The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-25

SIMPLY
THAT. THOSE WHO WOULD DE-
STROY YOUR FAMILIES MAY
MAKE MONEY OUT OF
YOUR WRETCHEDNESS
AND SORROW!
If these men had petitioned for the
privilege of starting school in your
township to encourage gambling, idle
ness, thieving, pauperism and crime,
you would have been Mortified if the
Trustees had given them permission!
If these men had petitioned for the
privilege of turning snakes and scor-
pions loose among your children on the
school grounds, the Trustees who
granted the privilege would have been
driven from the township by the en-
ragged people.
If some wretch would come among
you and offer to pay big bonus, if you
would allow him to auction off lot of
clothing that had been exposed to
smallpox, you would drive him from
the township and burn his goods!
| Yet you are debating the question
whether you will deliberately permit
an evil to come among you, that is
worse than snakes and scorpions, worse
than smallpox and that has done a
thousand fold more evil in the world
than all these!
Look about youi look in the Infirm-
ary! look in your Jail! look in your pen
itentiary! and see what it has done to
ruin the happiness of homes! to blast
the lives of parents, wives and children,
and answer before your God and your
neighbors if you are ready to vote to
Ipermit such a thing!
If you hand man a revolver, know
ing that he will probably use it to mur.
der a neighbor, you will be held by the
law, and by your God, as accessory. tc
the crime. You cannot escape your
responsibility.
The Church, the State, the Civilized
World, has condemned this evil thai
you are asked to let into your township
The State says it shall not be sold
n On Sunday,
On election days,
To minors,
To drunkards, -
Near churches,
Near school houses,
Near Children's Homes,
)I Near asylums,
In the penitentiary,
In State institutions,
On Fair Grounds!
Railroads prohibit the use of it b,
their employees,
Manufactures will not hire its vic
Tins,
q No man can get position as teacher
who is known to be drinker,
No man is permitted to preach il
lyour pulpits who drinks the accurse
. stuff!
@ 1t is condemned, therefore, by tn
o State, by the Church, by the commu
g nifty, by the business world, as
ldemoralizer, as a disturber, as dc
h Istroyer, as a curse, and yet you, tn
good people of Washington township
are asked to vote this curse into you
! community
Do it, and just as certain as there is
q God who will sit in judgment, and me
= will have to answer for the deeds the
IS have done in the body, you will be hel
# responsible for your share of the gull
p for the crimes that may be visited o
q your community because of it!
III Vote in the saloon, and every resol
about the reservoir, every village
your township will have it's salool
Vote for it, and you will have recor
4 of crimes you have never dreamed o
4 Vote for it, and the scum of humanity
;, this and other States will come in Q
you with their Sunday excursions,
- change your Sabbaths to day I
a revelry, to fill your villages and resor
70 and public ways with drunken brute
to insult your wives and daughters, an
=, drive you from the township from
!, sheer sense of shame and decency!
You don't think it will be so bat
,f You forget that a railroad has alt
r. gether changed the situation with yo
n and opened up your rural homes
the Sunday visitation of the riff raft
il the cities, and the every day visits
the buns, who leave their distal
20 homes to fish and drink-unrestraine
- by home influences!
" Don't say the local option law is nj
;. enforced and apply that balm to yol
. conscience! 1t is enforced, that is WI
its repeal is demanded! And it is q
forced today, and will be enforced
the future till it's violators are drive
from their nefarious business!
n- There is no good to come to yol
~ township by inviting in the evil saloo
e. except you would get a few dollars ia
from the saloon! One murder woul