Williams news., 1910-03-26
LOCAL OPTION WILL
 PAY IN WILLIAMS
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chiefs of police in Kansas towns nd are reliable: Crime has decreased from fifty to 100 per cent and prosperity is the rule in this state"
 The Minnea polls Minn.) Journal notes that Brooten, also Belgrade. are among the saloonless Minnesota towns, and prosperous far beyond their surrounding rivals. Their jails have been sold. one for dwelling house. the other for a chicken coop.
 A few pertinent facts and ques tions; my statement to follow is ultra conservative, being only two thirds of accepted numbers by creditable authorities: Over 100, GOO die annually from over in dulgence in liquor. This then is wastage, and in order to keep the business going An army of 100, GOO young men must be sacrificed each year upon the altar of this in satiable Moloch. Who is willing to furnish the raw material for this traffic? Mir. Subscriber; I have a better opinion of our liquor men in Williams than to claim. that while looking into the manly faces of those boys, and into the pure sweet faces of those innocent girls, to think for moment that they are deliberately bringing them up to be drunkards and unfortunates. A thousand times, No! Who then is going to supply this wastage? Think Sir, somebody must, or the tra fife cannot exist. Mr. Voter, are you going to furnish from your home, the criminal, the drunkard, and the debauchee of tomorrow? Ifso, lead your young hopeful to the bar; into the back room where the quiet game is going on; into the brothel and the joint. No; you are not go ing to do that. Then vote Local Option when the time comes.
 As to danger to wives and chill dren from natives of southern Europe. In the name of common decency, leave those hard working Greeks and Latins alone. They are making good in the saw mill and box factory. Greek and Roman is equal in intellectual capacity to any race on earth To refresh the memory, you may look up the local record of crime; theft, rape and murder, they are fresh on the cal endar. You do not see a Greek name charged with turing young girls to wine rooms in the rear of saloons and kept them locked there for twenty four hours. It is not Plato or a Pericles that is charged with that most foul murder of in offensive Swartz. Hush man; the Sicilian might gain points by con sulting our record. The envious effort to befoul the honest alien in our midst is un-American.
 It was not the Greek who made crimson the floor of your saloon with the blood of fellow man. or came and bathed his hands in brothers blood, smeared his face with the same, and finally dog ca me and between snarls licked the blood from the floor. All this and much more is the by product of the business you are upholding. If you want further proof, consult the parallel column to your last weeks article; as by irony of fate. there is recorded the death of liquors latest victim, Jane Goldsby. The coro ner's inquest decided she came to her death through excessive use of alcoholic drinks. She was laid in a paupers grave. Yes, the unfor- tunate Jane Goldsby. somebody's girl, was killed by liquor obtained in Williams from legalized house presumably. When Local Option election comes, let the people say, whether they want this state of affairs and criminal wastage to continue or not.
 DAVID ROBERTS. | F. S. We wish to acknowledge the receiving from both sexes of number of anonymous, scurrilous. and threatening letters. They are very stimulating, and may yet answer good purpose. Thank you.
 We further wish to state that the money to pay for publishing this article at advertising rates was donated by friends of temperance. and morality. They are men and women who place the boys and girls of Williams above the gain of money and wealth. D. R.
 For Over Fifty Years.