Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-04
10 INVADE 0|1UhNA'
superintendent Abrams Announces
That He Will Soon Go After
Saloons There.
0ttumwa Paper Makes the Queer
Statement That He Closed Half
Of Marshalltown's Saloons.
Abrams Says But One Mulct Petit.
ton in Iowa Is Valid, and That
Is at Boone.

Is az Boone.
Rev. II. H. Abrams, once a resident
OF this city and now superintendent for
the Anti-Saloon League, has been in
Ottumwa and has succeeded in getting
hifnself interviewed to the extent of
more than u column. In that interview
IS made a queer statement as to his
past work in this city, in which it is
stated that he closed half the saloons
hsrs inside of six months This Is IN
deed news up this way. He also SAYS
that he is going to commence a crusade
in Ottumwa, where the shadow of
stormy Jordan-he of the Road TO
He'll fame--is still in evidence. Inc
Ottumwa Press says of him. among
other things:
Rev. IL HI. Abrams of Des Moines,
gentleman who has become very
noted throughout the west and espe-
cially Iowa through his attacks upon
the saloon element in the various towns
of the state, spent a few hours in the
city Tuesday en route to his home In
Des MoIes from Centerville and
Bloomfield, where he succeeded in To-
eating number of 'holes-in- the-wall'
and in capturing about $50 gallons of
lliquor and in closing up the places dis
covered. Rev Abrams stated to
Press reporter that he intended spend
Ting some of his time in this section of
the state during the coming months
and from what he said it is evident
that he intends starting a crusade
against some of the Ottumwa liquor
dealers.
Rev. Abrams has had a rather pc
culiar career during the past four
Years When he has been working
l.against the saloon men. He has been
temperance worker for the past twenty
years but up to within four years he
never made any active attacks upon
1.-The violators of the liquor law. Finally
determining, he says, that the laws
would not protect the temperance peo-
l8ple. and finding the legislation would
1 do no good, Rev. ABRAMS started n cru
sade on his own hook, and so Well did
| he work that he had half the saloons
lin Marshalltown closed before the end
l.of six months. Leaving this field he
soon went to Des Moines, where he be-
gan a similar crusade upon the saloons
ard vile joints of the capital city. So
| we'll did he. work that an anti-saloon
league was soon created which became
so powerful that they have been sue
scessfully fighting the petitions of the
I! saloon men. Through his personal eff,
| forts Rev. Abrams has closed up from
| a dozen to fifteen saloons in Dies Moines
and there are many others under the
| ban of his disapproval. In Upton,
! three weeks ago, he succeeded in hay
4 ing every saloon closed for the first
/ time in forty years. In Iowa City the
crusade has been carried 10 good effect.
4 Mr.. Abrams says that he believes he
4 has a lead pipe cinch on the State Uni-
versity city, and that the fve-mile law
/ will drive every saloon out of town.
In other towns he has been equally
successful. In Fairfield he has spotted
1--WE places where intoxicants We're Sold
/ a detective whom he employed
purchasing liquor in the pres
enee OF Rev. Abrams. He
stated he had been here a week or
so ago and had been quietly organizing
a movement here He intends to close
| up every place in the city that is vio-
lating the law, he says. and he has all
ready number of them spotted. Just
what success will attend his efforts
here will be no doubt watched with
| the greatest interest. In reply to the
question What do you think of the sa
| looms in Ottumwa?" he said:
| Il believe that the Christian temper
ance people, led on by the united eff
forts of the preachers, can drive from
/ Ottumwa every saloon by taking adj
| vantage of the opportunities of the
present law. There is only one town in
Iowa which / know OF possessing a
bona fide saloon petition. and that is
/ Boone. There is no other town in the
state possessing saloon petition which
| will stand the test of law. The SALOON
| Keepers in Ottumwa will be compelled
/ very soon TO get out 4 new petition
/ and have it adjudicated by the board of
supervisors of this county. am ready
at any time with the Christian temper
ance people of Ottumwa to give the di-
rections. We have broken every petit
I ton SO far which we have contested
and we have never yet gone down in a
struggle against saloon petition and
! believe confidently that we will de-
! feat the petition in Des Moines wfer-
enough in breaking them. We drove
| out the saloons in Centerville when it
Hooked as If 1t was an absolute impos-
sibility, owing to the great number of
4 miners living in and about the town. -