| Show THE SALOON sirs mrs E E shepard of ephraim is one of the ardent temperance workers of the state she has strong views on the mattei of temperance local option and prohibition she submitted the fol following loving to the ephraim enterprise last week and that paper pulli published hed it this is 13 mrs Sh epards definition of a saloon A bank for los open all day and night back doors on sund sundays ays nothing receded but good money nothing paid bock but disease disgrace degradation and death A free ticket to hell to all who pay at these counters free tickets to all cemeteries entitling depositors to a drunkards grave in a potters field an extra dividend of delirium tremens cremens to all old depositors 0 tree rree transportation to all children of depositors entitling them to entrance in all orphanages and almshouses for others to support that is putting it strong and bet et there is a lot of truth in the statements yet these are the institutions apparently which the towns and cities of county must depend upon for their civic life and civic improvement this is a deplorable state of affairs for a community when it must have hae saloons in order to enjoy improvement pro and advancement the object of the anti saloon league in america is the abolishment of the saloon as an institution that league is formed of some of the brightest minds in america and th tha ii cognize in the saloon the chief ob stacle to temperance an argument is raised that one town or one community cannot accomplish anything an thing in the wiy ot of chck checking ing the saloon evil unless other ton towns ns join in the crusade others claim thit that towns and counties can do nothing without vit hout wide action being taken and others go to the ery cry extreme that it is for thi government to take action and suppress the manufacture of liquor before th the of the saloon can be accomplished these argument have all been met and defeated aby by irrefutable logic As the immortal groce cleveland said once it is a condition and not a theory that hat confronts ui the a condition is i that the saloon is eithel i good institution or it is I 1 1 I 1 id one if it is i 1 i I good one for i i community comm unit tike off the prohibit i nc licen licence e and let lat others gl git into the g ML mif saloons biloon are acid ld foi fo ri ki in inrid tid of there should lc be 1 dzen heie bete ind i a ic luction of th the liean e will permit of others othern going into the busi business nesb if on the hind the saloons are arc an c cil I 1 I 1 there are arc too m my iny here regardless of the revenue them it might be bell to ask ak ho givs this re enec iuey it I 1 is the men who can least afford it generally pt aking homes are robbed to help pay the r re e denue that some think so io necessary to keep up the city this city should be able to maintain itself without the revenue from the saloons the city officials are b no macins mi ins in fanarof baior of the saloon but they are confronted with a condition which they desire to sift to the bottom before they commit theme themselves ives to ana an churbe of action they them are is honest in this matter as the most ultra antl anti in this community thea the do not desire the s floon and all are arc men who aho do not support the biloon it I 1 is a matter of importance import ince to them and they are anxious anious to ic enn the si tuition from eer side their decicio I to mke make of the asilom a rr acre ere business house with a certain class of goods good to sell and that when nhen I 1 purchase is mide there will be no inducement offered for the customer to lounge around the place ind and continue to drink until he becomes into intoxicated is 11 a good one the council proposes to place this business busane on the same basis bais with nith ana an other store and demoe all pool tables card tables seats and benches this is certainly a desirable move mone if I 1 it t is not po possible sible to do without the saloon a proposition which the reap er in no DO wise admits but it is a fact that more than half of the e eil 11 of the saloon comes from the inducements inducement offered to men to spend their time among its under present conditions here is about the situation which confronts the man mail nhu desires a drink of liquor ile he enters the saloon and meets a few friends the ethics of social drinking compel him to invite his friends friend to join him otherwise he is consi consider derid d small and stingy he invites his friends and probably a half dozen armore join him in the refreshment HP talks a few fenn minutes with these friends and then one of them orders drinks all around this is kept up until the man who entered for one drink of liquor has been forced by the ethics which hue hiie h ue been established to take enough liquor to at least partially intoxicate him these are conditions which should be removed there hane hae been efforts made to prohibit this treating but it has never been ful if the council succeeds in eliminating elimina tine some of the allurements allure ments of the saloon it will be a big ster step in the right direction and by and by the city will be ready for the abolishment of the saloon as an institution whether hether other towns join in with us or not |
