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The American Issue
AN ADVOCATE OF CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM
Published Weekly by The American Issue Publishing Co., for
THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS.
ERNEST H. CHERRINGTON, Editor.
ERNEST A. SCROGIN, Illinois Editor.
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NATIONAL OFFICERS—General Superintendent, Rev. P. A. Baker,
Westerville, Ohio; Treasurer, Foster Copeland, Esq., Columbus, Ohio.
STATE OFFICERS—State Superintendent, Ernest A. Scrogin, Chi
Illinois; Treasurer, W. W. Bennett, Chicago, Illinois.
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Prevention is better than cure. It is worth a life effort
to lift a man from degredation. But to prevent his fall is
far better.”—John B. Gough.
Somebody will fall if the saloon returns to your
town. Vote to keep it out. If it is already there, vote
to oust it.
Three hundred millionaires in this country have been
such through the manufacture and sale of intoxicants,
while an army of three hundred thousand criminals,
paupers and lunatics have been made such through
the purchase and consumption of the poison.
April 9 is Appomattox Day
April 9 is a great historic day. Forty-seven years ago
on that day I stood on the battlefield of Appomattox and
witnessed the surrender of General Lee’s army of Northern
Virginia to General Grant, and so I am hoping that on April
9 we shall make it possible to gain another great victory, and
assure the passage of the county option law.
So writes one of the heroes of the civil war, who
is now a hero in our present warfare against liquor.
April 9 is Appomattox Day! Forty-seven years
ago, April 9, meant the death of a foul slavery, the
righting of a great wrong, the freeing of millions in
bondage, the saving of our country. Let the mind
travel back to that memorable day in 1865, the two
great armies stood on the fields of Appomattox and
General Lee surrendered his sword to General Grant.
What a privilege to have had a part in that contest!
What a possession is the memory of that day to the
men who stood upon that battlefield and witnessed
that scene!
Our soldier friend has given us a slogan for the
present conflict. Let April 9, of 1912, be the Appomat
tox day of the liquor traffic in Illinois. Let it mean
a long step toward the death of another foul slavery,
the righting of another great wrong, the freeing of
millions more in bondage, and the saving of our coun
try anew. Let your mind travel forward to this won
derful day but six weeks from us. Two armies stand
even now upon the battle-field. Let us hope that that
day shall witness the surrender of the liquor interests,
and the assurance of the passage of a county option
law. What a privilege to have a part in this contest;
what a possession will be the memory of this day to
those who stand upon this battlefield and have a part
in the winning of this victory.
Make it the battle-cry of these next forty days,
ON TO APPOMATTOX! On to victory! On to
county option! Let April 9 be the Appomattox day of
the liquor traffic in Illinois.
Cause and Effect
New Jersey has one liquor dealer to every 214
population.
All New England has one liquor dealer to every
532 population.
New Jeresy has one convict to every 1,606 popu
lation.
All New England has one convict to every 3,162
population.
Kansas has no saloons.
Governor Stubbs of that state, in an address de
livered in Chicago, March 27, 1910, said:
“Last year forty-nine of the 105 counties of Kansas
did not send a person to the penitentiary. We have
only one convicted person in our county jails for every
7,000 inhabitants.”
The saloon makes criminals.
Supreme Court Jolts the Saloon
The Illinois supreme court, in a judgment handed
down last week, holds that if a man becomes intoxi
cated in a saloon and afterwards is robbed the saloon
keeper who sold him drinks and the owner of the prop
erty on which the saloon is situated are liable not only
for the amount he lost, but also for heavy damages.
The case in which this decision was rendered was
that of John Wiesguth against P. J. Dwyer and John
Stack.
The suit was brought by Wiesguth’s wife, Mrs.
Sylvia Wiesguth. Dwyer was a saloonkeeper and
Stack owns the building.
When Wiesguth recovered from a spree begun in
Dwyer’s saloon he found that all his money had dis
appeared.
The supreme court also held as valid the law pro
hibiting saloons within two-thirds of a mile of the
Soldiers Home at Quincy. The brewery interests
have fought this law from the time it was introduced in
the legislature. 1 hey put up a determined effort to
prevent its enactment, finally testing its validity in the
supreme court. The saloons that infested the terri
tory about the Soldiers’ Home were practically all
brewery-owned dives. Since their abolishment drunk
enness in the home has been cut down 62 per cent
according to the official report of the Superintendent
of the Home, J. O. Anderson.