The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-10

trusted with money of their empliyere
having lost 1t Or gambled it away
must make their choice between the
p~enltentiary and a suicides grave Men
~ these saloons with boon companions
help 10 plan ana execute crimes tbey
would view with horror if alone Men
VINO during the week drink sparinpiv
'Hro" OF all restraint on Sunday.
Saloon Evil and Only Evil
The saloon is evil and produces only
evil at all times, but thai ell j =
creased a hundredfold Nwhen rho Co
room Is prought in conjunction with =
large NUMBER of men, with an idle da,,
pelofe them. This is evidenced bv ne
ing, pIack criminal docket each Mon
10y morning IN every large city in our
!dnd' Inc same is true the morning
aIlef each holiday. So well is this
ldGI that when some great
cdidinlty renders a large number Of
people idle, the first move of those in
authority is to close every saloon Tn
yoGi own CITY some years ago, when q
van OF ire seven miles long swept
throuSh your city and all business was
suspended, your first move was to close
every saloon. Why? Because YOU knew
that Idle men when fired by Whfskav
would rob and prey upon the help
less and unfortunate. When the trem-
o "' odhLIiS tdIll SnOOh san
francesca from its foundation, and
Thousands Of people were idle. and
personal property was lying exposed
on every hand, the first order pro
mulgated was one closing every sa-
loon in the city and f~orbidding under
heaNy penalty the sale of a drop OF in
toXlcatlng liquor. If idle men in con
nectlon with open saloons do not pro-
duce a harvest of crime, why this or
der?
During the two months the saloons
We're closed in San Francisco there
was an average of Jour cases per day
IN police court. Upon the opening OF
the saloons, h average jumped to
more than 100.
Saloons and Crime.
During the years / have practiced
law, | recall not q single criminal case
that did not originate in the saloon.
recall one extremely sad case for which
the Sunday saloon was responsible.
TWO young men, one the cashier of
a bank and the other city treasurer.
went to the saloon one Sunday and
partially Intoxicated were invited to sit
IN a poker game and lost heavily. The
next Sunday was but a repetition. The
Board of Trade was then resorted to
in the hope they might replace the
trust funds lost. The result was the
city treasurer fled for parts unknown.
leaving his wife and child subjects of
charity. The young ashier served his
sentence in the pe~nitentiary and died
OF a broken heart.
Recently | talked with q criminal
lawyer Of extensive practice for more
than forty years, and he told me he
had aiken pains to ascertain and note
the cause which led to the crime in
every case, and that mis- trial docket
showed the word "whiskey' after
four-ffths of all the names.
The ay-iJ1Ho 70 of tho criminal 0nIJrt
of Kansas City, Mo, stated not long
since that while OF the bench he had
questioned to ascertain and noted
every case where Wl1iskey caused the
downfall and that his dOcket would
show more than &c per cent caused
by strong drink.
My own county, WNandotte county,
Kansas. during the years when saloons
We're open. sent every year from fiji
teen TO twenty-five young men between
the ags of 16 and % to the State Re
formatory. During the past twelve
months, with the saloons closed, We
have sent but two. During the past
year there We're more than fifty cOun-
ties in our state thai did not send a
criminal to the state penitentiary. On
Sunday, November 3, 1907, the h
cage Daily Tribune sa:G:
sKansas-Pronibit'on since 1880.
OF the 105 counties in the State, only
twenty-one have any paupers; thirty
five have their jailS absolutely empty
thirtv-seven have no criminal cases on
their k After Maine. Kansas
spends more money relative to popu-
lation for schools than any state il
the Union
1 In comparison Illinois must drop her
head in shame. In prohibition Kansas
we have 50 few criminals of our own
that for years we have rented out our
penitentiary to saloCn-ridden Okla
homa. while in Illinois With its Ii
censed saloons. Joliet is crowded tc
its fullest capacity.
Prohibition and prosperity.
Your great state is naturally the
garden SPOT of the nation. bleSt with
a rich soil and abundant rain. or
the other hand one-half of Kansas
was formerly known as the "Grea1
American Desert" and the state as the
home of the cyclone, the drought, the
and the green-bug, and
with scarcely half ycur 6 u peo-
ple have more money on deposit II
hank per capita thar. have those OF
licensed saloon Illinois.
Let me make another comparison
prohibition Maine With one-half her
territory hardly fit for habitation. has
S1O3.76 per capita or deposit in it
savings banks. while Illinois with
nlentv of licensed saloons has only
SCOTS per capita deposited, It looks
almost as if booze ana bankruptcy
travel hand in hand.
Relative to population, prohibition
Maine spends more money for schools
than anv state in tho Union and pro
hihition Kansas comes second. O.
November 8, your Daily Tribune saic
of Maine:
I'm 1855 when Marie adopted pro
b;b;tion if was one of the most drun-
ken and poorest OF states In 1900 /
had more banks and S22,000,00O more
money deposited in them than tbs
wide-open state of Ohio, with six time:
as many people
Robbing Business.
Why will not the business men, rea
estate dealers and bankers see that sa'
looms are robbing the state of 1T
wealth and giving nothing in return
The drink evil of the city of Chicago