Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-29
saloon makes a Saturday pay day in
advisable. A. the Journal puts It:


advisable. As the Journal puts IT:
In many districts Saturday night
becomes more or less Of an institution
Men who are given to that sort OF
thing look forward 20 1t as offering
the one large opportunity OF the week
to gather around the near-mahogany
counter and swap sentiment over the
glasses. Money flows freely toward
the Golfers OF the saloonkeeper-
money that ough, TO be flowing
towards the meat man and the grocer.
The midweek pay day is intended to
rob Saturday night" Of this none 100
enviabie prominence in the calendar
of the week, AMI in places where 1t
has been put into effec; has succeeded
admirably along this line. No other
night in the week offers the advan-
tages which attach 10 Saturday night
as time for letting loose of oneself,
for no other day in the week is trailed
by Sunday for q gathering together
of ones mental and physical resources
in order that one may be ready TO
take up again The regulation round OF
labor
Following the same hreasthigh scent
the Journal says:
Another way in which large employ
ers Of labor could help employees and
their families would be to pay them In
cash instead Of BY check, Both Ar
nour & ca, and the Cudahy Packing
Company in Sioux City, for instance,
pay their packing house workers by
check-and on Saturdays by the way.
Keepers OF saloons in the packing
ha
conanlodating in the matter OF cashing
checks. ana OF course :, would he a
mean man who wouid ask q saloon
keeper 10 cash his check without leav
ing aim . Ta-t % il, The moral can
ne located without microscope.
Tha Journal is coming on. So is
Sioux City Recognition Of the con-
dition hat exists by reason of The
saloons IS forward step for both tie
newspaper and the city. Neither have
come 70 an Absolutely sincere and logi-
cal consideration Of the problem haw-
ever. While their efforts are continued
10 1T human necessities and common
welfare 10 the saloon as an institution.
The sephisul ard m!ss;atement that
the pay day is responsible is simply an
evasion. whether the Journal recos-
nizes ii as such or is self deceived.
Not Saturday night with It's relief and
freedom and satisfaction over week
OF toll accomplished. not the Saturday
pay day with is reward for six days
labor. but the saloon is the c-ux OF this
matter. The Journal and the en-
ployers are spanning chas.n with
mock bridge OF paper, trying TO encySt
cancer, lighting a conEs grafton with
a garden nose when they should De
using dynamite.
Both are coming on. II is he pre-
dic,ion confidently made that the
Journal and the employers will turn
to the effective position that the saloon
mus go. that it is not a sacred insti-
tuition. not necessary evil but a
breeding place o. crime and poverty as
deadly to humanity and efficiency as
typhoid springs at the reservoir. as
filth in the streets, danger 70 be
drenched with germicides and de-
des royed utterly. Il IS astonishing in
the face Of the absolute and unques-
toned proof such as the city OF Mar
shalltown affords to Iowa and the
cities of Iowa that newspapers and
employers and merchants and human
well wishers either self interested or
al,rustic should seek byways Of evasion
an established fact.
Let's cease to and excuses qui, look
ing FOR a cat hole and recognize the
truth.