The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-25
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The Saloon Question.


! Back rooms in connection with
saloons have been eliminated, a clos
ing ordinance has been passed and
is being strictly enforced, and saloon
keepers have been educated not to sell
intoxicating liquors to minors These
regulations are, / believe, considered
generally satisfactory to the people
as whole including the salookeep-
ers. The saloOnkeepers have been
given square deal' and they will
continue to receive the same reason
able and fair consideration so far as
| is in my authority, if 1 am reelected.
I have neither directly or indirectly
| had anything to do with the instiga-
ton Of the crusade against the saloons
as to Sunday closing. From present
indications, it is my opinion, that act
ual hoStilities have ceased, and may
not be renewed, unless further mis-
takes are made by certain would-be
friends of saloons, who by their agita-
ton, talk and acts cause antagonism
against the .aloons. / submit for your
favorbale consideration my policy of
reasonable regulation of saloons" in
opposition to the policy of my oppo-
nent namely that he believed, "that
saloons should regulate themselves"
announced by him during the cam
paign Of two years ago at a meeting
Of the Twilight club where all can
didates for mayor were asked to at
tend and state Gf they desired) what
they would do for Watertown if elect
ed policy, in my opinion, absolutely
unsound, impractical, unbusinesslike,
and one that never has, never can
and never will work out. A policy
that would be unfair to the saloon
keepers themselves, as some would
regulate themselves and others would
not, with the consequences that the
good men would be the losers
Street Sprinkling.
We have improved on the method
of cleaning brick and concrete streets
by the purchase and use of a street
fusher and greatly reduced the cost
of so doing, and we have provided to
do more oi'ing, of streets heretofore
sprinkled V ith water, with a result
that only ty.o water sprinkling wag-
Ons will be needed instead of four as
year.
City "axes Held Down.
In spite OF the fact that there was
included in the 1915 tax levy now
being collected, the city's portion of
the cost OF improving Eighth street
with concrete Gnstead of raising the
same by a bond issue) $5,0O0.00 tow
ards the high school equipment;
100000 Tor the five Meckes lots pur-
chased in connection with the new
high school grounds; the last half of
the s5,75O00 purchase price of the
Fuermann property; $5.639.52, the
amount of the Schroeder judgment
pending at the beginning Of this ad-
ministration 81 100000 the purchase
price of the Ryan park tract; $5 100000
for improving Hustisford street dur
ing the coming season; $4,000 for
Oiling outlying roads, yet the city
rate of taxation is no higher than it
was last year and lower than it was
two years ago And the general city
bonded Indebtedness, not including
the amount recently added on ac-
count of the new high school build
ing, has been reduced during the last
two years in the sum of $16,500, a
greater reduction by far than any two
previous years for some time in the
past.
A Word About My Opponent.
In the spring of 1914, Mr.. Mulberger
was one Of my opponents for the Office
of mayor. In the fall of 1914, the
people elected him to the office of state
senator. His term as senator is for
four years, and does not expire until
January, 1919. The next session of the
legislature begins in January, 1917.
Such sessions usually last from Jan
uary until about July. This means
that il my opponent is elected to the
Office of mayor of Watertown, he will
(unIess he resigns as senator, which
would not be right to the people of
the district who elected him upon his
promise that he would do his duty as
such Officially be absent from Water
town from January to July, 1917, about
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