The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-12

when he receives his wage he goes
to the saloon and gets ileeced OF his
earnings. purchasing meanwhile
pair of black eyes. a battered visage,
nights lodging on the sidewalk.
and swelled head in the morning.
We declare indeed, that is not right.
This man should not have some sort
of diversion So we create for him
the saloon. We pat the saloon keeper
on the back, and ne pats us on the
back, and we call him a hale fellow
Wen met. and We elect him and his
friends 10 office, and love him so
well that We hand over to him, our
hard earned shekels, every month
either TO him or his side partner, the
gambler-and then go broke "a
hours after pay day. We prefer
crime. and poverty, and hunger, and
misery. and the dungeon. and DESC
lation. and untimely death
DO the respectable people of Ely
know Just what the saloon means
in their midst? Are they aware of
the fact that crimes are committed.
that awful orgies take place at night
i'm the hell holes that constitute the
red light district? The other day
boarded train in Ely for the pur-
pose of going out to one Of the
camps where | had arranged TO hold
a meeting. Before the train left. a
negro entered the car and distributed
some hand bills announcing the fact
that a prize fight was to take place
that night between two colored wo-
men in certain notorious saloon
and dive People laughed and said
Ii was a fake-simply an attraction
for the purpose of drawing a certain
class of individuals to certain kind
of place But | imagine that If the
police had raided the resort that
night, some people might have been
. rounded up who would rather not
have had their names appear In the
newspapers | said to myself, we
+ have at last reached the limit. We
have certainly touched the depths OF
total depravty. Ii is not alone sufii
cient that we throw the garb of re-
spectability about vice and crime,
that we conduct gambling In the open
and legalize prize fighting; that we
tolerate the saloon, and call 1t a good
thing. a necessary evil. and that
prominent individuals in the COM
munity- leading citizens if you
pease-engage in the business of
| dispensing distilled damnation TO
their fellow beings, il is not alone
sufficient the we forget God, and the
church, and the Sabbath day, but we
disregard even the claims of all com
mon deeency, descending TO depths
where the heather would not go, and
p wallowdng there in the mire, we drag
: woman down with us: here we are
: not loath to consort with the vilest
of creatures-of both sexes, of either
I color
o What does the proposal of the
p council of Ely mean What do the
q people of Ely mean, What does the
h whole state of Nevada mean? Dc
: we not know that all the rest of the
r country is pointing the finger OF
r scorn2 Are we not aware of the fact
h that every state in the union-even
: Texas and Kentucky--is moving
n against the saloon, every state in the
y housekeeping Nevada? And dc
r we not know that we are becoming
! notorious because we are not getting
n into line with this great movement?
Y What we want to do is-not to reduce
4 the license of the saloon keeper, but
6 raise it, and raise ii so high that
i every saloon keeper will have TO get
d out of the business. What the re-
$ spectacle people of Nevada want 10
i do is TO awake from their sleep and
i better themselves. We want to wrest
r the political affairs and the govern
! ment of this state from the hands of
5 the saloon keepers, the gamblers, and
S the sporting element. What Nevada
Q wants to do, is to redeem herself.
| and then she will no longer be a
). Kissing and by-word among the peo-
: pie of the nation.
s IF any such measure as that
a which is proposed for the reduction
of liquor licenses is brought before
+ the eon~eil, the people should gather
r there and insist with one voice that
: 1t be voted down. The measure
should be killed on the moment of Its
r appearing