The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-17
such health-wrecking adulterations

Aligning ourselves against the pois-
oners for profit, the natural conse-
Quences would be that we should
cease the long fight against DR.. Wiley
and instead give hearty cooperation
to his efforts to procure and enforce
legislation that would make poisoning
impossible.
After enforcing the use of honest
goods. We should concentrate the ef-
forts OF the trade upon the obliteration
of the dive.
Aside from morality, philanthropy
or the civic spirit and solely to save
our face" commercially. we should
start out to make it Improbable to
run thug resort, a dance hall where
girls are set on the down grade,
'growler" trade to children or any
sales to minors or drunkards.
Therein we assume that our motives
would be wholly selfish. For our aim
would be to cease being sponsor for
the things that had been our worst
hurt-to free ourselves from identified
ton with the things that subject the
entire liquor trade every year to be-
ing "maced" for great sums by poll
ticians to fight the sentiment created
by the crime of dives.
For our self-respect and for our fam
ileis we should work increasingly to
give to the business a better name,
and by divorcing it from lawbreaking
groggeries. debased sexuality and
speakeasies, we should strive to raise
our livelihood to a point where the
children of the saloon keeper would
not be pointed out by the fingers of
their schoolmates as class apart.
We should become very busy to
impress upon them the economic truth
that overproduction of a perishable
product does not justify them in en-
deavoring to force an uncalled for sup
ply far in excess of the community's
demands.
We should demand that they cease
multiplication of saloons to an ex-
tent that prevent the saloon owner
from making living unless he sells
during illegal hours or caters to vice.
AS liquor men, we should fight for
the passage of laws to prevent the
present practice Of brewery owned sa-
looms, with the nominal owners chat
tel mortgaged not only for license,
stock and fixtures, but body and osul,
present and future.
II we-as liquor men-controlled the
trade, we should strive for an honest
judiciary, so that when license was
granted everybody would believe that,
from the liquor mans standpoint, the
new saloon would be for the public
convenience or, in the language Of the
statute, necessity" ....
Very carefully we should guard
against the location of such a "neces-
sity" in residential district, forcing
it upon a neighborhood Of homes, de-
preciating the value of property and
making enemies for the entire traffic,
by invading the real vested rights Of
the home-ovners-
And, above all, we should never
play the fool by jamming a saloon
against a church or a school-trading
for the good will of some dirty ward
| worker, purchasabe for a $40 bill, the
implacable enmity of every good wo-
man in a whole observation-disclosures
ing the mother-spirit against not one
petty saloon. but against the whole
trafic.
We should fight as strongly against
the cheating hotel and restaurant as
against the tenderloin dive and the
| suburban 'joint. One of our first
| u uo00Co WOOAu OS oSdAASL IcuIlluS.
For meeting reputable merchants face
to face daily. we should be ashamed to
admit that our business was the only
one which has not progressed beyond
the old bad standards of cheat and
shoddy-the only instance in which
the customer who knows what he
wishes to buy Is puzzled to name a
half dozen places in a city of a mil
lion and a half inhabitants where he
can really obtain what he calls for
and is willing to pay for.
We should stop the publishing OF
statistical east for a time. Before
putting forth more estimates of the
/ taxes we pay and the revenues we
provide, we should wait until we had
so cleansed that business that the in.
evitabe comparison Of the crime, dis.
ease and poverty with which the traffic
taxes the community would not be