Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-19

no homes or two have forsaken their
homes for the brilliant light and
warmth and good cheer of the saloons,
Usage News.
Just why the "workingman" should
be made the goat in this manner is
hard to under stand for the real work
ingman is like other men. He doesn
differ generically from the rest of the
human race merely because he works
for living with his hands as well as
his head. This assumption that 1.-The
saloon is the Iaboring mans club is
an insult to the average workingman.
ANYWAY it isn't true Neither is il
true that when the saloon is removed
from the community that the people
who remove it are in duty bound TO
provide a substitute at their own Ia
Dor and expense. The saloon was not
a public but a private enterprise. II
was not an altruistic institution with
ronized it paid a hundred per cent profit
on all he got of brilliant light and
warmth and good cheer" Why is II
up TO the people who removed the sa-
loon 20 establish q free club with free
warmth and brilliant light" and equip
Il with free billiard and pool tables
when proprietors OF the best patron
ized billiard rooms get so cents an
hour and nobody has suggested that
this item IS one Of the costs Of nigh
living?
This gu!ping and sobhing over the
deprivation OF the workingman by
abolition of the saloon is silly ana
harmful In the first place the work
ingrnan is not an object OF such charti-
able patronage. Most Uorkingmen de-
serving OF the term are more interest
ed IN brilliant lights and warmth &.
home than elsewhere. The sob stan
should divest itself OF the idea that
the workingman is one Of herd. He
isn't begging. 1t is utterly unjust anC
entirely ignorant 70 assume tAas the
loud mouthed orators of the bars and
the street corners are representative
Of the workingnan. The "workingman
who is demanding substitute Tor
.ne saloon and that those who drove It
out establish "loahng places for the
men who were won; 10 tnrsahe their
homes for the brilliant light and
warmth and good cheer OF the saloon
isn't worktngman at al. He IS q
loater.
a !.t..e com mon sense IS needed on
this club" question. To assume that
workingmen can not support their own
club or become members OF other clubs
in their cities as cheaply as they could
support the saloon club" is utter
poppycocg. Two beers a day amount
20 $50 & YEAR. The dues Of the Mar
shaiItown club are SIS. Two games Of
pool at 10 cents game for 900 days
! in the year runs to $50. The price OF
F, cigar day VIII pay dues in very
gGOl CUP "-4Cl . 80 4t.!iis-sS tA--4 49,
+ rnents are provided. There is no more
, reason to provide a club free than &c
provide free the brilliant light and
warmth and good cheer" Of rl1e saioor
'sloahng place" Forget !, and qui'
soobing.
T.. But mainly ard Importantly let il ht
understood that the workinsnlan ism
asking or requiring anybody 70 III III
a free "loahng place" for him; that ne
is not seeking guardian: that he is
! earning fair wages and generally put
ting them where ,hev will 60 the mos
GOOD. And further, that If he were tc
throw down some newspaper somf
I evening after seeing himself drawn
par. drunka-d. part fool and par va
grant and go forth 70 smash the editor
on the nose nobody who knows wou!t
blame him much and he ought 10 es'
cape a fine on the plea Of suhicien'
provocation.
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