The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-12-10

huddle in the fence corner and cover
two children with an old black cal
leo gown. / know what l am talking
about, because I was there and saw
things for myself.
Now Ready To Fight.
Now / have been carrying all this
in my memory for long, long while.
have got a crow to pick. / have
been saving this to tell you folks.
This thing has been brought home
/ to me since l have been in Office by
visit to the State Prison. / have
come in contact with hundreds of
young men out there who are in pris-
on for committing some little crime,
perhaps forging check in a saloon
that had broken the law a hundred
times where that boy broke it once.
That crowd have been taking quite
an interest in my prison policy over
this state. But I am going to give
them something that will keep them
busy at home.
Keep En- From Cashing Checks.
Il put in fourteen years of my long
life in bank, and I handled count
less checks in that time. I have
cashed many a check for saloon
keepers that should have gone home
to the wife and the babies, and /
want to see law passed in this state
that will prohibit any saloon keeper
from cashing check!
Il want to see you women all CIV
en- vote, because when that comes
about we are going to get lot more
action out of some of these loafing
ofice-holders, and they are going to
be more prompt in enforcing the laws
of this state. Whenever they set out
to really enforce the laws much of
the social evil is going to disappear.
| That is half the battle When a pub
lie officer says that he can't do it,
when district attorney says he can't
do it, it means neither wants to do
it, because he can do it alone.
Hard To Enforce Law.
In this state the Governor is
charged with the enforcement of the
law. Well, how is he going to do it
He is obliged to resort to extraordin-
airy methods in order to get action
out of some of these officials. But
hope at this session of the legislature
that our hands will be strengthened
so that we can get more than we
have in the past.
Il have never been straight-laced; l
have tried to be fair; but you can't be
fair with the fellows on the other side
have seen them take the last pen
ny from a man when they knew that
his wife and baby were at home hun
CRY. Whenever ore of these men
commits a crime, FORCES a check in
a saloon and is sent to the prison, the
wife and the babies are the ones that
suffer. They are thrown bodily out
in the street, without any means of
support. Then they ask you what
you are trying to do, what causes you
to take these steps.
81 will tell you something that we
are going to do, and it is going to
win out in this state, because it is
saving money for the taxpayer. You
know there ia always class of peo-
pie that sentiment does not cut any
figure with, but when you begin to
figure interest with them they are
with you. / believe there ought to
be drunkards' home in this state.
1t ought to stand as a monument to
the. good work of the booze joints,
and the booze joints should support it.
Make Saloons Support Them.
THAT is where we are going to win
because Mr.. Farmer is putting up
thousands and thousands of dollars
to support our insane asylum and our
penitentiary, and great many Of the
inmates are nothing but alcoholics
that have gotten in that condition
through drinking to excess, and Mr..
Farmer and Mr.. Blacksmith are oblig-
ed to support them.
We'll, now, why shouldn't the sa-
loon take care of its own manned and
wounded and injured, just as other
industries do? We are talking about
compensation acts. Let's pass it
around and let them take care of their
own.
Whenever you run across one of
these old veterans who has been fight
ing booze, he ought to have a home,
just like soldier. We provide for
the old soldier; now let the booze
joints take care of their old soldiers.
There is nothing unreasonable about
this. 1t is just business PROPOSE
ton. They are going to have chance
to vote on it, and we are going to
put it up to the legislators of this