Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-01
Local Comment
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Marshalltown will not have more
than twelve saloons during the year
1910. if she has any When County
Attorney Egermayer began his pros
ecutions Marshalltown had twenty one.
The Moon law permits not to exceed
one saloon for every 1000 people where
mulct consents are in force and had
the county attorney succeeded in clos
ing every one of the twenty-one our
city council would promptly have voted
licenses to twelve new ones hence the
net result to the city today in the num-
Der of booze joints its washer women
are to feed is the same as tho every
case brought by the county attorney
had been tried out and decided in his
favor. Give the boy his due. He has
put out of business nearly half our
saloons and he has done it almost
single handed. He has been threatened
with perjured testimony to blacken his
! character. He has been smirched by
inuendo which his political and per-
sonal enemies have believed and
abetted. There was a time when even
the men of the T.-R. force were on
the fence and wondered whether the
stories about Joe We're true or not. but
every attempt that has been made to
get reasonable proof has found the evil
dence vanishing into thin air. The fact
that as merciless and as powerful
force as the liquor interests of saloon
| town have been driven to the wall by
a county attorney should give him the
benefit of all doubts by law abiding
people, for it certainly has given the
motive and occasion to the others for
SANDER. However, today the Times
Republican knows who put MARSHALL
towns saloon down from twenty one
to twelve, and Is willing to shake hands
with Joe Egermayer. Anti saloon peo-
pie of all shades of belief should extend
a paw in his direction.
Three of these saloons he perma
nenhy enjoined and put out of BUSH
ness months ago. Then there were
eighteen. -Four of these he permanent
ly enjoined and while they still resisted
the city council dared not. under the
Moon law, grant them licenses Eyer
mayer stood before them promising
every member an indictment by the
grand jury if they did it. so they re-
scinded their former resolution and
adopted one emitting these four. Then
there We're fourteen. Two We're unable
to obtain property owners consent and
the county attorney has been aware
of the fact since last June, when he
filed the petition against these places.
The city attorney, representing the sa-
looms, and retained by them, proposed
to Egermayer that they would accept
fourteen as the limit if he would. He
cited the law which held the number
to twelve. The city attorney went to
Chicago for an operation and returned
with the proposal that they make it
thirteen, but the county attorney stuck
to the law, which provided for twelve
only. The city council then met at the
eleventh hour and licensed twelve.
three of which have new owners, and
the Moon law is in operation and effect
in Marshalltown. Had the county at
torney not started his fight, and had
he not held on like a bull terrier, the
: Moon law would have permitted the
twenty-one to run so long as they We're
owned by the same men who had
owned them prior to the laws enact
, ment The county attorney may con-
tinue his prosecution against saloon
keepers, so as to win his legal victories
over law violators, but his victory In
public service has been won.
:.
A recent incident but illustrates the
9 punishment man must take when he
tries to do his duty in public office. Al
lattorney in some way representing {
\ saloon interest insinuates to the attor.
Y ney generals department that illega
k fees were accepted by the county at.
torney for consenting to a certain de
a cree in some of the anti-saloon litiga
:, ton. The story comes home and Il
;, peddled for all it is worth. Yer.
: worthy and good men, men who wan
$, to see the saloons prosecuted for thei
S law violation, are confused and in
r duced to pass resolutions when tn
n, facts are that the decree in question
e was first presented to the county attor
k ney by Mr. Boardman, attorney for
: saloon, and by the county attorney sub
is mitted to the attorney generals offic
IS and consented to only upon the advic
= of assistant counsel for the attorne
d generals office, Mr.. Cosson. who spen
= a day in Marshalltown to consider tn
matter The saloon attorneys have sine
complained that they did not know tn
=. decree was loaded. and they have bee
!, put to terrible distress, even to sickness
q in the family, to keep its effect fror
u coming to final trial, but to take in in
y nocent men, of the persuasion whic
= should be upholding the county attor
u ney, produces that public ingratitud
>. which discourages so many of GU
w public servants. The fact that the reso
20 buttons, which We're supposed to be in
- spired by his friends, We're quickl
. conveyed for publication to the news
~ paper which has stood for the saloon
- in the entire fight, has uncovered t
=, the county attorney the real inspiratio
=. -. back of them, and he has called o
~ Judge Parker himself and also the al
~ torney general, with a demand to haN
-. - an investigation made as to the charge
=. against him and to have it made b
~ the attorney general, who is reporte
to have said that he would prosecut
he If there was any evidence that illeg;
al fees had been accepted. To the count
al attorney it has no sedative influent
-, to know that some of the same me
-. who hold him under suspicion now vel
80, recently appealed to Marshall count
- grand jury with their witnesses an
their evidence regarding the Melbourr
le alleged bootlegger's story. and WEI
= turned down herd by the jury whif
% heard the case. These men undoub
rs edly believe the ISLANDERS they hear, Fl
nc they are honorable citizens, but the
os are helping the common enemy whe
n they spread the rumors and theret
ru add encouragement to the public pro
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