Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24

and to do the dirty, low-down things
that a man would not have thought of
doing IL he had not been under the
influence OF that damnable, rotten,
sinking business. Certainly!
What ireland Says.
Archbishop ireland. the famous Ro-
man Catholic Of st. Paul, said of
social crime today that IS per cent
is caused by drink and 80 per cent of
the poverty.
go to a family and it Is broken
and I say, what brought you here:"
Drink! Whence all the misery, and
sorrow, and corruption? Invariably it
| it drink!
Five Points.
In Five Points in New York, there
is a spot that was as near like hell
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 were
lined with grog shops.
The newspapers turned a search
light on the district, and before they
could stop 1t, the first thing that they
had to do was to buy the old brew
cry, and today it Is a decent respecta-
BILE place.
Crime Breeder.
The saloon is the sum of all villatn-
les. It is worse than war or pesti-
lence. TIT is the crime of crimes. 1t
Is the parent Of crimes and the mother
Of sins. 1t Is the appalling source of
misery and crime in the land, and the
principle cause Of crime. It is the
source Of three-fourths of the crime,
and Of course it takes three-fourths
all the taxes to support that crime.
| To license such an incarnate fiend
of hell is the dirtiest, ow-down, DAM
nable, business on top Of this old
earth. There is nothing to be COM
pared to it.
The legislature Of Illinois has ap-
propriated s6,0oo,o0O to take care of
the insane people in the state Of 1lli-
nois, and the whisky business pro-
duces Is per cent Of the insane. That
is what you go down in your pocket
to help support.
Who Foots the Bills?
II remember right the legislature
appropriated nearly $9,O0O,000 to take
care Of the state institutions and do
away with the saloons and you will
close those institutions. They are the
ones that make them necessary and
they make poverty and the jails and
fill the penitentiaries.
Who has to pay the bills? The land
lord that don't get the rent because
the money goes to the whisky gang.
The butcher, and the grocer, and the
charitable person, who takes pity on
the children of the drunkards. and the
taxpayer who supports the insane asy-
lums and other institutions that the
whisky business keeps full, and makes
you go down in your pockets to sup
port.
and you will not have to put up to
support them.
BY the People.
Who makes the money? The dirty
dogs of saloon keepers, and the brew
ers, and the distillers, and that is the
gang that fills the land with misery,
and poverty, and wretchedness. and
disease, and death, and damnation, and
it is being authorized by the will of the
sovereign people.
I Not My Vote.
You say, 'People will drink 1t any
way"
You say that MEN will murder their
wives anyway
Not by my vote.
"They will steal anyway"
Mot by my vote.
You are the sovereign people. What
are you going to do about it this aft
ernoon?
Listen! In 1900 the factory valua-
ton of the malt and distilled liquors
was s334,6S0,156, but they cost the men
that drank that dirty stuff five times
that amount Of money.
These same industries gave a profit
of s447, $4,000 to 1914 proprietors, and
paid in wages $27,551,529. and en-
ployed 4S,254 people directly and sew
eral hundred thousand men.
Figures That Talk.
There are the figures, and if the
American people will stop drinking
whisky we could with the money saved
pay the brewers and the distillers 10
per cent on their present invested CAPT.
tai Of $5O0,000,000, 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 $500 900 600
a year.
Tho Money Saved.
If we would simply stop drinking. we
could take the money which we save,
and pay the brewers 10 per cent, and
pay the present wages to the brewers
and the saloon keepers, and support
their families, and save $500, 900, 600, to
say nothing Of the misery and crime,
II we put 1t purely on a financial basis!
Invest II Otherwise.
Now it takes $3,505 invested in the
whisky business to give employment to
one man. OF the ten leading indus
tries that have capital Of 50, 400, 000, 900
it only takes $1,021, invested in their
business, TO give employment to one
man. In other words, could take the
money invested in the. breweries and
invest 1t in other business, and hire
three times as many men as are in the
breweries and the distilleries today.
Of you want the facts you are up
against them, and defy any whisky
lawyer on Gods dirt, and il you are
here, get up; want to look at you
and will riddle you full Of holes.
Cheap Lot.
Now last year the corn crop was
2,553.732.0O0 bushels, and it was val
ued at $35,000,000. Secretary Wilson
says that the breweries use less than
2 per cent. will say that they do use
2 per cent. That would make ST 900 900
bushels, and at 50 cents a bushel that
would be $25,500,000.