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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
WET CHICAGO
AND DRY ILLINOIS

Chicago keeps Illinois in the wet
column. If Chicago did this by fair
means-by a preponderance of votes
duly registered and cast-there would
be no injustice in it.
But Chicago keeps Illinois in the
wet column because the drys of Chi
cago through the manipulation of
election machinery are largely de-
prived of a voice in the government
of city and state. A study of the
election map of the city shows that
Chicago is so districted as to give the
wet wards and districts an undue rep
resentation.
The smallest ward in the city, the
old Ninth ward on the West Side, has
only 1920 registered voters. Both
its Aldermen are wet. The largest
ward in the city, the Twenty-hfth, has
22,012 registered voters. Both of its
Aldermen are dry.
What is true of these two wards IL
generally true of the wet and dry
wards of the city and it is equally true
of the legislative districts in the city
The wet wards and districts, under
this unjust partition, have a repre-
sentation in the Council and in the
Legislature out of all proportion to
their population.
A saloonkeeper, or prostitute,
actually has more voting power in
the city of Chicago than two or three
preachers or laymen in the churches,
and his voice in the government of
the state is just that much greater.
When it is remembered that over a
third of the members of the state
Legislature are from Chicago, it will
be seen that the liquor interests of
Chicago legislatc for Illinois.
Heaven send the city or state that
is governed, not by its best but by its
worst citizens.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
CAN'T TRUST
THE PEOPLE

The farmers of Illinois should take
careful notice of the representatives
in the Legislature who voted against
the proposition to refer the wet and
dry question to a vote of the people
of the state. 1t was not a straight
wet and dry question. The measure
was to give the people of the state
the right to vote on the question.
The representatives who voted against
the measure just as good as say that
the people of Illinois are not capable
of voting intelligently on this ques-
ton.
These representatives, by their ac-
ton seem to think that the farmers of
Illinois do not know how to vote
their own sentiments and so they
the presentatives-will settle the
matter for them.
Farmers of Illinois, don't forget
these men who say they can not trust
you to vote. Here are their Names
The Illinois Farmer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
(From Waukegan Gazette)

(From Waukegan Gazette)
Already the members of the Presi-
dents cabinet and many of the Rep
resentatives in Congress are discuss
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of passing ma
tional Prohibition measure as means
of assisting the country during the
strenuous days which are to come.
England has looked the great ques.
ton in the face and almost concluded
to prohibit the manufacture of any
malt or spirituous liquors. Russia
and France long ago stopped the
making of grain into Intoxicating
beverages. The United States will
do we'll to take some action which
cause the product of the farm to pour
into the hoppers of the Touring mills
of the country, instead of into the dis
tilleries and breweries.
With -four at SIS per barrel, and all
other cereals soaring in price, it
seems worse than folly to allow those
who cater to the lower tastes of men
to use up anything which might be
made into food. The waste of grain
in making booze when SO many poor
families are in need of bread which is
almost prohibitive in price, becomes
a condition bordering upon national
crime, and calls for some remedy of
fault which can be easily cured with
out in any way affecting the financial
interests of the country.
Grain put into liquor at any time is
a most foolish procedure, but in such
times as these it assumes a status
whereby the men who are responsible
for allowing the business to continue
are guilty of action which causes So
Der people to inquire as to their SAN
llity.
The government should pass Pro-
hibition bill to remain effective until
after the war and then let the people
vote as to whether they wish to con-
tnue wet or dry as nation.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Sixty Chicago Lid
Filters Were Taken
Last Sunday
Colisimo's and Other No.
torious Resorts Raided by Police
Squads

Chief OF Police Schuettler of Chi
cago is continuing his rigid enforce
ment OF the Sunday closing law. Last
Sunday 90 lid filters were taken into
custody by Is squads of policemen.
Among those arrested were Frank
Campbell and nine walters taken in
the notorious resort of Ike Blooms
on I'D street, known as Freiberg' S
Cafe. big Jim" Colisimo's restaurant
was also raided and several arrests
made. The same thing happened to
George Graham's place on South
State street.
In several of the places liquors were
found in the bar and conhscated as
evidence. All the accused were re-
leased on bonds.
Many of these places have had their
licenses revoked. some several times.
Their continued violation of the law
should lead the Mayor to take their
license away for good and all.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Drink Sends Many
Mothers to Bridewell

In a series of articles which are ap-
pearing in the Chicago Sunday Trib-
une under the title, What Drink Has
Cost Me-" Antoinette Donnelly tells
how many women, once prosperous
and happy, have been sent to the
Bridewell on account of drink.
"In my experience with the women
| saw and interviewed" says Miss
Donnelly, ito find out what drink had
done to women, the most forcible fact
presented by these derelicts of wo-
manhood is their actual likeness to
you and me-"
Many of them are women who were
once happy mothers and presided
over homes of comfort and refine
ment. Drink changed all this and
sent them in disgrace and despair
with other human wrecks to the great
public prison.
One Of the stories told by Miss
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Chicago Saloons
Slow in Taking
Out Bar Licenses
Brewers to Take Out 1000 Permits at
One Time, Is Prospect

Although this is the last day for the
issuance of saloon licenses by the city
collector, only 1906 of more than
1000 saloonkeepers in Chicago had
applied for licenses.
There is nothing strange in this,
however, according to Deputy City
Collector George Lehman, for repre-
sentatives of breweries always apply
for about 1000 licenses on the last
day, while the remainder come in
struggling.
He said that between noon and
midnight about 1000 licenses would
be issued in addition to the 1000
taken by the breweries.
If Mr. Lohman's estimate is right
the number of licenses for 1917 will be
greatly reduced. Every day Chicago
saloonkeepers are reading the hand
writing on the, wall.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Dry Hoopeston
$4,000 to Good
Treasurer's Report Shows Saloonless
Town in Splendid Financial
Condition

Hoopeston, which has been dry
ever since the beginning of time, has
demonstrated that a town does not
need saloon money to run its affairs.
According TO the Hoopeston cor
respondent to the Danvile CONNER
cial News the city strong box con-
tanned at the end of the last fiscal
year a balance of $4,000. 46, in addi-
ton other assets in the shape of notes
and mortgages to the amount of $2l,-
500, giving the city total assets aggre-
eating nearly 100000. Mayor Merritt
last night turned over to his success
sor, Mayor William Moore, the reins
of the government of Hoopeston, and
as above indicated with plenty of cash
on hand to tide over the city for many
months and even years to come.
Credit First Class
The financial showing of the city of
Hoopeston is one of the best features
of the administration of the retiring
Mayor during the four years of his
incumbency. Using the same good
judgment that he exercises in his
banking business, Mr.. Merritt ran the
government in a careful and economic
manner as a result of which, while
other towns may be "head over heels"
in debt, Hoopeston looms up with its
credit first class and entitled to be
rated as one of the wealthiest cities
OF its size in Illinois.
Has $4,000 Balance
The report of City Treasurer Stew
ard, first in order, disclosed the above
mentioned splendid financial condi-
ton of the city, after which the COL
lector, N. ]. McCoy's report showed
that water collections for the past
year amounted to $15,86413; cemetery
collections, $3,20234; licenses, insur-
ance, ETC., $1.655.o2, and special as
sessments, $12,47419, less commission
amounting to $24o.4S. The entire re-
ceipts of the city from all sources, ac-
cording to the treasurer's report,
amounted to 500, 5S3.21 with disburse-
ments of $62713.75, leaving cash on
hand to the amount of $36,s69.46.
Chief of Police Bogart's report
showed that during the past year
there had been a total of 28o arrests
made by the police department, this
number including p bootleggers nab
bed in the raid last summer. A total
of 81, 581. 80 in fines and costs had been
assessed, of which amount $1,228&
had been paid in cash, while the BAL
ance had either been RENTED, worked
or laid out in the city Jail.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Dry City to Plan
For Social Centers
Morris Citizens Would Provide En-
tertainment for Visitors

According to the Morris Herald
of the Commercial Club,
business men, clergymen, professional
men and the farmers of the surround
ing neighborhood, plan to make that
city a great social center, following
the ousting on April II Of its 20 sa-
looms.
Comfort Stations and Recreation
Centers
Several meetings have already been
held and plans set in motion for the
establishment of comfort stations and
recreation centers that will take the
place of the saloons and make the
city more attractive to visitors. Sew
eral of the former saloonkeepers are
said to be preparing to cooperate
and wet and dry citizens are uniting
with the ministers and social leaders
in working out the plan.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
RUM CAMP Modified
Sherwood Eddy Asks That America
Wipe Out Liquor and Save Her
Soldier Boys

Addressing a Sunday evening club
audience which filled Orchestra Hall,
Chicago, to the doors last Sunday,
Sherwood Eddy, director OF Y. NJ. Z.
A. work in the trenches and in the
prison camps of Europe, declared:
The camp followers OF rum are
already modified. A million of
our boys soon will be called to
the trenches. What are VIC going
to do for them? Russia wiped
out drink in a day. Others did
not and are suffering terribly as
a result. Let us not make the
same mistake.
The great audience applauded th:,
appeal of Mr.. Eddy's to the echo and
listened with bated breath to the most
interesting war talk yet heard in Chi
cago. Mr.. Eddy pointed out how the
horrors of war are made ten-fold
worse by drunkenness and immoral
ity. He quoted an English colonel
as exclaiming in despair, "Oh, am
losing my boys" When some one
answered that the shrapnel and ma
chine guns are getting them by the
hundreds the colonel replied, 81 don't
mean that | have lost more men
through immoral forces that attack
US in the rear than through all the
shot and shell of the enemy"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Rum Responsible
For Broken Homes
Asserts II. K. Crosse
Superintendent of the Citizens
League of Chicago Says Records
Show That More Than rs
Per. Cent of Poverty
Due to Saloons

According to H. X. Crosse, super
intendent of the Citizens League of
Chicago, which works in conjunction
with the Court of Domestic Rela-
tons, the Boys Court and the Morals
Court in enforcing the dramshop act,
the majority of broken homes and
most of the poverty relieved at pub
lie expense are due to the saloon.
The association last year recovered
$4,000 in judgments and settlements
to poor families from the dramshop
keepers of Chicago, and many cases
are still pending.
A Few of the Many Appeals for Help
Here are few of the many ap-
peals received by the League for
help:
II would kindly ask you to aid US
in keeping an 18-year-old boy away
from - saloon. He sells him
drink and keeps him in his place
until 2 o'clock in the morning"
II am writing to ask you to pre-
vent the saloonkeeper from selling
liquor to my father, who gets terribly
drunk. My brother and myself sup
port the home. Father spends all his
money for whisky and cannot hold a
position because of drink"
"Will you please help a woman
with large family to work for? Her
husband has been in a saloon at the
corner of for a week."
A Specimen Case
Mr.. Crosses notebook is a labratory
manual in the finished product of the
saloon; it is full of pathetic instances,
among which is the following:
One day father sent little boy
to a saloon for ten cents worth of
beer. The boy had not had anything
to eat that day, and, yielding to hun
ger, spent the dime for bread for him.
self and brothers. When the father
learned this he flew into a towering
rage and kicked and beat the boy
into state of insensibility.
Another case is that of Mary
Shawenski, who appeared in the
Morals Court with a baby in her
arms. She had sent a little son of
6 to saloon for liquor and was cited
to the court because she was intoxi-
Gated and unable to care for her
family. The court ordered the baby
to be taken away from her and sent
to a home. The mother was COM
mited to the Bridewell She cried
and pleaded for mercy but the Judge
replied that he had given her several
chances already and that she must
go to prison. Fortunately the sa-
1oonkeeper in this case was also ar
rested and must answer to the double
charge of selling liquor to minor
and to drunkard.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
Springfield Vets
Lose Contest Case
Drys Demur to Petition and Are Sus-
tanned in Court on Every Point

The demur of the drys to the Pc
tition of the vets who sought to over
throw the result of the local option
election in Springfield, was sustained
by the court last Saturday on every
point.
The case attracted attention all over
Illinois. The drys were represented
by eight lawyers, including F. B. Eb-
bert, Chicago, attorney for the state
Anti-Saloon League. Six lawyers rep
resented the vets. The case was
tried before Judge ]. B. Weaver. The
arguments were concluded on Thurs
day of last week.
Vets Put Up Flimsy Plea
The grounds on which the vets
sought to annul the election were:
/. That the women had no right
to sign the petition or to vote.
2. That the public policy act pro-
vides that only three propositions can
be voted on at an election and FIVE
were submitted
8. That the drys' petition was i'm
properly filed.
q. That the voters did not state
they were registered legal voters.
s. That several notaries who took
the affidavits to the petitions had
failed to register their commissions.
Attorneys for the drys entered a
demur to the vets petition and were
sustained by the court on every point
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY

Mr.. A. Fl. Dawes, of Southern Ala
bama, writes: AS few people know
of the wonderful opportunities here.
my experience may benefit many.
Twelve years ago came here without
a dollar, got some free land, cleared
one acre and planted Satsuma oranges.
which are frost proof. In three years
l began selling fruit; that one acre
now makes me an annual profit of over
$1,000. l now have 30 acres of bearing
Satsumas. My three and four year old
trees yield a profit of 5000 to $500 per
acre, and my annual income is over
$4,000 and growing larger every year"
Any person can get from to rs acres
of choice land in the Demonstration
Plantation FREE, by having oranges
or figs and pecans planted on 1t. For
particulars about this free land. ad-
dress w. A. Roberts, Secretary 800
Fifth Ave. Block 42l, Pittsburgh. Pa.
II you can't go South yourself. an au-
thorized Company will plant your
trees, care for them and market the
fruit for share OF the profit.-Ady.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
JUST A STARTER
Golfers


A friend sends us this note from
the Galena (Ill.) Gazette;
l, the undersigned, wish to
state that the trouble between
Leslie Peters and myself. which
took place in Ben Wilmarth's
place of business, is in no way
whatsoever to be blamed upon
the saloon or the proprietor
thereof. Chas. Trautman."
And fatters us by adding: Col
lier's fight seems to be bearing fruit.
The saloon people now publish dis
Chalmers of responsibility" Yes, and
this is just starter, for people are
beginning now to see what the sa-
loon business is and hence to feel
sure that the burden of proof in bad
cases is on the Schooner.
That's progress.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
(From Danville Commercial-News,

(From Danville Commercial-N
In the interest of humanity and of
national prosperity there should be
national Prohibition, at least during
the war.
The suggestion that for the benefit
OF the soldiers and the men of the
navy called to fight the nations bat
ties there should be absolute national
Prohibition OF the entire alcoholic
traffic, and that to save the hundreds
of millions of bushels of grain which
now go into drink there should be
national Prohibition of the use of
grain for the production of liquor, is
calling forth vigorous opposition of
the whisky element. This might have
been expected.
The whisky element Is claiming
that the government cannot afford to
lose the income and the taxation on
whisky and beer. The government
can infinitely better afford to lose
that money than it can afford to be a
partner in the whisky traffic and thus
help to demoralize the millions of
soldiers which it will call to the COL
ors. To permit the continuation of
the whisky traffic during the war
would be to make this country part
ner in an industry which has done
more to deprave mankind, to bring
suffering and sorrow upon the world,
than all the wars of the centuries. 1t
would be an unspeakable shame and
an everlasting disgrace for this coun-
try to permit the men who arc offer
ing their lives for the nations protec-
fion to be surrounded with all the
temptations OF the whisky traffic and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
NO BENEDICT ARNOLDS
WANTED
Rev. B. II. Bruner, Danvil

Rev. B. H. Bruner, Danville
Benedict Arnold betrayed
this country for a sum of
money and a commission in the
English army, and we remem-
Der him only as a traitor to the
cause of human freedom. And
the man of the community who
today, for the sake of revenue
or business, is willing to license
traffic which is destroying the
very life-blood of the nation,
stands convicted of treason be-
fore the most high God. If we
have reached the time when we
cannot exist as a city and
nation without the revenue
from this traffic which is con-
trary to all the ideals of our
government and the principles
of our religion, we had better
pull down our flag which is
hailed the world over as the
emblem of freedom, and re-
linquish all claims to being a
Christian nation!"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
BARS LIQUOR DURING
LABOR RALLY

The retail sale of all distilled
liquors throughout Sweden was
forbidden in a government or
der, from April "a to May IL.
While it is not admitted off,
cially, there is reason to believe
that the order has a connection
with the May day labor demon
stration.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04
(From Galesburg Register)

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, like
many other leading Americans, be-
lieves that the time has come to use
every means at the governments dis
posal to conserve the nations food
supply for the purpose that it will do
the most good. He does not believe
it good policy to grind Our wheat and
corn and barley into whisky when this
same grain is needed to feed the hun
cry population of not only our own
country but of the countries with
which we are allied in the war against
Germany.
On this subject Colonel Roosevelt
says:
when we arc threatened with a
shortage of foodstuffs, as is apparent
in the country by crop reports today,
and when it is our duty to supply food
to our allies to our utmost ability, we
should see that needed grain for food
necessities is not diverted from its
proper usage u lHS Manufacture Vi
intoxicants.
Most of the belligerent nations in
Europe have settled this problem. Let
us begin at once to see to it that our
grain is kept for food and not put into
alcoholic beverages"
The Mail, since Americas entrance
into the war, has advocated war Pro-
hibiton. Food, for the time being, is
what the Allies most want This is
made clear by representatives of the
Balfour party now in the United
States. By closing the breweres and
distilleries during the war the United
States the coming year would have
600,000,000 bushels more grain than it
otherwise will have to send to our al
lies. For all the actual good that this
grain will do when made into alco-
holic liquors the whole amount could
be donated to the Allies and would
not be missed-save by the thirsty
ones who waste their time with one
foot on the brass rail and an elbow
on the bar.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04

"On Sunday, April p, the congre-
cations of 10 churches of Jackson,
Mich, voted unanimously to petition
Congress to adopt national Prohibi-
ton of manufacture and sale of all
Intoxicating liquors for war meas
ure and the conservation of the ma
tional food supply"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04

The General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, representing 100000
women. has petitioned Congress and
the President for nationwide Prohi-
bition as a war measure.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04

Donnelly is that of Hatty Smiley. less
than Is years of age but a wreck,
physically morally and financially,
hopefully and everyway."
Nothing ahead of me-" she wept
while being interviewed, "hut the pot
ter's field, it has got me body and
soul"
Divorced because of drink, dis
owned by her three children, one a
medical graduate in an eastern city,
her future looms dark, gloomy, mer-
CHESS.
II have known what it is not to
have food for days" she said, land l
will know it oftcner when I get back
into the world again. The thing has
got me so that | cannot hold job.
have taken cures but it did me no
good"
How She Started
Hatty's story of the beginning of
her downfall is a typical one. 81
started with drink just as any woman
does who serves drink in her home
and who has it on hand always. Just
cocktail and light wine with dinner,
then I began to take highball or a
hot whiskey during the evening. This
got to be regular habit and before
| realized / had become its slave"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04

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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-05-04

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