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4 Farthes Il the city should BE- thel
init III aestdlng ether saloons shal. |
be Kept opan IN he cits, then Y ssaoalIa
'bes wiling To lei the COUNTRY BEL the the, |
unit asf;to whether twill build bridges!
G::o ldt the city Or not The country should
Also be allowed to say whether IT VIII
help the city to: take care OF Its poor
and TRY IT. criminals 5and keep up
renitcntlary to hold them after the
city, with Its saloons. has made them.
1t should be SLOWED to say. whether
the city people shall prohibit them
from catching their fish or rabbits, or
quail, excepting only on certain days. 4
The co,,ntr, should be allowed TO say
whether II will help TO build a court
house to embeilish the city. This unit
business Is n thing which should work
both ways or else not be worked OF
all. It Is never worked excepting only
when II is thought to help the saloon
thereby. The lntellisencer ought 70
be above such a ,hnsiness. 1t is the
| work Of a mere .Charlatan.s a @
| Another fact which must be weigh
cd In settling. this unit business Is,
that It IS Well known that the city is
he place where the immoral. criminal.
dissolute, undesirable classes assem-
BILE in large numbers. To put the ten.
perate citizens and the weIl-to'do
classes in the city entirely into the.
control OF these closscs and the laws
which they would make would not only
be against public policy, but It would
be an outrage. The best people want
the unit ether In the county or In
The State. The saloonkeelersf and the
Intelligencer want the unit to be the
city. An outsider who does not know,
wonders whether the Intelltsencer Is
controlled by saloon capital. ~
3. As an Offset to the arguments OF
the saloon elements and their, titles.
let me say that out in Ohio. in the
city Of Newark. where the people we're
! threatened with a great rise in taxes
II the city lost the saloon tax by adopt.
Ing local option. the city council has
:: dismissed ten 'of the city's twenty
policemen since local option has gone
into effect. And It will soon be able
10 discharge ten more OF them. And
the five lett will preserve order bet.
ter than thu twenty-five did with the
falcons in the city.
!! In Coshocton the saloon men sent
cut orders to the stockholders Of the
4 large novelty works in the city to vote
Tor the we;s or the works would be
nlined. They said they would have to
close down If prohibition carried.
whattis the, result? The county went
dry. :. The novelty works Is running
better than ever. There Is in these
works n carI:al OF three hundred thou.
sand dollars. One hundred and fifty
thousand Ct cormon stock and the
same OF preferred stock. Now the com
mon stock Is trying to buy out the
preferred stock. with view OF, IN.
trcasing tho stock to four hundred
thousand dollars. Did prohibition ruin
lheir. business as the saloon fellows
said 1t whv,l? IKE -;
tTIn Guernsey county, where there are
a great many foreign miners. who for.
merly spent their money IN the 81
loon. these miners are now banking
,.heir wagesfa thing they did not know
they coulu 10 before. They will soon
become property owners and pay tax.
ts. The hest thing to do. then. Is to
get prohibition. Statewide II posi-.
bic. II nothing greater can be Enlned
1T once. then take county option. Bit
work for S;ate-wide and National pro
hibition as soon as possible. Reduce
the drink evil" to minimum" rs
| the lntelligencer advocates. but don't
try to minimize the "evil" by open.
ing the saloons. as the lntlellgencer
proposes. /, All readers Of this will I'm.
,lerstand 1t better by reading the In.
teiligence;: Of Thursday. January Is.
1 To minimize an "evil' by licensing
and continuing It Is both q new phil.
csophy and new theology. Where
does the intelligencer get its ethics?
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