Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-03-31
CONNELL BROS.
w. G T. VI. COLUMN.
For God, Home and Native Land.

This department is under the management
and control of the Bedding w. c, T.. u
VOTE NO-LICENSE! Why? Be
cause every respectable man who
votes LICENSE votes TO put next
door to somebody else a nuisance
and a snare, which he would not
willingly have near his own home.
VOTE NO-LICENSE! Why? Be-
cause to vote LICENSE is to say it
is right to sell, and right to drink,
intoxicating liquors; while it edu-
Gates the boys aud girls to look with
approval upon the drains shop.
VOTE NO-LICENSE! Why? Be-
cause a vote for LICENSE is a vote
to enable man TO make drunkards.
paupers, criminals, and to be pro-
tected in that business by the
state.
The liquor sellers business is to
make drunkards, just as much as a
shoemaker's is TO make shoes, or a
tailor's to make coats.
VOTE NO.LICENSEl Why? Be
cause sober citizens are taxed to
take care Of results of the liquor
traffic
The Massachusetts State Board of
Charities says: Eighty per cent OF
the criminals are from the drinking
classes; and ght-tenths of the cost
of pauperism is the direct conse-
quence of the indulgence in alcoholic
beverages.
FATHERSl As you love your
children, we beg of you to VOTE
NO-LICENSEl next Monday, and
thus rid our fair city of these places
where no good is taught.
Deceptive supplements. and pam
phlets have been sent out by the
liquor dealers the past week and we
warn our readers against being mis-
led by them.
There is not a jewel, glittering
from the hand of a rum sellers wife
or children that did not cost jewels
of manhood from the homes Of the
people. George w. Balm.
If the saloon keeper does not
allow his wife or children in his
place of business, now honest, do you
think it is fit place for the fathers,
husbands and sons of our county to
go there? Let your vote next Mon
day sound the death knell of the
saloon.
The saloon system has always
fought the church system with dead
ly venom, and now the church sys-
tenn, through the Anti-Saloon
League, proposes to smite the sa-
loon system dead in its tracks.
There will be no let up from this
time on. Searchlight.
We are determined to fight this
evil and save the children.
Think of grocery dealer skulking
in back alleys with a can of coffee in
one boot leg, a pound of cheese in
the other, and a herring down the
back of his neck; or shoe dealer
with his door fastened with IRON
bars. his windows grated, ard half
dozen men on the street corners
watching for the officers, and at the
least alarm destroy every sign of
his business. What man would say
the grocery business was flourish
ing, or that there were more boots
and shoes sold than ever before in
the history of the city?-Search
Light.
And still they claim there will be
more liquor sold if we close the sa-
loon.
The saloon is an evil. 1t may be
deemed a necessary evil by those
who feel bound to apologize for it,
but it can have no defenders. Even
where it is licensed, protected by
law under restrictions which mar
row iniquities to moderate and eX
pedient vice, the saloon, personfied
by its devotees. may be character
lied by no adjective more hattering
than miscreant At its highest
estate ii is an outlaw, and the
greatest legal distinction the saloon
has achieved after a century Of
fighting for statutory recognition is
to be branded genericaly by the
United States Supreme Court as a
nuisance. It's purposes are all
venal. 1t is in business to promote
violence and crime; to injure the
public health; to dissipate the pub
lie wealth in taxes that support the
criminal court; to burden our chart
ties; TO corrupt civic morals. The
saloon is incarnate calamity Be
cause its work is slow and indirect,
people often fail to see how it kills