Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-12
Hklf VOTE For sCo1E.

O: the 900 voters in Marshall
county there are probably not - per
cen, who are not fully convinced that
prohibition Of the uquor traffic in Iowa
Is the best thing for tha state and the
county and the city. Some % them
want prohibition n Ma-shalltown bu,
would like Boone and Des Moines and
relatively situated cities dry SO that
they can run over DOW and then and
take on a few. They know that their
business and the con dit!ons surrounding
them are infinitely better because o:
the abolition of the traffic but they
have a tickling in the throat.
Some want prohibition IN Iowa but
want the right TO ship it in In short
they are entirely willing to prohibit
the common nerd" because il is a
good thing for the common herd" If
they can have their own at home OF
in the club. They say liquor never
hurt them" But everybody else knows
it does hurt them. The graveyard
down by the river SWITCHES on them
The banker knows II. He studies over
the loan they require. The folks at
home know it-but they Loyalty keep
il 10 themselves. The fact is that the
cellar and club drinker doesn't con-
ceal himself unless for a very short
time Everybody knows and nobody
takes any stock in that bluff that he
can handle it" Not one man in 100 can
handle it. Everybody knows that too
Then there are the ones fully con-
WINGED and who scarcely use liquor or
do not use it at all. A few Of them
wish that saloons could come back SO
that they could cash in again on the
!egalized blackmall that used to bring
them SIS q month because their pro-
perty was within the specified dis
lance from the saloon. A few Of them
long again for the doubled rent that
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Some imagine that It is all over
nothing to get excited about That
well have prohibition anyway. So
they wonder whether it's worth while
to vote Monday. They'd vote right if
they went.
They are the element dangerous to
the amendment. They are the men
who talk and believe what they say
and permit an hour of time to stand
between them and their duty: for II
is mans duty to Vote as he believes
and as he talks Those who AK and
refuse to act are forsworn to them
selves and false to their convictions
If the amendment fails it will fail be-
cauhe those who believe in prohibition
as a principle and as a good business
proposition negatively vote half q
vote against it by staying away from
the polls; because churchmen justify
the charge Of hypocrisy brought sc
freely against churchmen by. refusine
| and forgetting to vote as they pray;
because business men who know thai
prohibition is to the interests of bust
ness men fail or forget or fear to stand
| by good business interests. because the
grocers and coal dealers and mer.
chants who are collecting hndreds
! which they formerly iOesi under the de
bucbing influence OF the liquor traffic
| fail or forget or fear TO vote to con.
tinue conditions 30 vital. 70 their OWL
! hsineseea
| Iowa is convinced. Iowa knows b!
experience II the amendment fall
Monday it will because lazy Indifferent
hypocritical and careless prohibition
| lists beat 1t at home and in clubs AM
every where away from the polls.
What are you going to do? Vote O
visit? Settle the question for a per
iod OF years and probably forever o
sit around idly to watch the saIool
climbing the fence back into lows
homes and business and poiitics2 II !
up to you individually AZ your vote be
longs to you individually.
! Iowa is 50 per cent dry. The aaestio