Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-17
VINO Wants a saloon in Canton?


and money in the saloon don't need
1t.
The brewer and distiller are the
fellows who want to plant saloons in
Canton, because they are willing to
bring ruin and misery among tileir
fellow creatures that they may wear
diamonds and lavish blood money,
while the starving mother and CHILD
rem appeal in vain to the father and
husband for money the b%arkeepel has
taken from him, which in turn goes
to the diStiller.
Every nan who has followed the
saloon closely or knows anything
a0but the Infamous business knows
that the poor and unfortunate are
the main support of these dens OF
wise. The well-to-do or rich men
doesn't patronize these sink holes. 1t
is the man who earns money enough
in the larger towns to properly sup
port his family that frequently on a
Saturday night goes home full and
not a cent to buy a Sunday dinner
with.
Take the recent death of a man at
Hudson as a sample Of what the sa-
loon can do. Take many other cases
OF brutality and suffering that could
be enumerated and many know what
the open saloon can do.
II you license the saloon to sell pol
son, why not license murder. One
produces the other. You say we
can't licence murder, true enough,
buy you say we "a license the sale OF
the vile stuff that fills L jails and
brings men to the scaffold.
Let US picture a common cas- in a
saloon town. A man goes into a sa-
loon with a few boon companions.
One treats and another treats and in
due course of time all are full. A
joke OF a cutting remark arouses the
demon In a brain reeking with the
fumes OF liquor, and in a spirit Of re-
draws knife OF pistol and a
horrible murder is done, or if the
craZed man should be disarmed and
kicked out, he goes home and his
poor family must suffer from his bru-
tally.
If there is a cowardly or brutal
streak in man the whisky crazed
brain will arouse the evil nature and
many a man has gone to the .scaffold
because the law held him responsible
for a crime he would never have com.
mitted If sober.
Take the recent case of murder
over In Charles Mix county. Two
brothers, both prosperous farmers,
went to town and in a saloon got
drunk together. They went home
and had a trifling dispute on the way.
When they got home n brother
killed the other with a gun. One is
dead; the Nother will be executed.
This was the work Of the open saloon
and there are men in Canton who
want to plant this curse in our
midst.
The saloon will never come back to
Canton unless a majority Of our citi-
zens wish to be classed as favorine
hell In preference to the teachings OF
Christ.
Those who favor the saloon know
its influence best, and they ought to
be the last to seek its blighting curse
and degradation. 1t seems impossible
to believe that any married man,
with children, should desire to plant
the open saloon as a modern example
for the hundreds Of boys and girls
who 60 to school every day. We do
not believe any man would like to see
his boy grow up a drunkard rel II
he favored the saloon and drank him
self. Boys are good learners and if
they see men 60 into a saloon sup
ported in its hellish work by a license
granted by law, these boys will won
der why they are denied the privilege
OF older people and will in due time
find means to secure liquor and get
drunk ito see how it feels.'' This is
the vile temptation the saloon fur
nishes. II q man has a right to get
beastly drunk under the privilege OF
the saloon, a boy says to himself; ST
have as much right to get drunk as
dad, and so he has If he can get the
The LEADER wants to say to those
who are In favor Of bringing the sa-
loon back to Canton that they are do
Ing this work to injure the town and
breed crime and promote gambling
and prostitution. AL these evils fol
the saloon and every man Of COM
mon sense knows 1t.
The bushwhacking politics In the
state at present are due to the am
billion Of one man, and not willing to
enter q fair manly contest with Gov
ernor Crawford, Kittredge tries to
debauch and disorganize the party,
but he will fail Of election and the
party will be purified by his defeat.
Harry Eastcott, q brother Of our
r.. P. Eastcott, arrived
direct from England last week to
visit his brother and family, after a
Of Al years. Harry East
colt occupies the position OF superin-
tendent In the electrical department
Of . company that fits out English