Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-04-28
SMOOTH WORK
How Nevada Liquor Men
Were Touched off" by
Clever Californians

AlSvST A11uOI 1lld1lS
| a couple OF clever California opera
tors have just passed through this
State and have cut a nice swathe |
through the ha citations of the liquor
dealers
Some few weeks ago every saloon
keeper IN the State of any Importance,
received a circular, setting forth the
fact that big protective organization
of liquor dealers was being formed for
the Pacific Coast to shield the retail
vendors of drinks from the various
enemies of the liquor traffic. These
circulars set forth in the most pathetic
language the woes and tribulatiOns of
the retailers, and the various forms of
injustice to which they were subjected.
Many a saloon man who read the Cir
cular sat down and had good cry to
relieve his feelings. The circular
closed with ringing appeal to action
and mentioned the fact that in :. week
or ten days agents of the Protective
Association would call in person on the
various liquor men of Nevada, and as
sist them in throwing Off the yoke of
tyranny and misfortune to which. they
had been so long subjected.
Well, in due season, the agents of
the Protective Association arrived and
first hit the busting town OF Reno.
They were hailed as Geliverers OF man
kind, and when they announced that
they were ready to receive applications
for membership in the Association at
irg of loose change in the cash draw
, ers ana every saloon man in Reno
tum bled over each othe.' to get in. In
couple of days they had made a fine
y large cleanup in the riverside town
and then they tackled the Comstock.
They made complete cleanup on G
= street in a single day, aEl couple OF
men they had overlooked chased them
II money and get d certificate Of member
s ship in the order.
Carson was also an easy place to
q work-it always has been. They
!. started at Bryson's corner and worked
down and it was just like finding it.
Those nice certificates of mem tership,
) done in colors and Autographed, were
good for ten dollars everywhere they
were presented,
They were fluent slick takers, those
two men. When they saw picture of
II II Bryan in a saloon they pressed heavily
on the iniquities of the Mckinley tariff
q and assured the listener that part of
r the plan was to land Bryan in the
II White House. ard by removing the
tariff on all kinds of liquor enable sa-
IS loon men to get rich in one admins
al tration. In Mckinley saloon they di
y lated on the great advantages of a
- sound money currency. by which
-. the liquor trade would remain of sub
r. stantial basis and prosperity would
o. follow the election of the Ohio man il
is. great waves that would dash over the
ay liquor business first.
be These people finally struck a well
l.. known liquor man of Carson. Afte
co they had piped their little lay abou
the wrongs, the liquor men and the sa
!, loon-keeper's burden, they mentioned
ten dollars and asked hi;d if be didn'
want to act as President of the Nevad
branch of the order. He began to asl
them some very searching questions re
garding the authority they had to g
'e round striking people for ten dollars
'' head and where the money went to
lis and not getting any satisfactory an
JIG swers, told them that he regarde
"V them as bilks pure and simple and ad
Gu vised them to leave town. They mad
ot feeble bluff at vindicating Intensely We
Il" but he told them that even if they ha
III full authority to represent the Associa
ioe ton, that the names Of the men 0
HIS their circulars as leading officers of tn
an organization, were absolutely unknow
III TO the liquor business on the Coast an
49, he believed them all bogus. 1t locke
to him like an organized scheme
catch suck ers and he could see n
at reason why Nevada liquor men shoul
as put up money to help California liquo
nd men influence legislation in Sacrament
ay This article is published in the hoE
that if they are going to take in othe
towns in the eastern part of the Stat
that the papers may expose the scheme