The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-26

showed that the sentiment was very
strongly in favor of running out the sa-
looms. He reported that he had been able
TO get scarcely any business men to en-
dOrse the traffic They were all glad to
see the saloons closed. His conclusions
were TO the effect that the public senti-
HenJ was strongly in favor of closing the
saloons. And that sentiment win rule
The saloon is "a pirate on every lsgiti-
mate business. 1t works more hardships
on organized labor than all of the other
evils which the unions have to combat
Statistics show that in Massachusetts the
Workngmen in the dry sections get on an
average Of $lOJ more than those in wet,
an dtheiT hours are lighter The labor
leaders have come to a realization that
the saloons are sending more children
into the factories ard more women into
industrial Inc than all of the other fac
tors combined.
An Expensive Evil.
''They tell us that if we cut out the
revenue gained from the saloon licenses
our public treasures will Be empty. That
Is deliberate faisehOod. j will tell you
precisely how that works in Ohio. In the
four counties-the counties where the big
gest cities archie per capita is only $9.2S
IN tWanty-elgnt counties where there are
some restrictions, it is $50; in twenty-eight
counties where there are still fewer, it
IS about $50, and in the counties where
there are no saloons it is $959S or nearly
ten times greater than it is in the coun-
have their own way.
Nov a blind man can see that it is
easier TO RAISE taxes on a per capita of
S95 than it is on a per capita of 50. This
to say nothing Of the misery which the
licensing of saloons entails, and the want
their presence brings.
The cost of the saloon to the COM
munity i'm crime and delinquency is ap-
p2lling- In the first place, they are re
spOnsiblC for sending to prison hundreds
who are producers of wealth, and when
these go to the penitte ntiary, YOU have to
take care of their families.
In the four counties I mentioned a
moment ago, there the records show crime
in a ratio of twenty to a population of
$50; in the counties where there are
fewer saloons. one to every 800. and in
the counties where there are no saloons
the sheriff doesn't know where the peni-
tertiary Is,
1.-The superintendent of the Cleveland
WOrkhOuse told me that of the 2.910 in
mates sent TO him i'm one year, 2.551 came
through drink to their condition. Since
the movement has been fairly organized
drunkenness has decreased 90 per cent
and arrests for misdemeanors have de
creased 40 9er cent.
No Dependece in Promises.
And now the liquor people come along
ana tell us if we. viii let them alone they
viii ba soOd. They will cut out the dives,
and viii do away with the system of
brewery saloons Why do they
tell us that now Why didn't they cut
them out years agO2 Don't believe them
If YOU let them alone, in spite Of their
promises, there wouldn't be half dozen
saloons cut out by them i'm the whole
United States, and If we wait for them
TO be good we would die of old age"
MIR. Wheeler showed a map Of Ohio
wherein tho dry sections were indicated
in red and the wet districts in black. The
map was nearly all red. And we will
continue this fight said Mr. Wheeler
until every black spot on this map is
wiped out. We have already siXty-tWO Of
the eighty counties dry. In addition to
this, there are the townships and munich
palities that have abolished the liquor
traffic under other than state laws In
fact, ! can say that nine-tenths of the
state of Ohio has abolished saloons.
The Test in Oregon.
"The fight for prohibition i'm the west
is being sturdily waEed. In Oregon
twenty-one of the thiTty-fOur counties are
dry, and year from next November the
people will vote on the proposition to pro-
hlbit the manufacture and sale of liquor
i'm any part of the state. If you watch
the newspaper accounts of the election
next morning, YOU viii see that the pro-
mbitioD movement has won
At the close of Mr.. Wheeler's address
cards were distributed on which were
printed pledges of financial support. The
signatoTy pledged himself to q monthly
contribution ranging from - cents to so.
Attached to the card was also an en-
velOpe for contributions in the meeting
The amounts signed for are payable semi
annually
When the cards had been gathered up.
J. q. Brooks. superintendent of schools
of Boston, made a brief address on the
tendency of modern education. He con-
tended for the training of the Judgment
of a child. rather than examining him
tull OF facts and figures.