East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-13

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mercial club must pay the bill The
vote was taken. the roast pigs were
ordered. thirteen in number. the bank
receipts were run up. and the day be-
fore New Years twelve pigs were car
ried off by saloon keepers, and one
Hebrew clothing merchant got a pig.
q don't know what the old Jew did
with the pig but he got it anyway
(Great applause). That was too good
to keep, the next night walked into
the pulpit to an audience of five
thousand people. l said, IL the saloon
is good thing for you business men,
why did not you get pig the other
day Don't you see. gentlemen, that
there's just as much money in the
town to do business. II 1t does whisky
business 1t does not do hardware busi-
ness and clothing business and grocery
business. The home must suffer.
therefore it's the enemy Of the bust.
ness man. It's the enemy OF the la
boring man. all this noise and thin
soup argument about driving the In
vested capital out of the liquor busi-
ness is going to injure the country Is
mighty thin soup LII tell you. Why
For every dollar invested in whisky II
would go thirty-six times as far IL in
vested in legitimate trade. Here's q
problem, II you have got anywhere to
put 1t, put 1t down. 1t takes ten thou.
sand three hundred dollars invested in
the manufacture of whisky to make a
days wages for man at $2.50 a day.
in legitimate lines of trade II takes
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capital to make wages for a man at
$3.50. Now put that with these other
propositions, s1.00 invested in whisky
circulates itself only fifteen per cent
OF itself annually. 800 in legitimate
trade circulates eighty-seven per cent
of itself annually. Therefore dol
lar of legitimate trade circulates six
times as fast. Secondly. it takes six
times as much money invested in
whisky to produce the same results
in labor II it takes six times as much
money and in legitimate trade it cir
culates six times as fast. Conclusion,
six times six is thirty-six. one dollar in
legitimate trade will do as much for
the country and for labor as thirty.
six dollars invested in whisky. Solu.
ton of the problem: Put the invest
ed capital now in booze into Black
Aberdeen Angus steers and sell seventy
five cents worth of porter house to the
drunkard. and you never heard of him
going home at night with seventy five
cents worth of beef-steak and il made
him kill his wife or kick his children
B great applause) his wife never had to
call up the mayor and notify him not
to let her husband have any more
beef-steak. she can't live with him.
You never heard of man eating so
much apple dumping and pumpkin
pie that he could not find the key
hole at night when he came home
(great applause). All. people I'm talk
ing sense tonight and you know il
How did 1t effect the taxpayer? Our
government statistician says that
crime is costing this nation three and
one-half million dollars per day. There
are two hundred fifty thousand per-
sons that the law never touches who
are criminals but who are under your
so-called protection Of license to
commit crime. There is murdered
every year in the United States of Am
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strangled. stabbed, beaten. poisoned
sand-bagged and smothered Chicago
alone averages one hundred and
eighteen murders per year. More
people are murdered in five years in
America than the total loss of life in
the Boer war on both sides Of English
and Beers. Let poets, auditors and
artists shut up our singing, painting
: and writing of our great America un-
til We can correct this error. The
2 saddest thing of the whole matter Is
, that ninety per cent OF all this crime
Is traceable directly or indirectly to
the liquor traffic. It's the paramount
issue Of the day. The home does no,
need it. No mother will tell you that
, she needs saloon to help raise her
boy. II you have boy get divorce
suit between him and the saloon as
early as possible. always think OF
the old dutch woman who was mind
ing the children for her five sons
while they went to the polls to vote
They were landing the votes thick
and fast among the German people
, An .angered saloon keeper went down
to the back yard and asked her why
she had sent her sons out on cleo.
ton day to injure his business. She
lifted her big fat arms over the from,
yard and said. There's a yard full OF
reasons. twenty-five children in the
back yard (great applause. And every
man and woman that's raising a boy
hear me farther there's yard full
: of reasons why you should be a tenn.
perance man. Drive this monster
from our dwelling then we'll shou,
we've saved the boy. The church
! Last but not least of all the institu.
tions that's dear to the heart OF a true
American is the church of Jesus
, Christ. Does she need the saloon? No
never The saloon is the enemy of ali
that the church stands for. I see be.
, fore me tonight a dark river, deep and
wide and black as night, the stream
!. that goes down betwixt her awful
: bank is a stream Of filth, green az gall
and sticky az tar, and as black as hell
/, see q man going down that river
. yes other men with him. 1 stand on
!, the bank Of the foul stream and
, reach out and take the fallen broth.
!, Ter by the hand while am doing thia
. behind me stands the united church o
! God. the Bautist. the Presbyterian
r the Christian. the Methodist, the
, Episcopal and many Catholics. the W
l c. T. o., the Loyal Legion. with al
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