Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-03-23
Authorized to be published and
paid for in advance by Villas County
Dry Federation.
THE ENEMY OF THE HOME

United States statistics show that 30 per
cent of the criminals brought into our courts
charged with felony are victims Of the saloon.
| The saloon is not content with getting fell
low down but it keeps him down. In the
i hearing the other day before the state Senate
Committee on Education and Public Welfare
| on bill 408S to abolish contract labor in our
penal Institutions former Governor Davidson
made the statement that booze is responsible
for practically every broken parole.
The underwriters and insurance companies
of America who estimate life risks with scien-
tific accuracy have declared that even moder-
ate drinking of beer, in the law Of averages,
reduces the normal allotment of life 10 per
cent, which means, the life that has the right
to expect to see 70 years is cut off by booze at
S. In other words, the people in the beer
bushes have murdered that man at 63.
/ By the most moderate estimate the most
careful mathematical computation under
skilled scientific direction has PROVEN that
the booze business is the agency of slow
slaughter. 1t is THE ENEMY OF THE
HOME.
| All the way from this moderate injury of
only taking seven years from mans life the
saloon goes the whole gamut of robbing
youths Of their manhood cheating men Of
| their character, stealing from their own sense
of honor, integrity and fidelity
The saloon Stays its own best customers; it
will take its best patrons last penny kick
him into the gutter and then call the police
| to hide their handiwork. Then as a climax to
their consumnate nerve they ask Mr.. Tax
payer to foot the bill of keeping their drunk
under shelter, feeding and protecting him.
| The saloon is the great past master as
Wrecker of homes; twill cheat the child not
only OF its schooling but of it's clothes. 1t will
not only rob daughter of her birthright to
culture, i5 will even take milk from the babes
| mouth; it will take the last penny that ia
Their has 1t thriveS on the destruction of
youths and steals virtue from young girls.
The saloon is a COWARD. 1t hides behind
screens and curtains. It exercises its vicious
insidious but powerful political influence
around the corner, in secret places, it
works under cover, never i'll the open. 1t
can't be square.
The saloon is sneak It's thief. It is
the promoter OF the penitentiary business It
never pleads for its rights because it knows
it has no RIGHTS. 1t begs to be tolerated.
1t begs to be taxed so that it will be tolerated
knows that its revenue, argument is false
Thru the pitable creatures the saloon throws
into our jails. poor houses, mad houses and
penitentiaries it imposes upon the people
greater cost of maintainance than it pays
back in license fees.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good
cheer and gives sorrow. 1t promises health
and gives disease. 1t promises prosperity
and gives wretched poverty. It promises
happiness and gives misery. It spares nel-
| ther youth nor age. It lies In wait tor the I'M
born. It cocks the assassins pistol.
The saloon is the greatest enemy of legiti-
mate business. Every intelligent business
man, whether he be merchant or nanufact-
urer, has long since learned this simple eco
nomic fact. It is the arch ENEMY OF TIE
HOME. Every home that stands for the viz
tues the honor, the integrIties, the sanctities
Of life is against the saloon.
Now is the time for the brave, intelligent,
clean minded men and women of Madison to
show their conscience to every passer-by in
the streets. In the interest of good homes, in
the interest Of clean business, in the interest
of bigger and better Madison and for
nobler patriotism in America, cut out the adj
joining poster and p ste it on your front win
dow that every passerDy may know where
you stand. Let every voter be appraised of
the fact that the people of Madison are
aroused, that they stand overwhelmingly for
clean and decent city and that booze in
Madison MUST GO.
NOTE-T1e above article is taken
from the Wisconsin State Journal
published at Madison, under date of
March 20, The window poster re-
ferred to was a quarter page illus
tration of a pennant carrying the
words: ''This Home Votes Dry"