Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-23

timent during the exclusive prohibition
period permitted liquor sellers to have
their way, and 1t has been difficult since
to make them comply with the provis-
| ions of the mulct law. But 1t can bt
done if public sentiment is strengthened
as the Telegraph says it is being
strengthened thru moral suasion by
Archbishop Keane.
| The Telegraph admits that Dubuque
has acquired bad name. 1t admits that
| 'thruout Iowa and in contiguous states
there is a prevalent impression that
| Dubuque is center of lawlessness
Even at democratic state conventions
one meets delegates who have the idea
that the Key City is indifferent to stat
utes and vice and that 1t is dominated
by the immoral element Of the popula-
| ton
The Telegraph declares that this i'm
preston is false, but that 1t has the eff
feet of keeping business men and capital
should be made to remove it. The Tele-
graph concludes thdt-
Nothing could contribute to this re-
suit more directly and effectively than
Sunday observance, obliteration of the
wine rooms and vigorous dealing with
vice. The news that these reforms had
been instituted would be spread broad
cast, and as it would carry with 1t posi-
tive assurance that the city was con-
trolled by the moral element of its pop
ulation, it would offer strong incentive
to enterprising men of family and
means seeking a location to come and
settle here. Progressive business men
such as those who are supplying the
vim that Is the making of Cedar Rap
ids, Waterloo, Marshalltown and Sioux
City would then find Dubuque an ire
sistible magnet. Population would In
crease, new industries would be started
and old ones enlarged, and the volume
of trade would grow to vaster proper
tions Archbishop Keane is aiming to
improve the morals of Dubuque. The
success of what he advocates and de-
sires would bring blessings to the city
commercially. In leboring for the splr
itual welfare of Dubuquers the learned
and altruistic prelate is also laboring
for their material welfare
The conclusion is irresistible that it's
business views. if not its moral sense,
should lead the city to promote temper
ance, to enforce the laws, and to re-
strict vice and crime in all statutory
ways.
In discussing this subject, and in re-
ferring to Archbishop Keane's temper
ance efforts in Dubuque, the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette declares that When a city
tolerates defiance of law there is no
more hope for 1t than there is for the
human being in the grip Of a fatal and
wasting disease" The Gazette asserts
that mot a city in the state that has
tolerated the wide open saloon in def
ance OF law has failed to suffer for its
offense," and 1t proceeds to arraign
these offending sister cities in this
scathing fashion: 'sThe cities along the
mississippi river have been the chief
offenders, and they have been outstrip
ped in business in intercourse with the
world at large. and in all the gains that
come from industry, traffic and associa-
tions. For the past fifty years some of
them have scarcely grown in numbers
and where this is true they have de-
generated in character and are not the
aggressive centers that they were earl
Ter in the history of the state. People
are not seeking them for homes. There
are not being built the common schools
and colleges of the state. Not there are
to be found the aggressive spirits who
are helping Iowa to the place it should
have in the union and in the world"
Having chosen rule different from that
of the state at large. the Gazette adds,
these cities have been left alone to the
enjoyment and punishments of their self
selected mode of life.