Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-13
AS HEARD ON THE
STREETS OF PULLMAN
Divers Views on the Saloon
Question as Expressed
by Pullmanites.

Juice joints out by majority OF seven
hundred four days ago"
Others -" What! Is that so? Huh
guess Pullman aint so slow, after
ALL"
Al guess you folks in this
burg don't get into the show at all.
Pendleton had 27 saloons?."
Others ~ Twenty saloons
Twenty seven thousand dollars
What Il happen next?"
A. 1.-THE whole United States II
dry up and blow away, reckon. Any
thing liable to happen nowadays"
Newcomer -" What's all this com
motion about"
Others :" Pendleton has gone dry !!
Perfectly dry! They close the booze
emporiums on the first of July"
Newcomer q don't give a darn
l don't give a d! Letter go. Let
everything go dry! Only wont be so
long as the trains run. -
Others :-"Nor l. Nor /! Put'er
here, Pete"
Second Newcomer; - "What you
shoutin' about? The town went dry
a month ago"
First Newcomer you don't have
to tell me that. know it. Any
body'd know it. Look at that hole in
the sidewalk. Towns dry, is it? Yes,
it's dry"
A., who is a travelling man :-"You
people here are slow. It's dry every
where. Baker City is going dry, too,
! hear.
Others :-"You're crazy, mani Bak-
er City go dry! Man, the towns right
in the middle of mining district 1t
couldn't go dry. They'd have to
shut up the mines.
First Newcomer talking to him
self -" Pendleton's gone dry. Dried
up! Twenty-seven saloons. It's rev.
olution! It's anarchy A man can t
be decent any more when he wants to. "
A. :-"Well, l suppose if Baker
City's going dry, the miners will have
to 90 dry"
First Newcomer -" How about mu-
nicipal improvements? How they
goin to patch up the holes in their
sidewalks? No, | amt talkin' about
them Webfooters, I'm talkin' about
Pullman. Did y ever count the holes
in the sidewalk goin' down Maiden
Lane?"
Second Newcomer 81 barked
shin when | stepped in one last night. "
Humorist You don't need any
sidewalks now. saw you onct when
the town was wet, and you couldn't
have walked on a sidewalk a mile
wide. -
A: - "Pendleton used to be
mighty prosperous town. You could
got bank there and borrow thous-
and dollars to start up a gamblin'
game.
One of the others = Seems to me
if Pendleton' streets needs fixin, the
women and children can use some O.
that twenty-seven thousand dollars
their husbands used to pay for saloon
licenses, and fix the streets. -
A. Those saloons in Pendleton
were mostly all respectable. If
man was drunk, the bartenders would
mt sell him any more. They catered
to the respectable element. -
One of the others :" RespectahIe
elements be burned! First, I'm be-
lever in saloons, and would vote for
EN- anywhere, any day, but them re-
spectacle jag shops is where respect
able men folks learn bad habits. They
get started there, | tell ye! Now,
believe in saloons, all right, but them
respectable saloons is where respect
able people get a start to the dogs.
No, they hadn't ought to, but most
men don't know when they've had
enough. It's the respectable saloons
then any old kind of booze, then it
the gutter. Now l believe in saloons
all right, but I'm Jest tellin' you what
I've seen.
A.. do you know, l believe this
whole country's going dry. It's a
fad. It's the same as bicycles used
to be; like automobiles and appendi-
citis, for instance. It's just a fad.
Everybody wants to be in style. so
they go dry"
One of the others ~ amt so sure
about that. I s'pose it's all right to
hope for the hest, but | aint so sure
about it. -