The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-02-23
Read and Ponder.
A Few Pertinent Questions which We Pub
lish by Request.

III more liquor is sold where there are
no saloons than where there are, would
brewers, distillers and Wholesale dealers,
who own about 70 per cent of all saloons,
pay license, rent, taxes, insurance, at
torneys' fees, and contribute large sums
of money to influence the press, to pub
lish and distribute literature, and In
other ways to obtain license, al to lessen
their sales? Would the liquor men now
be maintaining five national organiza-
tons, at heavy expense, to oppose all pro-
hibitory measures, il such measures did
not interfere with the trailer Would
they keep an expensive lobby at the
national capital to urge the restoration
of the canteen or army saloon and 10
prevent a prohibitory clause in the state
hood bill for Oklahoma and Indian ter
ritories if they were not financially IN
terested?
Are beer wagons and "speak easies
and "blnd pigs" and liquor agents alone
worse than all these evils plus the open
saloon? Do not the records of hundreds
OF towns show that saloons do not lessen
these nuisances, but afford additional
temptation to drink and are the spawn
ing place of the most degrading vicesY
How do saloons help town? Do they
make better husbands, fathers, sons OF
brothers? Do they make mothers, wives
aud children comfortable and happy
1 Do they help to buud up churches ano
make it easy for parents to keep children
in SCHOOL,
If saloons help business, why are
/ Grand Forks, Fargo and Wahpeton, \
/ d., better towns in every way than Eas
Grand Forks, Moorehead and Brecken
ridge, Mimi, respectively opposite thu
first named, with only the Red river o
the North separating them?
Do not saloons mean drunkenness anC
does not drunkenness mean less stead.
and less skillful labor? Do not sobe
men work more and retain their earnln!
capacity longer than drinking men? d.
not life insurance companies say that al
abstainer is from 80 per cent to 40 pc
cent better risk than drinker? WI
not the business of a town be determines
by the amount Of goods which its cltl
zens can buy and pay for. is not tn
purchasing capacity of man limited t
his earning capacity? Do not sober me
a a rule earn more than drinking men
and do not their families consume NOR
aud therefore help business? Is tn
credit of a drinking man as good as tina
of an abstainer? If not, why not? ID
not all political economists agre
that the morals of a bread winner ar
! fully as important a factor 10 his valu
TO the community as his physical and IL
tellectual qualities? Can man bu
beer and beef with the same money
Who pays the liquor license and all oil
err expenses of the saloon keeper? Wha
would 90 with that money if it did ne
60 for liquor?
If it is such disgraceful thing to Sc
liquor that you do not want to assoclat
with the man who does, is it good thin
for you to vote for him to do bad thing
If it is bad thing to be drunkard,
it good thing to license men to max
drunkards? III saloon is good thin
why do those who patronize it desire
be shielded from view by screens viii
they do so, and why must it be kel
away from churches and schools and OF
Of residence districts?