The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-28

SOHle WHO FAVOR SaOOnS. we VIII
lose the license money and liquor Will
be disposed of anyhow. Well, II
Judas Iscariot had not taken the
thirty pieces Of silver, he would be
minus the blood money, and the
cruciners would have gotten their
victim anyhow; but Judas would have
had a better chance OF saving his
soul, and not let his name go down
in infamy through all the ages. There
is no remedy for the saloon evil other
than its total abolition. High license,
low license and the dispensary system
have been tried, but all proved fail
ures
Years ago we had $500 license on
saloons in Chicago Crime was ram
pant and people said, raise the IL
conse fee TO $1,000 and wipe out the
dives" The fee was raised but the
dives remained The raising of the
license fee had the effect of making
the saloon more unscrupulous in the
getting of money. That meant the
promotion OF drunkenness and the
evils that go with saloons. The pa
irons of saloons suffered more than
ever II made conditions 80 bad that
a saloonkeeper might say. 81 will
raise your s LOCO license, If for every
bloody dollar / will have to kill
man" When the proposition of rais-
ing the license fee on saloons in Rock
Island, H., was submitted to the vot-
ers of that city the saloonkeepers got
out a circular in which they stated
that raising the fee to $1,000 would
mean that the laboring man would
have to pay IT, 1t would mean small
glasses and a poorer quality 1t
would also mean that the saloon
keepers would become greater law
breakers in order to get the money
to pay expenses.
The raising of the license fee to
$1,000 in Chicago gave the city more
revenue but IT was used up in increas-
ing the police force, raising the police
mems pay and i'm court expenses
Within two years the taxpayers had
their taxes increased by a raise in
valuation of property, as the tax rate
was up to the limit allowed by law
All of Chicago is not given over to
saloons. over one hundred square
miles OF Chicago is anti-saloon terri
tory. The leading anti-saloon terri
tory is Hyde Park. without saloons
except for few blocks. Real estate
men have estimated the valuation OF
property in Hyde Park at $4,000, 900
more than It would be valued at II
saloons existed there. In this fine
anti-saloon territory, according to
Chicago city directory, there live
thirteen Of Chicago's brewers. Clar-
ence $. Darrow. the saloon cham
pion. lives here. They want good
place and having the money why
should they live i'm localities made
poor by the presence of saloons.
Tho liquor manufacturers like to
humbug the people. When YOU get
sick the brewers will tell you to
drink their beer and you VIII get
wcll. but when the brewer gets sick,
he goes to n swell watering place,
takes water baths and drinks water
50 he will get we'll
On September 25, 1909. there was
a temperance ana law enforcement
parade in Chicago, with General
Frederick Dent Grant at its head and
10000 persons in line. feature was
coffin followed by 81 gowned men
representing dead men killed In CHI
cagos saloons on Sunday, open I'm vio-
lation of law. After the parade the
secretary Of the United Societies. the
Personal Liberty League Of Chicago,
wrote TO the secretary of war protest
ing against Gen. Grant having the
personal liberty right of wearing his
uniform and marching in a temper
ancc and law-enforcement parade. /,
shows the kind of personal liberty
the saloon would give us. The secre-
tary Of war wrote back that he wished
there were more army men like Gen.
Grant.
Where does the saloon win? Go to
the part Of the city where Christian
fly is weak, morality low and where
there are poor specimens of manhood
and womanhood, and there Is where
we find the saloon winning, and the
more degraded the people are, the
greater the majority the saloon rolls
up Go to where Christianity is
strong, whore morality prevails,
where there Is manhood and woman
hood and there is where we find the
saloon going down in defeat. 1t is
a grand tribute to a people when
they vote out saloons and the greater
the majority against saloons the
greater the tribute To the people.
To license means TO surrender to
an evil. No-license means war against
AN evil Good and brave men will
not surrender to an evil.