Williams news., 1910-03-19

two others carrying line of cen 4 dies and confections, in all eigH places already catering to the wants of the people in town that does not contain population of over one thousand five hundred men, women and children. This then gives you larger per capita of buisness houses than is found in any of the cities and towns of your thickly settled states ;and again Will- jams draws large trade from out side of the corporate limits, but re- move the saloon and this trade will largely go to the towns that have saloons. making a decrease in the volume of buisnesss being done by the mercantile houses now here.
 The writer of this has had many years experience in local option counties and towns and knows whereof he speaks in this matter. The above being true then what use to establish more places of buisness, as the ones already in operation when local option comes. must lose part of the present. amount of business Now when you have closed the saloons, will you diminish intemperance2 No. On the contrary you but add anoth@f and worse form of intemperance from the fact that the express offic9 will be wholesale liquor house, sd to speak. Then it is we'll knowu that Americans or north European laboring men will not stay where such conditions exist and their places will be filled with hordes oi the undesirable from southern1 Europe. so wages will again take the toboggan and the worst forms of drunkenness and disa patton will( hold sway, for to one acquainted with the liquor buisness for years, nothing is 30 dreaded as the vina crazed sons of that part of Europe!
 But you say that officers can pro- tect and keep down their lawless1 ness. We'll. one has but to look al. the many futile efforts to convict some of this same class here in Williams the last year to have that answered in the negative. Then, you, who have wives and daughters, must either form yourselves into on armed escort or keep your wife and daughter at home after night fall, or submit to the insults which will be rendered your loved ones. So, MT. Voter. how do you like the prospect ahead of you2
 Now, after many years of expert. ence with the ultra-prohibltionist, I know the utter uselessness to ap- peal to his sense of fairness, as he has none. You may tell him that the saloon represents your labqg and earnings. invesfed;-Hnd yodfV rights guaranteed by laws. as sound and sacred as those guaranteeing him in his business. No; he will not listen. but he will devote his best energy to destroy or render valueless that which the law says you are entitled to; but he never offers one cent of remuneration for that which he would destroy. The best thinkers of our day-those who would change our social and indus trial systems-advocate paying in full for that which they would take from the present holders.
 But not so with my brother, the prohibitionist. He, casting aside all appeals for fairness, closing his eyes and ears to any injury that his program would inf1ict upon a saloon man. his wife and children, and with the red sword of extermi- nation in one hand and his black banner of superstition in the other marches fearlessly toward keeping step to the medieval cry of NO QUARTER; DEATH TO THE TRIBE.
 A SUBSCRIBER.