Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-06


The LIQUOR traffic is a cancer in soci-
ETY., eating out the vitals and threaten
ing destruction. There must be no
more attempts TO regulate the cancer.
| 1t must be eradicated: not root must
be left.
William Mckinley later added:
BY legalizing this traffic We agree
to share with the liquor seller the
| responsibilities and evils Of MS bust
! ness, the most degrading and ruinous
| of all human pursuits.
The Supreme Court of the United
States in Crowley VS., Christensen de-
| clared by unanimous opinion:
BY the general concurrence OF opin-
ion OF every civilized and christian
community, there are few sources Of
crime and misery 10 society equal 70
the dram shop. II is a business attend
ed with danger to the community and
there is no inherent right in a citizen
Of the state or q citizen OF the United
States to sell intoxicating liquors by
retail.
Gladstone replying to the brewers
Of England said:
Gentlemen, you need not give your
selves any trouble about the revenue.
The question Of revenue must never
stand in the way Of needed reforms.
But give me sober population, not
wasting their earnings in strong drink,
and l shall know where to obtain the
| revenue.
Theodore Roosevelt has declared
| with his usual emphasis:
The business is not like any other
| business, and the actions OF the saloon
| keepers themselves conclusively prove
| this to be the case. The business
! tends to produce criminality in the
population at large. and !awbreakers
| among the salonnFeeners themselves
David Lloyd George, premier Of
England, has told mis- people that:
We are fighting Germany. Austria
| and drink. SO far as I can see, the
greatest Of these deadly foes is drink.
Frank A Vanderlip, president Of the
National City Bank of New York, the
laree bank IN Inc United States said:
| 1 strongly favor complete national
| prohibition. I believe we are facing b
| serious test of our national character
| and efficiency, and | am firmly con-
| WINGED that national prohibition
| measure would be OF transcendent i'm
portance in its effect upon the national
| spirit in conserving and increasing our
food supply and in raising the efficien-
cy Of the nation.
David r. F'organ, president OF the
National City Bank Of Chicago. said:
| ! am in favor of national prohibition
| during the war and forever after.
John Mitchell, vice president Of the
American Federation of Labor, tells
union labor that:
If a brewery is closed down, in its
place springs up a. factory. If a saloon
Is closed, in it's place comes a store.
Almost every disturbance in the ranks
Of organized labor can be traced back
&c scu2e connection With the salocn
John 3. Lennon, treasurer of the
American Federation Of Labor. says
that:
| The saloon does not produce thing
which is benefit to the human race.
1t IS non-producer and must be sup
ported by those who work. am speak
ing to the wage workers. but it may be
i appiicu 10 everybody.
Major General Leonard Wood, the
highest ranking major general in the
United States army and doctor b
profession, said at Little Rock, Ark:
am glad the Twelfth division Of the
new national army is to be trained in
Arkansas, a bone dry" state. That will
eliminate three-fourths OF ou1
troubles. Drink Ia the soldiers worst
enemy.
4 The american Medical Association
has declared by resolution
i ALCOHOL i wholly without drn6