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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
FINANCIAL BENEFIT T.
FROM PROHIBITION
Sam Blythe Tells Interesting
Facts About Russia.

"The present fact is that, after al
most year of no vodka-at the time
this is written-Russia is regenerated.
Crime has decreased to a great de-
gree. Savings have increased tre-
mendously. Prosperity exists in many
places where there were bitter pow
erty and debauchery before. In spite
of the tax of the war, its heavy drain
on the manhood of the country and
its enorIAous expense Russia at war
as Russia isis a far stronger Rus
sia, a far more livable Russia, far
more civilized Russia than before
the war began and before the prohibi-
ton of VODKA"
The above is the summing up Of
conditions in Russia by Sam Blythe,
the noted magazine writer, in an arti-
Gle in the Saturday Evening Post.
Blythe has recently made a journey
through Russia and devotes one of his
series of articles to the operation Of
prohibition throughout that empire.
Russia Is reaping financial benefit
from prohibition, Mr.. Blythe points
out, although the empire is losing a
Dalf billion yearly in revenue. Before
Prohibition the average yearly saw
ings bank deposits in Russia were
from S16,O0O,O00 to $2O,O0OO00. In the
cne month of January this year $780,
100000 were put in the savings banks,
rearly twice as much in one month
under prohibition as in an entire year
under the booze regime.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
OHIO CITIES AGAIN
HAVE SUNDAY SALOONS
EagerneSS for Dollar Causes
MUGn LawlGSSnNSS.

Cincinnati, O.-(Special.)-The En-
quirer Of this city IN its Columbus cor
respondence prints the following:
For weeks it has been an open Sc.
Cret throughout the state that the
Sunday closing law was not being
obeyed. In Toledo, SanduslIy and Gin
cinnati, and in some places in Cleve-
land and a few other cities, the Sun
Cay enforcement law is falling into
disrepute"
A correspondent to Midas Criterion,
the Chicago liquor paper, also says:
MANY Of the saloons in Cincinnati
and other cities which are equipped
with side and back doors are now
open on Sunday and apparently are
not afraid as formerly, that their IL
censes wiz be revoked"
From other sources it is learned
that liquor men are not conforming
to the law as they did months gone
by. The state liquor licensing board
has sent out warning to the effect
that the law must be obeyed, and that
violators will not be granted licenses.
The drys point 10 the growing law
lessness of saloon men as another evil
dence of the failure of license and
say it will mean more dry votes this
year. The general impression is that
the liquor trade is so POOR that many
dealers will take chances in order to
make an extra dollar or two.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
AGAINST STABILITY LEAGUE =,
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Committee Appointed by Governor Frank B. Willis
Tells Why the Proposed Amendment
Should Be Defeated.

HovERNoR Baker Of Cleveland
the Ohio committee the argument
the Constitutional Stability amendment which provides that
constitutional amendments snail be submitted otener than once six
they contain twice rejected since
September 1912 This is the proposal which the vets of the state are
Stability amendment
Stability amendment
snGl submitted oftener than
they contain of twice re-
September
constitution
inhexibe constitution in theUnion.
submitting amendments but
"hobble" legislature
difficult, draft amend
that
phase OF had beeni incorporated
would ennge the people in
proceedings initiative referendum
questions except
trouble and costs
practically nothing
supported by privigeseekng interests
referendum
referendum should BE-
present justification weaken the
which the people have over their government
Of the initiative
snd referendum, but to prevent its
could bad
submitting them election their defeat This would
resubmisson faith Repetition
would impossible either through
initiative the legislature"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

(5y A. v. Abernethy, Columbus, o.
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 2O.-"How are
telling arguments of our opposition"
This is the absorbing question in the
minds of the professional paid agita-
tors who want to change from Home
Rule to Statewide prohibition.
They are very much perturbed, al
most frantic, over the incontrovertible
opinions expressed so forcibly by such
eminent authorities and distinguished
Ohio citizens as Hon. VIM. Howard
Taft, DR.. Washington GLADDEN., noted
pulpit orator and philosopher of Co.
lumbus; Prof. A. R. Hatton, of West
ern Reserve University, Cleveland;
Hon. Warren G. Harding, United
States Senator from Ohio; Judge Ru-
fus B. Smith, of Cincinnati, one of the
most prominent of Ohio's attorneys,
and Ralph Reed, M D., of Cincinnati,
physician and surgeon of wide repu-
tatlon, who are a unit in their opinion
that the liquor question should be set
tied by the people themselves, by the
more democratic and closer-to-the peo-
pie Home Rule Plan-as adopted by
q majority of the voters of Ohio last
year, than by Statewide prohibition.
That these professional paid agita-
tors are moved to desperation, is in
dicated by the frequent hurried con-
ferences at the Political Prohibition
Headquarters in the city of Columbus.
In fact, they are up a tree, and
they don't know how to come down,
or Just how to answer the red-hot ar
guments of these distinguished citi-
zens who deal in facts that tell.
No matter what voters political
or other affiliations may be, there can
be no questioning on his part as to the
motives of any of these eminent citi-
zens of our state.
DR.. GIadden'S Opinion.
In speaking of the effect of a state
wide prohibitory law, DR.. Washing
ton, GLADDEN., the noted pulpit orator
and philosopher of Columbus, asked
this question which he followed with
telling answer that fairly rings:
Gould a prohibitory law be
thus enforced? l have frequent
ly put this question to my pro-
hibitory friends, and they all,
with one accord, confess that it could
not. In the smaller, communities it
could be executed, they say; but not
in Cincinnati, nor in Cleveland, nor in
Columbus, nor in Toledo, nor in any
other of a dozen cities or large towns
that could be named-of course, not at
present, but they say, we are going
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
PUSHED TO WITS ENDS FOR ARGUMENTS
TO ANSWER BIG OHIOANS ON THE
LIQUOR QUESTION

whole prohibition movement from
the days of Neal Dow to the pres
ent-its long succession OF failures, its
stimulation of law-breaking, Illicit de-
bauchery, cocainism and the manufac-
ture and sale of the worst sort of aleo-
holic liquors, such as moonshine whis-
ky, causes me to view with intense
concern renewed attempts at extend
ing this pernicious doctrine"
But Judge Rufus B. Smith goes fur
ther and strikes right at the heart Of
the thing goes into the law and fact
in this fashion: 'If the use of intox-
icating liquors is immoral, why prohibit
merely its manufacture and sale? The
purchase and consumption of liquor
should also be made crime, and every
man who drinks should be punished.
The Prohibitionist should not hesitate
to go where his logic takes him.
"The contention that because a few
men abuse the use of liquor all shall
be forbidden it's use, is equally unten-
able. Because my neighbor misbe-
haVes is no reason why l should be
locked up in the penitentiary with
him. There are more men who eat
themselves to death than who drink
themselves to death, but that il no
reason l should not be permitted to
eat what l want"
The people of Ohio are giving the
question more consideration, more de-
liberate, thoughtful consideration than
at any time. 'N
VIII Settle Question.
They realize that 1t ought to be set
tied at once and for all, in some way.
They are unanimous in their opin-
ion that the;time for agitation and mis-
representation has passed,
No longer can their minds be in
famed by platform orators. They
want it settled this time. They
thought they had settled it year ago
by decisive majority.
And they did, with the best plan
ever adopted for the handling of the
liquor problem.
They are getting tired of this con-
tinual petitioning of voters and the
forcing of them to the polls to vote
again, year in and year out, on ques-
ton they had voted to settle, and did
settle. ,'~
The people want a constructive pol
icy now, rather than a destructive
policy, in this State, and there ID
every indication from every source
from every section-that they are go
ing to-'settle the matter this time by
an overwhelming majority, and that it
will be settled in favor of the existing
Home Rule plan, which leaves the mat
ter entirely in the hands of the peO-
pie themselves. in their own respec-
Etive communities.
This Home Rule plan has worked so
successfully, so satisfactorily, say the
people in every section, even though It
has been in operation less than year,
that the people have already come to
appreciate that this local self-govern-
ment or Home Rule way is the only
practical, sensible, feasible way to
J solve the liquor problem. (Adv.)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
Such Is Plight of Professionally Paid Agita-
tors in Face of Incontrovertible Opinions Ex-
pressed By Hon. VIM. Howard Taft, DR..
Washington GLADDEN. and Others

to work up a public sentiment that
will enforce it by and by | confess
that this seems to me a curious pro-
ceedings 1t is proposed to enact law
which is sure to be trampled under
foot by a good half of the population,
and then, after enacting it, and while
it is being Knocked at and dishonored,
to proceed to create the public senti-
ment which shall make it effective!
The child Alice, in Mr.. Carrol's fairy
tale, found something like this in Look
ing-glass Land, but l never heard be-
fore of applying such principles to
problems of statesmanship."
What Taft Says.
In the delivery of his forceful opin-
ion the Hon. VIM. H. Taft comes
square out from the shoulder in these
unmistakable terms: Nothing is more
foolish, nothing more utterly at vari-
ance with sound policy, than to enact
a law which, by reason of conditions
surrounding the community, is in
capable of enforcement. Such in
stances are sometimes presented by
sumptuary laws, by which the. sale of
intoxicating liquors is prohibited under
penalties in localities where the public
sentiment of the immediate community
does not and will not sustain the en-
forcement of the law"
Warren G. Harding is equally as
strong in a statement in which he
holds that "The question will never be
changed, except through compro-
misses which will restore the ques-
ton to it's status of one of morals
and individual conviction. We believe
this can best be attained by maintain
ing the statutes giving us local option
on the question of prohibition, and a
model license law as a regulatory
measure. Thus there will be. prohibi-
tion where the people so elect, and
effective regulation and limitation
where the saloon exists"
Prof. Hatton's View.
After giving the question his most
serious consideration and thought
from every angle, Prof. Hatton says:
Judging from experience ii
seems fairly clear that :. state
wide prohibition is very likely to
break down when applied to- cities in
which there is not a vigorous public
sentiment favorable to the law. In
the absence of such public sentiment
the law is usually more or less openly
violated with the attendant result Of
encouraging lack of regard for law in
general" psG r.
DR.. Reed, likewise says, after a
most careful study of the liquor prob
lem and the various plans that have
been tried out for a settling of the
problem: "A careful study of the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
WORKMEN AND LIQUOR

The Statistical Abstract of the
United States for 1903 indicates
that for every $1,OOO,OOO invested
in six principal industries the fol-
lowing number of wage earners
are employed: Liquor, II; iron,
284; paper and printing, 1863;
leather, 469; textiles, 574; lum-
Der, 579.
The ratio of wages paid to cap
ital invested in this group OF in.
dustries is as follows: Liquor, Sc
per cent; iron, 17.6 per cent; pa
per and printing, 21.3 per cent;
leather, 1886 per cent; textiles, 23.9
per cent; lumber, 27.1 per cent.
If the $1,S0O,OO0,OO0 now spent
for liquor were to be spent for
bread and clothing, it would give
employment to nearly eight times
as many workers, who would col
lectively receive five and a half
times as much wages.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
LIQUOR AND SLAVERY
A Comparison Which Needs to Be
Considered by ohio Voters,

Sohsioereo ny ONO Voters.
Those persons who are so greatly
concerned lest the destruction of the
liquor traffic will cause the govern
ment to so into bankruptcy will do
well to give heed to some figures
vouched for by Sam, Small, noted
evangelist and lecturer.
Small shows by government figures
that while the wealth of the country
Is $1SO,OOO,OOO,OOO, the money invested
in all branches of the liquor trade is
but $75O,OO0,O00, or rs cents on each
$3.50 of the total wealth.
At the time Of the civil war the
slave interests represented one-sev-
enth of the entire wealth of the coun-
try. Slavery was destroyed and a
great war debt was incurred. and vet
the country entered upon an unprec,
edented era of prosperity.
The liquor business, relic of bar
harism, like slavery, represents but =
cents in each $3.50 of the country's
wealth, while slavery represented one
seventh of the total wealth.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
OHIO LIBERAL LEAGUE
Thinks II Doubtful II Hamilton Coun-
lR Mat act War

Thinks It Doubtful If Hamilton Coun-
ty IS as Wet as Last Year.
at is problematical if Hamilton
county can again roll up the majority
that she did so successfully in the
last campaign"
So says a circular letter sent out
from Cincinnati by the Ohio Liberal
league, the blown-in-the-bottle, pure
and unadulterated liquor organization
CT the state.
Why do the liquor men think they
can not get as big majority in Ham,
ilton county this year as they did last
fall? Is Cincinnati losing her grip?
The honest elections law enacted by
the legislature last winter is putting a
crimp into the plans of the vets.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

The Medical Profecsor-Wha
happens when a mans tempera.
ture goes down as low as it can?
Student (absently)-He gets
cold feet.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
OHIO SCHOOLS AND LIQUOR

Nearly 100000 Ohio children
started to the public schools this
fall. Ohio spends $S6,O00,000
year on her schools and employs
$1,000 teachers. OF course these
figures do not include her col
leges and universities. At the
same time Ohio is spending three
times as much money for booze
as she does for nSF schools. The
state is willing to pay the millions
for education, but may balk or ~,
waste CT $110O00000 VOC
liquor.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

'Did you regard that close vote
in my favor as a vindication?"
asked the statesman.
!. mot exactly, !" replied the 9TH
er. II should rather call it a
narrow escape"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

Cincinnati says she can not get
! 0ng without saloon revenue, and yet
has the biggest bonded indebted
Of any city in Ohio and is now
enough money to pay running
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
TROUBLE OVER CAMPAIGN
FUNDS.

Columbus, O.-(Special)-A few
days ago liquor men from over the
state met here to consider financing
this years campaign Funds are not
coming in fast enough. Brewery rep
resentatives put the pressure on re-
tailers for more money. Saloonkeep-
ers bluntly told the brewers that they,
the saloonkeepers, are in hard lines,
that trade is poor, and that the brew
ers and distillers must expect to bear
the burden. Some plain talk was in
6ulged in by both sides. Saloonkeep-
ers say the state may as well go dry
as for them to be constantly held up
for money by the brewers. 1t looks
Gs if the brewers, distillers and whole.
salers will have to furnish most OF
the money for the vets this year.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

Why not think little of the army
of men Ohio saloons put out of jobs
and render Unfit :or wo.. ami make
Of them burden on the taxpayers of
&bo cto4ar
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

Said the hobo: Twent around
to a back door today and asked
for something to eat. Madam
l said. 'if you will give me the.
fcod you gave your cat I will be
satisfied. If you want to'lie a..
round the barn and catch mice I
haven't any objections, she told
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23

FREQUENT CONFERENCES AT CO.
LuM5US PROHIBITION HEAD
QUARTERS INDICATE DEsPERA-
TloN.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-23
LEGAL NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that ]. b, Gottschal II
and aaron MOui have been duly appointed
by the Probate Court of Darke County, Ohio
as executors of the Will of Levi Reck, de-
ceased, late of GTeenvile township.
EDWARD BOIL,
Probate Judge, Darke County, Ohio.
Sept 8, l9l5-3w.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
GIVEN THIRTY DAYS
BEHIND THE BARS
One Abbott Will Have Chance
To Get Booze Out of
System

Walter 4. Abbott. a painter, living in
North Mankato. was placed under ar
rest late yesterday afternoon by Pa
trolman Bell. just rs the former was
endeavOring to get across the bridge
into the village. Abbott was charged
with having been drunk. and II was
alleged that he grew very abusive 10
people whom he met OH the street. He
has been placed en- the blacklist. but
somehow. he seems to get liquor. Chief
of Police Klugherk this morning
threatened him with Jail SON
tence IL he did no. 'Sren Tho
gave him the liquor. tiFe per-
sisted i'm saying that he went to ST.
Peter and got II. but this was not
believed. Abbot cried in his cell and
begged to be let off.
Abbott was charged In police court
today with having been drunk. plead
cd not guilty, but was found guilty
by Judge w. A. Plymat. He was
sentenced to thirty days in the coun
~ Jail without the option of a fine.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
WILL CLOSE ONE
HUNDRED SALOONS
More Thirst Parlors in Northern
Minnesota viii Be Under
Federal Lid
IAssocistsd Press pispatcn.l

Chisholm. Mimi. October 90
Nearly one hundred saloons in the
towns of Chisholm, Floodwood,
Kewatin, and Hibbing will be closed
by federal authorities within the next
few days, according 10 reports re-
Ceiyed here from Washington. The
reports have not been officially con
firmed.
These four towns are located in the
territory covered by the Indian treaty
of 1855; which was declared valid
more than year ago by the United
States supreme court. Saloons in
all other towns within the territory
covered by the treaty have been
closed for several months. The treaty
affects a vast section OF North Central
Minnesota larger than three New
England states. o..
a. Parson, cii4Of OF the Indian
bureau force engaged In suppressing
hqucr traffic among the indians. now
is in Minnesota and il is understood
that he has orders TO close the saloons
in the four wet" towns.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
Well-known Recreation Expert
Addressed An Audience
Last Evening
M 0vement Is Started in This City
To Engage a Field
Secretary
Play TO Be Matter OF Supervi-
sion; Plans Made BY
Committee

One of the definite results of the
meeting with Charles Friedrich Well
er. associate secretary of the Play
ground and Recreation Association OF
America. and a representative gath
ering of MankatO club officials, min
listers, public instructors. and citi-
zens at DIR. ]. w. Andrews library
last night was the passing Of a mo-
ton. made by Secretary +. F. Scar
ing OF the Mankato Commercial club.
as follows:
We think that to get a field sec
rotary. such as proposed by Mr.. Well
er is the only way TO get the move
started right and TO make il a sue
cess. This field secretary could train
someone TO take charge of the reCre-
alton permanently. | move that IL Is
the sense Of this gathering that field
secretary be employed"
superintendent F. J. Sperry secon-
ei the motion and il was unanimous
~ carried.
Senator J. W. Andrews. chairman
Of the meeting. stated that II seemed
10 be the opinion OF all that Mankato
have a field secretary. He said thai
he had always been intensely interest e
cd In children. but that he had come
Continued on Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
MISS ABBIE PETERS
{ new VISITING NURSE
Comes From St. Paul Where
She Had Very Valuable
Experience

Miss AbbiC J. Peters, the new visit
ing nurse who was recently engaged
to take the place of Miss Bollman who
resigned last August, is now on duty.
having arrived Monday from St Paul,
where she was engaged in field and
school work for the past several yea s.
Miss Peters is an experienced nurse
and has been selected from a number
of we'll trained women to take charge
of the work in Mankato. She will
not take up the public school at once,
but for the next week and few days
i'm the succeeding week will devote
her time to visiting the parochial
schools. after which she will com
mence her visits to the public schools.
Miss Peters can be reached by calling
1870 Citizens phone, Emmanuel hospi-
tai
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
STAY BY WHOLESALE
KILL THE ARMENIANS
Practically Half Of the Entire
Population Has Been
Slaughtered

London, October 2O.-tBy Mail TO
New York. l-Of Armenians killed by
the Turks, missing or forced to ac-
cept Islamism since May /, the total
now reached S35,5O0, according to in
formation secured by the Sofia Bull
garian- Armenian committee an d
handed to the leading powers repre-
sentatives i'm Sofia, Just before Bull
garia joined the Turkish and leu
tonic allies. This total II was said
represents practically half Turkeys
entire Armenian population, and as
the determination rate was said to be
increasing IL was predicted that the
end of the war will see not exceeding
SOC. 900 Armenians left alive.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-22
ATTACHED The CAR
To SATISFY ORDER
Sioux City Man Got Back at
New York and New Haven
Railroad

Sioux City, Ia, October 2O.-The
Seney shoe shop OF this city waited
long to get hack at the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railway. for
the loss of shipment on which judg-
ment for s135 and costs had been OBJ
tanned. but when a box car belonging
to that famous company was discov-
eIed in the local railway yards OPP
portunity knocked.
A writ of attachment was obtained.
the box car taken to the citys rock
pile stockade and chained down. The
amount of the claim must now be
posted by the company II it desires
to regain possession of its property.