La Junta tribune., 1911-02-04

Try. as at present. will become as
common and as cheap as mutton.
To sell rum for livelihood is lad
enough. bu, for a whole community
to share the responsibility and guilt
of such a traffic seems q worse bar
gain than that OF Eve or judah
Horace Greeley.
While dollars and cents are inyoiy-
ed remember that this Ii = moral
question. II We license the saloons
we become 4 party to all the evil
incdeu. to them. Do you want to
become a partner In the saloon busi.
ness by voting for their return!
III swink was dry would BE- In
favor OF keeping La Junta dry" 50
say some people The way TO put
Swink dry is to keep La Junia dry
Stay by dry La Junta and Swink
will fall In line. Saloons five miles
away are not as bad as saloons on
the corner.
Under local option the cases IN
police court have fallen from fifty
per month to fewer than twenty. tn
majority OF these being hoboes. The
total cash fines for the fiscal year
commencing In April. 1907. and end
ing In March. 1908. were s2.s55.s0,
while the total cash fines for the
twelve months OF 1910 were $l.soii5.
showing difference Of H.55i.l5,
There has been a very great falling
off In the police court industry. %
is true, since La Junta has been
dry town. but IL is not an industry
that should be encouraged nor one
In which We have reason 10 take any
particular pride.
A lady OF ebony complexion was
being tried before a South Carolina
justice OF the peace. charged with e1'
cessiye cruelty TO a child. The eyi-
denee was conclusiyely against hsr.
but before passing sentence. the
Judge asked her If she had anything
TO say.
kin ah ask yo' honsh que
tom" she replied.
Yes" replied the Judge. go
ahead
Well then. yo' honah." she aszed
with the air of giving him n p.S.E.
"ahd like 10 ask yo' whether yo'
Was ever the paren, of pgffickly
~uthless culled chile7"
The bank deposits show where
some Of the money that used TO 70
into the ti.ls OF the saloon keepers
and to the wholesale liquor p.ople Is
nov going. II Is going to the credit
OF depositors. many Of them small
depositors. Since the town has
gone dry the bank deposits have In.
creased $4,000 In round figures.
The average deposits for the sAGh-
teen months before the town went dry.
for one OF the banks. was s3ss.00o.
and for the eighteen months follow.
Ing was Sss0. 600. The banks all state
that there has BEEN a marked In
crease OF moneys left In the banks
by small depositors.
Under the vet policy La Juuta
spent $500. 900 for liquor. 100000 u
which went 10 the wholesale trade.
Does anyone believe that there IL
rs much liquor being sold in La
Jungs nov a. when the saloons we're
licensed II the bootl.gEer and the
two per cent men ~,r. selling -
much liquor a. when they we're run.
ring open saloons do you think they
would trouble themselves TO have the
question r.submitt.dr II ther. xss
as much liquor Icing sold In la Juuts
As under the saloon policy DO you
suppose the wholesale liquor men
would spend 5000 or 5000. as they
are proposing to do. TO have the
saloons reop~n.d'
More towns die for want OF con.
fidene. on ,h. part Of business men
and lack OF public spirit than any
other cause. When a man In search
Of home or = business location
goes into = town and finds eycrythins
brtm full Of hope and enthusiasm of