Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-23

Il have no sympathy with the state
ment, SO often made, that the manufac
ture and sale of liquor has contributed
to the industrial development of the
nation. On the contrary, believe that
liquor has contributed more to the
moral, intellectual and material dete,
rioratiOn of the people and has brought
more misery to defenseless women and
children than has any other agency in
the history of mankind"
.... -
Mr.. James McEvoy, if you would
have us take your advice and vote for
saloons, please answer this from Tom
! Lewis, president of the United Mine.
workers
Because the liquor traffic tends to
enslave the people, to make them salts.
fled with improper conditions and
Keeps them ignorant, the leaders of the
trades union movement are called on
to fight the saloons"
Mr.. Ed. Rostein, you ask us to vote
for saloons in Salem, but what have
you to say to the words of P. NJ. Ar.
thur, former president of the Brother.
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, who
says:
Every friend of the workingman
will vote against the saloon every time
he gets a chance, and to close it up,
not only on Sunday, but upon every
day Of the week.
Mr.. F. A. Spencer, you advise us to
vote for saloons. viii you please an.
swer Governor William Hodges Mann,
Of Virginia, who says:
1.-THE records Of our peritentiary
show that the criminal age is below 23.
If am to judge from the applications
for pardon I am constantly receiving,
from 80 to 95 per cent of the crimes
for which convicts are confined were
committed while under the influence of
liquor I believe that if this tempta-
tion could be gotten out Of the way of
our young men that it would result in
the greatest benefit to the state from
every point of view"
Mr.. =. N. Derby, when you advise us
to vote for saloons in Salem, I won.
der what you think of the utterance of
Ex-Governor W. M. o. Dawson, of West
Virginia:
DO men deplore the rule of corrupt
political bosses' 1t is the saloon that
rallies the mass of venal and unpatri-
otic voters who constitute the phalanx
Of the bosses power. Has crime be-
came rampant on the streets7 The sa.
loon is the refuge of the criminals. Does
vice seek protectionl The saloon eff.
fects the arrangement with the police.
mon, who are familiar with its dark Sc.
crets, and comrades Of its debased fra
ternity. Do gamblers wish to ply their
demoralizing trade among the young9
The saloon affords them not only the
shield, but brings them the susceptible
patronage of experienced youths"
So"
Mr. $. G, Hamilton, do you insist on
your advice to retain saloons in Salem
in tho face Of this utterance from so
experienced man as Ex-Governor
Campbell, Of Texas;
"T believe the saloon is bad thing,
n thing from which no good can some.
Those who vote for a partnership with
II vote for the crack Of the pistol in
the saloon, and for all the other crimes
that follow in the wake Of the liquor
traffic. Vote for it If you will. I
wash my hands Of IL, The widows and
orphans shall never in the Judgment
day stand up and charge me with the
which overlook them through
the saloon.
sH#
Mr., j, r. Linn, You ask us to vote for
saloons. What is your response to this
from Governor Lee Cruce, Of Okaho
ma,
"'rhc people of oklahoma are well |
satisfied with prohibition, which fact
is proven conclusiyely by the election
returns, The majority at the last clec.
tion was larger than that at the former
election, This is the best evidence
that tho people Of oklahoma are bet.
ter satsficd with conditions now than |
with conditions which prevailed when |
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