The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-12-30
HUTCHINSON IS
DRY But HAPPY
Burt Day of the Leader Gives An
Illuminating Account as to
No-LicenSe.
Window Also Heard From, and Our
Tributary Farmers Say, On
With the Lid.
Hutchinson, Mimi, 1928 'Os

Hutchinson, Mimi, 1928 '08.
Messrs. A. S. Kenney and w. H. Gold
Redwood Falls, Mimi.
Dear Sirs:-I note by the Reveille
that you are candidates for alder
men in Redwood Falls and that you
are opposed to saloons.
If the saloon question is an issue
in r. F. the situation in Hutchinson
may interest you. Prior to April
last, we had four saloons and it was
a frequent remark by competent
observers that in few towns in the
state was the liquor business under
better control and were there less
baneful results from it than here.
They paid $4,000 year into the
city treasury. Nevertheless. the
town went dry by 50 majority and
the lid has remained where it was
put, ever since.
There were two distinct elements
contributing to the vote-frst, the
strong temperance element that has
always existed here; and second, an
element of saloon patrons who, hav-
ing squandered their substance in
the saloons, and could no longer get
credit there, voted with the Ants
out of pure revenge.
A number of business men, when
the vote was announced, threw up
their hands and said, 'You have
killed our town and done nothing
for the cause of temperance-with
saloons in every adjoining town
there will be booze in III. just the
same and the others will get the
business.
For awhile after election there
was something of a boycott of the
town by certain people who think
the sale and absorption of liquor are
among the inalienable rights of man.
They went to other towns to trade
and to that extent the town suffered
But, on the other hand, some came
here to trade, for they found it a
clean, orderly town to which to
bring their families, and the anti
saloon fellows had the satisfaction
of hearing from the lips of several
farmers who were heavy drinkers,
praise and heartfelt thanks that H.
had gone dry. There were many
other farmers wives known to feel
the same. You no longer see women
sitting in the wagon for hours hold
ing the team, waiting the pleasure
of the lord and master to finish his
gay time in the saloon and emerge
with bleary eyes. flushed cheeks and
foul breath to be her companion to
their home. where there are children
to witness the clarifying sight.
Hutchinson has now gone far
enough on this road so that it can
be said she knows where she is at.
A large number in the city and coun-
try tributary have changed their
views on the saloon question.
She has sobered up and made use
full, self-supporting citizens of sew
eral who were going to the dogs;
she has won back most of the trade
lost, and in the nine months that the
saloons were discarded has done
more business than in any similar
period in many years. | defy you
to find Hutchinson business man
who is kicking on the result of that
38 majority.
Owing to the loss Of the $4,000
license money municipal taxes will
be slightly higher and as business
men are the heaviest tax payers
they will feel this most, but, as we
know that two and two make four,
they also know that a considerable
portion of the good money that here
tofore has gone for booze is now
coming to their tills and you will
not see some of them hustling for