Vote The Saloons Out

Editor Akqus:- Tne above is the heading of a circular thrown broadcast through the county, it issigned by B. J. Conrad, Cliairman of Executive Committee. (I wonder if this is the same Conrad who, with the aid of 7 or 8 othera of a similar flavor voted himself into a three months Justiceship.) It is not my intention to answer or make reply to his stale chestnut, for a3 Maik Twain so aptly says. "It wrenches a man's back to kick at nothing." But allow me to retly to onlv a few of his statements. He says that 7-8 of the lunatics are made so by drink. Here is the report of Henry M. Hard, Medical Superintendent of the Tontiac asylum. Only 98 out of a total of 3,434. Wher is nis seven-eighths? He again shows his fondness for crazv figures wben he savs. "But the saloons, con tribu te $40,22-5 a year to the puDlic treasury, yes, apparently, but thev subtract $347.200, a year frotn the public pocket." Where does he get those figures? It is certainly not the amount of his tax. Of course it is easy for such men to give vent to their natures and crv, "Down with the license," it costa tliem nothing. But the man who has helped build up our city, the man who has helped to make our county a ga'den out of a wilderness, who has his property in plain sight of the nssessor, will sing differently. Why don't this Conrad offer something new? It is the same oíd cry as it was at the international temperance meetin? at Antvverp, Belgium, in September 1885. There Mrs. Willard subrnitted a letter of sympathy from the W. C. T. U. said to number 400.000, for the purpose of securing governments , that are free frqm couiplicity with the linuor dealers In producing ness. Speeches were made by M. Fortesque - Colé, Mrs. Lucas and Mr. Taylor, all of Londen, bat the dreary monotony and dictatorHI tones of their tmrangues soon wearied thepatience of those who had come to listen to practical propositions, and not to visionary schemes put forth with the air of infallibility. Mr. Fred deLaet of the comtnittee on order of business objected to any further display of eloquence on the part of those representativos of insular bigotry. "The question." he said. "which we now hear discuased at sucti length presenta no new features. We have so often heard ever so many good things f rom and about temperance societies in England and elsewhere, thut we can easily forego further enlightenment. We are assembled in Belgium. We are called here for the purpose of discusiing with competent men frorn all countries the meaiis where■ith to corubat inebiietv. Bat they offer us no social remedy-" Ilowaptlycan theabovebe applied to our connty and state. The country is over run with a lot of fellows who are ever ready to cry, "Down with high license," and are hs shy of statistics as a rabbit is of an anaconda, fout when asked to replace the system which they try to displace by sntnething practicable, they hare nothing to offer.