The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-21


it that they are keot ~ the perfect use
and control Of vesy part Of their make
up. TN, saloon s. the persistent c~uol Zoe
Of every young man. who stands IN a
line OF promotgea that viii bring bless
ings to himself and glory 10 his state.
Ia the gutter of the steeet lee a young
man unconscious Of hls surrounding.
His memory Is blank; he mumbles In
coherent words his judgment Is disen
throled. his win is enslaved. Write this
pacard and place It on his back
"Gfaduate from the High Schools. So
from, tho etata ,,n,versitV Witt the same
distinction Osi post graduate John Hop
kins. with the testimony Of the chal
cellar that he was the most symfetricaliy
developed young man he ever saw.
Think OF the magnificent oregon after
making a voyage Of 1900 miles with the
speed OF an ocean liles without a single
break or the heating Of a single journal,
wrecked within the sight Of Santiago,
where she was to win honors for the ma
tion to which she belonged by The drunk
enness Of her captain. aud you Will see
what the saloon does TO keep "A state
from realizing it's ideals and It's ambi-
tions Young men and boys older me1
and fathers this Is not the preacher that
is talking to you. but the high spirited
American. who put E 10 years OF study
to get control OF his faculties, and
whose eye is fixed ahead on the demands
Of Oklahoma's first quarter Of cen-
tugy Of statehood.
Shall we spend millions on our uni
yersity. our normal schools and our high
schools. ana thus give our young people
a chance to win honor and distraction
through completely developed and per-
/ fectly controlled faculties. and at the
same time permit the saloons to undo Il
lam in "a year o. less? Every degree Of
state pride that we possess ought to
| CRY aloud. away with the saloon for"
eve~, from this ambitious young COM
monwealth."
III A commonwealth without saloon,
/ Is commonwealth that husbands its re-
sources Agriculturally and horticultur-
| ally Oklahoma IS at the ton notch Of
prosperity We nerer can hope for any
thing better a good crop Of corn was
gathered last fan. Cotton was better
and sold at high prics. We have had
an unusual crop of wheat. Fruit has
been superabundalt Money ought to
be plentiful Why the present Compare
tive scarcity? asked a numbe7 OF busi-
ness men about this. one replied. The
farmers are buying from Scars. Roebuck
& company. Of Chicago Olly a few are
doing that That is not a sufficient eN-
Iplantion Another said: "rhe men who
are making money ilvest It elsewhere"
But in that case the dividends would
come to Guthrie ] have one answer
THE saloo1" 1t is a tremendous drain
on the resources Of the community. say
that one-half Of the saloons sales goes
to the brewers and distillers Now, if
each Of our eighteen saloons takes I'm $50
per day, which ] am told is a low esti-
mate. in year not counting Sundays.
when the lid IL on hfty-six thousand
dollars OF tcibute viii so to the brewers
and distiners for which the community
has nothing. Think what this means.
The estimated cost OF paving our city
was 100000 Many charge that would
bankrupt US. But that IS only 100000
lper year. and So 900 yer year goes out
! ae tribute to the brewers and distillers.
Take another illustration: A bank
failed some two or three years ago and
tied uD about million dollars II oc-
cassioled a loss to the depositors OF
about $685. II took two years to re-
cover from the shock Every ten years
I the saloon strikes the community such a
financial blow in It's tribute to the
brewers aud dlstlllers The Busches, the
: Pabsts th2 schlitzs. are growing rich
off our earnings aad Off the earnings q
Iother states that are short sighted
enough not to see beyond the slight in
, come from saloon licenses.
But some one says "the saloon puts a
great deal Of money into circulation in
the community" Admit g. But the same
! amount would come to the grocers and
dry goods merchants directly II there
were no saloons travelling man at a
hotel table asked is the ia on i'm X.
c." lie replied lit certainly is" He was
! then asked ''how does II work?' And he
said "an right" The merchants are
doing better business and they have
: fewer bad debts. The women come In
on Mondays because thei- husbands have
left something Tor them to buy with
J many families in Guthrie could use more
t groceries and more drv goods and would
, use more II they were not deprived OF
Z their rights by drinking husbands aad
fathers
eNNM AEA US NhNh tN NiAf AAtiNAht VI WV
revenue from the saloon. II costs the
} oisy more than IL gets from the saloon ia
'Seep order and provide for the poverty
e tPat the salool occasions. The Interio.
Of Chicago has this about San Francisco
! "The prohipition rested on the arbitrary
S order of the mayor. but the soldiers ane
p pcnce made 1t enective-acual prohibit
}. tion. Everybody was glad fo- It, Pao'
pie sle0t in open tents in perfect safety
+ of person and possessions. Women ans
n children We're not in peril even az nigh
on unlighted streets. There never wai
y SO great a ooncou-se Of people living 10
r. gether for such length of time befori
x With SO little crime. The saloon cam'
= back. aad the hrst Monday after tn
p first sunday on which they sold thni
Il wares. there we-e seventy -four cases Fl
+ IN city 7olice courts. The second Mon
/. day there were l1s. the last two Mon
e days, uader prohibition the dockets ha
z shown four and five cases respectively
p What did that cost san Francisoos TAX
p a cass nearer home. a ho-de9 town d
3 Kansas. bad beel just breaking ever
n with hning joints. They voted ont IN
ID joints and after making more improve
N iments Ia nine months than they ha