The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-06

There are 1885, 900 enrolled criminals
in the United States. and $4,000 IN
jails and penitentiaries. Three
fourths were lent there because they
drink, and then they have the au-
dacity to say the saloon is needed for
money revenue, Never was there a
laser lie, or a heart so vile or lips
black enough to utter such a lie.
And say, my friends, New York
city's annual drink bill is 1856, 900, 900
a year, $1,000, 600 a day. Listen a
minute. That is four times the annual
output of gold, and 1t is at least one-
third the value of all the Goa mined
In the United States. And in some
sections of New York there Is one sal
loon for every thirty families. The
money spent in New York by the
working people for drink in ten years
would buy every working man in New
York a beautiful home and allow $3,-
500 for house and lot.
Who Pays For it7
Who pays to feed and keep the
gang you have in Jail? Why, you go
down in your sock and pay for what
the saloon has dumped in there. They
uBh I 90 IL. MI. w hlShGy mdns WHY
don't you go down and take a picture
of wrecked and blighted homes, and of
insane asylums, with gibbering idiots
that it costs $4,000, 900, 900 to support?
Why don't you take a picture of that?
In some insane asylums, do you
know what they do? When they want
to test some patient to see whether he
has recovered his reason, they have q
room with a faucet in it, and a cement
floor, and they give the patient a mop
Inc tell him to mop up the floor. And
if he has ems enough to turn off the
faucet and mop up the floor, they will
parole him, but should ne let the fau-
Get run, they know that he is crazy.
Well, that is what you are trying to
do. You are trying to mop it up with
taxes, and insane asylums, and jails,
and Kelley cures, and reformatories.
The only thing to do is to shut of
the source of supply.
AS DR.. Clinton Howard said: 81
tell you that the saloon is a coward.
It hides itself behind stained glass
doors, and opaque windows, and
sneaks its customers in at a blind
door, and it keeps a sentinel to guard
the door from the officers of the law.
and it marks it's wares with false
bills of lading, and offers to ship green
goods to you and marks them with
the name Of wholesome articles of
food 80 people won't know what is be-
ing 5enr to you. And so vile did that
business get that the legislature of
Indiana passed a law forbidding a
saloon to ship goods without being
properly labeled. And the United
States congress passed a law forbid
ding them to send whiskey through
the mails.
What Is the matter with our coun-
try? l would like to do like this. I
would like to see every booze-fghteF
get on the water wagon. 1 would like
to summon all the drunkards in Am
erica and say: Boys, let's cut her out
and spend the money for -four, meat
and calico; what do you say?" Say!
$500, 100000 will buy all the -four in
the United States; $500. 000,0 900 will
buy all the beef cattle, and $500, 600, 900
will buy all the cotton at $50 a bale.
But we dumped more money than that
in the whiskey hole last year, and
didn't fill it. Come on, ready, for
ward, march, right left, here 1 come
with all the drunkards. We will line
up in front of a butcher shop. The
butcher says: What do you want, a
piece of neck?"
Buy 5esFstsak.
NO; how much do I owe your"
"$3." Here's your dough. Now give