Rock Island Argus., 1909-08-02
ASSURES A FIGHT
DR.. Marquis in Sermon Says
Liquor Question Will Be
Raised Again Here.
GIVES THE OTHER SIDE
Tells of Plea of Dealer for His BUS
mess and Admits Part of the
Claims Made.

Dr. w s. Marquis in his address last
evening at the union meeting of the
churches on the court house square.
ON the subject, The Plea of the Liquor
Dealer for His Business" gave assur-
ance that the local option league of the
city would conduct a vigorous cam
paign for local option in the city dur
ing the coming spring.
His text-was taken from. the third
verse of the 1lth psalm, IF the foun-
righteous do?"
abraham Lincoln said. After the
war of reconstruction. the great prob
lem will be with the liquor traffic and
he was correct in his statement as his
tory proves said Dr. Marquis. The
speaker pointed out that the people of
the present generation should not
Judge the liquor dealer too harshly, for
he is as sincere in his belief that his
business is right as the other side is
that it is all wrong. Again the local
option people must not judge him too
harShly because our own ancestors a
few generations back We're in fav )r
of the traffic. For example. part of
John Calvin's salary was paid to him
in wine
Some of His Pleas.
The first plea of the liquor dealer IS.
that his business is lawful. And so t
lis, admitted Dr. Marquis, for the
of nity 10 fin
| by a two-thirds vote at the polls lit
| tie over a year ago. OF course the
legality of the business depends upon
the way the business is conducted. and
most of them in this city are not con-
Quoted in clean way. When we criti.
else liquor dealer we criticise our
selves for we have made his business
legal.
/ The second plea of The liquor dealer
| is, that his business is demanded bv
thousands of people. This is also very
true and it is a fact to be lamented
In reply to this last plea we may say
that the want of the thing does no.
make it good thing for the commua
lity. Many people do not want to put
lup a card or be quarantined in case of Z
leontagious disease, but it is for the
!good of the city that this be done. and
lit would be for the good of the city
if the liquor were abolished
The liquor dealers third plea is thai
] the sale of pure liquor in moderate
ldegree is no worse that the use of cof
Ifee According to Mr.. Marquis, tn.
|other side will say that the liquor is
not pure. and that this can be shoE'r
lby looking at the recipes used for MAX
ing the beverages. Some of the things
used by the distiller in Iowa are alco
hol, water. prunes. glycerine and to
bacco and this beverage is warranted
to do the work" In England a few
lyears ago there was an epidemical ar
senic poisoning caused by arsenic il
beer Thousands of people were pois
oned and in the face of these facts tn,
dealer says that his stuff is pure.
Conditions In City.
j DR.. Marquis put the liquor deale-
and tax dodgers in the same class
!, crediting neither of them with an.
, respect for the law and trying to ge
around it any way they can. THE sd
loon business as conducted in this cit.
is absolutely iniquitous," he said "A
III passed several saloons on my wa,
! down here tonight | could see tn
flights in each one and hear the tinl,