The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-06
How Willis Brown Would Close the
Saloons.
CAMPAIGN AT CHICAGO
NOTED TEMPERANCE LEADERS,
INTERESTING TALK.
Tells of His Interviews With Hinky
Dink and Bath House John
Should Be less Talk About Par
ley's Canyon Filth and More
About Commercial Street Filth.

Willis Brown of Chicago, president
of the Young Peoples Temperance
Federation Of America, occupied the
pulpit of the First Presbyterian church
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Brown is an
speaker. and the innovation of frequent
bursts of applause was permitted dur
ing the course Of his pithy remarks on
the temperance question. He got right
at his subject by citing an array of
statistics about the annual output of
the Milwaukee breweries, telling how
many gallons of beer, the distance it
would reach if it were bottled and the
bottles placed end to end, the num-
Der of freight cars that would be re-
quired to transport it, and that it
would cost something like S12,000,000 to
settle the freight bills.
Then Mr.. Brown turned his long
range guns on the Philippine islands
and said there were no less than $50
saloons in the city of Manila. and the
tax from beer and whisky exported to
our new possessions in the far east
more than doubles that from all other
exports combined; and that is the
method we are pursuing in order to
wean them from their Ubiquitous ways
and ciEilize them. He does not believe
in Summing, and he never gained any
iAitl OI hiloMlEuSe ny 81 uOin6s
he thought that people tainted their
good intents at the very outset when
they went Summing because they had
To preteEi to be something that they
were not to get conclusive proof
Publication of Chicago.
Speaking of the. publication of Chi
cago. Mr. Brown said: We raised
$4,000, hired detectives to prosecute
the work and expose the dives,
gambling hells, boarding houses, and
other places of infamy. We made
things hot for the allies of satan for
awhile. but the garish glare of thu
dens of vice was too much for the de-
tectives. With a few exceptions they
surrendered body and soul to the
enemy. We waited upon the mayor
and his famous lieutenant, Hinly
Dink, and requested them to use their
influence TO wipe out the immoral blots
that were spattered all over the city.
The mayor told us that he was a
pratical politician; that he owed his
election to the influence eXerted by the
saloon keepers, and asked what assur
ance VIC could give him of the support
of the churches in case he should ac-
cede To our demands. We could give
him none whatever, in spite of the fact
that there are more than 200 churches
in the city of Chicago. Hinky Dink |
told US to get out of his office; that |
he didn't want no preachers botherin' |
him; that if his supporters saw him !
talkin' to a preacher they would go |
back on him.
Bath House John is another Chicago /
statesman: he has given I'D the saloon
business. has bought a suit of. broad
cloth, opened bath house and is get
ting into society. He helps us in our
work.
Coraa House plan
Now what we want to do is to close
the $500 saloons that are running wide
open in Chicago, and install coffee
houses in their stead. If Tom has to go
out to see Bill in the evening about
some work and is too tired after his
hard days work to stand on the street
corner and talk. let them go 10 a coffee
house, not a saloon as they are now
doing, get their coffee and sandwich,
and, if they must do so. spit ali over
the floor. In Chicago there are any
number of Blue Ribbon saloons, filed
with fine furniture and rich upholster-
ngs: they are tempting. and so most
IF the young men go there Some well
meaning, good intentioned people OPEN
I'd Up temperance place in a base
ment that had been used as a plumb
er's shop; it was damp and musty. and
only half cleaned. Then they put some
heap furniture in it and a sign, Try
,ur mince pies, and directly under
heath it another bearing the legend.
Prepare to meet thy God Now that
5 what l call hysterical temperance
work.; il accomplishes nothing. We
must do what must be done systemati-
ally, and not have a cold uninviting
place next to a warm beautiful one and
Expect to wean men and women from
I.
I'VE must get into politics. see that
he right men are put up at the
primaries and elected afterwards, then
We will have respectable common coun- I
ills and licenses will not be granted ad I
ibituln. There will be less bowling 1
bout the water in Pariey's canyon 9
nd a little more attention paid TO the I
EMS and hells of Commercial street. l
len talk about the filth of the water [
n Parley's creek but no mention is X
made OF the filth of Commercial street
ecause it is not respectable |