The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-25


the 'FINISHED PRODUCTS of such
INSTITUTIONS" but when we
have known such people are prone
to exaggerate matters we, Of course.
did not go to them for the REII-
ABLE information, which our MA
RION business men we're wanting and
neither did we go to the OTFIER
EXTREME OF hunting up the min
listers Of the city. for fear some peo-
pie might think THEY would make
things STRONG also. only in AN
OTHER way, although we frankly
confess WE would have been willing
to accept their word on the sub
ject. We only saw one minister,
who came to us in business room,
and he was introduced as "Dr.
Taggart, the father OF the temper
ance movement" in EAST LIVER
POOL" and pastor OF the United
Presbyterian church for forty years,
and we would take the old Patri-
archs word for almost anything and
vet we talked but little to HIM, for
we were after the opinion of the
CUISINES MEN" and we were
much surprised at their OPEN way
Of talking, and we found several,
who thought It was quite the
WRONG thing, and they HOPED 1t
would go N'wet" NEXT TIME, but
on asking about these men. we found
that almost invariably they HAD
BEEN 'ibartenders," "saloon keep
ers" or clarifies" yet SoNIE we're
very nice appearing people, and, ap-
parently, thought all their troubles
came from the saloon being voted
out, but as we would ask how to
account for the fact that 0TIIER
cities had VACANT HOUSES. and
vacant store rooms, and yet were full
of saloons, they were simply
"stumped."
In speaking to Mr.. George II.
Owen. President of the "DODLIAlRS
SAVINGS BANK" and also of the
largest Real Estate and Insurance
company of that city, he said, NOur
business has been little on the
DULL order for the past nine or ten
months" and we said, "Do you not
lay quite n bit of this to the fact you
voted out the saloons?" and he said
ANo, indeed, why twelve years ago
when we had the other @PANICKY
TIME we had over seventy saloons
and we had to have "SOUP
HOUSES" for months, and If we had
not voted out the saloons, II would
have been the same the past winter
but as We had gotten rid of the open
saloon, the ''pay envelopes" got home
instead of into the saloon"
'How about selling Real Estate?''
we asked, and Mr.. Over replied, ut
Is quite slow now, uust the same as
with you in Marion, but few are
selling. but right here where We are
now sitting Is a property we bought
three years ago under "saioon rule
for Fifteen Thousand ($15, 900. 00)
Dollars, and we have a STANDING
offer of Twenty-Five Thousand ($22,-
900 00) Dollars, but we do not care
to except less than Twenty-seyen
1927 900 00) Dollars" d"
On talking with Mr.. Dunlap cash
Ter of the 'HFirst National Bank" the
largest bank In the city, he said,
when we ask him If It did not hurt
business to vote out the saloons, he
replied. "Yes. IL hurt the BREWERS
SA1lO0NISTlS ana BARTENDER'S 'S
trade. but had II not been the panic
struck us in two or three months
after our local option election, we
would have had so much business we
could have scarcely taken care of It,"
eyes" we said "but how about
this Fifty-three thousand 1888 ,00O.O0)
Dollars tax the saloons paid into the
City?" and he said eyes, It's TRUE
they did pay about Flfty-three Thous-
and ($53,000. 00) Dollars per year but
OUR PEOPLE had to PAY TfltNf
about $i00,000 90 in order to get back
about $4,000 90 in taxes and we do
not think that was very good bust
ness Judgment"
We went around and made inquiry
of about all classes, including Bank
ers, Grocers, Shoe dealers. Dry goods
men, Doctors, Lawyers, Blacksmiths,
etc, and nearly all were OF about
the same mind. One Shoe dealer, Mr..
r. W. Sample, however. said his
busines had been affected and he had
just spoken to the TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEES about 1t and said he did
not understand why he had not been
getting more trade from them and
they said they had only had to buy
ONE PAIR for poor person and
he had gotten the order. and so he
thought, then, he should not com-
plain, but he went on and said that
while the potteries had only been av-
eraging about 40 to As per cent OF
time, the past year. yet his buslnesi
was only about Is per cent less than
any of his BEST years, and he knew
df the saloons had been there his
business would have been much
worse, for even with SHORT TIAIE
many men who had formerly spent
much of their earnings IN the sa-
looms had come ana bought shoes and
PAID THE CASH ana Mr.. Sample