The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-12-08

was $334,6s0,156, but they cost the
men that drank the dirty stuff five
times that amount of money. These
same Industries gave a profit of SAT-.
$4,000 to 1914 proprietors, and they
bought $66,S22,O worth of material
and paid in wages $27,551.329, and
employed 1924 people directly and
several hundred middle men. There
are the figures and If the American
people will stop drinking whiskey we
could, with the money saved pay the
brewer and distiller 10 per cent on
their present invested capital OF, $780,.
100000 and we could pay the farmer
10 per cent on his present sales to
the breweries and We could sup.
port the saloon keepers and their
families and we could save 100000.
900 year. II.
The average factory hand earns
$3.50 year, and it costs us 1920 a
year to support each of our criminals.
There are $4,000 whiskey criminals
in the United States and then they
have the audacity to appeal to mems
decency and say the saloon Is needed
for money revenue. -" 'a
s..n. 9HH
An Insult to the Farmers.
"'But," says the whisky fellow,
I'VE would lost trade-the farmer
would not come to town to trade
You are a dirty, sinking liar.
am farmer. ! was born and raised
on farm, and l have the stink OF
the barn yard on me to-day. Yes, sir
And when you say that, you insult
the best classes of men on Gods dirt.
Do you know that?
Observation-Disclosures "a. t"s =.
You know If the farmers were Civ.
en- a chance they would knock the
whiskey business into hell the first
throw out of the box. 49,
|.' 10 ..". E HHH .." {.
Shut OF theFaucet. g..
But a fellow in Illinois said to
me, we will regulate by high license.
Regulate what by high license? You
might as well try to regulate pow
der mill in hell. a".-..
You are trying to mop up with
taxes, and insane asylums, and you
have jails, and Kelley cures, and re.
formatories, and you are trying to
mop the business up with that.
The only thing to do is to shut off
the faucet at once.
What is that hear, funeral
dirge?
What is that procession?
A funeral procession 5000 miles
long and 1000 hearses in the pro.
cession, 10000 men died drunkards
in this land of the free and home
of the brave. .a
Listen! In an hour IL men died
drunkards, 800 day and 1000 a
year.
Personal Liberties.
In these days when the question
of saloon or no saloon = at TIE fore
in almost every community, one
hears great deal about what is call
ed personal liberty" These are
fine, large, mouth-filling words and
they certainly do sound first rate;
but when you get right down and an.
alyze them in the light of common
old horse sense, you will discover
that in their application to the pres.
ent controversy they mean just about
this: Personal liberty is for the
man who, if he has the inclination,
and the price, can stand up to bar
and fill his hide so full of red liquor
that he is transformed for the time
into an irresponsible, dangerous,
evil-smeling brute. But personal
liberty is not for his patient, long,
suffering wife, who has to endure
with what fortitude she may his
blows and curses; nor Is it for his
children, who, If they escape his in
sane rage, are yet robbed of every
known joy and privilege of child
hood and too often grow up neglect.
ed, uncared for and vicious as the
result of their surroundings and the
example before them; personal lib
erty' is not for the sober, Industrious
citizen who from the proceeds of hon
est toll and orderly living, has to
pay, willingly or not, the tax bills
that pile up as the direct result of
drunkenness, disorder, and poverty,
the items of which are written in the
records of every police court and
poor-house in the town only at the
risk of being shot down by some
drink-crazed creature. This rant
about personal liberty as an argu.
ment has no leg to stand upon"
The Answers Of the Mills.
Come on. Say, what is the matter
with the grand old country of ours ?
l heard my friend. George Stewart,
tell how he imagined he walked up
to mill and said: s......
Hello there, what kind of a mill
are your"
"A saw mill" ....
and what do you maker"
I'VE make boards out of logs
rs the finished product worth
more than the raw materially"
Eyes"
What is your power?"
wind, gasoline, electricity, steam"