The Delta independent., 1907-03-29
Tax Payers Column
So The People May Know.

Party OF the town OF Delta, desire To
call attention of the electors of said
town to the fact that for the past year
a majority of the town trustees have
been members of said party, and their
policy has been the policy of the town,
and the Taxpayers Party is willing to
stand upon the record made by said
board and we expressly call attention
to the present prosperous condition of
our town, and the improvements that
have been made during the past year,
and especially to the good order that
has prevailed. and the fact that there
has been less disturbances and less
drunkenness during the past year than
during any year in the history of our
town, there being only three arrests
for drunkenness. where as there were
many times that number the year be-
fore, thus showing by actual and prac-
tical experience that our temperance
policy is the best.
We deplore the annual dissension Of
our citizens over the liquor question,
and the policy to be pursued in that re-
gard. We believe that the policy pur-
sued during the past year has been the
best yet devised in our town, and has
resulted in less harm than any policy
heretofore tried, and we believe that
the energy heretofore used in the argu-
ment of this question should be here
after used the well directed efforts for
the advancement and boosting of our
town.
That there are many other questions
that are very important and require all
of our energy, are such as pcrfecting
the water system. improving streets
and encouraging all kinds of building
and industry, and the location of facto-
ries and manufacturing establishments
in or near our town.
We again call the attention of the
voters to the fact that the policy pur-
sued during the past year is that of the
majority of the board of trustees. which
is that of the Taxpayers Party and
has not been the policy of the minority
of said board or Its mayor.
WE STAND UPON OUR RECORD.
IF YOU LIKE THAT RECORD YOU
CAN HAVE MORE OF 1T, and of the
true booster spirit by voting the Tax
payers Ticket.
You can't regulate peoples habits by
rf ha ~ oh
of this day admit the fact. Dr.. F. w.
Gunsaulus, pastor of the Central Con-
gregational church of Chicago, while
visiting Denver recently gave express
sion to the following views:
"I do not believe in the lid being on
in any city, according to the accepted
application. The grosser side of man
kind is bound to have some outlet, and
to try 10 hold the lid down without pro-
viding some other means of physical
expression is folly. / don't want to go
on record as being an advocate of law
lessness, but think that the evils are
to be cured by the medicine OF express
sion rather than repression. Given
some healthy method of physical ex-
preston, the majority of mankind would
not need lid.
The modern man needs physical ex-
ercise. If he is spiritual being he is
not one whit the less an animal, and if
the spiritual man requires certain
things, SO does the animal in Just as
marked degree.
If | might suggest a means of put
ting on the lid everywhere without any
trouble or turmoil, would say estab
lish gymnasiums all over all the cities.
and make them so attractive that men
would go to them. This is one reason
that the Young Mems Christian asso-
citation has been SO successful. 1t has
not only looked after the inner man,
but has taken care of the physical part
of US as well.
MISTAKE OF MINISTER'S.
1t would not be difficult to get the
men here to go into scheme like this
in whole-souled manner. know that
this sort of thing has done more for the
youth of Chicago than all the lids and
lid laws that were ever enacted.
Ministers should quit preaching, shut
down the lid good and tight They
should go to work and strive to bring
about condition under which lids
would not be necessary"
The above will appear to most people
as practical, common sense. May we
inquire what many of these well mean
ing people in Delta who hold to the idea
that the use of liquor can be done away
with by shutting out saloons, have done
to furnish amusement and such exercise
as DR.. Gunsanlus speaks about for the
youth of this town? They have church
socials for S. S. children and church
members, but how about the other class
in whose soul welfare they claim to be
SO vitally interested? The trouble with
most good church temperance people is
that. they are not at all practical in
their methods.