Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-12-03
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II anything had been wanting to
show the superlatige meanness OF
those engaged in the liquor traffic
II was furnished in the incident here
given In The lnterior, OF Chicago:
In the little town of Cherry. H.,
last Week was seen an unsnrpassahle
illustration OF the Internal meanness
that always goes with the business
OF selling liquor Immediately fol-
lowing the horrible mine catastrophe
that destroyed the lives of half the
men of that ill-{ated village, all of its
too numerous saloons were promptly
closed up by the local authorities.
The keepers submitted until the
morning Of payday dawned. Then
they swooped suddenly down on the
village officials and demanded per-
mission TO reopen business, because
torsooth-a reason of devilish greed
that only the nethermost pit could
generate-they could not afford to
lose the profits of day when the
survivors OF the calamity would have
their pockets full of their latest
earnings.
The village officials-to their
shame be 1t said weakly granted
the permission And so in the midst
OF that pitifgl town which hearts and
purses throughout Illinois were open
ing 70 help with sympathetic charity,
these vile cormor3Ats clawed in over
their reopea1 BARS the money which
they we'll knew the miners ought 10
save for their families since the
ruined mine afforded no further
promise of employment-o If they
were to part with at ALL ought to
share with the helpless families of
their dead comrades But no sym
pathy nor pity hindered the heart
less trade of the thriving wretches.
They got, as they planned, q big per
cent of that tragic days output from
the mining company's treasury. And
before night their industry had its
natural result, The town was riot
Gus with the commotion of drunken
men, and the governor had to be
called on 70 send in militia. If the
saloon had never been guilty of any
other sin than this, one villiany so
unspeakable should promptly earn
its death sentence"
In connection with the above we
can truly say that with all the vio-
lations of law In this county the out
lawing of the saloons has cured one
great evil, that of rolling and rob
bing drugged drunken men. 1t was
regular custom in Grants Pass 70
watch for the men who came in from
the mines and mills, get them into
the saloons, give them that kind ol
liquor that knocked them out about
the second round, then roll them
for their pile and turn them out to be
picked IN and taken to the cooler by
the marshal The record of days
past is one to make all honest mer
blush for very shame with the out
lawng Of the traffic that has beer
stopped. One such case no woulc
land the perpetrators behind thu
bars, and they know H.
This one thing IS worth all tia
! the STRUGGLE has cost worth mou
'han all liocne fees
Wg'd's Cnpdest Revolution.
According 10 Abraham Lmeol
.fhat VIn aa the harishment Of stronl
ID ,f Said Nr Lincoln "Whethc
ar H6t .An world would be henefitc
rg total hauishment cf an intoNi
n Naeors seem 20 mo not q
hs ava m.n 1 zion Three fourth
manhui confess 81 with thoi
tongues au3 remainder h.''etf
4 in their a OUGHT amy De-.
refuse aij n doing whg th good
the whole 9smonds? T1 1-1"n
intempcrance ever seems '0 hayo d.
lighted in sucking the blood of zen
ms and generosity. What one of
but can mention some relative MOI
promising than all his fellows VIII
has fallen a sacrifice to his insatab
rapacity. He ever seems 20 hay
gone forth like the angel OF deaf
I commissioned to sian the first-bol
of every family. Shall he now be a
rested in his desolating career
that arrest all can help that wiz AZ
who shall be excused that can al
will not? Far around as breath h
ever blown, he keeps our fathers o
brothers. our sons and our frlen
PROSTATE In the chains Of NOR
death. TO all living everywhere
cry. Come sound the moral trun
that we may arise and stand, O
- breathe upon these slain, taat th
= may live.
"lf the relative grandeur OF
81 volutions shall be estimated by
amount OF human misery they allie
ate. and the small amount they
rint. then. indeed, this win be
no grandest the world has ever sect
- on the oppressor's side was pow
- And yet knew that every wro
However old, however strong,
. But waited Gods ayengng hour
I knew that truth would crush
lie.
Somehow, sometime the end wo
be;
Yet scarcely dared | hope to see
a