The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-27

There are more than two hundred
and fifty thousand persons employed
in the various manufacturing indus.
tries of Chicago If the capital used
in the manufacturing Industries OF
Chicago were TO be used in the man
ufacture Of liquor It would give en-
/ ploNmcnt To only about forty-nve
thousand persons, thereby throwing
more than two hundred thousand
persons out OF work in the city of
Chicago alone.
II the money now spent for liquor
was spent instead FOR shoes, clothing.
food, furniture and building of new
homes, II would give employment to
100000 more persons than are en-
gagged in the liquor traffic
The saloon pays rent. taxes, cost of
heat, power, light and living expense
of those conducting the business. and
of their families, but so does the gro-
Gerry, meat market, dry goods and
furniture stores
one wagon viii supply the needs
of twenty or more saloons Most Of
the other stores will have at least
one wagon some of them several, to
bring goods To their stores, and to
their customers. That gives work to
the farmer that raises horses. and tho
feed for them, the harness maker,
the horseshoer and the wagon maxi
ers and drivers.
The liquor traffic costs more money
than Is paid to the railroads i'm
freight and passenger rates Com
pare the insignificant few persons em.
ployed in the liquor traffic with the
vast army Of people employed in the
railroad business of the country.
Workingmen. vote against your
worst enemy the saloon When the
worklngmen down the whisky trust.
and the beer trust, then will they
get their just rights. No one claims
that the saloon is moral institution.
Facts prove that II is an enormous
financial loss as well as moral degra-
dation for community to maintain
ii.
The workingman will help himself
most when he places himself in oppo.
sition to the saloon and the liquor
traffic-his worst enemies.
How II Ailects the Farmer.
The claim that the saloon helps the
farmers in disposing of his grain is
easily dispated.
The total amount of the farmers
grain used by the liquor traffic
amounts to only two or three per
! cent of his total output The liquor
traffic Kills at least 10000 persons n
year Eminent physicians state thar
the average life Of the drunkard is
shortened by AT least ten years. That
makes 100000 people now dead who
would be living only the liquor traffic
killed them 1t would keep good
many farmers busy raising the food
10 supply the needs of 100000 peo-
pie and also the wool and the cot
ton to clothe them. 1t would take
good many boot and shoe makers.
clothing makers and house builders
to supply the needs of 500, 900 peo-
pie. Then again the drunkarl, his
wife and children do not get enough
to eat Many moderate drinkers
spend money for drink that ought to
go for the necessaries of life. If all
of these people would get enough To
eat. IL would demand more Of the
farmers products than is used now
by the liquor traffic. If all OF the
people Of the country were to eat an
extra pound of meat each week which
would be only a slight increase; al
lowing one bushel of corn 10 produce
five pounds of beef by feeding it To
cattle. it would require 100000 900
bushels of the farmers corn 10 pro-
duce that extra amount Of meat, and
according to the liquor tranic's own
figures they use only 36,O0O,O0O
bushels OF the farmers corn. When
the liquor traffic is wiped out, the
question will be with the farmers
not what he win do with his grain
but how will it be possible for him
to supply the demands that viii be
made upon him for the products or
the farm.
The Poor Mans Club.
1t is said that the saloon is the
poor mans club. But what about the
| poor mans wife and children--where
Is their club? The saloon Is, in a
sense, the poor mans club--it clubs