The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-26
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Factory Owner Conquers the Demon Rum and Does Not n
Personal or Property Rshts-f1is Methods in
Solving Knotty Problem.

teal and religious. The horny hand is the
sign-manual OF the town and the o'clock
whistle is it's call TO arms,
As municipality, ten years ago. L.
was a model Of Its class. Its taxes were
light. its debt was small. its people were
above the average. its business credit was
good, its bonds sold above par, its criminals
were no more numerous than those OF It's
sister towns and its twelve saloons paid
$50 a year each into the city treasury and
furnished no more for the police to do
than that number OF saloons doss IN any
town of working people. On the whole. L.
rather patted itself on the back with pride
and looked with some degree OF scorn upon
its less fortunate sisters, as indeed II had
a perfect right TO do under the circum-
Stances
Then came one Joseph Martin to the
town. Mr.. Martin was a young man OF
character and education: q graduate or
Yale. as we'll as of a medical and law
school. and his father had sent him on
many voyages about the world for the pur-
pose OF widening his knowledge and
strengthening his Judgment. Then the old
gentleman had died. leaving 10 his only
son. Joseph. all his factory interests in
l.. representing a million dollars or
more. When Joseph had come TO
Il to look over his property. as his faith
err had done only at directors meetings ana
on other official occasions, he was inter-
ested in certain social problems and moral
questions, and 1t occurred 10 him that L.
might prove to be fair field for the de-
velopment OF his ideas. He remained q
close and careful observer for three months.
and then announced that he would take
personal supervision of the conduct Of the
largest factory In the place. employing 20
men and boys, more or less. and become a
citizen of the town to do his share In the
maintenance OF its prestige. Now his real
work began but there were no immediate
evidences of 1t. because Joseph Martin, like
other great bodies, moved slowly
On the first night Of his arrival In L..
three months previous. which was Satur-
day, he had walked about the streets un-
known, and had seen more drunken men
than he had seen in six months of travel
in foreign lands; he had been jostled on
the sidewalk by several of them: he had
been the object OF not few hilarious, but
scarcely polite. salutations. and he had
been compelled at one point to dodge into
a doorway TO get out OF the thick OF a
scrap that the police soon settled by
carrying three OF Its factors OF to the
station house Mr. Martin had lived long
enough in the United States to know that
there was nothing unusual in this. indeed.
as young fellow In college. he had even
closer knowledge of 1t than he had receiv-
his mind and his morals had undergone
radical change In the dozen years since his
graduation. and these Saturday night sights
were not pleasing to him In this town from
which he had derived his support and from
which he now possessed his fortune.
Soon after Joseph Martin had become
president OF his company and manager OF
his factory with interests In several others,
he greatly shocked the better element or
the community by declining to lend his
aid and support to a movement looking to
the abolition Of the rum traffic by an ordi-
nance introduced into the city council. and
many unkind things were said Of him by
those who had heard him express his opin-
ion of saloons and their bad effects. "Sa-
loon keepers have rights we are bound TO
respect" he said. They exist because
there Is demand for them. and passing
a CITY ordinance to abolish them, leaving
the cause of their existence Is like trying
to cure AN epidemic with pills while neglect
Ing the sewers and the cesspcois. 1t Is
against natura. laws and / decline to as
sist in the impossible"
Six months later he had established at
his own expense what he was pleased to
call The Had Enough Haven. a place
where man who had taken too much
drink could be housed and cared for be-
fore he had reached the police stage. This
was n hazardous experiment. and those
who did not laugh at the founder said he
was crank. but IT was not long until he
had supplemented the Haven by an ad-
Joining club house containing a reading
room. snoking-room. pool tables billiards.
library. bowling alley and other forms OF
advertisement. including bar at which all
manner Of soft drinks were dispensed
at market prices This he called the Safe
ty Club and admission to all its advan-
tages was pat at $ per annum or at 20
cents a month IL the applicant did not
have as much ga IS to surrender ut once
Some good people found fault and said
that men should be saved free of cost but
Mr.. Martin argued that Il man did not
value his salvation sufficiently TO pay a
little something for IL he was not worthy
OF salvation. and the s. fee stood and the
club increased In numbers
Mhen The VAIN weather ,e