Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — GOODLAND “DRIES" HAVE THEIR DANDER UP. [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND “DRIES" HAVE THEIR DANDER UP.

Remonstrance Cards Against Saloons ■ Have Been Stolen From the Auditor’s Office. Some temperance people at Goodland decided last week to make a fight against the continuance of saloons in that town' and to employ the remonstrance means of getting rid of the saljflk Some of the leaders went to kJHm to consult the remonstrance caWWed there with Auditor Purkey four years ago and to use the information contained in these cards as a working basis for their fight. Greatly to their surprise, only 32 of the cards could be found and these were signed for the most part .by people who had since died or moved away. This will make the work of getting signatures much harder, as there is no other roster of the temperance people and the leaders will have to start in new and go all over the work again. As the remonstrance Will have to be filed by Wednesday, it will keep the people who oppose the saloons on the jump to find enough signers. Saloons have been at Goodlapd for the past year and the experience has been anything but good from a moral standpoint and has been no trade advantage, according to Goodland people who have visited Rensselaer. The remonstrance cards were kept at a place where they could be consulted by the public and it would not be a difficult matter for some one to go in the auditor’s office and steal the cards. As they were apparently carefully sorted and only those left that would prove of no benefit, it is presumed that the cards were stolen by some friend of the saloons. The act has fired the zeal of the temperance people and it is presumed that they will make a determined effort to free Goodland of saloons.