Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
WET OR DRY" TOWN.
License Prohibition
a Town-DiHerent Views Held

(Dry Goods Reporter.)

would prefer trading In dry town.
From purely business standpoint,
/ would prefer doing business in dry
dimes spent in the store that would
otherwise &c to the saloon"
Choose the Dry Town.
Moorhead, Mimi. lies across the
river from Fargo. N. d. The former is
| wet: the latter dry. A subscriber in
Moorhead writes as follows:
II have always been in business here,
with forty To fifty saloons
Our neig1lbor town, across the state
line, is In a dry state. and as we are
close up to the line, it does not take
hard reasoning to realize the difference
in q business way We are here be-
cause our investment makes it nee
essary for us to take care of it. would
say to any one making an investment
of a business nature, in towns located
similar to ours, to choose the dry
town"
Business Good, Wet or Dry.
The julius Neumann Co., Wymore,
Neb, favor dry town. and give their
reasons as follows:
w oA y III a WY VI o,VVV DCOpIc--d
railroad division point-and have sold
general merchandise here for twenty
five years under saloon rule. This year
we are dry. Our business is fully Is
per cent better. Our collections were,
the past two months, 35 per cent bet
ter. We prefer dry town.
Not customer of ours left us be-
cause of the change from wet to dry
From the standpoint of merchant tor
forty years, ] prefer to do business in
dry town. The town is cleaner. hap
pier and safer for our children.
Like Dry Town Better.
Miller & Paine, of Lincoln Neb., ex-
press themselves in favor of the dry
town, as follows; we have yours in
regard to the effect of license or no
license upon, general business. The
writer has never done business in a
prohibition town., and therefore, can
only give opinions
1T must be conceded, we think, that
all money spent for intoxicating drinks
is an economic waste 1t is not the
only economic waste, but it certainly
Is very great one. Granting this, it
follows that money not. wasted on IL
quor will some time be spent for legit-
innate or wholesome wants. And that
being true, every line of business must
be benefited when the waste thru the
saloons is stopped
1--WE do not think the size of the
town would, in the least, affect the.
question, from the business standpoint.
Indeed, if there is difference, the
village would be more likely to suffer
loss than the large city, from the
fact that competing points are always
close at hand.''
Lewis, Iowa
Editor Dry Goods Reporter: I want
to give you our answer to your article
wet or Dry" Reason tells any man
or woman that if you are getting 50
per day, and have a family of say
four, and you spend 81 for liquor, you
cannot spend it for shoes and clothes
and food for the family.-iN. J. Wood
ward & Son.
Wymore, Neb.
Editor Reporter: We had six saloons
in our city before last spring election,
and each paid $1.24O into the city and
school funds. This condition pre-
vailed for the last twenty-five years.
OuE pOlIllCs, WClC Illuminated ny Ill0
saloon and no one could be elected to
any city office unless he made his
peace with the saloon interests. The
result, incompetent city officials, city
in debt $4,000, taxes higher than any
city of our size in the state; reputa-
ton of town tough; losses to mer-
chants doing credit business enorm-
Gus.
Last spring business men and rail-
road officials took a hand in politics
and wiped out the saloons. The time
is so short that we cannot give many
details, but we find we have a much
cleaner town. Our own business was 20
per cent better in May, and 25 per cent
lin June, all cash. Credit merchants
claim collections are much better.
Locally the trade who threatened to
go elsewhere to trade, were those who
bring butter and eggs, and send their
money to mail order houses. The wives
of these would tell us they were glad
it was done.
We prefer dry town, altho we are
not prohibitionists. Our drug stores
are no. permitted to sell anything in
the ntoxicating line.-C. E.aBeinert &
Co.