The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-03-25

VOCef. lney Try one Cnlng on one
person and another thing on an
other person. They. know, as
does everyone else, that any
argument favoring saloon town
will not bear investigation. You
can peel the bark off any argu-
ment they may offer.
This year the saloon interests
are not crying high taxes, they
are saying very little about
personal liberty, and they have
not a word to say about the
money that will to Ashland.
Ask the average tax payer if
his taxes have been higher this
year and see what he will
say. NO will be his answer.
The personal liberty argument
does not appear to create any in
terest this year, and Ashland
does not seem to want our good
money which the saloon gang
said would go there, for that city,
too, is waging a campaign which
gives promise of wiping the sal
oons out Of the city across the
bay. Bayfield, is also in the midst
of a no license campaign and the
reports coming from that city in
dictate that the saloon men feel
the ground slipping from under
their feet, while the drys feel
,, confident of victory.
Out of a total of ninety-three
business and professional men in
the city only twenty-five, count
ing every last one of them, signed
the petition asking that the
license question be submitted to
a vote this spring and Of those
who signed several declare open
ly that they will oppose the
saloon with their vote, their only
reason for signing being that
they wanted the question SUBJ
mitted to a vote. This shows
where the business interests of
Washburn stand on the question.
Manufacturing concerns and
employers of labor favor a
saloonless city. During the past
nine months labor has been of
a better class than ever before
in the history of the city. Men
have proven to be better work.
men and the number of accidents
about manufacturing institutions
has decreased to a minimum.
Laboring men have had more
money and have lived better this
year than ever before. DRY"
territory looks mighty good to
the manufacturer. Manufacture
ing is on the efficiency basis to-
day and drink is too we'll defined
a factor in the reduction of
efficiency to allow any manufac-
turer to have the wool pulled
over his eyes by the argument
that a manufacturing town must
have the saloons.
Bills are paid more promptly
in dry" territory than in wet.
One concern reports that during
nine months no man at their
plant has been garnisheed for
bills, record unprecedented in
the history of the institution. A
business man says his cash bust
ness during the past year was
$500 better than it was the pre-
vious year-and yet the business
conditions of the country have
been declared to be rotten"
Another reports that collections
during the past nine months
period were almost double of
what he expected they would be,
considering the business depres-
sion which has prevailed through
out the country.
One employer of labor says:
II never realized what a saloon
less town meant to a manufac-
turing institution until this year
when it has been given a trial.
| can never be deceived again
and hereafter | shall always vote
against the evil.
The views of Washburn people
coincide with the views of the
business men and manufacturers