The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-20

Inc IOllOWlnS is taken from report
of the Wayne county w. C. r. U. con-
vention held in Richmond, Oct. 1914.
Most of us still live in a wet CITY,
where there are So saloons, with three
saloons outside of Richmond, making
81 saloons in the county.
The number of arrests since Sept
1913, to Sept. 1914, was 1904. of which
number 473 were DRINKS We have
the same number of police officers as
last year and their salaries are the
same.
The city receives $14,5OOOO for
saloon license, of which S. 06 goes
into the school fund.
The saloons In the county pay the
city, county and the state the sum of
our men, boys and girls and for the
breaking up OF homes.
Who pays this saloon license? 1t is
in most cases the day laborer and the
| wash woman.
Our county Jail had 497 persons con-
! fined therein during the year at a cost
j of 40 cents per day for board alone.
! Most temperance people of the
county favor new state constitution
! in which shall be incorporated Wom-
ans Suffrage and State Prohibition of
| the liquor traffic.
ROWENA E. RANDLE,
State w. c. T. U. Supt. Law and
Statistics.
Gives Annual Report.
Annual report of the state superin-
tendent of the department of law and
! statistics, 1914, given at the state w.
c. T. U. convention held in Brazil.
! To the State W. c. IT, u of Indiana:
u,
notable things have transpired
throughout the world, the national and
| the state, some of which are to our
| advantage and others of which we re-
| greet
In the first place the war in Europe.
which has been in progress but a few
weeks, is at first though the greatest
| calamity which has ever befallen this
world throughout the ages of history,
and the momentus results of which no
one is yet able to discern.
1t is problemetical as to what in
fluence, if any, the European war will
| have upon the temperance Wark in the
state and nation. 1t will probably de-
tract some from the attention that
would overwise be given to our cause,
but l think not great deal. The
! people have made up their minds to
/
! do it.
| War May Bring Peace.
But the awful sacrifice of life and
property in the European war may in
| the end produce a very long era of
peace and good will throughout the
world. and perhaps the final extinction
! of militarism, and it will in all prob
ability result in great forward adj
vance of the cause of temperance
| throughout the world, as the good re-
suits of total abstainance is brought
more clearly to the attention of those
in authority Witness the proclamat ton
of the Emperor of Germany when he
prohibits the use of alcoholic stimu-
lants by all of his subjects during the
mobilization of his army, and through
out the continuance Of the war. This
was done not for sentiment, but for
purely unitarian purposes and in the
cause of efficiency, and In order that
| his subjects might not convey an or
derby procedude into national riot.
Also the Gar of Russia has prohibited
the sale of liquors in his realm for the
duration of the war.
| would also like to add that Eng
; land decreased it's expenditures for
drink last year over seven and a half
million dollars.
All of which, you see, is tending
toward the abolition OF the drink evil
throughout the world.
| Cause on Advance.
! In the nation our cause is advancing
| both in the states and in congress.
| The old dominion of Virginia has
sworn off and has climbed upon the
water wagon, and 1t is now the tenth
| prohibition state in our union.
nrr oo,,oo in Cnuuroca painod viz
! tory by causing the vote on the Hob
! son bill delayed until the December
session, then the various elections will
be over and members will feel free to
vote more nearly their true sentiments
upon the liquor question.
! Sentiment in congress seems to be
strong for the total Prohibition of the
liquor traffic, but if a vote had been
| forced before the November elections
we would no doubt have lost out, be-
cause of the fear by many members
of their wet constituents, but with the
elections out Of the way there will be
a chance of favorable action for an
amendment to the national constitu.
ton.
l am sorry to have to say that our
own state is absolutely controlled by
the whiskey element, and no relief is
| III bl6At CACcpt ny way Vi d SIdLc COI-
! stitutional convention, for which we
should see to it that proper men are
elected to that convention who are
pledged to incorporate absolute pro.
hibition in the new constitution.
| Asks for Suffrage.
We should also see to 1t that equal
suffrage is also incorporated in our
new constitution, for while it is right
per 81 It might, also DO vsay useful