The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-13

+h,+ sec ran INTO the swine and
n la was the end of the hog bust.
hes Az once the sow boy-if the
poy VINO handles cattle is a cow
boy, then a boy who handles bops is
SOW boy-beat it to the city and
reported to that blear-eyed. brandy.
Dreathed, blossomed-nose, bIotted.
race bulging- bodied boozer, who
owned the hogs that this man of
Iail!ee was hurting the hog business
ana they sent committee from the
home Rule league" requesting him
10 leave their borders. When told
lnat he had saved two men. thew
saio' we are not interested in men.
We deal in hogs. Isn't that the
attitude of the liquor business TODAY
Mel Irotter says. ."As long as men
nave hog in. their heart, they will
nave to carry swiil to him." and l
believe II l was devil. would
men.
Therefore I say. by the three Bible
references above, have demonstrate
ed that the Christ of the Bible and
the Bible Of the Christ are against
booze and bad business.
Booze Against Business.
MY second point, this afternoon, Is
that booze Is against business"
When the financial condition Of
your country was getting mighty
shaky in 1907, Kansas loaned fifty
million dollars to Wall street to keep
her steady while old Colorado, with
all her booze joints, was still increas-
ing her bonds to keep up with in-
creasing debts. 1t is about time to
vote the booze and the debts both
out and give God and humanity a
square deal.
In Kansas, eighty-seven Of the one
hundred five counties have no in
sane; in f1fty-three counties the jails
are empty, sixty-f1ve counties have no
prisoners in the state penitentiary,
fifty-four counties have no feeble
minded, in thirty-eight counties, the
county poor farms or the county jails
have no inmates. The county Jail at
Ralston mas been filled with corn in
the past eight years. One-half of
the counties have had no jury Grim
inal trials in the last ten years. In
North Dakota, another dry state like
Kansas, fOrty-two of the fifty coun-
ties have no poor houses at all.
You tell me that booze helps bust
ness. l tell you sir, from the sacred
altar, that as such as God is God,
the laboring men could afford to pen
sion all the men in the whiskey
| business just for the privilege Of
closing up their joints, and they
| would be multiplied thousands of dol
lars ahead and live under stain
less flag. A man, who had stopped
drinking, met saloon keeper. who
said to him, TON how are you get
ting o1Nn0i' cojd
ting along all right except that l have
a bunch growing on my left side"
putting his hand over the bunch. The
saloon keeper said, That is what
you get for cutting out your drinking.
A good glass occasionally would have
kept that bunch from growing there,
and my opinion is, II you don't come
back, You will have bunch like that
growing on the other side in year."
II hope So" said Tom, as he reached
in and pulled out chamoise bag
filed with twenty dollar gold pieces.
A West Coast 1umberman says: To
the married man who cannot get
along without his drinks, we suggest
the following as means of freedom
from the bondage Of habit: Start a
saloon in your own house. Be the
only customer. You will have no
LCChoO W pay. H1SC yOul WllS paw
to buy a gallon of whiskey, and re-
member there are sixty-nine drinks
in one gallon, Buy your drinks from
no one except your wife, and by the
| time the first gallon is gone she will
have $500 to- put in the bank and
| $500 to start business again. should
you live ten years to buy booze from
her and then die with snakes in
your boots, she will have enough
money to bury you decently, educate
your children, buy house and lot
and marry a decent man and quit
thinking about YOU" .srl
Figures from Kansas City.
In Kansas City, Kansas, temper
ance went into effect July /, 1906.
| The city at that time had $50 saloons,
200 gambling hells and so houses of
ill-fame. I have the figures from the
president Of a bank, who voted at
that time against prohibition" but
who now says that the bank deposits
have increased $1,000, 900. Seventy
two percent of this money has come
from men who never made a deposit
before, and AZ percent from men who
never saved any money before. Build
ing operations have Increased 209
percent. Three times as many people
are building homes now as there was
then, and court expenses have de-
creased $25, 900. II those figures do
not show that booze is against bust
ness, then facts are facts no longer.
AS long as truth is truth, it does
make some difference what men be-
lieve and it does make some differ
ence how men vote. Last year this
government spent s6,0OO.OOO,O0O for
paupers. insane, criminals and feeble
minded, ETC., and so percent Of these
criminals, rs percent of the paupers
and at least Is percent Of the insane
were the direct consequences Of the
liquor business. In other words, this
hell in solution turned loose on
humanity in this country last year,
burned out S4,5O0,000,0O0 worth of our
nronarty and no one can estimate