The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-11-03

needed more now than ever."-Ed.
1--WE are thinking of those days when
women gathered around the mill doors
on Saturdays in order to get the pay
envelopes away from their husbands
before they reached the barrooms up
town.
1--WE are thinking of the wan and
tired looking women and pitiful and
hungry children who appeared at mill
offices every Monday morning with the
same old story, that the husband had
not meant to waste all of his pay, but
had come home drunk and without a
cent and that there was no food in
the house
1--WE are thinking of the operatives
who were always missing on Monday
morning, and of those who appeared
with shaky nerves, and of the inefic-
lent work of many who could hardly
keep going.
I'VE are thinking of the days when
the state sold whiskey in South Caro-
lima and the diSpenSarieS, as they were
called, Stunk unto high heaven because
of the graft and corruption which
surrounded them.
1--WE are thinking of 1913, during
which we made an accurate check,
and probably of other years, when
over half of the superintendent lost
their jobs, most discharges being for
excessive drinking.
'We are thinking of many of the
greatest of the old-time superintendent
who toppled from high positions be-
cause of whiSkey.
I'VE are thinking of one of the most
pitiful spectacleS we ever saw, the ap-
pearance at our Office of a man, the
one-time, top-notch superintendent OF
the South, but a victim of whiskey
and of his pleading with us to get him
a job as second hand. in carding o.
even as a card grinder.
1--WE are thinking of the fact thai
from the day whiskey was outlawet
the savings deposits of the working
people began to climb, and we are also
thinking of the modern propaganda tt
the effect the greatest Of all economic
losses, the pouring of a dollars worth
of whiSkey down a mans throat, is
justified if it produces two cents worth
of tax money.
I'VE are thinking of the twenty-five
or more men we have seen Sprawling
dead drunk, in cutters within one block
of the center of the city of Charlotte
and of the fact that ladies did not
dare to come up town on Saturday
afternoon because of the multitude OF
intoxicated men.
1--WE are thinking of drunken and
shouting farmers starting home on
Saturday afternoons with horses on a
dead run, and we are wondering what
would have happened had they been
driving automobiles.
I'VE are thinking of the several times
we have heard pistols crack and seen
bloody men plunge through the swing
ing doors of barrooms and fall upon
sidewalks.
I'VE are thinking of the political
rings operated by the owners of bar
rooms and of the elections won by the
use of liquor, and are doubling if the
modern gangster is much worse.
I'VE are thinking of the days when
the burden of misery and suffering
and wrecked lives became so great that
even the influence and money and
whiSkey of the barrooom rings could
not stem the tide and when in the
record-breaking time of two years
forty-six of the forty-eight states con-
firmed a constitutional amendment
approving the outlawing of whiskey.
I'VE are thinking of the fact that as
lax as has been prohibition enforce
ment and as bad as been conditions
recently, no constructive suggestion
has been brought forward and nothing
better has been offered
I'VE are thinking how we would like
to get the advocates of the repeal of
prohibition to write out some of their
statements and assertions and sign
them, for there will be days when such
statements must stand the test.
I'VE are thinking and realizing that
we are on our way back to the day of
dispensary and ultimately the barroom,