The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-03-05

We aQree with the Telephone
in that Che candidates for once
should be clean men, and not
users OF alcohol, but Il sounds
like a statement Of Carrie Nation
70 nay that Rich Hill il q hell
.holo, q place where crime -four.
ishes, and . place where the PEG
pie want Omcers elected who will
not do their duty. Tribune.
The Telephone replied last
week as follows:
The above statements credited
20 this paper may sound like
Carrie Nation, but they are the
truth. II our friend. who seems
so anxious TO decide whether
King Alcohol is the patron
saint Of Rich Hill" or not. let him
put on his specks and read the
result OF the local option election
held in that place, December IL.
il was a day when every man
went 70 the polls and voted hts
seutiments-his honest convict
ions. The 145 majority in favor
OF The hellish liquor traffic is a
pretty fair test Of the people on
the question. After our friend
had permitted this fact TO soak
into his hide and made q calcula-
ton rs to how many members Of
the church Of Christ voted with
the las, let him take up the cir
cular, "A Word 70 Voters. Ac-
ton Of Business Men of Rich
Hill to Check Local Option Pre-
sumptiveness.n II would look
TO q man up a tree that King Al.
cOhOl had . pretty firm hold in
that beer soaked and whisky
ridden town. It was signed by
74of Rich Hills business mem
which ought 70 average up pref
~ well. Read il through, Bro.
DOwell, Il ISIS Weighty document
expousing the cause ri the 50.
loon, and bears me out in the
statement that King Alcohol is
the patron saint OF Rich Hill. >
Again, il our friend is really in
tsrested, let him look up the Is.
sue of the Daily Review, in which
q certain preacher used column
and 3 half Of solid BREWER 10 tel
why no resigned his passionate,
and then read between the lines
The brewery threat don't put
binders on this editors eyes.
Rich Hill has a right TO vote
the saloon in business-wallov
in her own puke-but what / con
tended for in the article that gave
Bro. Dowell such 3 nervous chill,
was that the rest Of the county
which had gone out Of partner
sbip with hell, refuse to let tbs
booss crowd Of Rich Hill elect
orr omcers-dominear orr poll,
tics. This is for self preserVi.
tion-the protection Of our home
social purity and business intsg
rity.
The Telephone never started
this scrap. The editor has been
insulted on the streets OF Rich
Hill while marching uAdsF chs
banner Of temperance The cd.
itor aud this paper have been
openly denounced for speaking
the truth - cOntending for The
sanctity Of the home and the vir,
tue Of our sons and daughters.
Rich Hill has many honest,
Christian people, God bless them
Ia the courageous stand they
have taken against the giant
evil, but not as many good peo-
pie as any town In the state, +" or
they didn't show up on election
day. Nor have / heard Of any
other town where mothers piun-
ed on the saloon insignia and
openly took part IN the defeat OF
righteousness. The Telephone
has always spoken kindly Of the
good people Of Rich Hill, who
made such = forlorne but manly
fight 10 rid the town Of lie awful
curse, but not once have / seen
q line printed IL their home pa
pers commanding them for doing
right. Fact 10 IT'S not popular
20 antagoniEe the brewery inter.
ests in that burg. The good peo-
pie are in the minority.
liking Alcohol isn't the patron
saint Of Rich Hill, you'll have to