Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08
SUNDAY MAKES PROMISE GOOD: ].
RIPS HIDE OFF SALOONS BEFORE
CROWD OF 5000 men AND BOYS

and | say, What caused this?" I
step up to young man on the scat.
fold. and say. What brought you
| here?" Drink! Whence all the mis-
cry. and sorrow, and corruption? In
variably it is drink,
Five Points.
/ In Five Points. In New York, there
is spot that was as near like he'll
as any spot on earth. There are FIVE
streets that run to this point, and
right in the middle was an old brew
cry, and the streets on either side
We're lined with grog shops.
! The newspapers turned search
| light on the district, and before they
could stop it, the first thing that
they had to do was to buy the old
| brewery. and today 1t is a decent re-
spectacle place. SO "a%
Crime Breeder. ~ -
| The saloon is the sum of all viii
iainies. IT is worse than war or
pestilence. 1t is the crime of crimes.
1t is the parent or crimes and the
mother of sins. 1t is the appalling
source of misery and crime in tho
! land, and the principal cause of
crime. 1t is the source of threa-
fourths of the crime, and of course
it takes threcfourths of all the taxes
to support that crime.
To license such an incarnate fiend
of hell is the dirtiest low. down.
damnable, business on top Of this old
earth. There is nothing to be com
pared to it. ap5 fsalfssq5 80
The legislature of, Illinois has ap.
propriated $6,000,0oo to take care of
the insane people In the state of llli-
nois. and the whiskey business pro.
duces rs per cent Of the insane. That
is what you go down in your pocket to
help support
Who Foots the Bills?
Who has to pay the bills? The
landlord that don't get the rent be-
cause the money goes to the whiskey
gang. The butcher. and the grocer,
and the charitable person, who takes
pity on the children of the drunkards.
and the taxpayers who supports the
insane asylums and other institutions
that the whiskey business keeps full,
and makes you 90 down in your poe
kets to support
Do away with the cursed bust
ness and you will not have TO put
up to support them,
BY the People,
Who makes the money? The dirty
dogs Of saloonkeepers, and the
brewers, and the distillers, and that
is the gang that fills the land with
misery, and poverty, and wretched-
ness, and disease, and death, and
damnation and it is being authorized
by the will of the sovereign people.
Not My Vote.
You say, People will drink it any
way
Motto BY my vote.
You say, That men will murder
their wi--es any way 4.
Not by my vote.
They will steal any way
Not by my vote
You are the sovereign people What
are you going to do about it this after
noon?
Listen, In 1900 the factory valua-
ton Of the malt and distilled liquors
was SS34,6S0,156, but they cost the
men that drank that dirty stuff five
times that amount of money.
These same industries gave profit
of s447,S36,000 to s.S14 proprietors,
ployed 1924 people directly and
several hundred thousand men.
Figures ThatsTaik.
These are the figures, and If the
American people will stop drinking
whiskey we could with the money
saved, pay the brewer, and the dis
tillers, 10 per cent on t.leir present
invested capital of s50o,000,O00 and
we could pay the farmer 10 per cent
on his present sales to the breweries
and we could support, my friends,
the $4,000 people that work in the
breweries. We could support the
saloon keepers and their families and
we could save s500,000,000 year
Invest 1t Otherwise. as3
Now it takes $3,5O5 invested in the
whiskey business to give employment
to one man. Of the ten leading in
dustries that have. a capital of s30o0,-
100000 1t only takes S1,021 invested in
their business to give employment to
one man. In other words could take
the money invested in the breweres.
and invest it in other business, and
hire three times as many men as IN
the breweries and the distilleries to.
day.
If you want the facts you are up
against them and | defy any whisky
lawyer on Gods dirt, and if you are
here. get Up; I want to look at you,
and / will riddle you full Of holes.
Cheap Lot.
Now last year the corn crop was g..
553, 10000 bushels, and was valued
at $1,350,000,000 Secretary Wilson
says that the breweries use less than
2 per- cent, I will say that they do
use 2 per cent. That would make
51,000,000 bushels. and at so cents q
bushel that would be s25,500 900.
How many people are there in the
United States? 100000. Very we'll,
then that is q cents per capita. Then
we sold out to the whisky business for
&c piece, the price of q dozen OF
eggs, or pound of butter. We are
the cheapest gang this side of hell
if we will do that kind Of business.
More Statistics.