Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-03

man, Charleston, s. c.; w. M. o'Bryan,
mayor, owensboro, KY; Thomas T. Crit
tenden, mayor, Kansas City, MO-; John
r. Cronin, mayor, Joliet, ILL.,; W. II.
Baker, mayor, Lockport, N. X.
Montreal. Winnipeg Toronto, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, Duluth and Elgin entered the
lists and on the first ballot the vote stood:
Montreal, 7; Winnipeg. /; Toronto; 8; Mil
waukee, s. Cincinnati, 4; Duluth. A. and
Elign. g. The four lowest cities were then
forced out Of the race by motion and the
delegates balloted for Milwaukee, Mon
treal and Elgin On this ballot the vote
stood Montreal, 49, Milwaukee. II. and
Elgin 2. A third vote was taken with the
two highest as the only candidates and
resulted in a vote of IS for Montreal and
! II for Milwaukee. The election of the
! Canadian city was then made unanimous.
Municipal government by commission as
| proposed by Secretary MacVicar and tested
in Galveston and Des Moines was knocked
galley-west by the League of American
| Municipalities at the convention in the
/ city hail. prohibition was given some body
blows by the mayors of Milwaukee and
Atlanta and defended by the mayor of
| Wichita Secretary MacViear was re-
elected after Hugo Grosser of Chicago,
I MS only opponent WlbnuIoW anu
mated him, and Mayor Cook OF Bast st.
Louis was elected president of the league
at the closing session Friday.
Mayor Rose ON Prohibition.
IF you will go back to your homes,
throw open your saloons. don't accentuate
is as a crime to take a drink, but will tell
the decent people of your city to take
drink whenever they want it, you will have
no drunkenness; but when you say they
shall not have it, that old American spirit
will assert itself and they will sneak
through back alleys and under sidewalks
to get it-not to beat the law. but to beat
you '-s
This was the closing declaration of
Mayor David s. Rose of Milwaukee in a
Tousing address on the liquor problem
especially as 1t is viewed in the city
proudly proclaiming as being made famous
by beer. Mayor Rose spoke without manu-
script or notes and he was frequently In
terrupted by resoundlng applause. showing
that the majority of the delegates believe
in regulation rather than prohibition
"In the city of Milwaukee--liberal Mil
waukee, safe Milwaukee, sane Milwaukee,
IL you please-the saloons never close their
doors from the ringing in of the new year
to the ringong out of the DID," said Mayor
Rose "and l am here to challenge con-
| tradiction Of the fact land you who have
visited our city will bear me out in this
statement that you win see less drunk
enness in Milwaukee than in any city in
the United States or Canada.
"They say that men are different. but !
} am here to say that all men are made from
mud. We. in Milwaukee, are a free people
3 who may get drink whenever we want
e it, and consequently we have no drunken
: ness. We never thought of trying prohibi.
: tion. and that official who should prac.
tice 1t might last until the end of hi,
term, but he would never succeed himself
Very Little Crime There.
1.-THE government census reports show
p that the percentage of criminality in Mil
e waukee is the lowest of any large city il
the United States. Our women folks may
I pass along the most unfrequented streets
a of the city at midday or midnight with
: out an escort and without fear of moles
+ tation. We have a redlight district-a nee
e essary evil-but we also have strict regula
o tion.
S I'm Milwaukee We have one arrest 70
e every 166 Inhabitants; in prohibition wich
ita they have one arrest for every twenty
six inhabitants. Lawrence. Kan, has on
arrest for every 100 inhabitants, and I an
glad to say that there is one city in pro
o hibition Kansas that is gradually approach
ing liberal Milwaukee.
Prohibition does not prohibit; IL doe
not accomplish what 1t seeks to do;
does not keep men sober. But ] will tel
N you what it does do; Prohibition make
L. sneaks, criminals and towards.
p 81 am here TO declare that the prlmar,
a election law is the greatest iniquity.
% was adopted I'm the south for the purpos
le of DISTINGUISHING the niger; It wa
adopted IN the north to disfranchise tn
v, party-and / don't propose to be made tn
,e niger of the north. Two years ago | wa
- a candidate for the nomination for mayo
4 and the democratic party had p 900 vote,
4. In the democratic primary however. SEQ
: votes were cast. Where did the other Il 90
come from? They came from the so-calle
70 reformers. We then turned around an
! voted in the republican primary, castin
!, but 1000 ballots in our own primary, an
- we-the democrats-nominated the reput
lican ticket ! made this emphatic declara
ton that the primary Is a delusion and
d, snare"
Il Mayor Rose said that SO 10000 is ir
vested in the brewerles OF Milwaukee an
"a that 5000 men are employed in them. TheI
are 1900 saloons in the city and they pa
an annual license of 500 a year.
More Drinking in Atlanta
n Stating that there is considerably moi
m drinking among the young men OF A
nj lanta now than before the prohibition la
a. went into effect. w. r. Joyner. mayor ,
he that southern city. in the state OF Georgi
e. which recently adopted statewide prohib
Is tion. said that he believed the people
m. his city would today vote for the sale
rs intoxicants in cafes and restaurants-n,
al public bars Under the new law the may,
" said that people send out OF the sta
re ana secure quantities Of liquor. which IN,
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