The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
State Organization To Unite With
Local Organizations Against
0penSaloon in Kenosha
FIGHT TO START NEXT SUNDAY
Orators From Various Parts of the
State Will Take Charge of the
Pulpits of the City and Open
Warfare on Law Breakers

Sunday, Dec. 9Th, will witness the
launc hing in Kenosha of a definite
movement for the closing of the Sun
day saloon and the all-night saloon.
The movement will probably be SINH
lar IN some respects to that which is
being attempted in Chicago. 1t will
be undertaken along exactly the same
lines that the movement in the city of
Superior, Wis, has followed. In that
city the saloons have been closed for
the past fifteen months. They re-
move the screens and keep lights
burning in the saloons. 1t has proven
to be of such great benefit to the city
financially that on July 18th they held
ali anniversary celebration III one of
the churches. The mayor presided
over the meeting. The editor of the
daily paper was one of the speakers.
The Judge of the Municipal Court,
the Chief of the Police Department,
merchants, real estate dealers and
bankers testimonies were read and
the city of Superior rejoiced because
hundreds of thousands of dollars had
been added to their material prosper
ity by reason of the closing of the
saloon. So successful was the move
ment in the city of Superior that
within few months after it was
started, Duluth began agitating for
similar reforms and purely as bust
ness proposition that city went under
tina ST1Tn6av 10 TI1o -
League speakers expect to deal large
ly with the story of Superior in the
Sunday addresses.
On Sunday evening there will be
mass meeting in the Congregational
church in which several of the down
town preachers will unite. This
meeting will be addressed by State
Supt. U. G. Humphrey of the Wiscon-
sin Anri-Saloon league. In the after
noon the entire league force will meet
pastors and other persons interested
in civic betterment of Kenosha at
mems conference in the Y. M. c. A.
building.
In the morning the Anti-Saloon
League will be distributed through
the city as follows: Park Avenue NJ.
E. church, State superintendent U.
G. Humphrey; Congreg ational church,
Superintendent Zechiel of the Apple
ton district; Baptist church, Hon.
John f. Baker, author of the famous
Baker bill, the youngest member of
the last legislature and a Congre-
| gational minister, who is now acting
as an attorney and superintendent of
the law enforcement department of
the league; Unitarian church, Field
Secretary r. p. Hutton.
In the evening State Superintend-
ent U. G. Humphrey, will address the
union meeting in the Congregational
church; Field Secretary R. P. Hutton
in the English Lutheran church; the
Hon. ]. F. Baker in the Swedish
Lutheran church, and A. H. Zechiel
in the German M. E. church.
The movement in Kenosha is SINH
lar to the movement that is now being
carried on in Racine and other cities
where the Superior plan has been
adopted. The movement was started
by the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League,
but it is understood that it
will be be backed by every religious
organization in Kenosha. After the
work is started by the state organiza-
ton it is expected that the local
church organizations will carry
on the work and see to it that there
is no backward steps. The move
is one wholly for the enforce
ment of the state laws and the
city ordinances and it is proba BILE that
the fight in Kenosha will be long
and bitter one. The liquor men in
Kenosha are already united and it
is expected that they will make
hard fight for the present system of
the oDen saloon