition state. This county has one to
225 men. These are Washingtonian facts
Dreaming again it must be or may be par
TALLY awake. Strange things happen in
Kentucky. Even Bob Ingersoll won't be so
sure of Ky's politics in the future In Ken
lucky something like thirty counties are
under local option. Iowa is not more of a
prohibition state than Kentucky. Iowa has
local option law or the mulct law, which
allows saloons under the most stringent reg
ulatiOns. Possibly now it is the stringent
regulations that make up the great number
of government licenses spoken of, which
every man of intelligence knows is paid by
druggists as we'll as by saloon keepers. And
while there are druggists who sell liquors
for non-medicinal purposes, their proportion
is about the same as editors who pay no
taxes.
AS to the number of licenses in Maine it
is matter of indifference. Whatever kind
of drugs they dispense from their stores
there the effect is happy A state that hon
ored man like James g. Blaine, who diff
fered from Ward" on the efficacy of pro-
hibition as much as do the board of super
visors of Eaton county. cannot be in bad
| way. A state that now has the speaker of
the House of Representatives land as hope
the next president of the United States,) the
president pro tenn of the Senate, the chair
man of the committee on Ways and Means,
and on Naval Affairs, and ablest delegation
note. If this is what prohibition does for
state the sooner Michigan has it the better.
Politics in Maine are clean. They select
men of strength and not men who can draw
proud of, and the inference drawn from the
number Of druggist licenses falls very fiat.
Names leading men like Frye, Dingley,
Chamberlain and Boutelle, have expressed
themselves as forcibly as have the board of
supervisors of Eaton county; yet it remains
for Shiawassee county's aodrd and Shiawas-
sees non-tax-paylng editor-guardan of the
ward, to denounce Names laws and accuse
the state of poverty.
Ward" closes as follows:
Farmers of Shiawassee county
Do you value your hOmes"
BY reason of saloon expenses in The coun-
ty they are becoming more costly in point of
taxes paid. In Eaton county local option is
lessening expenses.
''DO you value your s0ns?"
Think there is one at least from wards"
town who because of habitual drunkenness
was sent to the Detroit House of Correction
for safe keeping. Sort of safety deposit
place for valuables as ''Ward" considers
valuables.
'DO you value your daughters?"
Just allow the daughters to express them
selves to you on the saloon question and its
value as they will express it will be less
than Dukesmith's taxes before and after
local option.
''Do you value your own happiness and
well being?"
Speaking for the farmers, however, it
might be said that his own happiness and
we'll being has been very much disturbed by
the taxes he pays caused by the saloon, and
the comparative insignifcance of Duke
smiths contributions along the same line.
'Do you desire to assist compensation for
hard earned labor?"
you wake up the next time make it little
palmer.
''Do you desire not to increase the num-
Der of blasted homes?"
There seems to be something the matter
with the idea here. 1t needs mendng dur
ing your waking hours.
"Do you desire the hand of misery stayed
and happiness undminished? Then work
and vote against the local option law. Dare
TO do right"
Much as we would like to accommodate
you in this matter of retaining the saloon
for your convenience and "undiminished
happiness" it is rather expensive, and for
the present it will have to go. Better lay in
stock in case of emergencies.
LOCAL OPTION.
p. S.-Since writing the above we are in
| formed that the editor of the Durand Ex-
press has contributed 50 90 to this county
| in the shape of fine for assault aud battery,
| and hence may be technically a taxpayer.
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