THE JOURNAL Supplement.
Vol. 6.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1906.
The Saloon and the Blind Tiger Must Go.
TEN RKASi’NS WHY WE SHOULD VOTK
A i ■ A INST LH'KNSK.
1st. The -aloon is h dirty, vile. in<)ui
tious place, a breeder and fosterer of
crime, the greatest ally of the Devil and
the wide open door to Hell,
•d. The saloons demoralize citizen
ship, Tliey try to destroy the best citi
zens and too often succeed. They work
hard on boys. They give whiskey to
them Ijecause they know it means dol
lars in the saloon cash di wers after
awhile. They Itegin earlv aid work all
tin time to corrupt men, \ unen and!
children.
•!rd. The saloon cormpt> polities. We j
hear the cry of corrupt politics on every I
hand. The principal agency therefor is 1
the saloon.
4th. The saloon is an expense and
not a source of profit to the city, county’,
state and nation. True they pay license.
But the license is not a “drop in the
bucket" compared to the expense. Strike
the balance sheet any time, anywhere.
The mere money figure will tell the tale.
Pile on top of this the loss of manhood,
the loss i f legitimate business, the woes
and heart aches of widows and orphans
which they make, and the result is ap
palling.
nth. The saloon diverts money from
the legitimate channels of trade and
places it in the hands ef gamblers, dive
keepers, wholesale liquor dealers, mur
derers and the like. A dollar spent for
sugar, coffee, meat, cotton goods or any
useful commodity, goes on its way do- j
ing good and making happy the one :
who buys and the one who sells. But
the largest part of a dollar spent for
whiskey is forever taken from the legiti
mate channels of trade and leaves for
the buyer and his family nothing but
sorrow tears, anguish, poverty and
death.
t>tn. i he saloon has proven itselt un
controllable by the officers of the law
Some say the saloon is better than the
blind tigei because the saloon is under j
the control of the Police Department !
The truth is the saloons too often control j
our Police Department. They care not j
for law. They violate it at will, week
day and Sunday. They successfully
handle the police department so that the j
police department does not bother them
much, Some time before election, or
during some moral wave spasm, they
get brave and talk about ‘‘putting on
the lid,’ but the “lid” is off far more
than it is on.
7th. A moral sentiment that will
v< te the saloon out will keep it out. A
Blind Tiger is an outlaw and a coward,
a vile, dirty, mean, low down coward.
All it takes to put a Blind Tiger out of
business is one good, brave officer. Then
with a good, moral sentiment to back
him it is a very easy matter to do away
the tiger.
8th. The saloon is the greatest enemy
of our homes. They tear bo\ s from
mother's hearts and semi them to hell.
They turn fathers into brutes and de
mons. They rob girls of virtue. Thej
turn widows and orphans homeless and j
friendless to die. They take everything j
that is sacred and dear from home life '
and leave nothing but woe, despair and
death.
ittli. The saloon is the enemy of the !
church of God. Why pray “thy King
dom come” and then vote for the great |
est enemy the Kingdom basin the world, j
The time has come when every member j
and sympathizer of the church must '
rise and say by his vote the saloon must
go.
10th. A vote against license is a vote ;
for honest electa ns, good government,
prosperous business and happy homes.
Let the voters of Independence county
increase its majority against license on
election day.
SALOON KKKPKR TKLLS THE TRUTH.
A former correspondent of the Argus \
who is now in Poughkeepsie, New York,
sends the Argus the following which I
appeared in the New York American
under date given. If there is an incor
rect utterance in it, the Argus would
like to know it.
Tombstone, Ariz.. May 27.—Tomb
stone claims to have the frankest saloon i
keeper in the United States.
He keeps the Temple Bar saloon and j
advertise* his business in a remarkable
manner.
“Friends and Neighbor* l am grate
fill for past favors, and having supplied
my store with a full line of choice li I
quors, allow me to inform you that 1 !
' shall continue to make drunkards, pun
pt-rs, and beggars for the sober, iudus
triouH, res jaw table part of the communi
ty to support. My liquors will excite
riot, robbery and “bloodshed,” read the
large cards he has had printed.
“They will diminish your comforts,
increase your expenses and shorten life.
I shall confidently recommend them as
sure to multiply fatal accidents and in
curable diseases.
• They will deprive some of life, others
of reason, many of character and all of
oeace. They will make fathers fiends,
wives widows, children orphans and all
x >r.
"I will train your sons in infidelity,
dissipation, ignorance, lewdness and
every other vice. I will corrupt the
ministers of religion, obstruct the gas
pel, defile the Church, and cause as
much temporal and eternal death as 1
can.
"I will thus ‘accommodate the public’
—it may be at the loss of my never dy
ing soul. But 1 have a family to sup
port the business pays and the public
encourages it.
"1 have paid my license and the traffic
is lawful, and if I don’t sell it somebody
will. I know the Bible says: “Thou
shalt not kill." ‘no drunkard shall enter
the kingdom of heaven,’ and 1 do not ;
expect the drunkard maker to fare any !
better, but I want an easy living and 1
have resolved to gather the wages of in- j
iquity and fatten on the ruin of my spe-1
cies.
“1 shall, therefore, carry on my busi
ness with energy and do my best to di
minish the wealth of the nation and en- '
danger the safety of the state. As my \
business flourishes in proportion to!
your sensibility and ignorance. I will do
my best to prevent moral purity and in
tellectual growth.
“Should you doubt my ability, I refer
you to the pawnshops, the poor house,
the police court, the hospitals, and the
penitentiary and the gallows where you
will find many of the best customers
have gone.
“A sight of them will convince you
that I do what I say
“Allow me to inform yon that you
are fools and that I am an honest saloon
keeper.’ Brinkley Argus.
THE VOTERS DUTY.
Allow me to call the attention of the
voters of Arkansas to a matter of inter
est to them just now.
At the time of the earthquake, San
Francisco, Cal . contained more saloons
to its size perhaps than any other city
in the world. There was a saloon for
every one hundred of its inhabitants.
Scarcely was the earthquake shock
over before the authorities ordered all j
saloons closed
As the refugees fled to other towns j
and cities, as a protection to their inter- j
ests as well as to the community, the sa- |
loons were closed in those towns also.
Now thf leading newspapers are sing- 1
ing the praise of prohibition. An object ;
lesson has been given that is being seen
and felt all over the State, and the salu
tary effect bitls fair to be far reaching.
After trying prohibition two weeks i
the San Francisco Chronicle said: “San
Francisco for the past fortnight has!
been absolutely free from disorder and !
virtually free from crimes of violence, j
There have been no street brawls. No
drunken brute has beaten his wife. No
gamblers have murdered each other in j
low resorts. Except with some dealings
with sneak thieves, the occupation of
the police courts is gone. It is a most
impressive object lesson of the value to
society of the restriction of the liquor
traffic. We are promised a continuance
of this peaceful condition for a consider
able time to come, save only as drunken |
men may drift over from Oakland. We j
maybe compelled to renew the quaran
tine against Oakland. This absolute
demonstration that the saloons are re
sponsible for all crimes of violence
makes it imperative that, whenever
they shall be allowed to reopen in this
city their license fees be fixed at a rate !
which will support the police depart
ment.”
The San Francisco Examiner, after a
month of prohibition, speaks as follow:
“Recently San Francisco has had the
pleasure of going without saloons. The
change has been a valuable lesson in the
responsibilities of the saloon and the
part of the city's burden it should bear.
Crime has almost disappeared, though
the opportunities for crime have been
enormously increased. Because of this
salutory effect of closing the saloons,
the mayor and police commissioners
have withdrawn all saloon licenses and
ordered the saloons to remain closed in
definitely. When these saloons are per
mitted to reopen, they should be forced
to pay a license tax of at least one thou
sand dollars a year two bundled and
fifty dollars a quarter. That will make
whiskey a’*d beer liear part of the bur
dens they impose on the city govern
ment not their proportion, lmt some
thing more reasonable than the present
paltry contribution "
l call the attention af our taxpayers
| to the statement of the Examiner (a pa
per riot favorable to prohibition) that a
one thousand dollar city tax on each sa
loon will not pay the burden it imposes
on the city.
I quote from political papers two sug
gestive items as follows:
The money spent iu the saloons of St.
Louis, Mo., last year would build 7,000
homes costing .$1,000 each, put $700
worth of furniture iu every home, ten
tons of coal in every cellar, $70 worth of
groceries in every pantry, give each
family a bank account of $7,200, and
there would be $730,000 unspent. Edi
torial iu St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Look at this: Three beers a day for a
year would bring into your home one
barrel of flour, fifty pounds of sugar,
twelve pounds of cornstarch, ten pounds
of maccaroni, ten quarts of beans, four
twelve-pound hams, one bushel of sweet
potatoes, ten pounds of coffee, ten
pounds of raisins, ten pounds of rice,
twenty pounds of crackers, 100 bars of
soap, three twelve-pound turkeys, five
quarts of cranberries, ten bunches ot j
celery, ten pounds of prunes, four dozen
of oranges and twenty five good beef |
steaks.- Chicago Tribune.
DOKS IT PA Y?
Does it pay to lieense a traffic which
lessens the demand for the helpful
things of life, which increases tiieir!
cost and diminishes the ability to pay
for them?
Does it pay to license a traffic which
makes men less skillful, less steady, less
reliable, which lessens credit, lessens
the demand for food, clothing, shelter
and tools with which to work?
Does it pay to license a traffic which
breeds idiots, paupers, criminals, luna- i
tics and epileptics and casts them upon
society to be supported by industrious i
people?
Does it pay to license a traffic which ;
increases taxes by creating a demand
for jails, penitentiaries, asylums, hos-1
pitals, almshouses, orphanages, reform
atories, police and criminal courts?
Does it pay to license a thing which
decreases a man’s industrial efficiency
so that the government reports,show
that 72 j>er cent of agriculturists dis
criminate against him for using it and
that 70 per cent of manufacturers, 8*
per cent of tradesmen and 1)0 per cent
of railroad officials do the same thing?
Does it pay to support the families of
saloon keepers and bartenders and pay !
their rents, taxes, insurance and buy
luxuries for them in order to get a few
pennies of our many dollars back in !
revenue and license?
Does it pay to build a palace for the i
brewer, hire servants and buy silks for
his wife and dress your own wife in
rags, make her take in washing to suit
port the family and finally send her to
the poor house and bury her in the
potter's field?
Does it pay-to lexy a tax to support
orphans and widows and license the
murder of husbands and fathers? Does
it pay to license a thing which is always
and everywhere known to be the enemy
of everything which is sacred to God
and man?
Does it pay to listen to the sophicsies
and falsehoods of passion, prejudice, !
ignorance, up petite and greed and close
our ears to the voice of conscience,reason,
judgment, suffering, religion and God?
Why not vote against license and
thereby rid our State of the accursed
traffic? It is argued that the sale can
not be stopped. I reply that it was
stopped in Hot Springs at the time of
the big fire, and it was stopped in San
Francisco. If it can be stopped tem
porarily it can be stopped permanently.
Such an excuse is unworthy of any but
a coward or an anarchist. Our moral
and financial fluty is to vote against
license.
John Borns’ Appeal to Workingmen.
Mr. Burns, the foremost labor leader
in England, who holds an lD1 ;,nt
cabinet position in the new go f
of the English empire, is an ,,
peranee reformer. In his lx ’ ■ t,,j.
•‘Labor and Drink,” he makes the
lowing appeal to workiuginem
1 urge yon to remember that i■
idleness, vulgar misuse <> i j tFet'
frivolty, gambling, and cyn^"1 Jant
ence are growing amongst ”, vern
upper classes who presume by'
von. These tendencies, i ^oped.
devolving upon the
efficiency, tour
cmvernltlf
you.
mean
classes greater power,
age, and character. I hose r. ,
virtues are incompatible with •
drunkenness, or the disord'i- -
capacity that spring from them.
I appeal to you, the best. bera.w
you aie the freest, and in many i»*|h «
the greatest working class in the "“* •
to renounce drink, liecanse 1 "j
your walking quickly, boldh. a'.>* !!
lv the straight but narrow path that1
dividuals, classes, and "ations m
tread if they wish to reach the goal t
personal health, social happme".
luunal culture, and national greatm- •
Mv experience of the workshop. tn<
street, the asylum, the jail have given
me exceptional opportunities of seem.,
the ravages of alcohol. My partu ipa
tion in many of the greatest labm mo •
merits of the present generation ha.,
enabled me to witness how drinking
WHY HE BECAME A TEMPERANCE M AN.
What made a noted Buffalo gentle
man such a temperance man was the
fact that a boy, who brought to his
home a parcel of clothes that lie li e
purchased at a tailoring establishment,
in reply to the question, "How are on
making out ;" replied, “Father is deao.
and now mother and myself will he
able to get along nicely. That boy
had a history that we Miicerely hope
few boys have. His father was a man
who lived to get drunk and regalded
not the wants of his family. Xenia
Gazette.
And Arkansas has her sons who need
relief. Put the saloon so far away that
no child’s father will la* victimized
again.
ONE OF BEECHER'S BEST.
“It is just like this,' he said, “Sup
pose there is a precipice out by the
schoolhouse where many children are
assembled. Suppose that halt way
down that precipice there is a spring (
that I especially enjoy, and strong man
that I am, 1 can go down there safely
by a narrow path dangerous to many
but not to me. Suppose that the chil
dren are determined to go down there
after me and won't believe the path is
dangerous stnce tl^v see that I tread it
with impunity, t^tue of them that try
it fall and break their necks, and others
are lamed for life. Now what sort of a
man, much more what sort of a Chris
tian should I be. if, under these circum
stances,'I persisted in going down that
dangerous path? Nav. verily, if I have
one particle of magnanimity of soul, if
I had been at all taught of Christ. 1
should put a good strong fence across
that path and never tread it any more. "
Build the fence by voting against
license.
WANTED BOYS.
At a meeting of the State Liquor
Dealers of Ohio, Columbus, O., one of
the delegates, in the course of a speech
on “How to Build Up the Saloon Busi
ness,'' gave the following suggestions
“The success of our business is de
pendent largeh- upon the creation of
appetite for drink. Men who drink
liquor, like others, will die, and if there
is no new appetite created our counters
will be empty as well as our differs.
Our children will go hungry, or we must
change our business to that of some
other more remunerative. The open
field for the creation < f appetite is among
the boys. After men have grown and
their habits are formed they rarely ever
change in this regard. It will lie need
fnl, therefore, that missionary work be
done among the boys, and 1 make the
suggestion, gentlemen, that nickles ex
pended in treats to the boys will return
in dollars to your tills after the appetite
has been formed. Above all things
create appetite."
Statistics show that to maintain liquor
traffic at present prosperity twelve Ws
must become drunkards every hour.
Do you want to furnish one of them?
One home out of every five must furnish
one.