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Show H HOW THE SALOON HELPS H B US NESS. H Th most absurd argument In favor 1 of saloons Is that they help hustneas. H They create nothing of value, then H how can any Intelligent poreon be so H obtuse as to suppose that r traffic H which dostroTB manhood, debauches H womanhood and, Impoverishes chilfl- H hood -will help tmolnosa, espedally the H business of the wage corners. H Tho earthquake and flro in San iB FrandBco -created a great demand for Hl all Mnda of building materials and for Hl labor; thereforo, according to the Hj theory of th laloon advocates, what H Ogden needs Ib a great earthquake H ?nd flre' If half ttso hons and other Hj huIldingB in this citv should be thus iH sF?6? tbwo "woufI be n unprece- iH t( dcmand "or labor and ma- Hl terials. butTio one la stupid enough to m wish for soch a thing. Tho saloons H create business for the police depart- Hj ment and the criminal courts, but this 1 does not help tho laborer or the mer- m chant or any other legitimate business |