Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-30
w. G. T. U Column.

Nv 'lll F'lull'l - lHt hdlbp'
problem Is no saloon,
The Associated Press of the profi
Iltlon party says: "Thc drink traffi,
~ u recognized menace TO the indu
rial prosperity OF orr country" " Tn,
anne press goes on to say that fo
every one who is enriched by the ii
quor traffic there are ninety-nne whit
are impoverished by it, We would
especially emphasize the latter state.
'ncnt. Collinssille would soon lear,
Ly bitter experience that liquor drink
ing would not enrich the many, bu'
only the one out of the hundred would
be benefited by the open saloon, The
fat puppy is greatly troubled because
Of the innumerabe multitude of he6
that gather upon him, but il is be
cause the fatness that the pesky lle'
is found wherever the puppy is found,
The same is true of the liquor trsfIi'.
II ls because Of The tatness OF tht
land that il is here. No sensible bust
ness man could think for a momen
that liquor brings anything into the
country, but rather that il continL-
ously feeds upon products of the
country, and pays back into the coun-
try's treasury only what the law com
pels it to pay. Every sensible bus,-
ness man knows further that the Ia.
quor bill is the first bill paid by the
liquor drinker, and that very ofte',
the bill that the liquor drinker made
while drunk or drinking, never L.
paid. In other words, business men
in open saloon towns, directly or in
directly, pay the liquor drinkers bill
for him and thereby help to maintain
the saloon. We understand perfect
ly your argument, my dear sir, that
SO long as liquor is made, men will
drink il, and that We would better
tax it and regulate Il, and receive the
be eft of the paid up license, etc,
but when you say that, you forge.
that you are, with the open saloon,
raj 'iu' a crop of drunkards out u
, he present generation Of boys, i
large per cent of which would become
Ii onFen incbdates and rendered by
t!is same open saloon incapable OF
and they, with their fami-
lies, a drug on society's market and E
charge to the community. So after ev-
[ rything is counted in, including court
fees, the extra police force needed,
the almshouses and extra Jail room,the
cost of clearing the murderers created
by the open saloon, etc, etc, you will
find that every dollar that the open
saloon woud pay into your municipal
treasury. You would be compelled t.
pay from $l2 to 800, This is what |
the saloon has done for us in the past,
and we fail to see that il has reformed |
IN the least. However, this is not tie
arec,l hem to be taken into consiG-
,r,iion. The communities or nations
wealth consist, not in the dollars it
IAN pile up. but in the character OF
IL citizenship. The W. c. 7. U. re-
,osnizes this and works aong the
ines cf saving the present genera
ions, IS they come and 10, from tie
s doom and the drunkard's
lell. Could the order be reversed anu
he liduor business be made a paying
business financially, yet could we af
ord t. create dIunkards i'll order to
,rii money into the treasury Out
4. & T. /. of Collinsville conterd
I at il would not pay TO bring the
pen saloon into our town--that our
alldrcn are worth more than our dol
ars- .nd they have organized an l..
:. l.. Noyal Temperance Legion in
rider to save the children from the
influence of tie saloon and so save
hem to the country. In the childrc..
4 the present and coming generation
5 found the strength or weakness Of
my country. Save the children and
We save the country. Ye careless faith
RS and mothers of Collinsville, why
10 you not wake up and help us in
raining your children IN temperance
md Sobrietv' ACNTG UNO.