Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-04


Two years aEo In the city Of Chicago
a young man Of good parents. good
character one Sunday crossed tho street
and entered saloon. open against the
law. lie found there boon companions
There was laughter. song and 'est and
much drinking After while. drunk.
insanclv drunk. h's money gone. he was
kicked into the street. lie found his way
across to his mothers home. He int
portuned her for money to buy more
drink. She refused him. lie seized
from tho sideboard a revolver and ran
out into the street and with the eN-
pressed determination OF entering the
saloon and getting more drink, money
or no money His little mother followed
him into the street
Oh, men OF Omaha HIS fond mother
followed him into the street. She put
her hand upon him I'm loving restraint.
He struck It from him In anger and then
hts sister came and added her entreaty
I'm vain. And then a neighbor. whom he
knew. trusted and respected, came and
put his hand on him In gentleness and
friendly kindness, but In an insanity Of
drunken rage he raised the revolver and
shot his friend dead In his blood upon the
street.
There was a trial: he was found guilty
OF murder lie was sentenced to life Inn
prisonmcnt, and when the little mother
heard the Verdict-a frail little bit of a
woman-she threw up her hands and fell
in a swoon. In three hours she was dead
GOtham'a DRINK mn million n Day.
And say. my friends, New York City =
annual drink bill is 1886, 10000 a year,
$1,000 600 a day. Listen mnutel That is
four times the annual output OF gold. and
IL is at least one-third the value Of al the
coal mined in the United States. And in
some sections OF New York there is one
! saloon for every thirty families.
The money spent In New York by the
working people for drink in ten years
would buy every working man in New
York a beautiful home and allow S50O
for house and lot. New York's annual
drink bill would buy 100000 barrels OF
! flour, nearly q barrel for every man and
woman in the United States. IL would
take fifty people one year to count the
money IN 81 bills. and they would cover
J 1000 acres OF ground That is what the
people in New York dump into the whisky
| hole In one year. And then you wonder
why there is poverty and crime, and that
the country is not more prosperous.
| This gang Is circulating a circular about
Kansas City, Kan. ! defy you to prove
a statement in II. Listenl Kansas City Is
a town OF 10000 population. and temper
ance went into effect July 1. 1905. They
then had 80 saloons. 200 gambling bells
and sixty houses of ill-fame. The popula-
ton was largely foreign, and inquiries
have come from Germany. Sweden and
Norway. asking the influence of the en-
fOrcement of the prohibitory law.
Prohibition Increased one Banks
Deposits sI,TOO,OOO.
At the end OF one year. the president OF
one of the largest banks in that city, a
man who had protested against the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law on the
ground that II would hurt business, found
that at the end of one year his bank de-
posts had increased S.7OO.OOO. and T.
per cent, OF the deposits were from
men who had never saved cent before.
and ~ per cent came from men who had
never had dollar in the bank, but be.
cause the saloons were driven out they
had chance to save, and the people
who objected on the grounds that II
would inJure business, found an increase
OF 200 per cent, in building operations; and
Furthermore, there were three times az
many people building homes as before
and there were more people seeking In
Vestment, and court expenses decreased
SIS, 900 in one year.
Who pays to feed and keep the gang
you have in Jail? Why. you 20 down In
your sock and pay for what the saloon
has dumped in there. They don't do It.
Mr.. Whisky Man, why don't you gr
down and take picture OF wrecked and
blighted homes and OF insane asyIumf
with gibbering idiots that It costs 5000.
10000 to support? Why don't you take a
picture OF that?
Few Prisoners an Kansas City JaiIs
AT Kansas City, Kan, before the ga
looms were closed, they were gettinI
ready to build an addition to the jail
Now the doors swing idly on the hinge
and there is nobody to lock In the jails
And the commissioner of the poor farm
says there is a wonderful falling off O
old men and women coming to the poor
mousse because their sons and daughter
are saving their money and have uui
spending 1t for drink. And they had Il
employ eighteen new school teachers 10
600 boys and girls between the ages Of
and Is, that had never gone to school be
fore because they had to help a drunken
father support the family. And now the,
have just set aside ,-VU,OOO to build new
school house, and the bonded indebted
ness was reduced $500 last year wtthou
the saloon revenue. And don't you know
another thing? In 1906 when they has
the saloon. the population. according I,
the directory, was 1855. According I,
the last census the population was 100, SSS
or an increase of u per cent in one year
without the grog shop In two years tn
bank deposits increased S3,sSO,OO0
You say drive out the saloon and 70,
Kill business-Ha! hal BLESSED are tn,
dead that die in the Lord"
tell you, gentlemen. the American
home is the dearest heritage OF the PEG
pie, for the people and by the people
and when a man can go from his hom
in the morning with the kisses of wifi
and children on mis- lips. and come bacl
at night with an empty dinner bucket I,
a happy home, that man is a better man
whether white or black.
Whatever takes away the comforts o
home-whatever degrades that man o
woman-whatever invades the sanctity o
the home, is the deadliest foe to tn
home. 20 church. TO state and school. an
he a. ha q.