Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-22

practical and impossible. Upon the
face Of it, without any personal exper-
fence, army regulation of the sale of
liquor would seem Very desirable. If
the city of MarshalltoWn were under
martial law and the editor of the,
Times Republican placed in command,
with full authority to control the sale
of liquor the editor himself is confident
that drunkenness in Marshalltown
would decrease 20 per cent. If the i'm
| habitants should 60 outside the lines
for liquor il WOULD be no more than
they could do before This paper even
believes With the crank w. T. Stead
that We're. the churches to run the sa-
looms temperance would receive its
greatest encouragement but it can see
many obstacles in the way of such re-
form. 1t does. however, see how liquor
sold under army regulation can keep.
thousands of soldiers away from re-
sorts where drunkenness and debauch-
cry ten times as bad is forced upon
them. 1t can see how temperance is
teen and it firmly believes that the Of
Eticers of the United States army, in-
lcluding President Mckinley, are inter-
ested in lessening to the extent If their.
power the drink habit among the men
of their commands equally as much as
they are interested in giving them pure
food. good clothes and clean quarters.
Col. Hamer in his Canton speech told
US What an army canteen is. 1t is,
a club, a place of amusement and So
i.cial gathering prepared for the soldiers
| for the express purpose of keeping
them out of the rotten dives that SUR
lsround an army camp. Many kinds of
\ literature are provided. while pure
beers and light wines are sold to those
who cali for them merely as an Incl
dent. This army officer said that ii was
/ his observation and the observation of
his superiors who had carefully inves-
l5tigated the subject that the sale OF light
| liquors under army control had greatly
slessened drunkenness and other evils
among the soldiers. Most men With
|. sense know that the man who confines
his drinking to beers and light wines
doesn't get drunk. If this is the judg-
Iment Of army officers as a class. men to
whom we have entrusted the mana ge-s
ment Of our Is. the Times Repub-
! lican is WILL . accept il and endorse
their policy Us the best practical
method of minimizing the drink habit
in the United States army. Tha hys-
tsrical cry of a naneless soldier sent
by a Clergyman and published in a pros
hibition party organ will not be; accept
ed as candid or fair.
On Friday the prohibitionists of CEN
trial Iowa held o rally in Marshalltown.
/, where they were addressed by Mr..
| Woolley, their party candidate for
president. Many Of these prohibitions
lists Justify their third party movement
4 by condenlning President Mckinley for
/ not suppressing the army canteen.
Orator Woolley naturally encouraged
| them in it. just how Mr.. Mckinley has.
l.erred in this matter is an opaque prob
lem to the average citizen. So far
1.-The president Of the United states has
never been charged With the detail
management OF the army 1t has not
labeen his duty to select The ordnance
used or TO prescribe the routine drill or
! define either the quantity or kind of
flood or drink The soldier shall use.
( AS a matter of fact this subject is not
4 Il party issue at all. Congress, With
/ the characteristic readiness OF legiSla- :.
! i've bodies to NEEDLE in affairs of
\ mich 'ley know nothing about, passed
an anti-canteen law as a piece of cheap
I politics. The attorney general con-
strued that law to prohibit the sale of
4 liquors in army camps except in the
canteen and there by civilians only and
i under army regulation. Army officers
We're thus saved from interference by
the politicians seeking votes and have
4 gone on doing what in their judgment
4 was best for the soldiers, yet there are
men in this state and Others who are
Y 50 welded to one.idea, 50 unyieldng in
their views and sounreasonable in their
.tpolltics that they must needs refuse to
i aid in the maintenance of the existing
\ gold standard, with it's attendant pros
4 perity, and withdraw themselves from
q effective influence in he politics of
4 their nation tn 60 thru the farce Of or
a ganizing a prohibition party with mock
candidates, who even have to be coaxed
to accept the ilonors.
4 sl95 $500
HOPE FOR MISSOURI.
Think Of il! Its among the POSSIBLE
ties that Missouri may cast her vote for
Mckinley Missouri isto be one of the
battle grounds Of The campaign" sena-
ter n. B. Scott sa;1 the other day at re-
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