Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1907 — DEATH KNELL TO SALOONS [ARTICLE]

DEATH KNELL TO SALOONS

New Remonstrant# in First Ward Assures That They Will Never Return to Rensselaer. Temperance people were much elated two years ago when they secured 92 signatures to the blanket remonstrance in the First Ward in Rensselaer, whereas only 74 would have been a majority, and many friends of the saloons contended that two years later the majority could not be secured, but a remonstrance has just been placed on file in the county auditor’s office containing 106 of the 147 voters therein and more could have been secargd if needed. This fs considerably more than' a two-thirds majority and speaks the everlasting finish to the licecsed saloon in Rensselaer. Since the remonstrance previously in effect and which was filed in December, 1905, there have been 32 removals from the First Ward, but the new residents are just as pronounced in their temperance views as the old ones, and remonstrance just filed contains the names of many who for one reason or an other had previously not signed them. Among these are Geo. E. Murray, £L. F. Long. Bert Brenner, O. G. Spitler, Fred Phillips, Nattie and George Scott, and, as before stated, more names could have been secured if Reeded. With snch a formidable majority the other residents might just as well have gone in to make it unanimous. All seem convinced that the absence of the saloons is a benefit to the town and the fellow who thenght Rons selaer would go to the bad without saloons has taken to the woods long ago. —l/ other towns want an expres sibn of the effect temperance hah on legitimate business they can get it lrom any person in Rensselaer, where both town and people are better off without the saloons.