Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-17

was approved by the highest authori-
| ties of the land / should willingly
close and suffer my share of the loss
with the others.
The moving picture houses have
been closed and as good loyal citizens
they should, suppose, figuratively
speaking, take the bread and butter
| from the mouths of their little ones
to satisfy this clamorous bunch.
The barber who is compelled to
render from twelve to sixteen hours of
| daily service for a mere existence,
| land scanty one at tnat) is forced to
lose the remunerative part of HIS days
work.
The saloon and the pool joint suffer
| heavily. want it distinctly under
stood that l am not a saloon or pool
room man and will lend my influence
toward the legal adjustment of both
institutions. But just as long as both
are licensed by our governmental an
thorities, just so long will I stand for
their legal rights to transact business.
We have many good, wholesome. loyal
citizens who are in the business to
earn a living for their families and
then we have others WHO encourage
late hours and dissipation to such an
extent that these institutions as
whole become menace to the public
welfare. They are non-essential in
situations and the arguments offered
for their existence should be swept
into Oblivion just as the vice propa-
ganda was discarded ny military au-
thorities of the government when the
war started with Germany.
Unjust Discrimination.
Why should the public health DE
guarded by closing only a part of the
industries? Why should the death of
an employee at the Paper Mill or
Sash & Door Factory make it abso-
lutely necessary to close the Business
College and few more uptown
places of business? Why not close the
Paper Mills and the Sash & Door Fac,
tory and other institutions where the
trouble has existed? Close your mer-
camille establishments and stop their
advertising to the Daily Record-how
long would they run? Just how soon
would the malady be placed under
complete control? Is their ventilation
equal to or better than the Opera
House or the schools? Why not close
the "Wausau Club? Is that place i'm
mune or exempt from spreading the
disease any more than the Elks club
and other lodges? Close your dry
goods stores, your banks, law offices
and every place of business. We are
all equals in the hour of distress and
under the constitution of the United
States. Treat us all alike. We are
American citizens and demand equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none. If this were done it would take
less than twenty-four hours to bring
the malady under complete control"
1t depends on whose pocket-book is
hit whether or not a closing is de-
manded. Have these clamorists stayed
home from their offices to help allay
the spread of the disease? Have the
wheels of industry in which they are
interested stopped? Not on your life!
And they don't intend to have such
conditions exist. The closing PROPOSE
ton to appease public conscience" is
all right as long as they can pass the
hardship on some poor fellow who can
i'll afford to bear the burden. This
hagrant discrimination against such
small percentage of business interests
should cease and cease at once. Why
is the disease catching after six
o'clock and not before? Is it a night
prowler?
If the public welfare really demands
the closing of all business let it be
done and we will do our part and as
sumo our part of the loss. If the pub
lie welfare really demands the closing
of a small portion of the business in
tereStS let 1t be closed but follow the
good example of the United States
Government when it took charge of
the railroads, the telegraph and the
carrying traffic on the ocean. They
guaranteed a normal profit on the
stock.
If the city welfare demands the clos
ing of my business, l am perfectly
willing to close providing I am re-
munerated to the extent of my loss.
This holds true with all others af-
fected. Ii the public is benefited let
the public pay the cost of this benefit
by placing it in the tax roll. 1t is
where it belongs. If the clamorist
bunch do not want it in the tax roll,
let them dig down and pay this ex-
pense by remunerating those who are
affected
The following figures were taken
by Mr.. c. S. Cone and a witness at 8
p. m. Saturday, Dec. Ia, which gives
the number of people in business
places at that time:
Fair Store, 72.
Winklemans, 116.
Decent Store, ia.
Rohde, %.
Heinemans, "a.
Secors, Is,
Postoffice, AZ,
KingsbuTy's, 80,
Wright, II,
Leader, 1872.
Saloons
Magnet, Q; Fred Brandt, 10; Bells,
5; Cawley, 25; N. Gender, z; street
car leaving for the West Side, is.
The possibility of spreading this
plague seems more sure in a place
where the same goods are handled by
thousands daily, where garments are
tried on by several people before
purchase is made, and where there is
no ventilation whatever, than in
place like the Grand Opera House,
which is aired out daily, and air
changed every eight to ten minutes,
or in school building where this is
the first thought of architects. Why
are these places singled out and made
to suffer?
Public Hysteria.
The public press has put forth every
effort to inform the public of the ill eff
fects of the present influenza cpl
demic. The reporters fairly hot
footed it from one place to another in
order to gather information and give