The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-01-31

your license is, the more adulteratet
the liquor becomes. The saloon keep
er has to live some way. In case O.
a high license you will find that ht
gives out adulterated liquor and trie:
to sell as much of it as possible, tt
sober and drunken men.
Second, make it felony for mar
to treat or accept treat.
Third, imprison any saloon keeper
who sells to an~intoxicated person.
Fourth, choose your saloon keep
ers' from the most respectable citi-
Gems OF, your community. Make his
business} an honorable one and he
will conduct it accordingly,
Fifth, compel the saloon keeper to
keep restaurant in connection with
his bar.
Sixth, prohibit open bars. They
have none in Europe. Every saloon
Is restaurant. and the bar is in the
kitchen.
Seventh, and by no means least:
Bring up your youngsters with more
discipline. have taught long enough
In schools to know that the children
OF this country are the most undis-
ciplined in the world. am not
speaking of all of them, but of most.
The very fact that the salaries which
you pay to your teachers are so low
hat men do not longer care to enter
he most honorable and most impor-
ant OF all professions, Is sufficient
% damn your whole educational sys-
en- l have the highest respect for
he women teachers, but all teachers
ire not only paid less than one-half
II what they are worth, but they are
ubject to more nagging than any of
he professions.
Reformers, there is your chance.
shall vote for any measure that
ives our teachers three times as
1uch money as 1t does now, and that
axes them out of the hands of poll
lcal boards and makes them civil
ervice, government officers. VEN
IRE to make the assertion that nine
snths of our political i'll might be
directed that way, and God knows
e have many.
Ii you do not believe me, let the
agile scream again, and pursue the
agazines Of the last few years. You
D not have to believe me at all, IL
)u do not wish to.
| see you wondering what the
hool has to do with the saloon.
Thy Is 1t that many of your young
en- imagine that the saloon Is the
ace for rowdyism, when it should
treated like a ladies' parlor?
hool my friends! Is there suf-
lent respect for teacher, parent,
thority, age, knowledge, such as
lists among the children of other
You say that your children enter
looms when not of age? Suppose
ey do! Whom do you blame? The
loon keeper, the policeman. the
acher, the minister. Where are
u?
On the other hand. If should
d one of your boys in a saloon and
uld do as any man OF age would
In Europe, kick him out bodily,
u would have me arrested for in
ting that darling.
In Europe you would thank me for
You say that the child has as much
mt as the parent. Not in Europe,
has not. Your fathers set your
ldren all kinds of examples and
EN- bad ones, but you expect the
listers and teachers not to do so.
make good point, and long
ry short, wish to ask you a ques-
l.
Why Is 1t that in Europe every
lister smokes and drinks? Is his
lie written differently? Why Is it
every teacher does the same,
often enough he comes into the
Dol room with a burning cigar?
|, when. you think of that, do you
know that the respect which the
dren Of the old country pay to
of those two professions Is a
ion times greater than the re-
It our children possess? Why is
Is 1t the club? Is 1t the big
<? Ponder these questions and
laps we can solve the liquor ques-
ct me again reiterate that there
so many reforms more necessary
the reform of the liquor traf-
What glorious thing it would
o institute reform and deadly
against war. One more. Only
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