Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
Addrs.. to the People.

and plans OF administration should
that responsibility be continued with
us.
Believing that the saloon is thor
oughly pernicious institution, we are
unalterably opposed to giving II munich
pal sanction and protection In our
Judgment license is nothing less than
an article of partnership and license
fees are dividends returned to the city
treasury from the profits Of wrecking
the homes of the people.
That some men will drink or gamble
in violation of moral law. We are free to
admit, is matter of personal morals,
but that the city should tolerate and
share profits with an institution that
exists to foster vice and abet crime is
matter of municipal morals and in
wolves the character Of every voter
II il is wrong for an individual to
run saloon it is wrong for city to
give its permission for consideration.
Believing that no financial profit can
compensate moral loss we arraign the
license system Al league with dis
honor and a covenant with shame
We confidently insist that what is bad
In morals must be bad In business.
That the principle Of no license Is
good policy needs no fuller vindication
than the evident prosperity and hopeful
outlook OF our city under the reform
administration. Great corporations
have csntsred here. the Electric Raj!
way 10 Cripple Creek is well under way
Of construction, building interests are
active business firms have realized an
improvement in cash payments, and
best OF all. sober. law-abiding citizens
have been attracted to our city as At
place to rear . family.
That the Reform administration Of
the last two years has not recorded ~
ccmplsle financial Improvement ~ ws
|suufssa isuse 70 - shaEUsd - lAoh -
compesenc- or ability but to conditions
inherited from past government OF the
city. II hills have been heavy in some
instances the contracts were made and
franchises granted under the high IL
c~nse administrations. II ought not to
be forgotten that with high license
income and tax rate but small frxc-
ton under the present the license ad-
ministrstion Of the past bequeathed to
US an Impoverished treasury and a
bonded debt Of forty thousand dollars
That some lawiess characters have
sought to defy the law against the
sale OF intoxicants, and that two or
three Of these are still under suspicion.
can not be charged to the neglect or
carelessness OF the Reform administra.
ton. The license system breeds law
lessness, and It is not to be expected
that all the fruits of pernicious Gus
tom should b. destroyed in = year and
a half.
That II Is difiicult to curb or control
an Institution that thrivcs by promot-
ing vice the continuous failures to en-
force the restrictive features of the H.
cense laws abundantiy declare. But
that We have not failed Is well proven
by the assessed fines against the law
less, and the fact that every open sa-
loon 10 abolished.
1t is a significant feature of the plat
form Of the Tax Payers ticket that
morals and moral interests have no
claim or statement, rs II sAioon reve.
pues were the chief concern OF n pros.
porous community.
II elected our candidates pledge
themselves that the ordinances of the
city shall more thoroughly declare dis
approval Of the liquor traffic and every
abuse of these laws, whether in drug
store, dive or joint, shall be punished to
the full extent OF our power.
S. II. ArwArER.
Mrs. IDA NJ. IRELAND.
Mrs. KATE RoeERs.
Mus. 5. b. SILLlMAN.
u. s. OKEY.
II. A. CHASE