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

L NSSs AS nave SC1lluR1CtC1S.
You come with me to every port of
entry, and in 1907 the imports were
s1,434.000,00o. We dumped more than
that in the whisky hole in one year.
The exports We're $1,000, 100000 and
we dumped that in the whisky hole in
one year and three months.
The internal revenue was s230.740,-
600, and we dumped. seven times that
much in the whisky hole.
Money and Business.
want to show you how we burn up
money. The cry is Money and Bust
ness"
| The postoffice expenses are $685.
100000 a year, and we dump six times
that amount in the whisky hole. You
come with me to Chicago or to any
other national bank in the United
States.
was in Washington three years ago
and said to the treasurer, who is a
personal friend of mine:
u want to go where you don't take
the general public"
National Bank Stock.
| He took us on the inside and into a
room about twenty feet long and If
teen feet wide, and as many high,
which had shelves. and on them little
envelopes. ] said:
What is this room?"
This is the vault that contains all
the national bank stock of the United
States, $57S,0OO, 600"
We dump nearly three times that
much in the whisky hole in one year
We will never settle the question
that way. Why don't the church rise
Tor legislation against the saloon? The
whisky gang have them backed into
corner, but they see the handwriting
on the wall, and the whisky business
is doomed, and there is just one word,
business" that has knocked it out.
In Two Days.
| 1 was in a town in Michigan, and a
big salt firm paid out $4,000 in checks
on Monday, and the cashier of the
bank told me on Wednesday afternoon
the saloon keepers had deposited s1S,-
600 of these checks.
What is the matter with the coun-
try? Like Hamilcar of old, when he
made Hannibal swear eternal enmity
| 70 dtoiue, propose TO perpetuate this
tight against the whisky traffic until I
live to see the white winged dove of
peace circling around the dome of the
capitol building, and spreading its
bright pinions of peace over dear old
Iowa, which love, and have poured
out my blood for the betterment of her
men and women, and thousands and
tens of thousands have taken me by
the hand and promised to live for Je-
sus Christ.
Let's Blow Dollar.
| l hold silver dollar Come on with
me. l will go down to the saloon and
blow her. How do you get busy? You
just get busy making drunkards. and
doing the little things that will damn
and rot.
Come on down to the saloon and j
will spend my dollar. 1T takes twenty
cents to make gallon, so my dollar
VIII buy a quart. The saloon gets my
dollar and have my quart
Here 4 ann drunkard with wife
and six children. (Thank God it is all
lie.) All right. 1t takes 5 cents to
make a quart
The Division.
Who gets the five cents? The far
mer
Who gets the s5 cents? The United
States government, the big corpora
tons, the breweries, the distillers, and
! the gamblers.
1T costs cents to make quart, and
sold at 10 cents glass, it will bring 81.
Now, where does it go?
John, the Drunkard.
| Inc saloon end has my dollar. Here
is my end. I am John, the drunken
working man. Here is my end of it
what will it do?
1t will burn up my happiness and the
peace Of my wife and children.
| Come with me and I will go to some
good business. and throw my dollar
down for pair of shoes for my boy
John, and he puts them on, and he
earns another dollar. My dollar De-
comes silver thread in the shuttle
of business.
The House Jack Built.
The clerks get some of it, and the
travelling man and the wholesale house
and the man that made the shoes and
the man that tanned the hides, and the
butcher that skinned the calf, and the
farmer that raised the calf, and the
kid that blacks my shoes. My dollar
spreads itself like benediction of
blessing up and down the land, and
nobody is made any worse and no.
body's heart is broken, or life wrecked,
because spend dollar over the coun-
ter of a good decent business.
Buy Good Stuff.
am going to take the s1,400, 600, 900
that the working man spends for drink
and I am going to spend it for some
thing that is good, and see how we will
come out.
| will spend it one-third for meat and
one third for flour, and one-third for
calico.
listen, s4oo,ooo,ooo will buy all the
beef cattle in the United States.
-Four hundred million dollars viii
buy all the cotton at $50 bale. In
other words, s1,406, 100000 will buy all
the beef, -four and cotton.
All right. Let me line up all the
drunkards. Surprising that you are
getting on the water wagon, and we
will spend our money for something
good.
ALI right. Come on! Forward,
march! Right, left, right, left.
The Matter.
will show you what is the matter
with this country. will show you
that the flour that ought to be made
into bread is rotting in the elevator,
that the things that your wife ought
to have are on the shelves because you
have not enough money to pull them
off and take them home; and you have
spent your money in the grog shop.