Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 102, 10 March 1914 — Page 6

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1914 WILL HELP LABORERS

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Dramatic News and Comment

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kE4w. A. Pefltman, A. I Jnktos, O. O. Ijsalllnger, Edgar Norris, Jno. Y. Poundstone, J. F. Hornaday, R. B. Jones, Frank I. Braffett, Hans N. Koll, C. E. Thomason. Geo. H. Dilks, Fred Kennedy, C. A: Blair, W. H. Comtains, M. L. Kirkman, W. I Morgan, iHerman Pardieck. Insurance Geo. H. Eggemeyer, chairman, A. W. Gregg, vice-chairman, W. J. Robblna, O. P. Nufibaum, E. M. Campfield, Oren Miller, B. B. Johnson, W, F. Starr. Public Health "W. H. Qnigg. chairman, Dr. -A. L. Bramkamp. vice-chairman. Dr. Chas. Marvel, Dr. Geo. B. Hunt. Paul I Ross. Legislation John L. Rupe, chairman. Dr. S. E. Smith, vice-chairman, Timothy Nicholson, E. G. McMahan, C. W. Caldwell, D. W. Dennis. Taxation Fred H. Lemon, chairman. L. S. Bowman, vice-chairman, B. B. Myrick, A. N. Chamness, Chas. E. Shiveley, E. F. Hiatt, W. O. Wlssler. Program S. E. Swayne, chairman, J. T. Giles, vice-chairman, Rev. J. S. Lightbourn. Homes Richard Sedgwick, chairman, W. S. Kaufman, vice-chairman, Dr. S. C. Markley, Frank Steinkamp, Henry J- Pohlmeyer, John Burdsall, Harry Hodgin, J. F. Cronin, Frank I. Reed, A. J. Harwood, E. G. Kemper. Steam Railroads Pettis A. Reid, chairman, B. T. Hill, vice-chairman.

C. H. Kramer, w. H. Kienker, F. o. Chambers, Conrad S. Heet, Ira C. Wood,- Chas. A. McGuire. Electric Railroads Theo. H. Hill, chairman, Adam H. Bartel, vice-chairman, Samuel Fred, J. M. Judson, Henry Steins, E. M. Haas, F. M. Taylor. W. H. Kelley. Good Roads Levi C. Peacock, chairman, Perry J. Freeman, vicechairman, Fred Bethard, Harry C. Foster, Dr. E. R- Churchill, H. M. Kramer, G. F. McCurdy. Entertainment Chas. D. Slifer, chairman, John Zwissler, vice-chairman, John B. Hegger. Manufacturers James A. Carr, chairman, Abe Lewis, N. H. Campbell, John M. Lontz, Harry Gennett. Retail Merchants H. C. Hasemeler, chairman, W. M. Penny, vice-chairman, J. M. Seaney, Geo. Fox, Henry Mather, Walter McConaha, Clem Thistlethwaite, Philip Birck. Advertising Wm. H. Romey, chairman, Fred J. Bartel, vice-chairman, Wm. M. Bailey, J. F. Hasemeler, Walker Land, Chas. H. Igelman, Stephen Kuth, E. F. Warfel, Harry Pinnick, Harry Doan, Gath Freeman, Dudley Elmer, H. V. McLelland, O. G. Whelan, E. E. Eggemeyer, W. Z. Carr, Warren Clements, A. E. Holmes. Civic Improvements Jno. F. Mc Carthy, chairman, J. F. Thompson, vice-chairman, C. B. Hunt, H. L. Monarch, J. H. Johnson, Geo. W. Mansfield, Geo. von Carleson, Jos. H. Hill, D. W. Stevenson, H. S. Weed. Municipal Research William D. Foulke, chairman, Edgar A. Fisher, vice-chairman, P. A. Reid, Timothy Nicholson, R. G. Leeds. W. H. Bates, Jonas Gaar, W. P. Robinson, A. M. Gardner, N. C. Heironimus, Dr. C. E. Bond. Welfare John M. Lonte, chairman, Paul Comstock, vice-chairman, Elbert Russell. Fred G. White, Folger P. Wilson, Robt. Randle, Harry Goodwin, John E. Peltz, Geo. R. Gause, D. S. Brown, Rev. W. J. Cronin, W. A. Bond, Dr. N. S. Cox.

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T have a little boy who is the pride of my heart, -s Some day he will be coming over here to the high school. As things exist now he must pass twenty or thirty saloons to get to that place. The saloon with its damning influence is likely to get my boy. I haven't any assurance that he will be different from other young men and be able to fight off the saloon's influence."- President Robert L. Kelly. . ii?.3ijaJ

President Kelly has raised the most important issue of the

Brought up to shun playing cards, does he play his first game in a public card room, or in the haymow or at the "swiming hole"? Use a little common sense in this campaign. Boys don't begin to drink because they are vicious. They take their first drink because of social instincts, because of the spirit of comradeship that animates every boy worth a .continental. They take their first drink and their second and a great many others only because they are with other boys. And boys do not congregate or drink in the licensed saloons of Richmond. The boys don't want to and the saloons won't let them.

The agencies' that will lead President Kelly's boy and your

campaign from the moral standpoint What of the rising gener- j boy to drink, if they are to be led, are the agencies that would ation. There is absolutely no defense of any business, amusement, ! be multiplied and fastened upon this community as surely as 3 u 1 i.1 j. l .-, jj . j j j i i 2.1 ...J.1. xl. ' a i a. a a i it i i t i 1 1

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land. So, to my mind, the 'most important moral issue in this campaign is: which will be better for the rising generation in Richmond, the sale of intoxicating liquor under the regulations we now have or its sale under the conditions that would prevail

under a dry regime. 1 Let us look at the facts, Do the licensed saloons of Richmond sell to minors and entice boys into their places of business ? No! Do they run low dives in connection with their saloons? No ! Do they run gambling dens in connection with their saloons ? No! Do they run wine room or "private" rooms in connection with their saloons, where girls may be taken and plied with drink or where boys may be permitted to drink without being seen by the authorities or by the other patrons of the saloon? No! If any man disputes this, let him make his own investigation and verify it. If any anti-saloon League speaker or writer disputes this, let him name the saloon in Richmond that does this thing. Wilfred Jessup, former prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, is attorney for the "drys" in this fight. I call upon him to deny these statements if they are not true. The present prosecutor, Mr. William Reller, is not beholden to the saloon men. They did not elect him. He has served over a year. It will be easy for the dry forces to get testimony from him upon this subject and contradict me if I do not speak the truth. The record of the grand jury indictments and affidavits filed are open to the dry forces. Let them publish them and see how much of the debauching of youth in this city is due and has been due to the licensed saloons. Five years ago I was wet. The one, big deciding factor that made me wet was the history of the liquor business in relation to the boys of the city. I knew the licensed saloons were obeying the laws. I ew so! Jong as they stood in the shadow of the local option law they would always obey the laws. I knew the only places in the city at that time where boys were able to procure liquor, where they were enticed and debauched were "blind tigers." The most notorious "blind tiger" at that time, and the most notorious "blind tiger" this city ever knew, was run by a hotel proprietor who also ran a saloon in connection with his hotel.

In his saloon, which was under the law, he didn't permit

ing the law and not permitting boys or girls to enter their places. This is God's truth, and every man as he soberly weighs this question and every mother, as she soberly weighs this question should realize what they are doing when they vote out the regulation of the sale of liquor and vote in its unrestricted, unregulated sale by the most vicious class of scoundrels who ever ruined boys and debauched girls! That is just exactly what has happened in every state and every community that has voted out the regulated saloon. It is just what will happen in this community if the city goes "dry" in the belief that it is getting rid of the liquor traffic.

The amount of whiskey consumed increases in direct proportion to the growth of dry territory. And if this is such a poor, rum-soaked city that would be better off without a strictly regulated liquor traffic, and Marion. Indiana, is such a thriving, prosperous community with its "dry" territory, why did the Marion business men come all the way to Richmond to find out why their city is dead and this city i3 the best in the state? "If it were not for the saloon you policemen would lose your jobs and you know it." Rev. Hobson. Absolutely the last word in piffle! Haven't prohibition Kansas and Maine policemen? Haven't Marion, Kokomo, Crawfordsville and Greencastle policemen? It is a fair sample of the fiction palmed off by every Anti-Saloon League speaker.

REMEMBER THE PREDICTIONS OF THE "DRYS" FIVE YEARS AGO? HOW DO THEY SOUND IN VIEW OF WHAT HAS REALLY HAPPENED? Rev Tillman Hobson made a terrific indictment, and probably a true one, of the licensed saloon as it exists in California. But the shoe doesn't fit the licensed saloon as it exists in Richmond, Indiana. The Rev. Hobson told how the saloon keeper in Richmond was protesting against obeying the laws, against closing on Sundays and holidays. Rev. Hobson was either uninformed or mis-

minors, he didn't girls or women, he didn't permit selling after

hours or on Sunday He didn't do it because he knew if he did it j informed, as is generally the case with every Anti-Saloon league

meant his business. He didn't do it because. he knew the regulations regarding the conduct of his saloon were specific and stringent. But in the "blind tiger" he operated, he permitted and invited all of the things he didn't dare do as a licensed saloon keeper. It was a veritable hell hole. He started more boys to drinking in that place than ten times all the saloons in the city put together! Why? Let us get at the reason of it! Were you ever a boy? Do you know the processes of a boy's mind? We mean the average boy, the boy, who like President Kelly's boy, is raised in a family that teaches it is wrong

and dangerous to drink; the boy who has by virtue of his edu

speaker.

The Anti-Saloon league forces in this city know the raloons here do not disobey the laws. They know the liquor traffic is regulated in Richmond to the letter and the spirit of the law. There isn't a local man connected with the "dry" fight in any capacity who dares make the public statement or the written statement for publication that the licensed saloons of Richmond are guilty of even trying to violate the laws not only the laws governing closing, but all other laws governing the conduct of saloons. The regulation of the sale of liquor, has reached high tide in this city and it has been kept there for years by the, saloon keepers themselves. Five years ago, when these same

cation and religious training been warned against the evils of j conditions existed, the "drys" claimed it was only temporary

drinking and has had it dinned into his ears for years to shun ! It was asserted that should the city and county vote "wet" the saloon as he would a mad dog? Were you ever this kind! there would be a regular saturnalia of crime in the city. Men of a boy? ias eloquent and misguided as Rev. Hobson depicted how women Were you brought up with the conviction that the saloon j would not be safe on the streets, how drunken men would fill was the threshold to bad character, broken health, loss of friends, the sidewalks, how boys would be lured to ruin, how poverty

inability to hold your job, failure and utter ruin and that for

you to be seen entering a saloon was a sign of shame no less disgraceful than to be seen in public with a harlot? How many of such boys do you think begin their drinking by going into a licensed saloon? How many boys with this kind of training fling their years of teaching to the winds and disregard the danger of being seen entering a public, licensed, well lighted saloon and of meeting some one in there that they know? Add to this the knowledge that if he is caught he is arrested, for the laws in this city are enforced! Add to that the fact that the saloon keepers in this city won't sell to a minor if they know it! In the face of these facts, just how much danger is there to President Kelly's boy, and to, your boy, in passing public,

well-regulated, law-abiding saloons?

would stalk, the poorhouses be filled, the criminal docket crowded and business would suffer because men would spend all their money for "booze". You remember those predictions, don't you? Well, what do you think of them now in the light of the last five years? At that election you gave the licensed saloon keepers of Richmond permission to continue business with the pledge on their part that they would obey the laws fixed for their regulation, that they would observe their end of the contract as set forth in their license. Haven't they kept their pledge? Haven't they kept their hands off of politics? .Has there been any evidence here of the "saloon keeper in politics" trying to get a prosecutor who would wink at the law violations, trying to get county commissioners who would grant licenses to men unfit to hold them.

Lay aside your prejudices, men of Richmond, look the truth trying to elect sheriffs who would permit them to be lawless.

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irying 10 comroi ine pouce department so mat laws could De violated ? Not a sign, and there is not a local man connected with the "dry" forces in this fight who dares say so publicly. The church people, the "dry" people, have been allowed to elect whatever officials they wished. That fact alone proves the laws have been obeyed without a murmur by the licensed saloons.

Contrast that situation with the situation in counties and

in the face and answer on your honor: does the boy start wrong

by flaunting his vices in the face of the public with the abandon of an old stager? Is the public, law-abiding saloon, with a public bar and no "private" rooms a temptation to the youth? Is it the public saloon of this city or the "blind tiger" that is a menace to the youth? Is it the open saloon on Main street or any public

street, where the public may see him enter, where the boy's

neighbors may see him enter, where his girl friends may see ; cities that voted "dry" and immediately a invited horde of law him enter, the menace to the son of President Kelly and to your J violators to begin business. The liquor issue has mussed up, son, or is it the "blind tiger" clothed with the respectability of j mixed up and biased every city and county fight. Men desirous a hotel cafe, or the rear room of a cigar store, or the back room I of illegally selling liquor organized and traded and dickered to of a drug store, or just the cozy "boys' club" room? get prosecutors and police forces and judges. Which is the menace to the boys the licensed saloon, well-' Before you vote for such conditions, sit down and calmly regulated, with the proprietor and bar-tender watchful that no ! review the past five years of the regulation of the liquor traffic minors enter and place their business in jeopardy, the licensed! in Richmond. Review it as you know it not as some Antisaloon publicly located, publicly labeled, without disguise or con- j Saloon League orator from California, Massachusetts or Oklacealment, or the place where the boy can get a drink "on thejhoma pictures it. Let facts, not fiction, determine your vote, quiet" just to show he is "game" or to prove he is "sociable" and j The saloons in California may be corrupt as hell. If they are, yet not run the risk of being seen, exposed or arrested ? In which i they should go ! But this isn't California. You are not voting

pit is the youth most likely to fall ?

It is the same with a boy whether it be liquor, tobacco or gambling. Brought up to shun smoking does he begin by lighting a cigar and going down the public streets where all may see him, or does he slip in some back room, or to the woods?

against saloons in California. You are voting upon the Question :

Will you maintain the present regulation of the sale of liquor in Richmond or will you vote to throw that regulation away1 and start the boot-legger, "blind tiger" whiskey drug store and mail order distilleries working overtime in this city?