Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-21

and the enforcement of law to the end
that no saloon should be permitted to
open its doors. Do you suppose for
have appealed to voters to elect man
who was pledged to keep the lid on"
If it injured their business? It seems
to me that the result of that election
should settle in the minds Of all the
beneficial effects of obedience to law"
"But there are other instances Of
equal Importance. A few days ago the
mayor and city clerk of Argentine, a
city Of about 10000 inhabitants were
in my Office, and stated that since the
joints were closed their city had no
use for a police judge, city marshal, or
policeman.
THE police judge of that city stated
in published interview that his buse
ines had ceased almost entirely. The
police judge of Kansas City, Kan, in
an interview made a similar state
mem.
"On September II the Kansas City
Star published the following:
Since all the saloons or Joints
were closed on the West Side, there
has been large reduction in crime.
Before the joints were closed they had
from 10 to 80 in the police court every
morning. Since then the arrests have
been very few. When Judge Sims came
to the police court this morning, he
was informed that the docket was
clean, that there were no prisoners to
be brought before the court The judge
spoke as follows: What! Do you
mean to say that in this city of $4,000
people we are getting so good that not
a single arrest has been made in "a
hours? That is record breaker. This
is the first time there has been an ar
rest in "a hours
Last May our. city officials were
figuring how they could spare the mon
ey to enlarge the city jails. but today
we have no use FOR those we have.
The doors swing idly upon their
hinges with no inmates. the guards at
the rock pile have been discharged,
and DRINKS and disorderlies have large
ly disappeared.
sDr. S. s. Glasscock, the head physi-
clan at our Sanitarium told me few
days ago that before the saloons were
closed they had large number of
cases of delirium tremens every week
but that since the closing Of the sa-
looms they had had but two cases in
the past six months
sThe juvenile court prior to the clos
ing of the saloons assisted from to 20.
dependent children every month. The
other day the judge Of that court In
formed me that there were but two APP
plications in the past six months, and
these two were children of the mistress
of disorderly house driven beyond
the state line These two children
We're sent to relatives in Denver upon
the same train that brought me to your
city. believe that every packing
house and other corporations employ
ing labor will say that the closing of
the saloons has largely increased the
efficiency of their men. The time
keeper of one packing house, and the
superintendent of large factory, both
told me that if the saloons were kept
closed they could afford to increase the
pay of their men because Of increased
efficiency"
Concluding this excellent descrip-
SiOAA VI fsAAC S1OcliAIlS VI lliG UlSSSSC Guy
in Kansas, and it's effect upon bust
ness, political and moral status of the
people. Mr.. Trickett said:
II am informed that there are some
in your city who think that we ought
to have resubmission. Eight months
ago believed in high license and local
option, especially for the larger cities,
but today, after living in the largest
city in Kansas under an enforced pro-
hibitory law, and having seen the adj
vantages flowing from it, compared
with the results of high license just
across the line in Missouri l am OPP
posed to resubmission, and in favor of
the Kansas prohibitory law. 1t is a
good law, and can be enforced in every
city and county in the state, and if this
law should be assailed. or put in ques-
ton, would feel called upon to lend
my humble services to defend 1t upon
the stump from one end of the state
to the other" ,