Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-27
DIVORCE SALOONS.
FROM CABARET IS
PLEA TO DEALERS
STATE ASSOCIATION OF RETAIL
LIQUOR MEN FAVORS ORDl-
NANCE NOW PENDING IN CHI
CAGo-OFFicERs ELECTED.

Retail liquor men OF Illinois in con-
yention at La Sale, yesterday after
noon went on record against the cab
aret.saloon. which they claim is one OF
the evils of metropolitan centers like
Chicago. They endorsed an ordinance
now pending in Chicago to divorce
the saloon from the cabaret, ana
thereby eliminate their business of an
undesirable associate.
"The brewers of Chicago have pre-
pared an ordinance divorcing the cab
aret from the saloon in the city or
Chicago. The district 70 Cook has
approved of this ordinance and we
urge the city council Of Chicago to
pass 1t. This ordinance has been pro
NOTED by the brewers to clean up the
saloon"
The resolution further says: in
view of the fact that the association
OF vice in any form with the saloon
has q tendency to degrade and de-
mOralize the liquor traffic, and
Whereas, all well-informed men
know that saloonkeepers who main
tain and cater to vicious men and
immoral women are violating laws
that they could not break unless they
paid blackmail to public officials who
are remiss in their duty and unfaith-
full to their constituents; and,
Whereas, This partnership of cor
rupt officials with filthy and degraded
men and women has brought upon our
members an odium that is unjust and
undeserved, we therefore proclaim to
the people of Illinois that we will
give our unqualified and unstinted
support to any law that will give to
the voters Of our state the power to
summarily dismiss from public Office
those men who permit open and flag
rant violation of the laws against de
cency and morality
In a section pertaining to recent ma
tional legislation pertaining particu-
larly to their business, the conven.
ton says:
I'VE except to bear our proportion
ate share of burdens financially, NOR
ally. and physically required of the
rank and file of our trade citizenship;
we uncomplainingly and willingly sub
! nit to any measure within reason to
help the just cause for which our
country has entered its service in the
greatest war which mankind has ever
experienced.
Although the prohibition of the
manufacture of distilled liquors by
congress was caused by the plea of
Food Conservation, yet ii is thorough
ly understood by economists that the
food used in liquor is a bagatelle com
pared to the quantity of food that
could be raised on the millions of
acres of fertile land that is now held
out of use by the land monopoists of
the U. s. A.
I'VE would therefore suggest to our
antisaloon lawmakers who plead the
human uplift as the reason for their
opposition to liquor that they prove
the sincerity Of their love for their
fellowmen by enacting laws that Will
abolish land monopoly and thereby
force the abundant production of all
those things that contribute TO the
happiness and comfort Of men, women
and children.
"The law that will most surely ac-
cOmplish these results is not a pro
hibition law but a law that will ex.
empt from taxation all labor values
and impose a surtax on all the vacant.
unused land in the U. S. A
Officers Are Elected
The delegates elected officers to
serve the following year. They are.
President-Ernest Kunde, Chicago.
Vice President--Rud Won Acher,
Peoria
Secretary-M. j, Mccarthy. Chicago.
Treasurer-E r. Fahey. Blooming
ton.
Board of Trustees Fred Rohde.
Frank Cato, Phil T. Weyna and Fred
Moenck, Cook county; Fred Muse.
feldt, div. 2. Rock Island; ]. J. Car.
roll. div. 3. Bloomington; Frank OFT.
div. 4, Danvile; Tony Krins, div. s,
Quincy; Louis May, div. 6, Edwards.
VILE
Board of Auditors f. Dit.
mar, Tony hilbert and H. Beling
Delegates to the national conven.
ton, which is to be held at Washing.
ton next February, are Henry r. Mai
worm, Chicago: Alderman Kaindel
Chicago; J. s. Flanagan, Peoria; and
g. II. Hinderer, Kankakee.