Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 105, 13 March 1914 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914

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SAYS NIGHT SCHOOL WAS JGJUCCESS Principal Pickell Declares Term Just Closed Had Good Results.

That the 1913-1914 session of the Richmond night school has been successful beyond the least possible doubt is shown from the fact that more students were enrolled In the various courses than any other previous year. In fact this winter's school was attended by more than twice as many students as in former courses. Throughout the course the students gained so that even when within tvro weeks from the close of the term there were now students enrolled in th Enlish department. The number of foreigners enrolled in the course was three times larger than in previous years. The commercial and industrial courses of school work were highly attended classes in forge work, lathe turning, woodwork, cabinet making, and in fact every line taught had classes numbering more than fifteen students. Several men have perfected parts of machinery from the know-Jedj-e gained from the courses. "This term was the most successful of any I have conducted," said Principal Pickell today. ' Although at this time I haven't compiled the data of the result of term's work, I feel that the work has ahd good results," continued the school head. It in CTpeqted that complete statistics of the work accomplished during tne course will be made public by Principal Pickell within a few days. Although some have asked that the night school be continued it is undertsooc! that no more sessions will eb held until next fall when a new course w ill ;b started.

HOWARTH REPORTS FEW CHARITY CALLS Many Families Now Able to Support Themselves Without Township's Aid.

With the abating of winter and the opening of more factory work, comes the decrease of charity work and trustee Howarth is gradually reducing the numbers of his charity books. Some of those who hare been placed

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' express their thanks in letters and postal cards. j "I am gradually weeding out those who no longer need township help," said Mr Howarth today. "There has been a great decrease in the amount of money spent during the last two weeks although I am still sending coal to a large number of families. "My office calls have decreased in proportion to the decrease in expenditures because these people come to me repeatedly to thank me. i "I happened to know that within the next two weeks, there will be a great many others whose names will be taken from my charity record. The men have work but I am giving them a week or two to get on their feet," he i added.

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The editor of the Item grows facetious over the idea of "blind tigers" taking the place of licensed saloons in event this city votes "dry". He wants to know "if the bov can find the

blind tiger, don't you think our city offfficials could do as much?"

tie asks if the boy "creeping through dark alleys to this hell hole can find the way, can't Chief of Police Goodwin find the way? And then this overwhelming clap of argument "Why not appoint President Kelly's boy chief of police, let him null the ioint and

put it out of business".

For the benefit of the editor of the Item and S. Edgar Nicholson, who have recently eome to the city and immediately assumed the task of mental and moral guardian of the people, may I suggest they acquire a little information. There has never

been any trouble to locate blind tigers. They are not up dark alleys. They are in locations that are prominent, but they don't

have signs hanging out labeled "Blind Tigers". They are known to

the passerby as drug stores, pool parlors, restaurants, "soft drink emporiums" Kansas is full of them and so is Maine.

We have caught them, brother, before you came here. We have seen the proprietors dragged into court, we have seen enough bottles taken from their hell holes piled up in front of the judge's bench at the court house to nil the space between

his bench and the jury box. We have seen the prosecutor produce the government license and prove the sale. And in every case we have seen the proprietor, under the farce of a "blind tiger" law we now have, prove his innocence of the illegal sale of whiskey. Instead of trying to be funny, why doesn't the editor of the Item explain why it is impossible to convict a blind tiger in this county? His jokes won't cause any laugh among the fathers and mothers whose sons were debauched in the hotel "blind tiger" we had here. His jokes won't cause any smile to play over the faces of the people of Greensfork who have been the victims of blind tigers for years and the proprietors of which have snapped their fingers in the faces of the fathers and mothers and prosecutor and court and jury and said:. "You can't convict me under the laws of Indiana." His jokes won't cause any guffaws from the people of Centerville who, after two jury trials, in which the county spent nearly $500 trying to secure conviction, couldn't get a conviction of a blind tiger! I am telling the people of this city the truth. If they don't believe it, that is their concern. If they vote out the licensed saloon and inaugurate a reign of "blind tigers" a lot of parents who may now think I am wrong, and a "brewery hireling" will have a sad awakening and they will then realize just as the parents of New Castle and Connersville and a score of other Indiana towns have realized, that until we get some laws on the statute books that will make it possible to cc vict blind tigers, the best regulation of the liquor traffic is found in the licensed saloon. The Evening Item editor's jokes about boys and blind tigers will become a grim and horrible jest if the people of this city take the sale of liquor from the strictly regulated saloon and turn it over to a lot of whiskey joints that can operate within the law and yet debauch the youth. Be it far from me to deny the editor of the Item the gruesome satisfaction he will reap in event his cheap jokes are now taken in lieu of facts and the people here follow his advice! I prefer the regulation of the licensed saloon until we can get something better. He prefers something worse than the regulated saloon in the belief that the awful cost of boys and girls his method will entail, will make people temperate. We both are fighting for more temperate conditions, for the best method of ridding the country and community of the evils that follow intemperance. My method is to keep the regulation we have, and know we have, until we fret something better; my method is to keep the orderly saloons that do not sell to minors after hours, in "wine rooms" and to girls. .His method is to throw away all regulation and lead the community through a carnival of debauchery by whiskey and drugs until it rebels and goes back' right to where it is now, just as other cities have done4 That may appeal to him; I see nothing in it. I owe the drug store proprietors of Kansas an apology which I hasten to make. I stated in my article Wednesday that whiskey cannot be sold in Kansas for anything except medicinal purposes. A friend has called my attention to the following statement on Page 133, of the Anti-Saloon League Year Book for 1914. "The law passed in 1909 prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors for any use whatsoever except for sacramental purposes, has proved to be a great lawenforcing measure, and has eliminated the so-called drug store saloon, which for many years cursed Kansas." Of course all statements made by the Anti-Saloon League

are "not hysteria, but facts; not juggling, but the truth". The1 above statement speaks for itself. And Arthur Capper writes ' that Kansas uses 6,000,000 gallons of booze a year. So since the , Anti-Saloon League swears to and fathers both statements, there is but one conclusion about Kansas. It is the churches that use 6,000,000 gallons of booze every year for sacramental purposes ! !

The church people must believe either that, or the Anti-Saloon League deals in lies and fiction! The Anti-Saloon League's figures on two cities Fargo, North Dakota and Moorehead, Minn. were certainly interesting. We gather that Fargo is putting it all over Moorehead, because Fargo is dry and Moorehead is wet. Fargo has the lowest tax rate, the lowest debt and the most sewers! Therefore, it pays to vote dry! Why is it that Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the wettest city in the United States, has a tax rate of only $1.76, while Oklahoma City, capital of the prohibition state of Oklahoma, has a tax rate of $2 ? Why is it that Chattanooga, Tenn., in another prohibition state, has a tax rate of $3.40, while Wheeling, West Va., which is "wet", has the lowest tax rate of any city in the union, it being only 35 cents? Oh, but the answer will be Moorehead and Fargo are only a mile apart, living off the same people, surrounded by the same agricultural, industrial and climatic conditions. The only difference between the two is that one is dry and the other wet! Very well, then, let the Anti-Saloon League explain why it is that Kansas City, Mo., has a tax rate of only $1.25, based on a 40 per cent valuation of property, while Kansas City, Kansas, assesses its property at 100 per cent of its valuation and has to boost the tax rate to $1.64. These two cities are not a mile apart. They are right together. Kansas City, Kansas, is the favorite child of "dry" orators, while Kansas City, Mo., is very wet. Take whole states and where are you on the debt and tax problem? Maine, prohibition for fifty years, the longest of

any state in the union, has a tax rate of $23.50 per $1,000, while Indiana, considered a wet state, has a tax rate of $3.18. Maine, after fifty years of prohibition, has a per capita debt of $21.46, while Vermont, a small neighbor that is wet, has a per capita debt of only $15.08, and Pennsylvania, the largest wet state of all, has a per capita debt of only $19.55. Kansas, prohibition since 1882, has a per capita debt of $24.42, while Indiana has a per capita debt of only $13.49 ; Wisconsin, the home of breweries, has a per capita debt of only $10.48. In fact, out of twelve states which constitute the north central division of states, the United States census shows that, with the exception of Ohio, Kansas has the largest per capita debt of any state: the states of this division and their per capita debt are: Ohio, $27.55; Kansas, $24.42; Minnesota, $22.07; Nebrarica, $21.01; Illinois, $16.08; Missouri, $15.79; South Dakota, $15.56; North Dakota, $15.31; Michigan, $14.07; Indiana, $13.49 ; Wisconsin, $10.48; Iowa, $7.84. These figures are from this year's World's Almanac, and are taken from the last report made upon the subject by the United States Bureau of Census. Are they facts enough to suit S. Edgar Nicholson and his crowd, who say they want "facts". If "dry" territory means less government expense, what ia the matter with Kansas? Why have its expenses increased $1,000,000, or 22 per cent in the last four years, against Indiana's increase of only ONE per cent? I promised to give facts and authentic figures when I began this campaign, and I am living up to my promise. Not taxes or expenses alone, but figures that reflect the state morality will be given that will prove, so far as reliable figures can prove, that "dry" territory does not decrease taxes, does not raise the standard of living, does not encourage population, does not make happier homes, and that it does increase the consumption of whiskey. "The brewery has gone out of business, the saloon keepers have moved to other towns or got into new lineg of .business in Marion, and the boot-leggers and blind tigers have concluded to quit business. Were it not for the fact that liquor is shipped in from some other quarters we could practically dispense with half or three quarters of the present guardians of the law." Letter from George D. Lindsay, of Marion, published in the paid advertisement of S. Edgar Nicholson last evening. Isn't that fine argument? Bootleggers and blind tigers have quit, but liquor is shipped in in such quantities that it occupies the time of one-half to three-quarters of the police force? If there are no blind tigers or bootleggers, to whom is it shipped? All you have to do is to read the fiction put out by the Anti- Saloon League. It is its own refutation. The only thing Marion's going "dry" has done has been to put the brewery out of business, so that Marion people can no longer have beer in their homes or a glass over a public bar, and has caused enough whiskey to be shipped in to require the attention of over half the police force ! That is what Lindsay says, it is over his own signature in the Anti-Saloon League ad. And this, men and women and business men of Richmond, is what you are being urged to do in the name of temperance and economy. "If your argument about drug stores is true" said a citizen to us yesterday, "why is it the drug stores are wet?" As to whether the drug store proprietors are wet or dry, I am in no position to state, as I have talked to but one of them. He is "wet". He was "wet" five years ago, along with nearly every other drug store proprietor. The reason of it was they knew what would happen to the drug trade, in event the town went "dry". It meant odium and disgrace and endless trouble for the trade; it meant competition from a lot of unscrupulous druggists who would run cheap drug stores as a disguise to blind tigers; it meant that the people would soon look upon all druggists as rum-sellers and their business as disreputable, because of the evil done by drug store saloons. Five years ago the drug trade in this city was free from any suspicions of being whiskey joints. They still are. Is it any wonder that they still want to be, by keeping out a horde of men who will prostitute their trade? "You ask does the Evening Item mean to infer, by the statement, that two-thirds of the expense of policing Richmond ia devoted to the products of the saloon, that in event the town goea dry, we can cut the expense of the police and city justice departments two-thirds? Not immediately, Mr. Gordon. You overlook the quite obvious fact that we still have the parade on hand, th relic of a half century of brewery rule, even though the saloons are voted out." Editorial in the Evening Item. Is that the best you can do, brother editor? How about the s-tate of Maine where they have had half a century of prohibition? How about the state of Kansas with a quarter of a century of prohibition? Don't their cities have police? Have their city expenses been cut down in their department of safety and justice? We will give you one more chance to prove your point, or confess you are just talking through your hat. Get down to facts, brother. S. Edgar Nicholson, paid official of the Anti-Saloon League, stated in his paid advertisement last night that the licensed saloons we now have do not obey the laws. He also states the people have nothing to fear from "blind tigers" because he will stay right on the job and see to it that the laws are enforced against the "blind tigers". Waiving, for argument's sake, the fact that there is no law in this state under which blind tigers can be convicted, may we ask S. Edgar Nicholson why he waits to do his duty? If it will be so easy for him to stop blind tigers, why doesn't he stop the liquor violations he says are now going on? The prosecutor will be glad to hear him. The grand jury would be glad to give him audience. Why so backward? Why so full of promises of vengeance against the blind tiger, why so empty of performance against the saloons you claim are violating the laws? The only evidence which any of the ''drys' have offered as proof that the saloons we now have are violating the laws was that which first came to light last Tuesday night at the "dry' mass meeting when a man told how he had personally witnessed the debauching of boys and girls in a saloon here. Watched it "out of curiosity," and then kept his mouth shut. Wasn't decent man enough to report the facts to the authorities. He was "wildly cheered" by the audience. Fine man to be applauded! Wouldn't blind tiger proprietors be scared of such men as S. Edgar Nicholson and this other man, who say they know of where the saloons are violating the laws, but who wont take a step to stop it? .

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