The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-03-20
FRIENDS OF BUSINESS AND
PERSONAL LIBERTY
SUFFER
Every Lover of His Home City, No
Matter How He Feels On Temper
ance and Prohibition, Should
Put His Shoulder to the Wheel
and Work For License

Every man of common sense what his private opn
ION in regard national prohibition and the absolute prohb
ton manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors knows
and will say he wishes be truthful that the policy OF the
Anti Saloon League produces good successful ana causes
unlimited suffering loss and trouble to many These state
ments have printed in different forms OF the truth
full of the country time place have they been
denied by the the local territory 1t is true that many OF
the leaders of Saloon League in fact all of the workers
organization paint glowing pictures OF the beauties OF
local option and the magncnce of the cities in which has
tried growth population wealth and general pros
perty them get down to facts attempt to
ak about the cities communities that is the cities
the places of which they speaking
They talk people in Northern Michigan OF the fine dry
towns Southern Michigan Southern Illinois and Kansas and
tell you that the cities other part the state states
which have tried local option rolling luxury that they
have streets that the people happy and that the city
treasures wealthy They will conclude with the statement
the streets in drunken condition
since the saloons were voted out
Are the dry towns better off than they wet? Is
who believes that local option produces the
results claimed for by the AntSaoon League? Is there
man or woman any city this state who really believes that
single dry city in the whole state any other state
that has increased in population in the ratio which marks the
general progress of the United States for every decade that
property valuable today twas before voted dry or
that drunkenness it than there before
that there single redeemng feature instituted indicted
dry which would lead honest favor
license policy.
and that municipal conditions will be better that the people
will spend money groceries boots and shoes than they
did before that will be less drunkenness the town than
there before that the treasury will be in better shape be-
cause city will be compelled to have such large police
force There in the state of Michigan in any
other state existing under license that claim these
advantages Not of them fair shape any way
the attributes which characelzes
progressive town
community possesses all the traits of the regu
lar dry city from the low water treasury to the general detected
weak and depressed business conditions always shows that
rents have fallen greatly that large number of business houses
vacant and the ready and willing to rent them
for nominal That there much drinking and
that the municipal authorities hampered for money that
they cannot hire help of any kind for any department
Drunkenness rampant and instead of the orderly licensed
saloon which existed under license system will find blind
tigers booeggers and speak Not only do become
drinking and making profit by peddlng whiskey
And how anything else be expected? Men of inel
gence know that it takes money city to have police
force to fix streets to have legal department. and for
the thousand and things which city usually have
and the average knows that the income from direct
limited the equazed value of the property and that
the realized under nocense administration is about
half the amount for the payment of running expenses
The starving Of the city by the lack of sufficient is i'm
mediatey felt by every business of the and when
known that many people make their purchases other places
after local option takes effect the value of all property fall
does fall and it will fall at ysta Falls Iron River Siam
baugh Palaa and in every precinct in the County
should the electors of Iron County listen the voice the
optionist and vote according to their views
No matter what may be your opinion of National prohb
ton and the absolute prohibition of the sale of liquor the
County you should kill your home crafty the
wm and ances Of some who does not for it. You