Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-01
WORRIED TO DEATH.

The Waterloo Times-Tribune, which
| favored the retention of saloons in
Waterloo and was disappointed to the
verge of tears over the failure of the
petition. is now insisting chat 80 long
as the national government recognizes
the manufacture and sale of liquors, as
a legal business, by licensing its manu-
facture and sale, so long will be made
and so long will it be sold" 1t con-
| tinues:
| Commercialism enters into the
matter and has its say. Unques-
tionably the wet cities have the ad-
| vantage in trade-and when a mans
pocketbook or his business is affected
| in this commercial age, he is apt to
forget sentiment. Were the whole state
! or the whole nation without liquor. no
man will say that the state and nation
| were not better off; but it is a fact that
! can not be disputed, that the wet town
gets business away from the dry town
! and there is the secret of failure of
prohibition.
| The res-Repubican is in a posi-
ton to deny the assertions presented
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not true that wet towns have the ad-
vantage in trade over Marshalltown.
which has been saloonless for more
than two years and with prospects that
lit will never give another saloon priv
| ilege to operate. The fact is that in
| all her history Marshalitown never en-
joyed SO good a general trade and was
never SO prosperous 1t doesn't make
any particular difference to this city
| whether Boone or Reinbeck or Water
| loo or Oskaloosa is wet We have
| learned that men come to trade"
where they can do we'll on goods and
prices and that those whose trade is
most worth attracting come the more
! quickly 10 the dry town. Today there
Is more freight coming into Marshall
town than the railroads can handle
| comfortably. Men are working over
hours to care for it. There are more
goods selling and being paid for more
| is better off in every respect for the
dismissal Of the saloons and seven men
out Of ten who two years ago were
alarmed and anxious over the prospect
that dry town would hurt trade. have
changed their minds. Most of them do
not want nor would favor the return of
the saloons. The fetish and scare
crow of trade advantage doesn't fright
is that the saloon is an economic para
site and that We all agree on that
nowadays in Marshalltown. those of US
who like our toddy and those who thru
principle, policy or fear avoid personal
use of liquor. Let the Times Tribune
get that 1t beats ali the argument on
earth. We have tried ii and know
The Times Tribune agrees that
liquor and its general sale is a curse
Listen:
There is no argument in favor of
the drinking of liquors. But there is
substantial argument against prohibit
ton as we know it. Divorce COM
mercialism from the prohibition ques-
ton and prohibition will win Who
has not gone to the city cafes and wit
messed the wild orgies carried on by
men and women (young girls in many
cases. and has not said to himself that
the abuse of liquor is a curse upon the
nation and tends to moral and spiritual
degeneracyo Or visit to the slums,
and what is the verdict? Truly, many
use liquors in the home and are in no
sense the worse off; many drink at the
har IA h1,f he
must consider the many that are dam
aged
The Waterloo paper Is troubled over
local conditions. 1t approves ma
tional law of prohibition which it is
not likely to get but insists that no
single community can afford to be dry
because of the disadvantage in trade
It is peculiar argument succeeding
confession of the utter evil of the open
and protected traffic, this conformation
on a trade basis Of moral and spiritual
degeneracy,' but at that, take 1t from
Marshalltown, that the dry town Is the
best and most prosperous town; that
merely form the sordid angle Of profit
to merchandizers and legitimate trade
of all kinds it pays to be dry; that more
goods are sold to more purchasers at
better prices and on prompter pay
, ments, that the merchant, the Goa
dealer, the clothier, everyone and the
picture show most of all profit by de-
NAL to the saloon to take it's toll b Fore
anyone else gets a chance.