Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-06-07
POLLY LARKIN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

John d. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie are going into the saloon business
in the worst part of New York. Miss
Gould and two eminent co-adjutors
have decided, after long and careful
consideration, that there is always
room for more, and if their present
plans are carried out, and there seems
to be no reason why they shouldn't be,
the doors of the saloons of Gould, Rock
efeller, Carnegie & Co. will swing open
before the end of summer" The re-.
port of the champagne cork will not be
heard in the land; the frothy beer with
its white caps, fiowery wines and
drinks like absinthe, etc., will be ban
ished to the background, or at least will
not find favor in this resort of Gould &
Co. Instead there will be ginger ale
and pop, soothing sweet cider and re-
freshing milkshake, favored with va
nilla and a dash of nutmeg, sparkling
sodas with their fruit fiavorings and
ice-cold, as well as ice-cream sodas.
Strictly temperate is the liquid menu
of these saloons. 1t is the purpose of
Miss Gould and her partners to make
the resorts so attractive that it will be
difficult to pass them by. Good music
will be furnished in each and agreeable
recreations, so that the time, will pass
as swiftly by as it does in the gilded
halls where wines and intoxicating
beverages flow like water. Games of
different kinds, like chess, checkers,
dominoes, ETC., will figure in making
the places attractive. Here they can
meet and be an all-round good fellow
without going home intoxicated. They
can indulge in the dangerous treating
fad without being much the worse off
for it, except in pocket-book. Here
they can enjoy a quiet smoke while
they are indulging in jokes and anec-
dotes and stories. When they leave to
go to their different homes it is with
clear heads and steady feet. So inter-
esting will these new saloons be made
that persons who have been in the
habit of vending their way iuto the
other resorts that do business behind
closed doors will be no longer tempted
but will find themselves strolling into
the new retreats from the busy world.
1t is safe to say that no diabolical
schemes that are proposed and fostered
until the wicked purpose of the villain
is carried out will be brought to light,
and you will not hear of the now so
common knockout drops being given
to the unsuspecting in these resorts of
Miss Gould & Company.
To Polly's mind Miss Gould & Co.'s
manner of dealing with the saloon ques-
ton is better than Carrie Nations and
her little Ratchet. 1t is certainly a
more peaceable and womanly way.
She will win by gentle measures and
cause less bitterness and ill-feeling than
Mrs. Nation, who moved like cyclone
carrying destruction before it. The
correction of the evil may be slower
and more gradual, but if properly man.
aged the temperance saloons, carried to
the successful completion that Miss
Gould always does everything she has
to do with, will revolutionize
the saloon business and close the doors
of many that are prospecting to-day.
George Washington and his little
Ratchet were all right, but Carrie Ma
ton and her little Ratchet are terror
to evil-doers which is not believed will
be lasting, many non-sympathiZers of
Carries believing that few imprison-
ments and convictions on the charge
of malicious mischief, attended with
fines, will end the reign of terror among
the evil-doers that she has created. A
well-known temperance worker re-
marked the other day: "Carrie Nations
heart may be all right, but her judg-
ment is pretty faulty" A prominent
member of the w. c. It. U. says: "Mrs.
Nation has done us more harm than
good. 1t remains to be seen what the
harvest of all this will be-" Others
express themselves the same way,
while Carrie Nation has her followers
who would delight in joining her in
her raids on the saloons. They would
like to see every woman favoring the
temperance cause wearing little gilded
Ratchet under her little bow of white
ribbon. Surely the white dove of peace
would not perch ON their standard.
Miss Gould's way of dealing with the
saloon question will doubtless bring
better results.
The people of Sweden are wideawake
when it comes to realizing the value of
tree planting. The residents of Orsa,
Sweden, have sold in the course of
twenty-five years S4,6OO,OOO worth of
timber off their lands, and replanted so
judiciously that they will draw just as
much revenue from their forests during
the next twenty-five years. TITS pity
that the people of California are not as
wideawake to the value of tree plant
ing. The destruction of the trees is
going on all the time and there are
very few trees being planted to take
the places of those that are being cut
down, and even the roots that might
possibly send out new shoots are dug
up. "What are you people going to do
for fuel later on, if you keep cutting
your trees dOWn?n asked visitor to