Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-30

| the bottle. In your article you assume
| that majority of the people are. OPP
posed to prohibition in this state. The
facts are that on the amendment vote,
the only opportunity given them to ex-
press themselves on prohibition, the men
voters were overwhelmingly in favor of
hi. Had the women citizens been repre-
sented at least three-fourths OF Iowa's
citizns would have stood for prohibi-
ton.
You say, "That the prohibitionist, un-
less he is a fool, must know that one or
the other of these candidates will win, :"
meaning of course either the democratic
or republican-thus assuming that he
should not vote for his party because it
can't win. In another sentence you say,
1.-THE election of Mr.. Cummins is as GER
tain as the rising of the sun" but you
failed to call the democrats fools.
Like A. b. Cummins, you go to the
grave OF our martyred president to make
political capital for this campaign. You
undertake to lead your readers to think
that the prohibitionlsts slandered him
and falsified about him. There is no
truth in the prohibitionists ever telling
rntruths about Mr.. Mckinley. They
brought affidavits and the records to
show that Mrs. Mckinley owned prop
Herty rented for saloon purposes. They
proved by affidavits that the president
drank liquor at banquets. They blamed
him for the annullment of the first anti
canteen law, because he had the power
to enforce the will of congress even tho
the law was annulled by Griggs, an ap-
5pointee of Mckinley. The charges
were brought more on the score of his
being Methodist in good standing than
for other reasons, when the Methodist
discipline was adverse to such acts.
However. the prohibitionists are willing
to let the matter rest and only mention
it in defense of truth.
We agree with you that people differ
in relation to the re-establishment of the
army saloon. Our government is busi-
rcss institution. The army is the power
relied upon to sustain the government
In times of Instruction or invasion. The
soldiers are the employees of the nation.
When railroad companies, manufacture
ers, department stores, ETC., establish
saloons in their business places for tenn
perance and sobriety 1t will be time for
the Associated Press, the liquor traffic
and the secretary of war to talk the av-
erage citizen about discipllning soldiers
with saloons. The truth is, the
same element that works for
saloons in every state in the
Union is working to re-establish the sa-
loon in the army. Like brewers resolu-
tons. it is all for temperance! This ex-
plains just why in our opinion the T.-R.
is, more favorably impressed with the
lro-canteen arguments. The average
saloon supporter is impressed that
"mulct saloons in Marshalltown csuse
less drunkenness.
You say, Men have been known to
try two ways of getting on the other
side of a stone WALL" We agree on this
1t is republican policy.
Trying to carry rum votes on one Shout
der and prohibition on the other, but 1
just now the rum voters have the goal.
The prohibition party never fuses. 1t
does not blow hot and cold with the
same breath. It uses good. plain En-
giish In Its state and national plat forms. 4
The drunkards do not inherit II. Neither