The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-21
WHAT HIS MONEY DID.
A Novel Plan That Was Adopted by
w. 81 Millionaire.

Novel Plan That Was Adopted by
Millionaire.
"It isn't always that money in guam
tity is productive of good results re-
marked a well-known- temperance
worker and moralist to a Washington
Star reporter
II beg your pardon" Interrupted the
reporter. Il know one of the times
and places where 1t would be-
Il think I could name another
laughed the talker; but, joking aside,
I remember on one occasion when a
man with $1.000,0 600 did with 1t what
never knew millionaire to do before
or since. and the good he did lives as
gloriously today as it did forty years
ago when he did it, and 1t will never
die. 1t was in a New England town of
about 5000 or 1000 people, largely of
the factory classes and pretty hard
to handle in the matter of liquor
drinking. / was young man then,
just beginning the work that I have
been trying to win victories in ever
since. and | found the man who gave
the most valuable assistance was this
millionaire, man who not only drank
himself. but offered it to persons at
his house, and in other respects was
by no means man of piety, though
active in all contributions to charity
and church work
He was man of sixty or more
and was popular with the people Of the
town of all classes, seeing that he was
retired and had ample time and money
to make himself on good terms with
everybody. Well, the time came when
we had our fight for the control of the
liquor traffic in the town, and though
we made game fight, the hosts of
Satan were against US and we went
to the wall l felt greatly discour-
aged. but the millionaire was as
CHEEKY as a bird in a sunburst, and
the next day after our defeat he called
me in and proposed his plan to meet
the new order of things.
1t was only what a rich man could
do, and one who had that kind of NOR
al training which does not hesitate at
means. SO long as good will come. I
thought as he did about it, though
with many more doubts and fears than
he had, but he never faltered, and with
In a weeks time he was the proprietor
of the handsomest saloon in town. In
addition he had bar as near as he
could get 1t to every other saloon in
town. In all of these places drinks
were sold at half the price in any 9TH
er place in town, and, as they were as
nice in their appointments, they soon
had all the trade.
In months time several saloons
had gone to pieces, and as each one
closed its doors my friend shut up his
that was nearest to 1t and made the
central one handsomer than ever. FL
nally he owned the only saloon in
town, and as soon as he got things in
that shape he proposed to the drinkers
to sell stuff at a higher price and turn
the profits all into the poor fund. In
view of the fact that he had no opposi-
ton and was prepared to give liquor
away If another saloon opened in town.
ne persuaded the drinkers to do it his
way, and within a years time he had
the entire town salooned by system,
and it was the thriftiest and soberest
town in all New England for ten years
Then the millionaire died, and some
people began monkeying with his plan
and the result was an overset, of
course but he builded so we'll that even
to this day the good is there and it
will ever REMAIN