The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-09
|MPERSONATES
SALOON KEEPER
Continued from Page IL

TO open on SUNDAY Tor CnAI1Iy . 00ho
like your little nick1eodeons did.
Then q big fellow wearing . blue
coat all decorated with brass buttons
came around and said Hobson, why
don't you shut up? Don't you know
this is Sundays?
Il told him OF course I knew 1t was
Sunday. but I've got to wet the wills
ties of these fellows on Sunday the
same as on week days. Besides, Ill
need some extra money for that cleo
ton Are the restaurants ana the
churches and the hospitals closed?
asked him. He told me NO but SAID
1t was legal for them to open.
Then 1 saw bunch OF Fellows
wearing little hatchets and cherries
in their coat lapels So I ran down
and opened the Mint to give them
some place to go. Then the same blue
coat came around and said. 'Hobson,
shut I'D. He said it was Washing
tons birthday. 4 can't save this city
if you're going to close me up on ev-
erybody's grandmother's birthday l
told him. When does your birthday
come around
Day Before Election.
Then the election came around and
] thought 1 would save the situation
for the town. So the day before,
tanked all the boys up with some good
old kentucky campaign booze. l had
a good supply on for election day but
they wouldn't let me sell it. Then l
got little hot over it. They weren't
treating me right You fellows are
closing me up sixty-five days out of
3S5. Do get a rebate on my license?'
l asked the bluecOat.
Then | got some women and some
kids to come around in the back room
so they could enjoy little booze with
the men. but the blue coat closed them
out. and said it was against the law.
Look here. Mr.. Bluecoat If I can
get the appetite in these kids, they'll
save the town some day. You're about
to bleed me to death. Remember who
] am. I am a saloon keeper, brought
here to save the town from bank
ruptcy.' l told him.
Then the business men organized
and ! thought. of course, since was
the saloonkeeper, they had brought
me to rescue the town. 1 would be
elected president of the Boosters club.
But it seems they overlooked me.
Then some committee brought out
a
Richmond. Home of Quakerism,' 1870
factories" but nothing about my bust
ness | said, Come no. give us a
square deal If you want to boost the
town, why don't you head it off with
Richmond has So saloons?'
Rent is Raised.
Then my church landlord came
around I want to look over the
,ipoc no coiH sh,1f Two IN on
to a prayer meeting tonight, I'll be
round tomorrow. So leave a little
ottle up on the back sink where I
can find it. I'm going to raise your
rent s75 a month. too, so l can pay
my missionary dues.
Then l noticed some lodge fellows
were coming into my place regularly.
But the Mason's wouldn't let me in !;
the Odd Fellows wouldn't have me.
] couldn't get into the Knights of
Pythias.
MY wife and my daughter couldn t
get into the select society. My daugh-
ter couldn't go with my landlord S
son.
What do you lodge fellows mean
by coming around to my place and
then refusing to take me in? You've
taken your obligations OF your lodge
and your church live up to that
VOW that you TOOK on your Bonded
knees before the open Bible, you can't
come into my place or vote for my
saloon.
Prevented from Joining.
When I tried to get insured, Mr..
Jones said his company didn't take sa-
loon keepers. Why, you scoundrel
you patronize my place. I told him.
Then I went to the factories and
the Pennsylvania shops and told them
to send up some delegations of their
men to patronize me. The way they
turned me down was shame.
Il couldn't get into a tango dance
to save my life. Mrs. Hobson couldn't
even turkey trot with the ministers
Then ] went before the city and
said. If my money is good, my bust
ness is good and my morals are good.
You've got four-fffths of the popula
ton under prohibition laws. There
are about six thousand voters that we
are open for. The old reprobate
fathers can 60 in and drink like hogs
but you won't let the mother and her
three children get a drink occasion
ally.
Now 7 will switch from the saloon
side to your side There are probably
Two Thousand men in your city who
drink. Make it three thousand so as
to give the drinking side a stronger
argument. Then you see the saloons
are open to accommodate one-tenth Of
the population.
Exercise Your Right.
II tell you it's unconstitutional; its
class legislation. You don't limit the
number of drug stores or groceries tc
the population. Its class legislation
The whole hue and cry Of the saloon
keeper is personal liberty Take your
personal liberty and vote against the
saloon so the saloon keeper can gel
into decent business
ASK the bankers who deposit the
most money, the drinking men or the
sober men. Ask the grocer who pays
cash for his groceries, Ask the shoe
man who buys the most shoes for his
family.
Pasadena was started about thir
ty years ago by colony of Indiana
people. They voted the place dr.,
while the place was a village. Now
1T has doomed to a city of 10000.