The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-03
S>,vins the Salooukeeper

- the saloon keeper" declar ID i
us eamnaign speeches eight year
q so when he first sought office as
avor that he would close everr
saloon in the city on Sunday h
: now finishing his fourth tenn a.
-.aroi'. but the saloons still are open
N Sunday and that Is why he /
ehla to 20 to the proprietors nov
~ tell them that he is their best
Tiand and with him as mayor theiF
interests will be in safe hands. II.
Mr. Parsons never was a true
sriend of the saloon keeper AID he
lever VIII be. He doubtless woul
Ike II redeem himself in the tnind
IF the people who heard his anti
fe'can pledges eight years ago and
shcneYer he grows tired of helpinf
imseif to official honors 1t is like
y that he win try to square him
seif with the Sunday closing ele
ment.
Every means has been used with
IN the last few days TO arouse the
saloon Keepers against the Commits
ZION Form movement, The sa1oor
7en have been told that if Commits
ion Form OF Government is adopted
afro viii become dry town anf
they viii he forced out of business
Effort has even been made to foo
the saloon Keepers into believing
hat the provisions Of the new Law
make prohibition compulsory.
f Mr. Parsons is trying to use tn
saloon Keepers in his fight agains'
he people. but he doesn't care e
rap what becomes of them and then
interests. He has been using then
in his interest for the last eight
Years and when he finds they car
no longer do him good he will cast
them aside and appeal to his prohi.
aition friends for assistance. HI
viii try. no doubt. to fu,fli hi
pledges of eight years ago.
There are fifty-e'ght saloons in
afro and each contributes ST 900 ?
ear TO the city AS matter OF
fact the saloons have been paying a
large portion of the eity's expenses
and IL the present form of govern.
ment continues, with its many ey,
trayagances. the liquor Interests
will be called upon to come acrosl
as they have on many occasions in
NE past. The cost of licenses In
cairo has been regulated by the con
tition of the eity's finances. To b.
plain spoken, the saloon keeper ha.
been the goat. =
Under the Commission Form n,
government. the saloon keeper /,
Fua1'anteed square deal. He viii
not be required to pay the maio,
'ortion OF the eity's expenses no,
VIII he be Disseminated against II
1ther ways. Gambling will not b,
7ermitted in some saloons and for.
hidden in others, nor will politicat
'ribute be eSacted.
Mr.. Parsons has been imposing or
me good nature Of the saloon keen.
'rs and if he gets away with it tbi,
time We viii be surprised. He ha,
Neen trying to ride the prohibition
horse in one direction and the So.
loon horse in the other at the sam,
time. Can he do IL? Remem her,
this when you go to the polls +,
vote: Under the present form a
government money will be scare,
and the saloon keeper will have /,
make up the deficit. Only a few
wears ago saloon licenses cos, fiv,
hundred dollars. When tha e;t,
decided MOI y the price was ,booste,
I'e Sl,tvu and If more money !;
Needed which would be probabi,
'haer the present form of aovarn
nent. licenses will be sold at s15oi
and perhaps more.
Inc law safeguards the tax payer
DUB not the saloon keeper. The cit,
Guild raise the price to $4,000 If i
AIRED to and it may have to unles
'r nsediath steps are taken to econo
mize.
Dent let them fool you.