Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-10

I, 11rdlrr5dag, Srpten,hrr
CARDS the personal liberty of the eiti-
zen, as we'll as our attitude towards
the business interests of the state.
Both of the old parties agree with us
in applying a general rule of legal en-
actments, to the business of the farm
er. the manufactures, the artlst, lhe
teacher and the preacher.
Their political actions toward these
classes, under the principle OF law they
apply to the legalizing of the manufac-
ture and sale of Intoxicating liquor
would permit the raising of obnoxious
weeds, selling rotten and diseased meat
Keeping and transporting from state TO
state diseased cattle and glandered
horses 1t would expose for the INJURY
of workmen dangerous machines IN our
factories. 1t would permit the manu-
facture and sale of internal machlnes.
1t would decorate our homes ana pupile
galleries with nude men and women.
1t would reward the teachers anu
preachers for teaching obscenity, I'M
morality, criminality and dishonesty
The revenue and license system or the
old parties legalizes the liquor trafnc
to use as a manufacturing product the
loyeliest and purest boyhood and girl
hood of the nation, which as 1lnlshed
product comes out criminals, lunatlcs,
idiots and diseased persons to be piaceu
in our state institutions, to be cared LOT
by the taxpayers. Future generations
thru the law of transmission, must reap
the whirlwind Of evil resulting there
from.
The policy of the prohibition party is
to stop the drunk factories. including
drug store permits, and thus dry up the
great source of wrong and cost.
The question is often asked. VIII pro-
hibition prohibit? Most emphatically
1t will. otherwise the statesmen and law
makers of the past have belittled the
dignity of their calling, for all laws are
prohibitory that pertain to restraining
evil.
The dollar age" and Republican
prosperity seems to shadow the mlnds
of the masses from everything not n
nancial Thus it behooves US to notice
the financial cost to the people of re-
publican prosperity, as applied to the
people under the policy of control, m
stead of prohibition. Space permits
only striking generalities.
According TO reliable estimate APP
proximately correct. the great co-part-
nership, Uncle Sam and the liquor
traffic" in the year 1900 took in over
the bar S1,216,0OO.000. To care for the
manufactured product of this co-part-
nership it cost the taxpayers OF the ma
ton saOOOO0.000, the total expense to
the people being about $21O0,OOO,OO 0.
The sum is too vast for comprehension,
but in comparison, the total railroad re-
ceipts from all sources in the entire
United States for the same period were
a little over s1,500,O0o,O00. or about
5000. 100000 less than the liquor traffic.
Again. the total value of corn, oats and
wheat raised in the United States for
the same period was $1,2S3,000,000, or
about S7OO,0oO,OO0 less than the liquor
traffic Thus you see that the special
privileges given the liquor traffic over
shadows the perils to the people Of
flood of famine, of fire and of pesti-
lence.
Still under the hypnotic spell of the
POLITICAL gold brick scheme" called re
publican prosperity always figured
from the basis of democratic rule in
stead of from the prohlbitionist rule,
the masses fail to read and understand
the result of our political policies when
once they become the rule in govern
ment.
Close the saloons of every nature.
give the liquor traffic only such liberty
as is given to other business men, then
uf,, wi rt,t I,
ers of our nation will have forty mill
ions of dollars to inves:. in useful and
beneficial lines of trade. 1t will give
such an impetus to business as the
world never knew. This is the dollar
age. The prohibition party would ush-
or in the food age, the cloth age, the
happy home age. the age of reason. 1t
would usher out the age of rum, the age
of crime, of disease from strong drink.
II would divert the earnings Of our
people into the proper channels OF
trade. instead of the channels where the
respectable business man never sees it.
1t would encourage the grocery bust
ness. the clothing business, the furni-
ture business and the coal business in
stead of the whisky business. That
would be prohibition prosperity" The
world could then come and every one
would find a meal at the door of entry
instead of glass of beer
The Germans want it. the Irishmen,
the Englishmen and all want it and
would support our party if they UNDER
stood our political doctrine Our poll
cies in financial and business as we'll
as moral sense must be given to the
people. Therefore let this idea prevail
in our future political utterances. The
voting citizen holds the sovereign pow
err. He is wholly responsible for the
wrongs and evils of the liquor traffic.
He is told by the republican party he
can accomplish nothing toward reform
outside of that party. He knows moth
ing will be done inside Monopoly and
the liquor traffic are today guiding the
sovereignty of the citizen for gain. The
liquor traffic has shambled the lower
strata and the other moneyed interests
the higher strata of citizenship for par
tisan ends and private gains. The press
and the clergy seem to have lost pa
triotism and craftsmanship as We'll as
the confidence of the masses, therefore
we appeal to the average citizen to be
careful, to be thoughtful, to get your
political bearings this year free from
rartisanship. The rule the nation gives
is your rule. You express 1t at the bal
lot box. Every strata of organized la
tor is quivering on the verge of revolu-
ton. Soldiers are in the field to sup
press riots 1t is practically a bread