The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-12
BY THOMAS r. kIsAR.


CHICAGO March shall this
city become anti-saoon territory
For the first time in history great
world-city must answer this question.
The 41l,000 voters of this city OF q
100000 people will find it on their bal
lots al the councilmanic election April
>. Chicago is split into two warning
camps
Nearly 1000 workers of the AZ 900
voters who signed the 47-pound petit
ton for this liquor referendum are
perfecting an organization In the 35
wards and 322 precincts to get men To
vote dry The United Societies the
vets organization, is marshaling
those Interested in the liquor trade,
the people who drink and don't want
TO stop and the so-called liberal ele-
ment.
! Chicago which eats. drinks and Is
merry, drops its glass In amazed won
der as ii hears a hundred speakers as
sail the liquor traffic in its halls and
theaters. Just as If Chicago were q
little country town. they say.
The women. led by Mrs. Emily Hill,
president of the county w. c. T. IT,,
are very busy Mr. Cityman. rushing
TO catch the elevated. finds the ladies
OF the white ribbon swarming the
stations to tell him not TO forget TO
register. They buttonhole him next
7 day, too. to ask him If he's done as he
promised
The women, bundles of literature
under their arms, walk I'm on neigh
bors they didn't even nod To at other
times, and break into the homes OF ut
ter strangers TO ask them to vote dry.
Mrs. Hill has asked sympathizers,
especially women, to donate their car
riages and automobiles 10 take voters
TO the polls They're going TO ask the
school board to declare a holiday so
shat children can parade from polling
place to polling place. bearing flags
and banners reading, Vote for Me-
The women are even talking OF serv-
ing coffee at the polls. "soclable-like."
All this In Chicago. where people
don't look at each other I'm passing.
and where neighbors are as far away
as II they were in China.
The prohibition forces have COM
bined I'm a joint local option commit
tee. II has opened headquarters at
! Fifthaye and Madison-st just a
block from the wet headquarters.
The drys expect to- spend 100000;
the vets. s259000.
Meetings are held daily in tho
shops. Churches By the dozen FORM
groups To hold Joint anti-saloon meet
I ings Dry speakers have made
speeches i'm The heart OF the lodging
district where foaters live.
The tours of an prominent dry
speakers win lead 20 Chicago. SAM
ueI Dickie Bills sunday and Eugene
W. Chain VIII whuop II up for the
drys
Secretary VIM 4 Bruhaker Of the
Prohibition party says that as the
campaign grows hotter. dry speakers
VIII mount soap boxes on street cor
ners. right ia front of saloons. Tons
Of literature will be distributed.
The vets are using the advertising
columns Of the newspapers freely,
The drvs expect 90 use posters and
street car ads.
The vets say that II the 7.l52 sa'
looms are voted out. Chicago viii go
broke" May 1 when half OF the 81
100000 ANNUAL license money fails to
come In
They say thai 25ooO saloon en-
plov-s and 10000 brewery workers
viii be thrown out az employment.
The drys reply that the city gets only
81 600 600 for the S700u0.0o0 II spends
annually for booze and that the ST.
600 QUO could be easily made up by
bringing The tax.dodgiug rich 20 time.
T. is possible that the drys do not
axpect 20 win this time Jas X.
shields president OF the Illinois ANTI
saloon league. said:
This campaign viii De educational
for the reople OF the country. " moth
ing else The correspondents OF the
country's biggest newspapers VIII
carry 10 millions of readers the argu-
mauts of both sides That's what we
want This agitation will help our
cause. Elections will be held In %
cities az Illinois ON the same day, The
election here viii keep Chicago
lIeuor men busy az home. They won't
send tneir money or foaters into
these cities and wen have a better
chance at winning.
This hght will crystalline our forces
I'm Chicago and help us I'm our aght
for county local option law. We
would have a better chance 10 get
Chicago under the county unit law"
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