Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-30
A WARNING r0 SALOONS.

1 The Wine and Spirit Circular, a New
York publication devoted to the inter.
ests of the liquor trade editorially of
fers wsrning to :aloonists and liquo
4 dealers generally That those interests
/ will do well to heed and that will b,
1 accepted by temperance advocates a:
proof of their succe ssful endeavor. 1t ha.
limo sneers but the. respect due to 9
powerful opponent for the Anti SalooI
| league. It's most striking assertion
however, is its plain warning that the
| retailing of liquor as at present con-
Quoted will result in the prohibition, OF
the traffic lin all l,ut the business and
tenderloil1 districts of our larger cit
les That is ,the prediction made to
the retail liquor trade by its own or
gan.
The article is ST. striking in its as
sertion and argument that the follow
ing extracts will be read with inter-
est:
If there is one thing that seems set
tied beyond question it is that the re-
tail liquor trade Of this country must
either mend its ways materially or be
prohibited in all places save the BUSH
mess or tenderloin precincts of our
larger cities. y With more than
one half of the gaogra ptical limits of
this great country under laws prohibit
ing the. sale of alcoholic beverages;
with Tennessee Passing thru her leg
islature a bill thar almost amounts to
state prohibitions; with the West Vir-
ginia Legislature lassing measure to
submit The prohibition of the manu-
facture and sale OIL wines and spirits to
a vote OF the people; with Texas pro-
Niding that express companies trans
porting wines and spirits shall take out
a $4,000 license; with the Illinois leg
islature considering a county unit local
option measure and Indiana $1,000 H.
cense foi, the few saloons that the re-
monstrative law will leave in thai
state; with Kentucky almost dry
state and facing, probably a legislative
session that will submit a prohibitory
amendment; and with an organization
soppueiliS ID anu NOtIle ~ OuE, aS-
struction that sens to lack nothing
in the way of morley or brains, enthu-
siasm, or persistent, untiring work ~
what, may we ark, is the wine and
spirit trade doing to arrest the current
of events Or to alter in any way the
radical conclusions which are being
forced upon the PEOPLE in every state,
county or precinct?
If the Anti Saloon league can main
tain its present Organization it looks as
if it will certainly destroy the legal
lied saloon in all Of the southern states.
excepting perhaps in Missouri, and 1t 4
is certainly making strong Roadway in
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and other western and
nothern states.5" . y The Anti Saloon
league is not a mob Of long
haired fanatics. as some of the writer's
and speakers connected with our bus
mess have declared but 1t is a strong
~ centralized organization, differed by
men of unusual ebilfty. financiered byl
capitalists with very long purses, sub
scribed to by hundreds of thousands, Of
men, women and children who are So
llticited by their various churches, adj
vised by well-pad attorneys of great |
ability, and it is working with definite
ideas to guide it lin every state, in ev-
cry county. in every city. and in every
There is no question
that this organization has welI-pre-
pared plans for controlling the legis-
atiye branch of the government at I
Washington, and Of passing national
law :lt some time in the
future, but before 1t undertakes so gil
santic an enterprise it is working TO
cripple the trade in every possible way.
and-while we slept is succeeding
IN the most substantial manner.
The Wine and Spirit Circular has It
right. In nutshell the retail liouor
srade must reform its way of doing
business Or suffer the consequences.