The Press., 1909-09-22
Saloons in Stafford
Eight Reasons Why Stafford Should
Have Saloons.

Have Saloons.
There are at least eight reasons why
Stafford should again have saloons
We give them briefly as follows. and
we invite their careful consideration
by all good citizens
1. To contribute our share of in
mates to the county Jail. We ought
to be ashamed of the fact that we
sent only five prisoners to the Jail in
nine months under no. license, where
as we sent thirty eight under license.
Unless Stafford speedily does her part
the Jail may have to close. What
would become of the Jail if other
towns did no better than Stafford
The remedy for this condition is the
saloon
2 To help support our police
force. Try as hard as they could,
our police could make but nine
arrests for drunkenness and assault
under no-license, whereas they made
fifty -four in the same period under
license. How can we hope to support
our police adequately unless we
furnish enough arrests to make a
police force profitable? The remedy
is the saloon.
3. To help fill and support state
institutions form the insane Stafford
will become woefnlly deficient in this
respect If we are not careful. The
state built the asylums to be used. A
town without saloons does not begin
to contribute as many insane persons
in ten years as one with saloons. The
state has right to look to us for our
share of lunatics The remedy is the
saloon.
4 To stimulate charity. Charity
is one of the noblest of human quail
ties. But it must have some object
to call it forth. Citizens of Stafford,
unless we speedily reinstate the
saloon, we shall SO diminished poverty
and want that charity will die for
want of exercise. The remedy is the
saloon.
| 5. To make the women and chill
dren pay taxes. Is it right that, be-
cause we prefer to be without saloons,
we should force the property owners
of Stafford to pay the taxes. whereas
in license towns for women and chill
dren, the families of the saloon pat
rons are made to pay part of the
taxes through the saloonkeaper, who
collects all that he pays the town for
license from the husbands of women
and the fathers of children. We have
many women and children who have
not thus paid a cent to relieve the
tax payers Of Stafford. The remedy
is the saloon.
6. To give saloonkepeers and bar
tenders employment. To be sure,
these men will be the means of put |
ting some of our citizens out of a job |
They put thirty three more in Jail
last year than have been put in this
year under no lcense) J. but what right
have we to tell these men that they
shall not work in our town? Here |
is grievous case The remedy is the |
salocn
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get drunk. Stafford has forced some |
of its citizens to travel several miles |
to get drunk, and they have not beer
able to make the trip often. Why
should we knowingly infiict hardship
upon our fellow men who are willing
to help pay our taxes? The remedy
is the saloon.
8. To furnish raw recruits for a |
great business. The liquor traffic is
doomed unless it can secure thousands
of new customers yearly. These raw
recruits must be somebody's boys
Now if the traffic is legitimate. if it
has billions of dollars invested, what
right have we of Stafford to keep out
the saloons and refuse to contribute
our share Of boys to the welfare of the
business? There are plenty of boys,
and more to be had. We can live
without one or two of our boys, but
the saloon cannot. In one brief year
Stafford has fallen off tremendously
in it's contribution of boys to the
liquor traffic. The remedy is the
saloon.
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