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Show WHO SUPPORTS THE SALOON7 MAYOR ROSE. "I seo In the newspapers here an editorial that the drunkard maintains theBe saloons In your city. What a peculiar city you have (Laughter.) They speak of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollarB that are spent in saloons sa-loons by the drunkards How little they know of that of which they Bpeak! How narrow thoy are! The difficulty with the average prohibitionist prohibition-ist Is that he has been following the circumference of a circle all the days of his lifetime, and that circle has a diamctor of about seven feet and six incheB. (Applause and laughter ) He Is so blinded bv his prejudices that ho will not see the truth. Why, It Is not the drunkard that spends his monoy, it is not tho drunkard that maintains tho saloons Tho drunkard hasn't the money to spend Didn't you know that, Prohibitionist? It is jUBt such men as I. I have used intoxicating beverages In a temperate way all tho years of my lifetime, had oa many tomptntlons, perhaps, to drink to excess ex-cess aB any man living upon the face of earth, but I am not a drunkard." Mayor Roae. |