The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-08-18
TO THE VOTERS OF CANYON
COUNTY.

You will be called upon Sept. e
next to decide with your ballots the
supreme issue of the present cam
paign. County option is again the
issue and calls for the calm and
deliberate consideration of every vot-
err. both men and women, in the
county. 1t is supreme folly and de-
structfve to the best business inter-
ests of any county to vote itself dry
while at the same time entirely sur
rounded by wet territory. We call
to your attention a specific case that
is quite applicable to the situation
In a leading hotel of Caldwell, upon
a business directory, conspicuously
displayed, is a wet advertisement
reading as follows Dan Brown &
Co.. TIA Main Street, Boise, Idaho.
Wholesale Wines and Liquors. SUIT
CASES FILLED FULL AND
PROMPT" Don't carry suit case.
Three wholesale liquor dealers in
Boise are carrying whiskey advertise
ments in local newspapers. A bright
little business woman of Caldwell is
responsible for this statement: LAS
long as liquor is sold in the state.
we may as we'll have saloons here in
Canyon county and in Caldwell. We
had fewer drunken men when we had
saloons in Caldwell than you can see
upon the streets of the city almost
any day."
The Business Mems and Voters
League of Canyon county favors a
limited number of licensed, revenue
paying saloons, under strict regula-
ton and contributing to the support
of public institutions, thereby greatly
lessening the burden of taxation.
County option is powerless as a
remedy for drunkenness. 1t is an
enemy to the best business interests
of the city and the county. 1t is
prolific of social hypocrisy and poll
tical degradation and breeds con-
tempt for the law.
Regulation and high license will
accomplish a thousand times more
than county option has or ever can,
while preserving for municipalities
the income from licenses.
The Business Mems and Voters
League of Canyon county is made up
of reputable business men from all
parts of the county, who pledge
themselves as a permanent business
organization to the enforcement of
the law. Under high license and a
limited number of saloons, 1T will
be more profitable for liquor deal
er to obey the law than to violate 1t,
and the knowledge of license renewal
based upon good behavior, will make
the average saloon keeper solicitous
of proper conduct of his business
The restrictions against curtains and
screens, tables and chairs, puts the
liquor business upon commercial
basis found in other lines of bust
ness. We insist upon the strict OBJ
seryance of the law and demand alb
solute closing on Sundays.
We respectfully appeal to the vot-
ers of Canyon county to endorse the
resolutions published herewith, by
your signatures attached to blanks
which will be provided for that pur-
pose and join the new Canyon coun-
ty Boosters Association now known
as the Business Mems and Voters
League of Canyon County. We have
established headquarters in Rooms
40 and so of the Steunenberg Block
Caldwell, where we shall be pleased
to meet and confer with all con.
cerned and interested in the present
campaign. Election day takes place
on the 9th day of next September
We appeal to our friends to get ou'
on this day and cast their ballots II
favor of high license and regulation
and see that their friends do like
wise.
We are, very respectfully yours,
BUSINESS MEMS AND VOTERS
LEAGUE OF CANYON COUNTY
Per ]. M. Bennett, President; ]. s
Davis, Secretary, ]. H. Lewis, Cam
paign Manager.