The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-14
W. c. 7. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED By MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.


The fact is | would rather cast
my vote for the Emperor OF China
for a sod term than for a man
who caters to the demands Of the
soul degrading, running elements OF
the United States.
But the time is coming when the
individual voter will feel the indi.
vidual responsibility Of legislative
acts.
Indeed the more thoughtful, con-
scientious voters now look upon
outrageous, unjust or bad laws as
their Observation-Disclosures found
ed upon their individual franchise
SO indeed they are. II engage
with ten other men in the murder
of a citizen | am individually held
for the murder, just as if had com
mited the crime alone, and SO with
each of tie other nine. SO, to, In
the enactment of a law that muir
ders pa persons each day OF the
year. III tell you, fellow citizens,
We had better begin to look at the
gore upon our own hands.
On this ground | see the inevita-
bility of prohibition. Never in the
history OF this nation have the vo-
.ers locked upon this questi n as
they are doing to day, and especial
ly in Indiana. | nm ready to pre-.
dict that in the very near future
the better element of our citizenship
will be governed at the ballot box
by an enlightened conscience rather
than the lash and ridicule of party
bosses.
Encouraged | am in making this
prediction by the fact that today
the best Democrats and the best Re-
.publicans say that prohibition
Is right "Rigi.. will prevail -
md soon, when the people-the
bes! people-determine what is
right. Don't forget that.
The principles for which we con-
tend are just, righteous, humane and
economical.
Just, because the inevitable COM
ing of Prohibition will bring good
to the greater number. If it were
true that 100000 saloon keepers,
and as many more moonshiners,
brewers and distillers were utterly
ruined financially b. the millennium
Of absolute prohibition of the legal
lied liquor traffic in the entire
country,-what is this in comparl-
son 10 the interests, - financial,
physical, moral and eternal-oi
-, 600, 900 people? The annihila-
of a dirty, foul soap factory, or an
DID fashioned open vat tannery,
with all it, odor Of r%utrifaction, in
the most densely populated part OF
one Of our beautiful modern cities,
might be considered by a greedy
soulless monopoly, or brainless,
heartless manufacturer, as a great
financial loss.
But what an advantage to the
Lmassesl Health would be better
in that locality. Less doctor bills,
People would wear a better color.
Property would advance in that
precinct or ward-and you would
Just as soon invest there now as in
any part Of the city. | wonder il
property would not advance in this
country, from one end to the other
thereof, if you we're to remove $50,
1000 saloons from the villages, towns
and cities.
What makes property higher in
price? You say nor buyers,
Well, where are a multitude of buy
ers now? As againstten years ago!
as against twenty years ago.
Where! Down in the '~'licensec
saloon" with their 81, their SO,
heir $12 per week. 81 per week
means a cottage worth 1864, 50 pei
week means a cottage worth $46S.
and $12 per week means a cottage
worth 1924 at the end OF the year
What victim of the saloon thai
could not have a home, though
humble, in a few years, if you anc
|, and all justice loving citizens
should decree at the ballot box that
the 100000 saloons must stop their
robbing?
Is it a wonder that 90 many il
this country are without hcmesi
La all justice to the homeless and
the hapless victims Of appetite and
the vicious rum traffic, down with
saloons! The money that is srenI
in these government, vote-protect.
ed, dens annually would build each
Year 1925, 900 houses each costing
$500, and in less than twenty years
put every family in this country in
a little hone Of their own. Prohi-
bition means homes and happiness,
Saloons means robbery, poverty,
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