Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-20
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intemperarce flinders Education,
Hurts Business and
Damns.
Declaring that the saloon hinder
literacy, hurts, business and demoral
ICES and damns, Rev. e. j. Shook
pastor Of the Willard Street Methods
Episcopal church, gave a strong ad
dress in opposition to the salooi
Sunday afternoon at the Y. M
C.. A. The meeting was held in the
auditorium and large number OF mer
wereaiin attendance. The association
quartet rendered program, and A. B
FHarker sang The Licensed Saloon
n Mr.. Shook closed his talk with plea
! toathe signers of the saloon consent
petition to withdraw their names. The
address follows:
sS Rev. Shocks Remarks.
| "All economists have been forced to
see that the American liquor traffic
must be finished or it will finish u.s.
| The saloon hinders literacy because 1t
| disqualifles the progeny OF its products
Flor the best learning. The children OF
Ethe drunkard are not able to hold their
places with the children of sober men,
other things being equal. The patron
of the saloon is often unable to buy
books, etc, and where these are fur
nished they can not buy clothing to
enable their children to go to school.
We have helped, even here in Ottum-
wa to clothe children so as to enable
them to go. The father spending his
money for liquor, the home always
needy, the boy is put into the shop be-
fore he graduates even from the
eighth grade, and so with the girl
kansas. where Prohibition don't
prohibit, has for thousand boys. 10
illiterate. Maine, where prohibition
don't prohitit,' has twenty illiterates
per 1000 Illinois. with It's wealth and
schools, where the saloon thrives to
hinder education has 40 illiterate boys
per 1 ,00O.. When they closed up the sa-
looms in Kansas City. Kas., they soon
had to build more school house room
and hire eighteen new teachers.
Another Reason.
1.-THE saloon blocks business be-.
cause it incapacitates the user OF its
Stops for his Job. Where is there bust
ness that is hunting for drinking men
to carry on its work? None but the sa.
loon. The saloon keeper who put the
ad in the want column wanting a
young man of good conduct and a to-
tai abstainer for bartender, was only
following the other business men OF
the day. It blocks business because 1t
pays less wages. 500 invested in the
average legitimate business pays
Sits wages, while invested in the
malt liquor business it pays an aver
age of only $5.18. That is, 800 in the
average honest business would pay the
working man 1914 times the wages it
would il invested in this awful traffic.
1t employs SO much less labor also.
81, 100000 in the average legitimate
business employs $50 men, while In
the liquor business it takes only "a to
100.
ut pays unfair profits What pro-
tests we hear and sometimes register,
against the unfair profits of some
business. but here is an outlaw roam
ing our fair country which is taking 81
profit of about 1870. 1t blocks bust
ness because of its awful expense
Boston, with the saloon, had. three
years ago, an expense of So per head
for police. Portland. Me-, Where pro-
hibition don't prohibit had only $1.05
per head for police. Boston. with the
saloon. paid 29R per 100 for its jail
expense; Portland, without the saloon.
only 20. Boston increased her expense
account 1910 per 1000 by allowing the
saloon to run it's nefarious business.
"Ottumwa pays for city government,
schools. churches. charities and hospi-
tai, about $4,000 and for her drink
expense $4,000 per annum.
What Overseer Says.
I'VE talk of boosting for Ottumwa.
and I am for $4,000 for Ottumwa in
1915, but If we say yes to the saloon
lists. our drink bill for the next five
years would run to over $3.50, 900.
How can Ottumwa hold her own with
such an expense account as that? This
would purchase 1888 homes for labor
ing men. One of the overseers of the
poor tells me that every dollar he has
paid out this year is directly charge
able to the liquor traffic. If we would
close our saloons and thus do away
with the product Of the business we
could allow for as many policemen as
Neb., has. which is more than
twice as large and yet has in that on.
reduction of expense, the saving Of /,
b11,340.
but most important of all argu-
ments, the saloon demoralizes and |
lamns. It's demoralizing power is seen !
n these figures:
I'm 1905 and 1906 Tennessee had 10 |
wet counties and "a dry, and the IL |
vets sent to the penitentiary that year /
s75 while seven times as many drys
sent 499, or the dry counties sent one |
or every 2,844 while the vets sent |
'ne for every 722. Does it demoralize? i
"Wet Massachusetts, has 80 GRIMM
lis per 10000 Prohibition Maine has
3 per 10000. Boston has 426 arrests
,er 10000; Portland only "a. Does the
saloon demoralize?
When we had our little Reign Of
Terror when so many of our officers
we're unable to find the thing that they
low say went on to such an extent,
When somehow outlaws were not GUST.
ID, even in that little test we can SEQ