The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-05-28
Ihe Saloon AGuQd Of Bad nsucn7 Vote ipr YQur Homes

me Saloon Good or Bad institution? Vote Tor Your Homes
Inc saloon IS either good institution bad insti-
tutlon II It Is good Institution why should it be
pelled TO pay for lcenSea right to exist? Good in
sttutons not only do not have pay license order to
exist put are fostered rather than restricted by the state
ana the government If 1t is good Institution why does
the law require to closed Sunday and other holidays
institutions that are doing good certainly should be allowed
to continue without interruption If it is good nstu
tOn why does hide behind stained glass; curtains and
screens Certainly institution that doing good should
be open. If 1t is good institution why are boys not al
lowed to enter? Certainly boys well should
nave the benefits OF good Institutions Why should a
father paronize institution that he thinks unfit for his
boy to patronize? If good institution why should
not the little girls be allowed to frequent it? Any place
that is mt Tor the father to enter also t should be
ut, Tor the girl OF tender years to enter. II the
saloon is good institution why do egsaturer and con-
gress give to the people the right to abolish it? Surely
good institution should not be abolished The legislature
should not give the people the right to abolish an lnsl
tuition 1t eevates the character of citizenship and the
moral standard of the community Do good institutions
send men to their homes reng and cursng TO beat and
abuse their defenseesS wives and their chdren DO good
institutions make crazy shooting, cutting and
killing! If the saloon is good institution there should
be some good coming from 1t. Gan you name one good
thing that proceeds it? 1t is argued that the saloon
pays tax to support the schools But the saloon does
not pay it. The who patronze the saloon pay 1t ana
for every dollar that goes into the public treasury for
tax ten dollars go into the pockeL OF the keeper OF the
saloon for profit The who frequents the saloon and
drinks could pay his part of the tax with hundredth part
of what he spends the bar and the who does not
drink could pay his part with hundr edith part OF what he
paws for the support of as penentiares asyums etc.
filled with the products of the saloon. Shall we tolerate
as great an evil as the saloon shah aunt the temp
taon in the faces of the boys for the sake of few dol
lars? Can state or nation afford to swap our
blood and bone the snew OF our country for dollars
and cents? Again it is argued that blind tigers exist 1t
true And wherever there blind tigers there
blind officials. And blind tigers exist because these
officials who held their hands towards high heaven and
took an oath to their duty allow them to exist But
suppose they do exist There is statute in Indiana pro-
hibng murder but murdered every day in spite
of the law Shall we therefore repeal the law Or shall
we license to commit murder! 1t said as long as
Intoxicating liquor made it will be used beverage.
True to some extent But suppose the grocery business
were prohibited Would it be convenient to get gre
ceries? Do laws count for absolutely nothing in this
country? 1t has been said that liquor sold under
prohibition laws than under license laws so, why do
the saloon keepers, brewers and dsers resist every at
tempt to prohibit the sale in the licensed saloon? Again
1T is said that it consates property. How it con-
scae property if of the product sold under pro-
Inhibition laws than under license laws? Besides the courts
have held that property used to destroy public morals and
that is detrimental the public welfare may be con-
scated Shall the saloons breweres and distll-
eries and let the BOYS go to hell shawe the boys
and let the saloons beweries and dStieries go to HI
Wealth is dearly bought if the price paid mothers
tears and and fathers disappointment and brok-
en- heart Are you interested IN the welfare OF the
brewer than you are in the welfare of your boy If you
are your duty is pain. Are you interested in your
own son than you in the welfare of the millionaire
brewer and dstiler? II your duty is plain. The man
has never lived who could put up valid argument for the
existence of saloon Excuses plentiful among those
who lack rgidy of the spine but valid reasons are as
scarce as oranges the north pole We about to vote
upon the question of whether or not we shall have drink
'drv" and mo 'wet Vote for the good OF the
!, country. T. Helt
Really, when you come to think of a mans buying a
costly outfit and ourneying five thousand miles in order
to kill things which he doen need and just for the JOY he
finds in teal ing them to pieces with bullets, it makes
wonder if after ALL has got very far away from the
savage from which he sprang. Last week the German