The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-20
Exist the Saloon Candidate.

i who would DE Wiling ana T6duy W
| vote for a man connected with the IL
anor business for public office and not
| mat there are men connected with the
saloon business in Kenosha who would
make just as good public officials as
lot of men who are elected to office,
fbut public policy demands the retire
ment of the saloon man as an Office
holder. The recent election has en-
ipLasized this fact and future elections
in the city are certain to place
even a greater emphasis on this prop
osition.
Saloon men themselves are not fav-
orable to the men who are in the liquor
business dabbling in politics The dry
wave which is sweeping the country is
placing the saloon business on new
basis. Men who are really interested
| in the continuance of the saloons have
begun to see that if the saloon is to
/ exist as an institution it must put
aside all entangling alliances and be-
come a business entirely separated
from politics. Men who take advanc-
| ed views of their business as dealers in
! intoxicants, have for some time been
| able to see that the business can only
| be preserved by these men sticking to
| the saloon business and not seeking to
dictate to the people who shall govern
| them. Time was when saloonkeeper
| on an election ticket could count on
| the solid vote of every man in the
! business simply because he was sa-
loon man and because the saloon man
| thought that his interests were best
defended by having one of his kind in
| Office Now the man who knows condi-
tions sees that saloon man in Office
is the greatest enemy to the continu-
ance of the liquor business. Prohibi-
/ ton has come to many communities,
not because people believed that the
drinking Of liquor should be eliminated
but because the people resented the eff
| fort of the men who run the saloons to
insist on running the cities. Most
| people now are in favor of the reason
able regulation Of saloons. Men who
have fortunes invested in the business
are convinced that the only way to
| is to have saloons regulated so that
they will not appear as an eye sore to
the people at large.
Waukegan lost it's saloons because
the saloon business was largely in the
hands of foreign born people who re-
fused to listen to reason, who refused
t., be regulated and who insisted in
butting into political movements. Ke-s
nosha saloon men have sense enough to
get something of a lesson from Wau-
kegan and they don't want similar
troubles to bring similar results
in Kenosha. The average man who
runs saloon and runs it right or who
has charge of the business Of brew
ing company and renders his full mead
of service to the company employing
him has enough to do without attempt
! ing to be director of political thought,
The saloon man is licensed by the city
| to sell liquor, not to be ward boss.
! When the saloon men get firmly
hold of the idea that the permanence
:, of their business depends entirely on
the manner in which their business is
operated the saloon question is going to.
be a lot nearer solution. The law
| gives saloon men certain rights and
they are entitled to the enjoyment of
these rights. Reasonable regulations
are made to govern their operations
under city licenses and they must live
Up to these regulations or be prepared
to have the people who license them
arise in their might and vote them out
of existence. The fact that a saloon
man is in city Office does not aid the
| cause of the saloon man one bit His
| opinions can not but be biased toward
the side where his bread is buttered.
The people know this and they resent
his intrusion The actions of an Of
fetal of this kind always reflect on the
business as a whole more than they do
on him as an individual and the saloon
man who always has a heavy burden
of antagonistic public opinion to bear,
has his burdens made heavier every
time one of these fellows slip into pub
lie office. The saloon men have come
to realize this fact and they are going
t. be the first element in Kenosha to
see to it that the saloon man is
eliminated from politics.
The fact that the saloon men have
begun to appreciate this fact and are
acting on it is going to be one of the
big features in keeping well regulated
saloons in Kenosha. IF small party
of the men who operate saloons insist
en- butting into politics and making
, the liquor question political question
they must expect to take the conse-
quences. Kenosha is not going to
stand for it. The sooner all the sa-
loon men learn this fact the better if
will be for them and for the business
Kenosha's new mayor might now re-