The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-11-12
LIQUOR vs.. LABOR
tBy Deets Pickett.

Who makes the fair chance for the |
Iaboring MANI
The consumer. The man with an |
appetite TO satisfy and something to
spend tGat 10 may he atisiied, the
man who clothes his wife aud chill.
dren we'll, builds comfortable home
and pays his debts.
Without him, manufacturers must
shut down and labor walk the
streets. without him, retailers must
close their doors and their clerks 20
hungry.
lie IL tina one who keeps the fac
tory busy and the sign .out. "More
Men Wanted. And 1t Is the man
ufacturer who must employ the m ost
men to make cone dollars worth OF
goods who is kept in business by the
sober man.
Left Jones, the eminent member Of
tine British Parliament said:
Il met the finished product OF the
saloon. He was lying In. the z tier.
BE had on no hat; the hat trade WAS
Suffering Is coat was full of holes
the clothing trade was suffering. He
had holes in his shoes the shoe trade
was suffering; He had on the rem
nant Of shir; the wooden trade was
suffering. He Lad on no socks; the
hosiery trade was suffering He vas
dirty: the soap trade was suffering.
can hardly mention a useful indus
try that was not suffring because OF
that mans insobriety."
Tie sober man maintains the sobe
Industries. He has needs and money
to meet his needs lie is well cloth
edi the clothing trade prospers aud
Its workinRmen prosper with 1t He
ID we'll fed; the grocery trade, whole
sale and retail, prospers and It's men
prosper with IL.
TIL drinking man maintains the
drink industFy-and nothing else.
And the drink industry employs few
or men to the million OF capital than
any other laediRg manufacturing In.
terest.
For every million dollars invested
In the manufactature Of lumber five
hundred and seventy-nine men are
employed. For every million dollars
invested In tine manufacture of tex
tiles, i've hundred and seventy eight
men are employed. For every mil
lion dollars invested in the manu-.
facture OF leather products, four
/ nd aAxs nj.
] ployed And for every million dollars
! invested in the manufacture of
liquors seventy-seyen men are. en-
. ployed.
LII the woTkingmen overthrow the
! trarIic in liquors, they will force the
investment OF the money now giving
! employment to a meie handful into
! channels where 1t will employ about
five times as many men.
And they will lift he finished
roduct" Of the saloon out of the gut
ter and make him buyer of foods
! and clothing and home and educa-
. tlon for his children and the market
for the prodCcets Of Americas labor
will be swelled by q new demand
equal to Americas foreign trade.
The liquor traffic keeps hundreds
, of thousands of men out Of work
Americas money spent for beer
means Americas worRingmen tramp.
Ing the streets, seeking employment
at any wage they can secure.
Americas money spent for iegit-
innate products means America 3
! workigmen constantly employed aud
well paid.
During the panic OF 1907 when
banks were failing and business
J crumbling aud wages being paid with
cleabTiug house certificates when
/ they were paid at all 500, 900, 900 10
gold was imported from Europe to
relieve the stringency. Only $40,
= 600, 600 but bank failures stopped,
bushes revived, the workingman
). had money again.
!. Last year, Americas drink bill
I. was snmeathing more than g., 900,
!. 600, 900.
= Suppose We were to Danish the
{. saloon, close up the breweries and
:. distillerieS and begia TO spend that
!. two billions for legitimate products.
}. IL would mean two billion dollars
:. more business for the merchants,
:. hundreds OF millions more for the
= manufacturers, hundreds of millions
;. more paid to labor and hundreds OF
:. thousands Of the men now seeking
:. work employed at good wages
; Shoe factories would run overtime.
:. clothing faetaories would have 20
= turn awaY orders. The makers of
; steel products, of VeEielel, of furni-
:. ture, would he overwhelmed with or.
? ders and hunting desperately for mure
; wurkingmen. The groceryman would
:. need more clerks, the butcher would
: Telephone frantciallv for more meat
= TO satisfy the men who formerly spent