Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-09-17
INGERSoLL OUT FOR BRADY

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Colonel j. NJ Ingersoll of Pocatello
lifelong democrat, the largest prop
erty owner in Bannock county and out
side of the Oregon Short Line railwa.
the biggest taxpayer In that county
and a director in the League of South
ern Idaho Commercial Clubs, is EN-
phatic in his determination to suppol
James H. Brady for governor this yea
Mr. Ingersoll, who arrived in the cit
last night on busines was seen at the
Owyhee hotel by a representative OF
the Capital News. He was frank in
his criticism of the saloon interests OF
Uhe state, declaring that it is too ev.
ldent for successful contradiction tina
those interests have determined to con
urol the politics of the state if posi-
BILE, and for that purpose have been
willing to stake their future in the
state on the outcome. Mr. IngersoN
declares that he is a personal friend
OF the democratic nominee for COVER
nor and likes him very much but be-
cause of the men who are backing hi
and who are bas4ng their own hopes
upon the success OF the democratic
nominee he will cast his influence to
,he republican candidate.
Colonel Ingersoll expressed himself
as follows:
Il am a lifelong democrat who be-
ieves that the temperance issue in
his campaign means more to the peo
pie than all other questions combined
consequently am for Governor Brady
not because he is republican, but be
cause he has the manhood, courage
and good sense to make heroic stand
against the unholy booze traffic. He
does this because he knows he Is ma
king a stand for public welfare and s
does every other man of ordinary good
sense i'm this state.
1.-THE booze habit makes buns, ho-
bos, gamblers and thieves out of many
OF our young men. 1t keeps all of th
courts of our country busy, it fills ou
county Jail, our state penitentiary, OH
poor house and our insane asylum,
and forces all of our producing and
beneficial industries to carry burden
OF taxation that does not justly belong
to them. 1t makes orphans of little
children by sending their fathers to
the gutter, 1t debauches the very
soul of the men who are growing rich
out of the unholy traffic.
n "The booze traffic is non n-producer
1t is, i'm fact, parasite on all produc
ing industries. Its evils are so mani
fest at every hand and should be so
apparent to every person who lis more
than half awake that lit tries my pa
thence more than l can tell you to
stand here and assure you of things
that you and all others know so we'll.
ITO say there is anything good in
the booze traffic is as absurd as it
would be to say the more evil we have
the better. Before you say there is
any good i'm the booze traffic or even
intimate such thing you should go
out ON the tops of our beautiful noun
tains and ask the flock masters if it
would improve the general condition
of their sheep very much to have more
scab. David Harum said that fleas
are good thing for a dog because it
keeps it from brooding on being a
dog But the booze habit Is a thou
sand times worse to humanity than
fleas to dog.
How can it be possible for any
sane man or woman TO stand before
their fellow men and assert that the
booze traffic has trace of humanit3
i'm it? Every time a man or woman
tells you that booze is a good thing
for community he or she as the case
may be admits that they are very poo
Judges of affairs or they know they
are not telling the truth.
"HOW can any man who has worked |
MS whole life long in the business of !
making drunkards of his fellow men
and i'm dragging them down into the
gutter. while he is feasting off of the
,rofits of this unholy traffic, face his
,wn conscience If it ever awakes to
,vertake him? Imagine, If you can,
he torment such man will be in. To
tssert the booze traffic is benefit
o community is equivalent to as
ierting that the more harm we do for
,ur fellow men the better they are
,ff. 1t is the ill-gotten profits that
lccrue to the men who are engaged
n the booze traffic that keeps the
business alive and in politics; In other
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