Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-10-15
SALEM AS THE MO leL MORAL CITY.

prohibition campaign
The most radical advocate OF Oregon Dry in 1910 Ines not
attack Salem as moral CITY,
The Georgia whihwnd lady could not get hold Of single,
gtterng hard cold fact Of crime caused by Salem saloon
The prohibition parade mana could not get ragged chill
dren to show as the products OF the Salem saloons,
Salem has no poor ragged people caused by saloons.
Rev Clarence True Wilson charged that tor each OF the tour
teen saloons Salem population 10000 there was blind
pig running loose,
But like some other dry statements there fact to
sustain his accusation.
blind pig is supposed to have government license and
that can be easily proven from the internal revenue collector
But no such proof is offered that Salem has single blind
pig
Truth s there not an unlicensed uneguIaed liquor deal
er at Salem,
The dry parade could find none of the conditions of vice.
crime poverty or immortality charged up to the liquor traffic
generally existing al Salem
If they had they would have paraded those conditions.
Would not have been fair to admit that Salem, as an
University city, is Clean decent sort Of placer
uniformed and reckless prohibition agtaorS do Sander
Saem and represent as perfect hell hole of the Rum De-
mon.
merchant the interior of this state listened OF one of
these rampant deameS OF stainless flag and refused to
allow his sons to come to school at SaIem
There is more drunkenness in his shrimp of dry town in
one week than in Salem in year.
Professors in willamette University who are prohibition
ISIS have many times admitted to the writer that moral con-
dtonS surrounding young people at Salem we're better than
at so-CaIed dry college Cities like Eugene and Corvallis
It seems the w. c. T. IT, is no longer an organization to
create better moral conditions by education,
It has become the popagandst Of the national Prohibition
party.
Frances Willard believed more in Christianity and educa
lion than she did in making men good by law
She dld not divide up her faith in God and salvation
GhIouga Christ with constitutional amendment to egaize
manufacture and sale for medicinal purposes.
The salvation OF society was to be accomplished through
the home the church and the school house.
That was the faith Of Frances E. Willard, but the organ
zaon she formed now believes in a state cOnStabuay
than does in God and the Bible.
During the recent state fair there were in one week over
10000 visitors in Salem,
In spite of the fact that they we're about one-haf people
nom dy countless there we're only 48 arrests for drunken
ness during the state tar week. Not three Salem men,
and three-outhS were from surrounding dry counties,
Now don't say that anyone can get drunk at Salem and
not be arrested,
The regular Salem police force arrest drunken man on
sight no matter who he is.
During the state fair week five special policemen we're EN-
poyed and especially instructed to arrest any person who
got drunk
In all that week. with $4,000 visitors in town. the whole
police force arrested only 46 dunkS and most OF them out
side bumS
Not as many as there are shooting and cutting affairs in
week in some OF the large dry counties Of the South
On the DAY that there were nloe than 5000 German peo
pie in the city from all the Saehe second day of the
state ta-there was not single arrest Of one Of them for
drunkenness.
The Salem system of dealing with the LIQUOR traffic
unique---combnng regulation and revenue
The license IS 5000 tor Saloons $500 for restaurants and
5000 for drug stores,
lHV!o ave 70 edlVoo ol0 uIuS etVlo anu oo Cdo uIa'
have licenses from the CITY, Nomore licenses are issued for
The present
No other government licenses are held at Salem hence
there speak keaSeS, blind tigers dives or blind pigs
license is revoked permanently upon a second violation
and no liquor business is allowed to be opened in that place
again.
@ musc minors women back DOORS side DOORS or Sunday
business allowed,
There are clear open windows with full view of the BAR
and you can look off the sidewalk clear through to the rear
end of the saoon with place for drunkS to lie down, or
loaf or sleep on the premises.
Salem saloon keepers are neatly all men of families men
of property, responsible In business way
No license Is allowed 10 be transferred unless the applicant
nrodlces documents to show that he has good business
rcier il man of nood habits and is not law breaker