The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-09-01


in town." He said Nothing much,
only they are having a local option
election" The drummer said: "A
local option election? What's that"
oh" replied the niger, its an
election to see whether the saloons
sell the booze or the drug store and
blind tigers" (Applause). Now
you may laugh, but that is about the
size of it in these campaigns. II
learned by observation, when l was
on the other side, that it was, after
all, a question as to who was going
to sell the booze. 1t wasn't so much
question as to whether the booze
was going to be sold, because, as r
said, the people want it and will
have noticed all along the line, for
years back, when you bring it down
to the final analysis, the question
places to sell the booze or are the
saloons?" Now you have got the
whole thing in nutshell.
| was in a town once where there
were three drug stores and no open
saloons. One was run by a man
who was a member of the Methodist
| Methodist saloon. Do you think |
could get a Methodist in that town
to stand by me to help clean that
fellow up? No. had to do it alone
and | did 1t, too, and then l had
almost all the Methodists on my
back because | made it so unpleas-
ant for one of their leading breth-
ern.
There was another drug store in
that town run by a Catholic. They
called it the Catholic saloon. There
was a Congregational drug store in
that town and they called it the
: Congregational saloon" Each Of
, them had a good patronage from their
; fellow members, and when l went to
the county seat and got the list of
sales of liquor that was filed by
the drug stores and brought them
into court and used them as wit
nesses. l want to tell you the truth
. as sure as you are standing here to-
> night, we had as many church men,
I bers in the net as we had outsid-
8 ers.
+ Local Option! Does it prohibit?
? 1t does mott In certain Illinois
town a prominent man told me they
O had had saloons but the anti-saloon
. league jumped in and put them out
and he said: You will not believe
q me, but we now have Is locker
: clubs; a man can put in a supply Of
n liquor and when he wants a drink
Q he can get it; if the beer is warm he
can swap it with the fellow that runs
: the place for a cold one" That fel
: low told me the government a
n Washington had reported there were
! something like IS government II
i censes there. 1 wish you would
: look up this matter and see hoV
h many men in this town have gov
+ eminent licenses.
, The bootlegging business flourish
6 es in dry communities with very few
\ exceptions. The liquor bushes
Il has been extended all along the lin
q in spite of the extent of so-calle,
q dry territory. 1t stands to reasoI
o that what the General Assembl
! said on this question is true, and
n will not do to deceive the peopl
} any. longer by telling them that tn
n nation is becoming dry by show
o ing the dry maps, when the sal
10 of liquor is greater than ever be
J. fore in the history of the Unite
v States. Here is the fact: The pee
70 pie of this country want drink; the
Il want the revenue; the cities want tn
IS revenue and they are going to hav
10 it, and as long as people want tn
II revenue and are going to have i
I you are simply up against stor
ID wall proposition. 1t is hard thin
,e to turn IS per cent of the men
TO the United States from drink; som
~ of them drink openly and some 9
~ the sly. Let me say this to you:
ut you are going to drink l hope yo
e: will try and be a man.
II There are men in every comm
~ nifty who use intoxicating iquo
IL and have been decent about it ar
nv haven't made hogs or beats of Their
IN selves either, and l would give tn
Old advice to every drinking man
America; | say, whatever you do
m a man and use good sense and Jud
at ment. And you fellows who drill
90 on the sly and you fellows WI
on drink in the open, whatever you q
he don't make excuses for 1t. II "
he are going to drink, be on the squa
Is about it. Don't be like the farm
H. in Maine who Joined the temperan
To- society. They had a pledge to Il
Tor effect; Iney would not uIlhh lh'N
ito icating liquors only on thre occi
he ions, when there was wedding,
ng funeral or at a sheep-sheariI
nd Well. the people in that commun
didn't love each other very mu
,rt and there weren't many weddin
ny and the farmer had to walt a 10
De- time between drinks to keep
it's pledge. 1t was healthy commun
Of and the people didn't die very ia
In and there were very few funera
Tor and It was still n mighty long IL
IAN between drinks. strengthening OF
is came once year and that was
lps long time to wait for a drink
len cordipg to the pledge, so he thou'
led he would get around the thing
In little bit. So he took up fine n
me sheep in the pasture and put 1t
me the barn and whenever he felt
AS tie thirsty, he went out, took
al shears and sheared the sheep.
md course, he kept his pledge and o
re- drank at strengthening time.
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