The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-13
Cleveland Man Says Liquor
Traffic Is No Respector of
Persons, Attacking Rich
and Poor.
SAYS SOME INHERIT
ALCOHOLIC APPETITE
Quotes William Jennings
Bryan on Definition of Sa-
lcon--Rutledge Speaks To-
night At Tabernacle.

81 challenge the saloon and brew
cry forces to make public statement
that they will not run blind tigers
know we'll that Mr.. Nicholson and
the temperance forces will not engage
in that business" declared John S.
Rutledge, of Cleveland, o., at the Sec
ond English Lutheran church last ev-
ening.
''1f the saloon business is an eievat-
ing and moral institution, then why
not place a bar in the Easements of
the schools. the churches, and open
one in the different residence sections.
ITO you people of West Richmond,
the saloon man can't talk personal lib
ertv, because you shut out his per
sonal liberty when you refused to
permit him to locate a saloon in your
residence section.
rs. the saloon business and liquor
physical aid? Ask your insurance
companies to insure the habitual drink
er, and you will find that they will
refuse. Why: Simply because they
are in a cold-blooded money PROPOSE
tion. and they don't take any chances
W toeS. NllSu the dUCe COul-
panies refuse to recognize the liquor
business, then you are sure that the
business Is an outcast.
THE saloon keeper is not a philan-
thropist. He must pay his license, his
room rent. his employees, and the dis
tiller and brewer, and it has been fig
ured that he generally makes eight
dollars for every nine dollars received.
No Respector Of Persons.
THE liquor traffic is no respector
of persons. 1t is not always the poor
man who becomes addicted to the
habit l know OF one state supreme
court jurist who is a degenerate and
helpless man because of drink. He
is prototyped in every state and IN
every section of the country.
1T is no small thing to vote the
saloon out of business after they have
been established a quarter Of cen
tury or so. l suppose here i'm Rich
! mond they have been in your midst
since the founding of the city.
There are some fellows who could
: not get drunk if they drank as long
as they could swallow liquor. but the
one who is wrecked by drink. His
tense nervous system is destroyed.
Il don't know whether or not you
have a business mems organization
which comes to the rescue of the
saloon. In most cases it is a boose-
ness mems organization and is com
posed largely of saloon keepers, al
thought the names of the members
are not published.
Believes in Heredity.
81 believe great deal in heredity
/ think that man can inherit the
alcoholic appetite. The Bible says
| that mans sins shall go down to the
fourth generation. Why doesn't it say
! the fifth generation? Well, it doesn't.
because nature won't let man who
has wrecked his own life reproduce
more than the fourth generation. So
it is with the drunkard. he can only
reproduce four generations, IL that
many.
1T will be race between Indiana
and Ohio to see which has statewide
prohibition first. Ohio now has but
few wet counties. but Indiana has a
few more. | believe.
THE editorial, a He'll of a Parade.
| which was reprinted in a dry news
paper, is a little gem in thought, and
10 tnlnk the same man VINO ponned II
is now in his own native city fight
ing to sustain an institution he once
scOffed.
What Bryan Says.
What kind of a place is a saloon
William Jennings Bryan says that in
| those he has investigated there is gen
orally the bar in front. gambling in
| the rear, and a house of ill-fame up
stairs.
why do you people want to uphold
an institution that the courts chal-
lenge, that the reformers challenge.
that religious people challenge, and
that people with civic pride challenge
S. Edgar Nicholson presided at the
meeting and announced the schedule
! for the remaining week night meet
ings and the Sunday afternoon mass
meeting.
Mr.. Rutledge will speak tonight at
the tabernacle. Fred Lands. of La
gansport, will speak Sunday afternoon
at the tabernacle. 1t is expected that
although B. B. Johnson. Governor Raj
ston's private SECRETARY, will be unable