The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-08

Press Committee n
Recause of the convenience OF a hNed
place the Union is meeting with MIS-
Calkins. and will continue to mee'
there, until further notice.
For Business People.
Many people honestly believe (be'
cause they have never personally IN
yestigated) that the presence of saloons
in a town helps ''trade.' They claim
that even our intelligent farmer Will
come to a town where he can patronlze
a saloon in preference to going 10 one
where there are no saloons. lhls
claim, throughout, means that the
farmers appetite for liquor is stronger
than 6is business acumen. ISM IL
rather insulting to put him in the same
class with the poor wretch VINO Will
get trusted for fifty cents worth OF
sugar at the grocery and pay sugar al
the saloon:
business is business. People go
where they can get the best prices re-
CARELESS of liquor-all except these
who are slaves to liquor. And all
tradesmen know that the saloon keeper
oets the first cash of his victims; other
dealers what there is left, if there Is
any left. A two dollar bill can not be
stretched to pay for one dollars worth
Of liouor. a sack of flour and a pair
Of baby shoes. Some one has 10
charge, and you may rest assured IL
is not the saloon keeper who charges
Some way he is strongly suspicious OF
the business credit of those who pa
tronize him.
It is fact that more liquor is con-
sumed where there is the convenience
of the open saloon, and some one out
to solicit customers for it, than there
is by illegal selling. The saloon
keeper wants the saloon, OF course,
, because he sells more, and makes more
than he would if he could not run one
and through the social custom o.
treating he has the best possible
chance to create appetite in those VINO
= do not as yet care for liquor.
Yes. from the National Brewers as
. ISOLATION down to the local dealer, tn
liouor men surely show hard business
a sense in demanding the open SALOON
- The national association may otteI
,e nav the local license, for it pays ther
a. to do so. for with the open saloo
comes greater demand for liquor
From a business point OF view this
all right for liquor dealers OF a
" kinds, but is it best for the bushes
u prosperity of the other business me
us of the town. We say NO, and IL
d. inst becausep people have never though
10 the matter out that anyone says 81
If the doctor, the banker, the clot
Ter, the grocer, the lumberman, tt
no implement dealer, and all others, d
he sire that money which would otherwi
on be spent in their lines should go /
ted stead to the saloon keeper. let the
lat vote for the saloon. But if they {
sire to prosper their own business
, them vote the saloon out of town.
ger Because of the cash that goes Ii
cen the saloon the other business men
ven obliged to do heavier credit buslne
ray and so can not offer as low prices
he could on cash basis. AS a res
he can not get the patronage that
tes lower prices would bring him. and c
inc not (other things being equal) S
Of cessfully compete with the forum
dealer in the non license town.
following clipping bears on the S
the iect:
,;np A correspondent says: Some O.
Il in ago [ took from the street poor
tim of drink. He was covered W
or clothed with, garments that
H. been made for some other man,
'.a: decent enough to say he was cover
~ fed him and housed him on cor
7'' ton that he would leave intoxlca
alone. He dug the garden, ciea
harness and did any odd jobs l co
i.eN' find for him. Now for fact to m
' the bushes man think.
In less than two months ne bou
for himself boots chats one Tor
:. shoemaker); before three months
'i"s over he bought shirt, collar, tie
"' hat Chats good for shirtmaker, no
'"'0 and hatter); then he paid for sui
weekly installments (this made it g
for some one). Now suppose inst
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