The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-31
REV, JACOB T. MEEKEn MAKES |
WET ADDRESS AT THE RINK

ere 1856 wholesalers more. According
g. the internal revenue reports of
1911 there We're consumed In this
country 121 million gallons more OF
liquors than the Year before. OF that
four million gallons is the increase in
the bottled in bond one st. Louis
concern spent s16s.00O last year for
postage stamps. The speaker declar-
cd the whiskey mail order houses are
contributing to the dry campaign and
that the bootleggers are doing like
wise He made the statement that
al the crooks in the business are on
the dry side
The per capita consumption in ten
vars has increased to 22 gallons. People
ere buying their liquors wholesale and
they are drinking Wholesale at the
same time. This Increase has taken
place since the anti-sa;oon forces have
started their campaign. Therefore it
/, very evident that the first project
Of the drys has failed
And it is very evident that the peo-
Pile are coming to understand that
they have failed. Formerly the
campaigns of the vets were in the
where. Now the conoition has chang
ed wholly. Everywhere Rev. Meeker
goes now finds the best men i'm the
community backing the wet side-the
moral and civic backbone of the ci-
ties is lighting for the return of the
regulated saloon. The bankers and
leading merchants are backing the
fight.
The speaker gave a lot of statistics
to prove there Is more crime now In
cry territory than there was during
the regime of the open saloon. In
1890 both Kansas anc Maine stood
relatively higher in the list of states
Gs regards freedom from crime than
in 1904. He gave further statistics to
the effect that 76 per cent of crime
among women are committed by SER
want girls. For this condition he
banned the housewives. He
said they are the meanest employers
of labor in the world and are respon-
sible for more crime among women
than all the saloons could ever pos
sibly be- His statistics further show
ed there had been an Increase of
boys in the juvenile court in Ports
mouth from 35 in 1906 to 11S in 1910,
| our criminals do not develop among
our men. but among our boys. They
have formed the habit of buying liq.
uor through the mali and the stuff
they get is the worst dope in the
world. The sale OF every dope, ex.
oept opium, has doubled in the last
ten years. Men are using artificia
means to stimulate themselves instead
lof natural means. over worked fac
tory employees are using stimu ants t(
carry them away from their condi.
tions and to give them some peace
The speaker asserted that the anti
saloon forces everywhere are land In
glove with the manufacturers of the
country in their fight against unior
labor
Crime has increased with the com
ing of the blind tiger and If the sa
Icon was responsible for crime befor
the blind tiger is responsible for tn
Increase since.
The drys tell you the church is
unit on this question but the CongrN
gational, the Lutheran. the Presby
tcrlan. the Episcopal and the Catho
lie churches never have entered tn
fight.
The reason the people had a fallinl
out with the saloon was that 1t l
The only business which must con
tinually curry favor with the politl
clans. The politicians hold control ov
er the saloon business because a Ii
cense must be granted each year an,
the politicians win refuse to gran
them unless the saloon keepers do a
they are told.
Rev. Meeker stated that he did no
stand for any kind of saloons II
was certain the time of the old gro
gerry had passed forever. He under
stood there had been three hell hole
IN Marion and that they were prob
, ably responsible for the county gon
; dry. If the saloon men had put then
, out of the business the blow Nigh
: not have been struck the saloon bust
ness
The speaker said he favored max
, ing the saloon as public as possible
: lac would take down the screens, tn
blinds and put the saloons where an
! body might see in. he would mai,
the business respectable.