Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-21


money for stockholders and himself
and the members OF his baseball club.
He talked the other day and among
other things ne said that he had no use
moderately. He said he used to talk
to them and does now to young
player. The older ones he simply gets
rid Of without sign or salutation nowa-
days and the best young prospect goes
Immediately unless he cuts it all out.
Connie says there's nothing in trying
to win championships with men who
use liquor, no matter how moderately.
And take 1t from Connie Mack-he
knows.
A merchant said the other day that
no man could stay with him and drink
even moderately. He hadn't heard Of
Comics talk but he agreed perfectly
with it. He was trying 20 make money
for himself and his stockholders, to
build up a strong commercial machine
that would deliver a steady product.
Said he wouldn't have them. They
didn't pay. Didn't improve and de-
velop. Couldn't afford them. Nohow.
A factory superintendent said that
he could clean out all the men who
drink even a little and make all kinds
Of money by it. He says they aren't
efficient. Aren't dependable. Don't
much in wages as men who don't drink
at all. He said the time was coming
fast when the man in good factory
who drinks would have to go. Eff
the drinking man should be eliminated
and his place given to another who
doesn't drink.
The barkeeper said it too. It's the
difference between a good job and none
at all, that's the size Of it," said ne.
NO barkeeper can hold job in good
saloon and lap up the stuff. There
ISN'T a saloon outside of the tough re-
sorts thatll hire a barkeep that drinks,
So the saloonkeeper himself knows it.
He will not have them. Can't trust
them. Wants his moneys worth.
Wants all the money that should go
into the register also. He knows.
Blanks got to drinking" said the
coal dealer. 81 make him pay cash. |
Used to be good pay. Glad to have his |
custom. All the time he needed. Now
he's no good. Wouldn't trust him for
dollars worth of slack" The gro
Gerry man felt and acted the same way.
Told the delivery boy to get the money |
or bring back the goods. Same every
where. |,
When a town has the best part OF
thirty saloons that must live on some
body's wages and somebody's inent-
cheney, what's the useo Mind you that
every saloon must take in about $1,000 |
a month TO pay running expenses. 1t
can't make any money under about
$4,000 gross receipts a year. VINO
does it come out of? When $4,000 |
year goes over every saloon bar how |
merchant on the street? Isn't 1t d.
rectly taken from the volume Of legit.-
mate trade? And does anybody who
earned ii get any good Of It? Isn't 1t !
sort OF skin game on every ragged kld
and weary woman in town? HOW
much tax does the saloon mulct pay
for the man who owns or is trying 10 |
paw for $4,000 home? When the
merchant, the grocer. the clothier. the
butcher and the baker misses MS snare
Of the wag. and the woman al nome !
and the kids fail to get il and the man
who earned it is rendered sort Of an
outcast to get job last and because
there isn't non drinker to hire what
good is the saloon. The banker said
he was in favor Of saloons because
they gather the money and bring 1t |
TO his bank but he wouldn't have
boozer in the banks employ. Not by
participled sight. But it wasn't
savings banker who said It. policy
game would gather the nickels Of the
poor and foolish just the same ana
be just as handy to the banker, but
il be heard of the janitor playing
4-11-44 he'd change janttors in a
hurry. What's the use Of il? Why
insist that it should be licensed? For
a bankers convenience, for the big
taxpayers opportunity to slip out from
under paving intersections and city ex-
penses. for the woman who wears dia-
monds and paint and handles some
body's beer at a dollar a bottle? No
body else profits.
Connie Mack hasn't probably both
cred himself about the open and gilt
tering temptation Of the legalized sa-
loon. Connie goes the short way. Cut
it out or take your hat. But there's
another and more human side to 1t.
When the worker goes where is he to
go, what is he to do. how about the
woman and the kids?
Cut out the drink. Cut it out in
dividually And collectively. And cut
out the saloon with 1t. The saloon
"hns,nessT Forget it. The saloons
graft