Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1909 — Before Election Pledges Are Soon Forgotten. [ARTICLE]

Before Election Pledges Are Soon Forgotten.

The people of Logansport are finding out anew that no promise of saloon men to be good—which means simply to obey the laws under which their business is permitted to exist —can be depended on. Before the recent option election the liquor sellers were ready to pledge themselves to conduct their business in the future in strict conformity with the law, if only the voters of Casa county would give them another chance. But people have not got through discussing the option campaign when the saloon men are going defiantly back to their old lawless ways. The Logansport Tribune serves notice on them that their day of grace will not be long. It says;“The saloons are on probation and unless they employ the probationary period to establish a record for obedience to the law they need expect no second suspension of sentence during good behavior. It is well for the liquor dealers to disabuse their minds of the self-conceit that Cass county people voted wet through friendship for the liquor dealers. * • * It is well for violators and rebellious indivduals to keep this proposition ever in mind that Cass county and the city of Logansport will have a proper observance of the law sooner or later. The day of lax enforcement, spineless officials and apathetic indifference to public affairs on the part of the rank and file are at an end.”_

That this is not mere talk Is proven by the activity of the Business Men’s association. This body has prepared an ordinance under which, if it should be adopted and enforced, the saloons would have to be good. Before the county option election the saloon keepers were told that such an ordinance would be prepared and they expressed their approval of It. Now, as usual with them, they are proposing to fight its adoption. It is such constant manifestation of purpose by the liquor Interests not to obey the law and not to keep their pledges which has roused the Indignation of good citizens everywhere. If the liquor men will not be lawabiding; if they reaiat and flout regulation and control; if they are to succeed in hypnotizing the law-en-forcing authorities, then, voters say, we will outlaw the business altogether. And the curious thing to the

blindness of the liquor dealers to this feeling and determination of the people. The saloon, as we have known it, is doomed. It is doomed largely because of the lawlessness of the men that stand behind it, or that conduct it; and because of the corrupting and demoralizing influence it has exerted in politics. Cass and Tippecanoe and other counties may suffer the saloons a little while longer to ply their trade; but unless they “change their spots”, unless they subside into unobtrusive, law-abiding places of traffic, their lease on life will not be long.—lndianapolis News. A decrease of 6,000 persons of school age in Indianapolis is shown in the school enumeration Just completed by John E. Cleland, business director of the Indianapolis public schools. The decrease is due, it is said by officials of the school board, to the large number of foreign families who have left Indianapolis during the last year. The total enumeration this year will be approximately 48,000, against 64,000 for last year. Through a change of venue the big damage case of Benjamin Vincent of Brazil for $160,000 against the Big Four railroad company has been taken to the Hendricks circuit court for trial. The suit grows out of * the flooding of the plaintiff’s coal mines near Brazil through the alleged negligence of the defendant company in changing the natural course of the water on its right of way. The trial may go over until the September term on account of the large docket. Everybody Is likely to have kidney and bladder trouble. In fact nearly everybody has some trouble of this kind. That la the reason why you so often have pains In the back and groin, scalding sensation, urinary disorders, etc.—that’s your kidneys. The best thing to do is to get some o' DeWltt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills right away. Take them for a few days or a week or so and you will feel all right In this way, too, you will ward oft dangerous and possibly serious ailments. They are perfectly harmless, and are not only antiseptic, but allay pain quickly by their healing properties. Send your name to E. C. DeWltt 4b Co., Chicago, for a free trial box. They are sole' here by all druggists. The Republican is headquarters tor fine Job printing.