Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 110, 19 March 1914 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914

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REV, FATHER KABACKI DIVIDES CATHOLICS ,M TWO CLASSES piaith Bend Priest, Brought Here by Dry Forces Declares Catholics are Either

Roman or Rum.

BAPTIST SINGERS LAMPOON GORDON

trying to cram down yonr tbroata some alarming statistics tailing you what will happen when yon pat oat of employment 260 men. Bat when you compote the combined wages, of these men, the money the saloons take in and the energy of the men and horses and mul,es that is spent, you will see what a big loss there is to the saloon business for the community it is in. Can you find a more damnable misappropriation of energy than the liquor traffic? "Because the saloon man cares not for the ruin he causes, he will take the last nickel and the poor wife at home will suffer with her little children. In Dolice court two years ago,

f& Polish woman, a CathoUc, I admit,

was shamefully drunk. But sne una the police officials she had been a model wife for several years after her marriage. Her husband liked his beer and finally she drank with him and was brought to that condition. She said she was a disgrace to herself. "Stamp out alcohol for one century and insanity will decrease seventy-fire per cent. Within fifty years, the United States increased its population 330 per cent. The insane and feeble minded increased 950 percent. White Slave Evil. "The liquor traffic is the greatest of kidnappers. The White Slave traffic is sustained by the liquor traffic Recently a Chicago saloon keeper

Much of the prohibition address of said to another in the same business

Father Kubacki of South Bend, at the ! that his trade was not staying with tabernacle last night, seemingly was ' him. given to outline the attitude of the j "But the saloon does not take your Catholic church ou the question. The ; child away from your eyes. It takes it South Bend priest asserted that the j away from you before your eyes. PerCatholic church is not for the sa- j haps your boy thinks he can control toons. nis appetite. The first year he takes "The Catholics themselves," he ' a sip. The second year he is a modsaid, "are divided into two classes, j erate drinker, and the third year he Roman and Rum Catholics." has gained th. title of a good fellow. Before Father Kubacki spoke, the ' The fourth year sees him a confirmed Baptist church quartet sang a song, drinker and the fifth year, he is a "There Was a Young Man Named . drunkard. Bennett." The song was of a humor-1 "They tell you that the saloon trafous nature. The quartet also sang a ; fic spends a quarter of a million a song written for the campaign, which i is called "The Hell of a Parade."

is tnere any one here who has

Priest Asserts 60 Per Cent, of Corn Raised in 1913 Was Sold to the Brewers and Distillers of the Country.

year for meat and bread and men for wages. Then If you are shallow pated, you will think the seioen is your greatest benefaotor. "The saloon keeper even plaster the month of the church with bank notes. You Catholic rum sellers take note. "I have heard that there Is plenty of maney floating around to buy rotes for the wet. The man who sella his vote for an issue like this is a Judas who sold Jesus Christ Himself and la a Benedict Arnold."

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IN SUCH PAIN ' WOMAN CRIED

Suffered Everything Until Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Florence, So. Dakota. "I used to be very sick every month with bearing

down pains and backache, and had headache a good deal of the time and very little appetite. The pains were so bad that I used to eit right down on the floor and cry, because it hurt me so and I could not do any work at those times. An old wo

man advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I got a bottle. I felt better the next month so

Roman Catholics and Rum Catholics. 1 k m?re bottles of it and got fnr veurn fie an.lr.nn man han noan Well SO I COUld WOrk all the time. I

"fiTallgnins the CathoUc relipion. They hope every woman who Buffers like I did have and do claim that the Catholic will try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable church is with the saloon. It is a lie. Compound." Mrs. P. W. Lanseng, The Catholic church, as a church, is Route No. 1, Florence, South Dakota, against the saloon, and I can prove )t. : "1 have statistics showing that 60 ' Why will women continue to suffer day percent of the corn raised last year In and day out or drag out a sickly, halfwent to the brewers and distlllere, and hearted existence, missing three-fourths most of the barley and rye produced of the joy of living, when they can find in this country went the same way. health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable All that good foodstuff going into Compound? poison that makes the other forty per- , ., . , ,, , , . , cent of the corn that much higher. I For thirty years it has been the standAlso remember that the price of the ard remedy for female ills, and has rebeef, pork, mutton and poultry depend stored the health of thousands of women on the price of grain. I who have been troubled with such ailRaise Less Hell. I merits as displacements, inflammation, "But the farmer says he can get a j ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc. better price from the brewer and dis- T, , . tiller and if he didn't sell his grain ! J Z V t JrA there he would have no place to sell lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (conflit. if he tells you that you tell him, dentlal) Lynn, Mass. Yonr letter will -Raise more hogs and less Hell.' be opened, read and answered by a "That young man named Bennett Is j woman and held In strict confidence.

not seen that picture in the Item?" S. Edgar Nicholson asked. "If not, I want you four or five, to go to the Item office the first thing in the morning and got a paper. If you can't get one there, come to my office and we'll do all we can to get you one. No man can see those children lylug by the side of the parade trampled in the dust and not have his heart string touched." I Outlines His Speech. "Although I did not want to come ! here," said Father Kubacki, "I am here through circumstances that are not of my making but I feel the invitation Is a great offer. "Why the saloons should exist in this country I cannot, explain. It is now only 'a question of annihilating them. Let us imagine that this is a court room and each of you take upon yourselves the oath bound obligation of a juror. I will be prosecuting attorney. The judge shall be the Everlasting Judge In Heaven. "The liquor traffic is charged in general with this: That it is the greatest enemy and destroyer of mankind, betng constantly busy attacking and destroying. Explains Church's View. "We will treat the temperance question from the Catholic standpoint.

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What a Poser this Question OsS Mr. Gordon in last evening's papers asks the question, Why did Mr. Nicholson move his publication here? He then asks why this publication was hot moved to Kokomo, Crawfordsville or Marion or some other prosperous city. That is certainly a poser indeed. What Mr. Gordon don't seem to know about anything he writes would fill all the books there are and then some. For his information it may be said that Mr. Nicholson has no publication. He is merely the Editor and Manager of the organ of the Friends Church in America, and when the Church at large acquired possession of the paper it was moved to Richmond because the Five Years Meeting had desired to make Richmond, Indiana, the headquarters of the Church, not because the saloons are here, but because Richmond is the center of Quakerdom in America. The whole Church of approximately 1 00,000 members in this country is unanimous in its desire that Richmond go dry. Gordon wants the people to know that Richmond is a prosperous city, but Mr. Gordon, it would be many times more prosperous and the people as a whole would be mahy times better off if the saloons were voted out, and more than a half million dollars now worse than wasted were deflected in other lines that make for the upbuilding and betterment of the city. The Commercial Club never advertises Richmond's fifty-6ix saloons as part of the city's assets; on the other hand the Commercial Club knows that every saloon is a liability and that it would be disastrous to the purpose of the Commercial Club if they should ever advertise Richmond's saloons. Why does Mr. Gordon insist that Richmond's prosperity shall continue to be handicapped by the existence of fifty-six business houses which the Commercial Club never dare advertise?

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The Liquor Dealers' Advocate Challenges, Bluffs, and Threatens AND THEN HE ADMITS IT. The saloon representative made his own issue. We merely asked him whether he meant it. We have insisted that the open saloon is a growing burden upon the tax-payer and charities, and a growing menace to soberiety, life, property, and decency, is the real and only issue. Under date of March 12, he printed: "The issue then was strictly regulated saloons vs. crooked "blind tigers" and whiskey drug stores. That is the issue now. The saloons were obeying the law. The saloons now are obeying the law and they have been obeying the law every .minute Gf the past five years." We just asked him if he meant it and would stake his case before the voters of Richmond on whether the saloons have obeyed the law in letter and in spirit for the past five years. After the local brewery stockholders had a Sunday meeting and the bartenders' association also had a meeting, their representative came out in a pretended challenge that began in a bluff, turned to a threat, and ended in a whining confession. THE CONFESSIONS. In his very challenge he made a number of tacit confessions. He is afraid to leave the matter where it started, as an election discussion, but wants evidence for the courts. He draws the line on detectives' testimony, thereby admitting that the record of the the saloon keepers will not bear scrutiny. He bars out "irresponsible citizens", evidently afraid of what some of their most persistent patrons might say. He resorts to intimidation and threats, which is always a confession of a weak case. He does not deny the charge of false tax returns, though one would hardly expect men who had obeyed the law every minute for five years to be guilty of it. In speaking of Mr. Harrison's charge, which he made at Reid Memorial church, that he had seen six women, some of them plainly girls under age drinking in a certain wine-room, Mr. Gordon berated him for not telling

jthe prosecutor, but he did not deny the fact.

In the paid liquor advertisements, it had already been stated that there has been two convictions for violating the liquor laws the last five years. That, he said, was the proud record. Now after his challenge, he finds additions to the record. Apparently he was anxious to beat us to it. Last evening he publishes the revised record eleven cases and seven convictions. If he will keep on perhaps he may find some more. The police records for the past five years show as follows: Arrests for violating the liquor laws, 1909, seven; 1910. ten; 1911, eight; 1912, seven;

1913, seven. Total 39. What became of the other 28 cases? iThey were, perhaps, all cases of illicit sale of liquor by persons j not saloon keepers ? And if the failure to convict a single person i for running a blind tiger in the last five years (except two Dublin cases) is still to be regarded as evidence that the "dry" town

ships are full of them, how in fairness are we to regard the failure to convict the other cases ( Failure to convict a saloon keeper is proof of innocence, is it, and failure to convict a blind tiger proof of guilt ( In any case, by his own admission, we know what Mr. Gordon meant by "the saloons obeying the law every minute." It was all a big bluff. If the record of the Richmond ministers for the last five years was eleven cases and seven convictions, would it be a proud record and yet these men were sworn to" be men of good moral character ! THEY RESORT TO THREATS. The saloon men found themselves cornered. Mr. Gordon had stated their issue to be the law-abiding record of the saloons for the last five years; then he had to admit himself that it could not be maintained, not every minute. We will add tomorrow to the evidence of his tacit and open admissions. On the other hand, even though he had made his contention good, the STEADILY GROWING NUMBER OF ASSAULTS, MURDERS, DRUNKS, AND PAUPERS, WITH THEIR ATTENDANT EXPENSE TO THE CITY AND COUNTY, WOULD BE SEEN TO BE DUE TO THE BEST POSSIBLE SALOONS, AND THE ONLY HOPE OF RELIEF WOULD LIE, AS IT NOW LIES, IN ABOLISHING THE SALOONS. No wonder then that he and his clients turned at bay. The change which that challenge brought in Mr. Gordon's pose was amazing. He came here as the apostle of true temperance, anxious for the welfare of Richmond, especially "the boys," wanting only to get "facts" before the sane voters, confident that a fair and untrammeled hearing would win his case. This week he suddenly drops his pose, appears as the pettifogging attorney of the liquor men, quibbling and sifle-stepping to prevent the free presentation of the truth, and trying to secure a verdict for his clients on a techincality. . An old lawyer wrote on his junior partner's brief: "No case. Abuse the plaintiff's attorney." Mr. Gordon does that and goes him one better. He abuses Mr. Nicholson and members of the citizens' committee and resorts to browbeating and intimidating the witnesses. The Richmond saloon that Mr. Gordon has been assuring us was tame as a pussy-cat, and perfectly safe for a child to play with, suddenly shows its teeth and claws, and growls at anybody who offers information about the saloon's record. Mr. Gordon's hunger to get the facts before the Richmond voters seems suddenly appeased.

Why bar out detectives' testimony, if his client's record H spotless ? Why threaten with exposure, and prosecution for libel, unless they wished to hold the brewers' gold bag over the poor man's head? The saloon keepers know that most of the men who know how they have violated the law, cannot afford the expense of a long drawn out lawsuit, and will not therefore risk tt by giving testimony against a rich and powerful group of mem. That they calculated shrewdly is shown by the number of men who have come to the committee with testimony that some of the saloons have been selling out of hours, to minora and on Sundays, but are unwilling to have their names published. Like a big bully, the Liquor Business holds the threat of proseeutkm over the poor man's head and says: 'Tell on me and I will ruin you by a prosecution." Does Mr. Gordon think that he will get "facts that way? No, he hoped to suppress the truth that way. BUT THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN RICHMOND WHOSE PATRIOTISM AND INDEPENDENCE ARE NOT TO BE BARTERED FOR THE LIQUOR MEN'S LETTING THEM ALONE. The bluff will not work. Tomorrow we will give the evidence the voters want. And besides that, this threat will strengthen the determination, of men who have been bullied and intimidated by the threats of the liquor business, to get rid of its menace. Retail dealers, who have been threatened with boycott; laborers who have bean threatened with discharge; office holders, who have not dared to take a free part in public affairs for fear of the saloon's ven-, geance; politicians who have found it necessary to stifle convictions as the price of about the liquor business as the price ot success there are a lot of these men who are not daring to say much, but who smart under menace and domination of the liquor business, and who will quietly vote to get free from the fear of its power. The saloon representative makes a great show of indignation at the very idea of there being any bad boys among his model clients. He wants affadavits 60 that they, may be prosecuted at once. If so, why exclude detectives? Burns did good work for the dynamite cases, did he not? Why only responsible citizens T Is not a poor man's word good in court? As a matter of fact, the courts will take the evidence found by detectives as to some saloon keepers activities in naturalizing foreigners. And the public will not bar a poor man's evidence when it comes to voting. But if the saloon keepers really want to prosecute men for breaking the laws, all that is necessary is to call a grand jury. Men will testify there that are afraid to publish the truth for fear of the brewers' prosecution. In one of the daily papers, under date of Dec. 11, 1914, the retiring chief of police made a statement as to the existence of wine-rooms. He is quoted as saying: "There are a few saloons, well known to the police, which operate so-called 'wine-rooms,' where loose women congregate.'' Some of these have been closed up by the new administration. But if his clients are so anxious to make one another behave, whydid they not stop the practice? The new administration seems to have found a law against it. It must be embarrassing not to find a model institution on the job "every minute"! YES, THE SALOON IS A LIABILITY. It is claimed by the liquor men that the liquor traffic gives employment to 250 men in Richmond, earning on an average $524 per year, or an average of $1.68 for each working day. Labor receives 54.4 per cent as its share of all expenses which enter into the production of all commodities in this country in all the industries except for materials. As compared with this general average, however, so far as the malt liquor business is concerned, labor receives only 20.2 per cent of all expenses other than for materials, while in producing distilled liquors, labor receives as its share only 1.9 per cent of all expenses other than for materials. If the liquor traffic were destroyed in Richmond and its capital invested in other lines, more laborers would have to be employed and the payroll would be much larger. These are based on government statistics. The liquor folks say that if these 250 men were thrown out of employment there will be 250 empty houses. The testimony from other cities does not sutantiate this charge. In other cities which have banished the saloon, the testimony is that the demand for good houses is far better, and rentals are more easily collected; men who have been rent dogers because their money went into the saloon now become regular and reliable rent payers and what is better, they begin to own their own homes. The impetus that is given to other business interests by reason of the fact that the money now wasted, in the saloon is deflected to other lines makes a demand for additional labor as shown above. It is well to note that in 1900, which date furnishes the latest available census reports on the question, 59.1 per cent of the people in five prohibition states owned their own homes, while only 45.8 per cent of the people owned their homes in the license states. We repeat again that the testimony all over the country is practically unanimous, that with the closing of saloons, business is better off and general prosperity takes possession of the municipalities. This evidence which is overwhelming and conclusive is a direct answer to the theoretical claims about men being? thrown out of employment and emptv houses. THE SALOON IS A LIABILITY AND NEVER AN ASSETS The Citizens, Committee.

The Saloon is a Liability and Never an Asset

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