The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-07-23
CIVIC FEDERATION PROGRESS
-Four Corners and Other Undesira-
bles Defeated

dominated by desire for the further
ancc Of decorum and decency, by their
respective refusals to license the pro-
posed Prairie avenue saloon and by
taking no action oil the Rowland
avenue saloon proposition on one hand;
and by putting a quietus on the PERM
cious activities Of the Four Corners
on the other.
That the latter action was taken by
the Town Board Of Pleasant Prairie
in form Of a denial Of the application
for re-licensing the saloon in connec-
tion with this notorious resort, is no
cause for surprise to the executive com
;nittee Of the Civic Federation or to
any one else who is conversant with
the resentment which has been felt all
along by the nearby property owners
at the continuance Of this disgraceful
business in their neighborhood.
Those who thought that the members
Of the Pleasant Prairie Town Board
would so far forget the rights Of their
constituents and their own dignity as
to permit the four hundred dollars of
license money to cloud their judgment
regarding the propriety Of tolerating
in their midst a resort Of this character,
run in the interest Of an outsider and
| Eve hope) on outside patronage, did
not know the calibre of the gentlemen
who compose this Board. We have pre-
ferred right along to believe that they
have entertained the request for Ii
cense as a matter Of form partly and
partly for the sake Of giving the devil
his due" SO to speak-an they gave
| it to him.
The City Council has likewise won
the approval of all good citizens by
refusing to violate the sacredness Of
residential district by permitting a
saloon to open on Prairie avenue near
Charles street. By an overwhelming
majority they defeated the ordinance
licensing this saloon and by so doing
put themselves on record as bound by
the wishes Of adjacent property own
ers and residents in such matters.
A most spirited contest has been
waged over the granting of this license
and the one for the Rowland avenue
saloon, between the brewery interests
and the directors of the Civic Fedora
tion. At the meeting Of the Council on
| July 9th, the latter ordinance engross-
ed its attention to the exclusive Of
pretty nearly everything else, 50 that
the fact that it was never even men
toned at the following Council meet
| ing is regarded as very nearly equiya=
lent to an acknowledgment of defeat
on the part of the liquor people, es-
pecially when considered in connec-
tion with the vote on the other ordi
nance.
The time has about passed when a
saloon can settle down in a community
with or without it's consent, just be
cause this, that or the other brewery
wants to spend few hundred dollars
/ to clear away the obstacles.
Nevertheless, this would be very
| poor time for the Civic Federation to
abate one iota Of its vigilance, for
/ however the proponents Of civic Tighte=
BUSINESS may do, the brewery folks are
always careful to obey the Biblical in
/ junction Be not slothfuI in business
and who knows but what they might
even yet find some unreqenerate city
father to espouse their dismal cause.
The outlook for civic betterment in
|Ken0sha during the coming twelve
months is good. TT is especially so
when viewed il the Light Of the Civic
Federation Is election of officers on
Tuesday last and of the unanimous de-
Termination of the members and Of
fcers to push forward the fight Of the
Federation for good government and
clean, decent and healthy body corpor-
ate.
Inc signs Of the times all point IN
mistakably toward a prosperous year
for the reform organization, both as to
numerical strength and the effective
mess of its work.
It may be said here the Civic Fed
Grafton stands, not alone for resistance
to organized or individual corruption
i'm che city's affairs and for the highest
degree Of eapability and proPity in her
officials, but for all means of civic i'm
prorement as we'll for parks, good roads
and streets, up-to-dafe police and fire
protection, good schools, Che education
of the voters in matters Of public i'm
Ipors and for everything else that will
improve Kenosha.
# you believe in thai kind Of thing,
get in the band wagon
If you want Kenosha to be better
don It sit around whining about it
make it So
Kenosha Civic Federation.