Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS MEET
In Convention i'm the Council Chamber
at the City Hall at 2:3O O'clock
This Afternoon.

The Retail Liquor Dealers Assn
of the state opened its convention at
the city hall at three o'clock this al
ternoon, Mayor H. E. Marquardt OF
this city, delivering the following adj
dress of welcome:
Gentlemen of the Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association of Wisconsin:
1t gives me great pleasure to well
come you as our guests for the short
period that you will be with us and
| trust that your visit will be both
profitable and enjoyable.
In the formation and expansion of
your association | believe that you
are now and in the future will do
much to better the business in which
you are engaged, and in so doing
you will be instrumental in suppress
sing to very large extent the agita-
ton that now is evident in every quar-
ter of the globe.
You should add to your ranks all
good men who are in the liquor bust
ness and yet you should be foremost
in assisting the public official in re-
moving or eliminating such as are not
worthy of the protection that the law
affords. The average public official
like yourselves is human and is there
fore tolerant. You men who are pres
ent here today have gotten together
for the purpose of improving the con-
ditiOns Of yourselves, your business,
and society in general by assisting
in the elimination of the Objectionable
features from it and either reforming
or casting out the unfit from your
ranks. / know of number of men
not only here at home but all over
this great commonwealth who are
some of the best citizens in their com
munities. Wisconsin has frequently
been foremost in it's policies that have
been the guidance of many other
states of the union and you men of
Wisconsin can and undoubtedly will
show to the people of other common
wealths that such business can be
properly conducted. L is not the use
of liquor that has been detrimental
to society but it's abuse.
In few short years that I have
spent on this earth l have many
times marveled at the wonderful
powers that liquor possesses. 1t has
the power of Transforming man into
| many a different state.
1t will find him in the state of So
briefly and conduct him sometimes in
| to the state of hilarity; some into the
| state of drowsiness; some aspire to
| oratory, while others to song; others
| will do the cake-walk or give you an
| imitation of the Irish washerwoman;
while some enter that pugnacious
state that very frequently with the
| n of q To- nj in tot
| of confinement, and the next morn
! ing after having been in somewhat of
a comatose state, he develops that
state of realization which tells him
| that he should not proceed beyond
the state of sociability or as we fire.
quently say, "Gemuethlichkeit" Many
times the man who overindulges is
brought to a state of utter helpless
ness and his family to state of pow
erty and it is such that you should
overcome.
I believe that you will find many
things in our city that will interest
you for 1 know that my local friends
have arranged a pleasant and enjoy
able time for you, and I wish to as
sure that the citizens of Wausau will
| always bid you welcome. We want
you with us again whenever oppor-
tunity offers.
The key to the city has been placed
at the summit of Rib Mountain, where
it reposes on a rocky ledge on the
highest point in Wisconsin and the
chief of police has been banished in
the interim. / therefore extend to
you hearty welcome and wish you
an enjoyable and profitable time.