Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-03-30
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Milwaukee aMayor.sO Opposes
Prohibition It
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~ sg9diI9sdns Won ga8 9ai .iaJtaop ~
at 9saahige al Il llog % guI9ng1la4ios 9It
gDayidrss Rose, and. Or. ssmue! gDil!e 'I e.
tq Argue, Drink aabitniR eforeii Great
crowd,4.Io Meet, Twice IMorez-No5 d
80 DecistoniiGilen. 9di 1sdl T9dma.n9sl
20 l!ada aW ii. ll--4b.utG2 has dali
ia Milwaukee, Mar. 1898 aa.Oneii OF b
,thel most remarkable debates ever
fihela, wass that Friday on the apes-
htioni ir.ResolYed, That Prohibition o as
Applied to the Manufacturer a : and a! ssale
i>of intoxicating Beverages Is Right.
with Mayor David S., Rose Of MiIWau.
+ fkeea defendingu the negative. and Or. I
|. Samuel tDfcRf9, president of Albion
| college, Albion, Mich; as ftheEs speaker
! Tor thee Prohi bitionistsa 10 aao U
~ The great Hippodron1e, with aIseat,
| ing capacity Of a4.O0D was jammeddtoI
htle doors, and although admission was was!
by card great throngs Of people Mere
h turned . away, The next debate Will
take place In Chicago and the, third
in Some southern city s''i' Is ''"1
,,o =. Hose issued the Challenge. 80 '."- :.
,E,d Mayor Rose, at a, recent, Louisville
convention challenged the National
!. Prohibition party to produce its best
orator to meet him on the Question
debated so the 'debater was the aci
\ credited Representative ofthe National1
Is Prohibition party against Mayor Roses4
Iiwho lis generally known as ,tha sadyoi|'
d ycate aof.1i.:sanei, regulation. Of the
h saloon. There was no decision.
Dr. Dickie was the first gu speaker He
Il "The prohibition 81 the liquor ltrtaif-
fic is right, if considered only from the
N economic standpoint. u The saloon is.
FEi4he foe of capital, but pre-emihently@
4 the enemy of labor. 1t paraly sizes the
farm of the workngman, Jshortepsi his
! life, excludes him from many Eiucra5l
tive callings, decreases his power as
a producer and throws into, the labor,
market vast mass OF debased and
unintelligent laborers' who compete
'disastrously with the sober and indus.
l'trious workpen. No line, of manufac-'
y ture gives employment toNso few, men.
Sin proportion to the capital invested
| bias does the liquor traffic. faBl, sYg!..
Says Liquor Breeds criminals.15l
THE liquor business breeds Grim
inals. The testimony of prison chap
lains, of wardens, sheriffs and Judges
of the criminal courts warrants the as
sertion that from so to 80 per. cent Of
crime is directly or indirectly, trace
able to the use of intoxicating liquors,
Not only is the liquor traffic a
fbreeder of criminals, but it Isl itself,
largely composed of men who do not
hesitate to violate thelawA The great
majority of retail liquor sellers are
open and notorious law7breakersI The
restrictive features Of the, Wisconsin
statutes as to selling on Sunday and
on legal holidays are openly, shame.
4 fully and fagrantly trampled Under
foot saaiT3c 9atlI YH9i.S2h ~ y .aFl
- Prohibition is right, because it has
been found to be them efficient
method of restraint.nnpiI ii w M
Ia Three Views TakenHby Rose. al
In arguing that prohibition Is wrong
Mayor Rose treated the subject from
three viewpoints, the Biblical: ethioa
and material. He showed that while
in ancient times the evil. existed
) when the ten commandments were
Pwritten no attempt was made to injec
prohibition and he challenged any ONT
to find one word in the. Bible, adyocat
ing the theories of prohibitienists
Treating the, subject from the ethica
side, he took the census figures 20
the government and records OF leitie
Eand states to prove that prohibition
Increased crime, insanity, deaths, dc
nestle infelicity, pauperism and STAG
4; mated business. He took the crimina
Z records of Milwaukee. a;Wide! q.s
town, and showed that the, arrest
here per capita was less thaniin 9TH
prohibition states oofs Maine. Kansa
and Georgia. .'so&3e1 l1tGlc t9T49Is
Ha> showed that more drunkenness
existed in Maine than Wise nsin, II
Il quoted census figures to Show tia
more ~sinsanity existed In prohibitio
L states than in,,sr neigh boring wet
states and that the death rates /
Maine and Kansas were higher tina
the "we9 states adjoining.
fs Much Was said about thohsands {
ydrunkafda dying every year, but?th
+sma galn quoted census figuresst
show more people died from WHO'D
ing cough and measles than alcoho
ismg-
Naeonswhs pfe6ibitioS heb sal
wouidshiean aa.Ioss5pf SAIL, 9eS, Ooe.-i
revenue a year to~the government
: would seriously afrect the farmer al
labor of the country because tt
Hewgss and Cmalsters and distille
consume .s1Os,O00.0O0 of grain i yea
at would paealyse Business. cripp
railroads and be felt in. every wa
81 lifs.g GtN would TdepriYe people
personal liberty-all for. no purpo
{ gEeepr the fanatieism of the Brohil
tfonists. The mayor urged sane reg
i Asasn as tne.teps isotgtioG of the dril
problem.
= Fatal Fire In Cisco, Tex
.. Clgc6 Tex, Mar. 29.-Fire Saturd
destIoMG the Opera house, the mi
chandise store of Mayhem & Co., a
the residence of l.. E. Childs.l BE
Strickland was killed by falling wa
: Mbeaoss s-$160.eOo9I5
4 III gAapj,t ,Rosssea . death.
West Palm Beach, Fla, Mari 20.
I WBy the exp eslon of the gasoline res
voir following the ditching of an au