Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-16

sides of a subject for once In your
lives. (Great applause.)
Chairman Reed; Ladies and gen.
tlemen, / was much impressed with
the remark that Colonel Hofer made
| concerning the continuation of these
debates with DR.. Wilson, and what
the outcome might possibly be, aud
could not help but think that II
Colonel Hofer has as much influence
with the Almighty concerning liquor
as he has with praying for rain that
he would pour the thing all over DR..
! Wilson. Now then, we have as our
next speaker a gentleman whom you
all know, Portland's pride, the
Reverend DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
who will address you now.
| (Dr. Wilson was greeted with pro-
! longed applause, after which he
spoke as follows:)
DR.. Wilson: Mr.. Chairman, when
the Honorable T. S. Mcdaniel heard
the announcement of this joint dis
cussion he remarked, What is the
use of paying our fare clear down to
San Francisco to see the Jeffries-
Johnson affair when this is coming
off in our own town." (Applause.)
There is not state in this union,
or under Gods stars, that is not de-
bauched and befouled by saloon in
fluences that will tolerate the prize
fight today. (Applause.) California
has fifteen thousand liquor licenses,
places where liquor is sold and most
of them are concentrated in the
northern part, and San Francisco is
one of the most rum-befouled places
on earth. There is not a form Of
corruption limited at in the Ten Com
mandments, or ever conceived by the
depraved mind of men that does not
thrive there, and the self-respecting
earthquake absolutely refused to
swallow them. (Applause.) There
are only five states in this union
that tolerate the liquor business; l
mean that tolerate the liquor busi-
ness and give no chance to the peo-
pie to speak on. It, that restrict their
regulations to license law and have
no local option, no option on the part
of the people, and two of these
states are California and Nevada.
California, in spite Of the prevailing
sentiment in Frisco that put back
the grafters and drove out Heney,
has got a decent Governor CAP
plause); and when California's Gov
ernor refused to tolerate a prize
fight with it's betting, gambling,
lewd women, demoralizing effect up
on civilization, then Nevada beckon-
ed to 1t and its governor said, I'VE
want you here"
Let's look at Nevada. In local
option Missouri,--in local option
Mississippi, according to the United
States reports, there is only one
federal liquor license given for every
four thousand and five people in
that state, but in Nevada there has,
to be liquor license for every thir-
ty-seven persons, including men,
women and children. (Applause.)
Just think Of the situation where a
saloon must be established for every
thirty-seyen.
In Oregon and Idaho we have the
largest native born population Of any
states, but in Nevada fifty-one per
cent are foreign born and are shap-
ing the civilization of a sovereign
American state with imported ideas
that Will not work under a republican
form of government where the
church, the school, the home and the
morality and the decent public senti-
ment of the people, the average peo-
pie, make the State all that It Is.
Now, l want you to notice the de-
bauching influence of the saloon up
on the population, and you see It In
the State of Nevada. Some people
say that brings prosperity; but, my
friends, there are forty-six states in
the American Union. The last
census report shows an increase in
population In forty-five of those
states. Nevada is the only state i'm
the list of this union that has abso-
lutely dropped off in population in
thirty years, and had less people in
II IN 1900 than In 1870. Decent peo-
pie get out Of It, (Applause.)
Now, we all recognize the evil Of
the liquor business and the evils OF
the liquor business that once In
while will crop out in a dry terri
tory where you have corrupt Of
ficials who refuse to enforce the law.
That is often pointed out But, my
friends, do You know that the liquor
business Ia Portland am not going
to Germany or Belgium; there Is
enough of 1t here daughter and ap-
Dlause) do you know that In the
city of Portland we have four hum
dred and sixty-five licensed saloons
and drug stores that keep liquor and
restaurants that serve 1t, but that
we have nine hundred and sixtY-five
federal liquor licenses In Portland
30 that we actually have four hun-
dred and thirty blind Digs IN Port
land who are selling liquor and not
taking out a license. (Applause) We
have more blind pigs In the city OF
Portland tonight selling liquor With
out paying the city dollar OF
license than We have In all the
twenty-one counties OF Oregon and
the eighty-fiye dry precincts and all
the wet counties thrown in Where
aver you license the liquor business
here will be an Illicit sale for every
egalized sale.
Now, my friends, when you hear
l man say II you close up the saloons
you Will have blind pigs, you remind
him that wherever the liquor busi-
less gets the upper hand, that law
essness and vice hold high carnival
md that the encouragement OF II by
,ur license system has filled all
license states and communities with
blind pigs ten to one that we would
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