Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-03
EVEN DOZEN OF NINETY. NINE
COUNTIES OF SALOON HAVE
SALOONS.
TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION
REVIEWS CONDITIONS IN IOWA
Declares Saloons in Iowa Are Nearly
Wiped Out and Are Doom ed-Ottum-
wa and MarshalItown Largest Cities
to Go Dry-RenarkabIe Showing
Other News Of the State.

Waterloo, July 3-H. L. Litchfield
president of the Waterloo Business
Mems Temperance Organization has
received from John H. Taft of Cedar
Rapids, president of the state organi-
cation, a statement showing the saloon
situation, as it appears July 1. The
compilation is remarkable one
showing the reduction in the number
Of licensed saloons in Iowa in the past
few months. The official statement is
as follows:
Saloons Nearly Wiped Out.
BY direction Of the advisory board
Of the Business Mems Temperance AS
ISOLATION of Iowa, statement has
been prepared giving the people a
proper view of the numerous contests
waged against the saloons in Iowa dur
ing the past six months.
Thousands of temperance people
have been engaged in these contests
and 1t is fitting and proper that they
should have some definite information
concerning the wonderful victory
achieved.
Up to this time there has been no
summary Of the saloon situation made
and published SO far as we know in
any newspapers in Iowa and we will
undertake in this article to put the sit
uation before our friends just as the
facts warrant.
Within the past six months there
has been fifteen wet counties in which
the saloon men have circulated a pc
tition Of consent, asking that the sa-
looms be continued. These counties
Sioux, O'Brien, Dickinson. Lyon, Wood
bury, Monona, Johnson, Jones, Euchan-
an, Palo Alto, Winneshiek, -Allamakee ::
all of which have gone dry. In Pot
tawattamie county the temperance
people have won, but we are still in
litigation. In the remaining three
counties (Which make up the fifteen)
are Chicka saw, Carroll and Crawford :;
while these three counties are wet, the
temperance people won two Of the
towns in each Of these counties. In ad-
dition to this, they won in the large
cities Of Ottumwa, Marshalltown, max
ing the total number Of cities and
towns won in the last contest against
the saloons, eighty mine. These eighty
nine towns and cities which went dry
have reduced the number Of saloons in
iowa 23O.
Moon Law Helps.
In addition to this, the Moon law
limiting the saloons to one for each
thousand has been applied In cities
of Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids and
Des Moines. reducing the number of
saloons on account of the application
of this law in these cities, fifty-seven,
making the total reduction in the mum
Der OF saloons on July l, 2S7.
Iowa with her ninety-eight counties
has at this time only twelve counties
remaining in the state which have IL
censed saloons. In the large cities
where the recent contests were held
like Des .Moines. Oskaloosa and Cres-
ton, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, the
temperance people in all these cities
have every reason for believing they
have won the victory and in every In
stance the cases have been appealed to
the supreme court.
The number Of saloons involved In
these counties is 256.
Says Traffic is Doomed.
The situation in Iowa now is, that
in 500 towns and cities, we have at
this time 700 Of them which are saloon
less; that is seven eighths of the towns
and cities that are dry. In the face
of this wonderful and marvellous vic
tory, the liquor traffic so far as Iowa
is concerned. is doomed in this state
and another one like the one we had in
the past six months, will put them out
Of business.
1t is regretted. Of course. that the
river towns: Dubuque, Davenport, Gin
ron and Burlington are resisting appll-
cation of the Moon law, but in doing
this. the river towns are simply digging
their own graves. They have always
resisted the application Of the prohibi-
ton laws Of Iowa, but they will be
compelled to take their medicine and
they are now taking desperate chances
in refusing to comply with the provis-
ions of this law.
We had in operation in Iowa in 1905
5000 saloons and on July l, 1911, we
will have only $50 left. and it would
seem that the good people OF Iowa are
coming into their own and the day Is
not far distant when the wet senators
and representatives will cease to be
elected to the legislature from dry ter
ritory.
Business Mems Temperance Associa-
ton, by John H. Taft, president.