Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
''Have You No Saloons in This
Town?''
"No, We Don't Need Them.''

"No, We Dou't Need Them.''
This question and answer came
about through stranger headed for
the depot last Friday at 1:30, who
said to the Editor on the post office
corner:
Have you no saloons in this
town?n
"No, we don I need them," was our
answer as the stranger walked on rap
idly, with a boy about seventeen
years old at his side. .
The man did not seem to be look.
ing for saloons. He was tall and
clear eyed and looked like prosper.
Gus farmer at 65.
He had evidently noticed that
there were no saloons and was doubt
less agreeably surprised. He didn't
even stop as he asked the question
and the answer was unanswered.
Canton has gained a reputation fol
sobriety and good order under the ad
ministration of Mayor Gemmill that
is state wide and no man has suffered
| because the open saloon has been ban
iShed. On the other hand hundreds
have been benefited by the absence OF
the saloon, and many a dollar has
found it's way into the hands of the
butcher and the baker and other lines
of trade that would have been spent
for liquor to the detriment of the
man who spent it and to the sorrow
and misery of the mans family if he
had one.
Liquor is the greatest curse the
human race has to contend with. 1t
fills jails and state prisons and leaves
trail behind it that is marked with
insanity, suicide, murder, robbery
embezzelment, and all the horrors
and misery that brains frenzied with
liquor can commit.
The day for the saloon is nearing
it's end in this state and in all states
because congress and the supreme
court will have to meet this issue
"Can public nuisance and a crime
breeder be legally licensed under
the constitution, and the same ques
tion must arise in every state, and
good lawyers say that there is no law
that sanctions public nuisance and
a crime breeder, a destroyer of the
home that fills man with frenzy
and fires his brain and leads to muir
der. The day is coming when there
will be no saloons and little liquor
manufactured and God speed the day
Rum, anarchy and crime travel hano
in hand but rum stands alone as the
greatest curse the world has eve
| faced.
Only last week a woman in Rapic
City got drunk and in her frenzy shot
and killed her daughter, and wher
she realized what she had done she
went insane. Here we have murder
and insanity in a few minutes be
Rapid City, and yet there are some
people in Canton who advocate the
open saloon.
There are $4,000 men on the pay
rolls of the Northwestern railroad
who do not drink Intoxicating liquo
or frequent saloons, and only recently
temperance pledge containing 7,OOt
names was presented to the President
of the Northwestern railroad and il
was voluntary action on the part o.
! the men. This shows what temper
ance means and how the temperance
movement is reaching the human
| heart.
Law will not make man STOP
drinking. First remove the tempta.
| tion and you have removed one hall
of the curse. The crimes in Sioux
Falls referred to by Geo. w. Egan in
his masterful address here we're al
the result of the open saloon and the
lawlessness that follows the use Of
the whisky bottle.
Canton needs no saloon in it's daily
life, and mo man who loves Cantor
and her good name, and who admires
peace, sobriety and happiness car
wish for a saloon in town with
beautiful homes, fine schools, mag
nifcent college and a great Epwortl
League Assembly where hristianity
and love is taught under the glorious
banner of Christ.
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