Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — ANTI-SALOON MEET AT GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

ANTI-SALOON MEET AT GOODLAND

Benton, Jar per, Newton and White Counties to Unite for Additional Temperance Legislation. Dr. B. W. Pratt, of Goodland, was in Rensselaer Wednesday on business connected with an effort that will be made to have the coming legislature ' enact additional temperance laws, to effectually shut oat the five-gallon joint or wholesaler, where the people have remonstrated the licensed saloon oat. A meeting -will be held at Goodland next Tuesday, to which there will be representatives from the “dry” districts of Benton, Jbbper, Newton and White counties, to take this matter up, decide what legislation will be asked for, and discuss mothods of law enforcement, etc. Under the present law, be says, many communities are cursed with these “wholesale” joints after they have driven the licensed saloons out, and while many prominent attorneys agree that they are illegal even under the present laws, it is difficult to suppress them, and the temperance people want a law that there can be no question about. Another feature that will be asked for is that giving counties the right to remonstrate as a county as well as by oity wards and towns. Benton, it is pointed out, is “dry” exoept for one little insignificant

town oalled Freeland, which could easily be made dry by a county remonstrance feature. No doubt but all the saloons in northern Jasper and Newton counties would be wiped out with such a law. Goodland has raised $1,950 for temperance work and the antisaloon people there are going at the matter in a systematic way. They think that with the four counties here uniting in the fight for additional legislation along the lines above mentioned, it will have its effect on our own legislators and in securing what is asked for, in view of the fact that the antisaloon league of the state will ask for suoh legislation as a body,