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

machinery. In other words the whisky
business cost us last year $500 900, 900.
I will substract from that the dirty,
shrinking, rotten $25O,O00,00o which we
got and 1t leaves $2,35O, 900, 900 in favor
Of knocking the whisky business out
purely on a money basis.
More Statistics.
"And listen. Last year we spent S.
|0OO,O00,000 for our paupers and crimi-
nails in the United States and so per
cent of our criminals are whisky made
and Is per cent of the papers are whis-
ky made. 1t cost last year $6,000oO0,00
for our criminals and paupers and the
increase in wealth was only $4,000, 000,-
900. So you can figure out how long it
will take us to go into bankruptcy
with that cussed business back of u.s.
The average factory hand earns $3.50
a year and 1t costs us $1,000 a year to
support four whisky criminals. There
are $4,000 whisky criminals in the
United States and then they have the
audacity to appeal to aman's decency
and say:
""The saloon Is needed for money
revenue
FalIacies.
"Never was there a blacker-hearted
lie, a heart so vile, or brain to con-
ceive, or lips black enough to utter
such lie.
But say the whisky fellows, we
would lose trade. The farmer would
not come to town to trade
"You are dirty. black hearted liars.
am a farmer. was born and reared
on farm and have the barnyard on
me today. Yes sir. And when you say
that you insult the best class of men
on Gods dirt. Do you know that?
Inconsistent.
"Say, when you put up the howl that
If you don't have the saloons the far
mer won't trade, say. Mr.. Whisky
Lawyer, why did you dump money into
Springfield like water and back the
legislature into a corner and fight to
the last ditch, to prevent the enact
ment Of county local option?
You knew if the farmers were given
business into hell the first throw out
of the box!
You are afraid. You get cold feet
on it. You are afraid to give the farm
er chance.
They are just scared to death of you,
farmers!
New Works GuzzIins Bill.
And say, my friends, New York City's
annual drink bill is 1855, 100000 a year
81 100000 a day.
Say, listen a ninute-that is mill
lion dollars more than the income from
the tariff, and four times the annual
output of gold 1t is at least one-third
Of the value of all the coal mined in
the United States. In some sections
of New York there is one saloon for
every fifteen families. The money spent
in New York by the working people
for drinks in ten years would buy ev-
cry working man in New York beau
tiful home and allow $4,000 for house
and lot in the suburbs.
| New Yorks annual drink bill would
buy 100000 barrels of flour; nearly
barrel for every man and woman in
the United States. 1t would buy $780,
900 wagon loads of flour 1t would
take fifty people one year to count the
money in 81 bills, and they would COW
er 10000 acres OF ground. That is
what the pepole In New York dumped
into the whisky hole in one year. Then
you wonder why there is poverty and
crime and the country is not more
prosperous.
Concerning Kansas City, Kan.
| This dirty gang is circulating a cir
cular about Kansas City, Kan. That
circular is a dirty, shrinking, black
hearted lie, and defy you to prove a.
statement in it.
Listen! kansas City is a town of
100000 population and temperance
went into effect July /, 1906. Then
they had $50 saloons, 200 gambling
hells and sixty house Of i'll fame
The population was largely foreign.
and inquiries have come from Ger
many, Sweden and Norway asking the
influence Of the enforcement of the
prohibitory law.
Bank Deposits Increase.
At the end Of one year the president
of one Of the largest banks In KAN
sas City, who had protested against
the enforcement of the prohibitory law
on the ground that 1t would hurt bus
mess, says at the end of one year his
bank deposits had increased $780,
900.
Just wait a minute, the Home City
bank had business that increased 46
per cent and " per cent Of the deposits
We're from men who had never saved a
cent before. Forty-three per cent came
from men who had never had a dollar,
but because the saloons were driven
out they had a chance to save.
The people who objected on the
ground that 1t would injure business
found an increase of 209 per cent in
building operations. Furthermore there
were three times as many building
homes as before, and there were more
people seeking investment. Court ex-
penses decreased $4,000 in one year.
Men in Jail.
] understand that you have eighty
men in Jail. All right. understand
that it costs about 40 cents a day to
feed and to keep them. Who pays that
Why do you go down in your socks
and pay for what that cussed gang has
dumped in there. They don't do it.
That gang will take pictures and saw
that they are pictures of Kansas Citv
Kan. They will show empty build
ings.
Take Their Photographs.
Say, why don't they take a picture
of Joliet3 Why don't you go down
and take picture Of wrecked, blight
ed homes. and Of the insane asylums
with gibberins idiots that it costs So
100000 to support, and the whisky
gang sends 70 per cent OF them there
Why don't you take a picture of
that, you cussed gang, and not fight
under cover? You have not the char
acter. and have not principle enough
to do 1t.