Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1906 — CONDITIONS MISREPRESENTED [ARTICLE]

CONDITIONS MISREPRESENTED

Morocco Courier Denies Allegations of Jasper County Liquor Organs. Tho Morocco Courier l —and it ought to know—defies the etate-

ment published in the two pronounced liquor organs of this county that drinking and drunkenness, etc., is much worse in Morocco now than since the town went “dry.” There is a cold storage joint there?, says the Courier, but the statement that cases of beer are bought and publicly drank about on the streets is absolutely false and has never been heard of there, neither do the business men keep booze on tap in their places of business where their friends can help themselves free gratis. Any paper that wants to be fair in this matter, and has not been subsidized by the liquor interests, would publish some of the items that appear in their exchanges from the “dry” towns that show the conditions now to be much better than when they were “wet,” but if any person in Jasper county has ever saw anything in either

of these papers that was in any way favorable to the anti-saloon cause now is his time to stand up and be heard.