The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-03-18

of some 80 buildings. was not to be
passed over lightly by the business
interests. But the effects of all these
things had long been discounted, as
Billy Sunday preached the funeral
sermon long time before The corpse
was buried and the ipterment was
not as painful as it might have been.
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The hotel man can see great slump
in business, but the banker says his
deposits have been increasing won
derfully during the past three walks
with many new names on his balance
book. Hitting q middle class bust.
ness, however, as a better criterion
to the general feeling, we put the
question up to the barber. Glad
they are gone" he said They never
helped my business any. ! don't have
to bother with any petty accounts
now,-they all pay cash. And / am
not pe5tered nearly as much by half
drunken Gus, omeIS. Yes, I'm glad
they're gone, and | wish the govern
ment would quit issuing federal h
censes and stop lot of this boot
Logging"
AS 1t was in Oskaloosa, is now in
Des Moines and soon will be in
Boone, the day of the foaming mug
on the gilded bar is gone. Oskaioosa
has accepted The inevitable and re-
adjusted itself to the new conditions.
Des Moines will in time get well, and
after the infection works out at
Boone and other towns, Iowa will
find some new sources of revenue
and some other subject to quarrel
over, other than the cup that cheers
and inebriates. Des Moines people
look forward to the new prohibition
law effective next January with great
Complacency. Just like Des Moines, If
she can't have what she wants, she
does not want any other place to have
it. And the enthusiasts all agree that
We will have National Prohibition by
Jan. l, 1920. Glory be!
Great pressure was brought upon
Governor Clarke to induce him to We
to the Prohibition bill but the Govern
or is not built that way. He is thor.
oughly convinced that Prohibition is
preferable to present permission to
violate the law, and when Governor
Clarke gets a conviction it stands
as We all know from the stand he
took on Capital Extension, risking
his reelection rather than utter one
word of compromise. He signed the
bill making prohibition the law after
January l next and issued the follow
ing bold and unCompromising state
inn o
in the matter.
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Ie Clarkson bill was passed by
an overwhelming majority OF the Gen
eral Assembly. Both parties support
ed it by a remarkably large vote. In
the House a most p2T3iStant effort
was made to extend the time for Il to
take effect. Every amendment was re-
jected by a crushing majority. The
wave of public sentiment against tho
saloon and the liquor business has
been rapidly rising higher and high
nr during the last five or six years.
What has happened in Iowa was ineV-
liable sooner or later. That the sa-
loon was a doomed institution, that
not a word could be said in it's de-
lCllOC, lldl II was q ul0ldIC W oONlC-
ty, hal come to be the settled con-
viction of a vast and rapidly increas-
ing number of people. This ought to
have been apparent to liquor men as
we'll as to all,-even casual,-observ-
ers OF the trend of public thought"
Fighting a heavy snow storm all
the way from Omaha, our train got
into Denver in the cold gray light of
The woman who know it
al said, "Oh, yes, it gets cold in Col
orado, but you do not feel ii like you
do back east. People here do not have
to wear as thick clothing 10 keep
warm" As the sleeper lay over here
an hour, we hot-footed up the plat
form to the barber shop. And say,
don't tell us you do not feel the cod
here! We lonsed for a Galloway and
a pair of felt boots in going two
blocks. And after the barber had per-
formed a hasty operation and We
started back,-we ara ready to swear,
Or affirm, as the case may be,-that
a Colorado wind is sharper than a
Orado razor. But the sun coicmfwypp
afterwards and We enjoyed the
around the Pueblo horn on the Den
YER and Rio Grande.
Now the Denver and Rio Grande
ioes MOI believe in hurrying through
life. Ii il a fine road to take when
you want to enjoy the scenery and
AXE the rest cure. We were over an !
hour late leaving Denver, due to
dispute which arose over who was re-
'ponsible for a broken steam valve
n an Oregon Exhibition car that was
o be carried to Canon City. Finally
he land company put up bond for
! new steam valve and the loan of
me was obtained from the Union Pa
life shops, and in due time we were
,ff. BY the time we left Pueblo we
we're over two hours behind and still
osing time.
But the delay was not wholly with
tut its compensation. We fell in with
man who was born In one of the
,riginal frame houses in Denver, and
J mining engineer, who,--as he said
limseif- had been "all along lower
whatever that may be.
Veil, the two got to swapping exper-
ences. and the rest OF us did not
ave to do a thing but listen. The one