Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-12-12
esEgs.IIA NAN ON
LOCAL OPTION.
Gives Reason, why Saloons Should
Not be Allowed.


Il NJ White, Eoltofs o4eAicos NM
Dear Sir:-I see ia your valuable
paper OF last weeks issue Of the Week
ly Ledger an article Of Mr.. Geo.
Robertson trying TO explain and give
figures Why local option would be
q retirement TO the city Of Mexico.
Take and figure out the expense this
city is az having TO keep the poor
ones that is made poor BY the use OF
liquor, the orphans who are made BY
the use OF 1t, the cost OF divorce cases
caused by the use Of the stuff; and the
cost TO the city Of keeping and feeding
those that are locked up in the Gala
boos and iails. the cost OF prosecuting
terminals cases made by the use OF In
~toxicants.
Figure II all up and you will see
what the cost OF theses fen things ]
ha fe mentioned, and many others will
exceed what revenue the city desires
from the saloon.
l know Of a little mining town
=here . good many Of saloons are,
you 20 TO . butcher shop on Saturday
night, be there when the miners coma
10 and you will see that they call for a
ten cent soup bone, while the SALON
keepers call for a fifty cent roast. But
after the local option went into effect
the poor miners got the nifty cent
roast and the saloon man got the ten
cent soup bone. What . difference!
II some poor man In your city was to
come around with q subscription paper
and ask you to subscribe 10 or l5c to-
ward building him q home how much
would he get? BE would get just
what a man gets when he goes In the
saloon sno spends all his money and
gets drunk and then gets q kicked out
at the door for the police TO nab him.
But on the other hand IL q saloon
keeper wants q fine building or new
fixtures inside, why they Just flock
right In and give him enough In a
short while TO pay for IL.
You see you didn't help the poor
Issaa -.sa &c subscription who really
vented q g home and y who
would appreciate it, but you have
made the saloon keeper richer, your
money is gone and you got no bene-
fit from 1t. You can't blame the saloon
keeper. BE is ding lawful business,
he has paid his license out on. IL is the
ones that grant him license to do it.
The county courts, the city courts and
the many church members who signs
the saloon petitions in favor Of licens-
ing saloons.
HABAKKUK Is
Woe unto him that giteth his
neighbour drink that puttest thy
bottle to him and makest him drunk;
also that thou mayest look on their
m~akednsss.
PROBES Bs 23-3l-32
Look not thou upon the wine when
II is led, wheo II giseth his color 10
the cup, when IL maketh II self Alright.
a last is 5.t;itS ike q serpeant
and stlngbth like an adder''.
think there ought to bs d law In
each county that will prosecute every
man that puts bis name 90 a saloon
petition, for q saloon 70 manufacture
criminals papers, Drunkards. make
father feinds, wives widows, children
orphans.
1t will train sons infidelity, dissi-
patton, ignorance, lawlessness and
every other vice that will corrupt,
religion, obstruct tbe.gospel aud cause
temporal and eternal death. A pen
atty OF $1,000 90 and six months In
prison ought TO be imposed on
every q that signs a petition for a
saloon, for every man that signs his
name to a saloon petition is bringing
damnation TO his own children besides
thousandsiof others.
God speed the time when local OPP
tion will sweep this county.
Yours for 1t,
Cnas. s. Duty.