Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-03
IOWA GOING cry

H!lN only Twelve COUNTIES OUT VI tle
ninety-ntne yet remaining With IL
censed saloons. the state of Iowa may
be considered as having returned to
statewide prohibition. Such is the &C
the past few years. the crowning
achievement in which has taken place
during the past six months. or since
the advent of the incorporated tenn
perance association of business men IN
the saloon fight.
The Business Mems Temperance AS
ociaticn Of Iowa, new organization
capitalized for $1,000, 900, and organized
to enforce the present laws against in
temperance. has issued a statement re-
garding the saloon situation which will
prove a revelation to most readers. It
reads as follows:
BY direction of the advisory board
IF the Business Mems Temperance
Association Of Iowa. a statement has
been prepared giving the people a
proper view Of the numerous contests
Waged against The saloons in Iowa
during the past six months.
Thousands of temperance people
have been engaged in these contests
and it is fitting and proper that they
should have some definite information
concerning the wonderful victory
achieved.
Up 10 this time there has been 10
summary of the saloon situation made
and published so far as we know in
any of the newspapers in Iowa and we
nj ;,, icIa
thc situation before our friends just rs
the facts warrant
Within The past six months there
have been fifteen vet counties in which
the saloon men have circulated a petit
ton of consent. asking that the sa-
looms he continued. These counties are
Sioux. OBren. Dickinson, Lyon,
Woodbury., Monona. Johnson, Jones.
Buchanan. Palo Alto. Winneshiek Al
lamakee. all Of which have gone dry
IN Pottawattamie county the temper
aNce people have Won but are still in
litigation. In the remaining three
counties (Which make up the fftecn)
are Chickasaw. Carroll, and Crawford
While these three counties are wet,
the temperance people own two of the
towns in each Of these counties. In
addition 10 this they won in the large
making the total number Of cities and
towns won in the last contest against
the saloons eighty-nine. These
eighty nine towns and cities which
went dry have reduced the number of
saloons in Iowa two hundred and
thirty
In addition to This. the Moon law
limiting the saloons to one for each
ore thousand has been applied in ths
cities of Council Bluffs Cedar Rapids,
and Des NOines, reducing the number
of saloons on account Of the aDplica-
ton Of this law in these cities, fifty
seven. making the total reduction in
the number of saloons on july /. 2S7
iowa with her ninetv-nin counties
has at this time only twelve counties
remaining in the state which have
licensed saloons. In the large cities
where the recent contests We're held.
like Des Moines Waterloo Cedar Rap
ids. Oskaloosa and Creston. the tenn
perance people in all these cities have
every reason for believing they have
won the victory and in every instance
the cases have been appealed 10 the
supreme court.
The number Of saloons involved in
these contests is 256.
The situation in Iowa now is; that
in 500 towns and cities. we have at
this time 700 Of them which are sa
!oonless that is seven eighths OF the
towns and cities in Iowa are now dry.
In the fact of this wonderful and mar
velous victory. the liquor traffic SO far
as Iowa is concerned IS doomed IN this
state and another contest like the one
we had in the past six months, will
put the rnout OF business.
1T is regretted. Of course, that the
river towns, Dubuque, Davenport, Clin-
ton and Burlin gton. are resisting the
application Of the Moon law, but in do
ing this, the river towns are simply
digging their own graves. They have
always resisted the application Of the
prohibition laws Of Iowa but they will
! be compelled to take their medicine
and they are now taking desperate
. chances in refusing to comply with the
provisions OF this law.
I'VE had in operation in Iowa in 1905,
1000 saloons and OH July 1. 1911 we
will have only $50 left and 1t would
seem that the good people of Iowa are
| coming into their own and the day Is
not far distant when the wet senators
and representatives will cease to- be
elected to the legislature from dry ter
ritory."
Business Mems Temperance Asso-