The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-16

emphasized the fact that the fight in
Marion today is not against drinking
but against the open saloon. 1t is
the environment of the saloon that
hurts, it is that and not heredity that
Is the menace of our civilization It
is not the fellow VINO buys bottle of
whiskey and goes into the cellar and
drinks it sitting on a tub that we op-
pose he said. He is dangerous only
to himself and the tub
The speaker said he was thorough
ly acquainted with the social drink
ing history of Marion and Marion
county and 1t is filled with many aw-
tu tragedies due to Grink. If the
tears due to this one cause in Marion
county might he collected they would
take another Scioto. Mr.. Christian al
50 said he was well acquainted with
many cf the carriers of the wet peti-
tions and he was of the opinion that
if those men really knew what they
were doing they would have been en-
gagged I'm another occupation.
-Four Murders Result of Drink.
"One little township in this county
had four murders i'm "a months. CON
J tnued the speaker. 'and they were
all due to drink all fruits of the sa-
Icon. That township Is Waldo, as
fair a land as the sun ever shone on
The city of Cincinnati had more mur-
ders last year than all Canada COM
bined. There Is hardly a prominent
family in Cincinnati In the last 80
Years which hasn't suffered a tragedy
because of the saloon.
Some business men ten me that
the absence Of the saloon has hurt
. business. don't believe it, The
great crowd at the FAIR this fan was
. was the most wonderful sight any
man ever saw. There was
not drunken man on the grounds
where there used to be tens and hum
dreds.. 1t was the most orderly
crowd | ever saw and 1t was only
Possible because there was no per-
) nissable liquor traffic on the grounds
! have seen those grounds an orgy re-
curing 80 police to keep order. | have
! seen stun sold on those grounds for
"hiskey, 90 per cent of which was
. water per cent wind and per cent
no one knows what. An Old president
of the fair board after years of drunk
enness and disorder on the grounds
kicked the beer off the place and it
has never been sold there since.
Why the Hue and Cry.
There Is a peculiar feature about
tnis cry of the liquor men in trying
To bring back the sa4oon. They claim
that just as much booze is sold now
as before the saloons were voted out
and yet here they go raising all this
fuss and spending all this money to
bring back the saloons. If they are
selling just as much liquor now as be-
fore why go to all this expense and
trouble. They don't nave to pay any
| license fees now or TO go to inany
other necessary expenses. If / were
in the business and We're selling Just
as much now as berore | should be
satistied with conditions as they are.
| But of course they are not selling
| onything like the amount of booze
| tGey were The environment of the
saloon has never been so scotched as
now.
Then the liquor advocates are max
| ing great pretenses to the working
men about how present conditions
have raised the price of liquor and
the poor man can't buy IT, Well now
my advice to the working men is to
keep the saloon out. The coming
winter promises to bring the greatest
Industrial depression We have had
since 1893 and the presence of the sa-
loon is not going to help things a bit
Conditions cannot possibly be improv-
ed for the man who works by the
opening Of the saloons.
Truth VIII Aid Drys.
1.-THE situation as | see ii is this |
The vets are making a campaign Of |
Misrepresentation and If we can bring |
the truth to the people Marion will |
vote dry, The action of the vets stu- |
titles them. They show by their desire |
10 get the saloon back that the way |
10 wealth in the liquor business is |
through the legalzed saloon and not |
through the sneaking bootlegger.
"And II by some mlschance this |
town should go wet I prophesy there |
won't be over half as many saloons |
in IL as there were before the last |
election. That will snow how much |
of an advance the city made during |
the absence of the saloon.
zone evening a friend told me that |
he wouldn't live In Marion for any |
thing and when asked him why he |
Ieplied that the town looked like a |
cemetery in the evening. | told him |
that we We're all at home with our
wives and families and that if he |
was there he wouldn't be thinking |
about a cemetery"
III Women Only Voted.
Professor Irish of Columbus was in |
the audience and was called on for
a few remarks He said he looked on
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