INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS WHAT DO THINK OF THIS? helped get the thing through, or the shriveled soul if the dlifiy KNOCKED DOWN IN A LICENSED SALOON newspaper editor who sold space at so much per. All of theitt John O. Kellar was hanged the other day at Clearfield, Ind., because in a drunken frenzy he murdered Joseph Roessner, the might come wabbling beforeShe throne to explain how they Dragged Out by a Bar Tender—Business Goes on as Usual. nothing to do with John Keeler»4illing the brewer. Clearfield brewryman. In the court of divine justice the chance for John Keeler s$ What Keeler has told his God is not known, but this is what About 10:30 last Saturday night our door bell rang. We wondered likely just as good and perhaps a little better than the balance.-— he wrote to Rev. Dr. Reeve a few days before he was strangled to what was wanted that time of night. We rubbed the sleep 'Westerville (Ohio) New Republic. death by the law from our eyes and went to the door where we found an out-oftovvn "I can say with a good clear mind that 1 was never sober from friend of ours who had come into town that morning and the time I went to work at the Clearfield brewery. I was full of registered "at a down town hotel. His first question was, "Where ON THE WATER WAGON NOW, booze all the time, counting Sunday with it, because I had a keg at is your mayor?" We informed him that we had 110 mayor. Then home 011 Sunday, and I did not have to get drunk to do what I did. he asked. "Where are the police?" We answ,ered that we have They were gazing out of the window of the Pullmaj? The CUT. am here for the murder of Joseph Roessener, but I don't know if only one police on duty. Twelve saloons don't pay enough license thin man was rapturously admiring the sunset. 1 killed him. can't say. If 1 could 1 would be glad to tell the public for the citv to have any more than one police on duty at a time, and "Ah, Nature is a real artist," exclaimed the thin man, address*ng so. Because he made the booze and gave it to me free of charge, one policeman can be everywhere. 1 hen he asked, hat about the fat man who sat in the opposite seat. "Have yuu wr gazed that made me a drunkard and a murderer. It was his beer that put your countv attorney and sherift, do you have those officers"" at her wonders Have you never watched the lambent feme mv familv in distress and lots of other families besides mine. We answered that we have such officers and believe they are all of dawn leaping across the dome of the world? Have yc»n never I began my downward career at a saloon bar and wound up at r_ right, but whv are you asking these questions?. He answered. "1 1 1 1 4 1 1 at he re a in is at in a of re a & & the Clearheld brewerv. will appear at another bar, the judgment was looking around your town and was in the lourist saloon never been drawn by the ragged, raven wing, sky-phaiitftffiS bar of God, and there your Honorable Judge Smith and some of where 1 saw a man hit another a stunning blow in the face that they blotted out the pale moon Have you felt the amaze*ment never his lawyers, and Joseph Roessner and a good many more will appear laid him unconscious on the floor of the saloon. Blood soon covered of these things?" with me and be rightly judged." his face. The bar tender stepped out from behind the bar, and, "Not since I swore off," replied the fat man, as he prepared 10 Roessner, the brewer, went on some time ago. Wonder what taking the unconscious man by the shoulders, dragged him back hunt another seat.—Cincinnati Enquirer. kind of a story he told his God? He might have said: "It is true that. behind the stove and business went on as usual. The man who hit Keeler murdered me while he was drunk on beer that I furnished the blow finished drinking his beer and walked out. Nobody seemed him, and it is true that Keeler likely would not have killed me if to take any special notice of the affair, and 1 thought I would my beer had not made him drunk. But then I had a license to do come to vou to see if there was any one who would take action YES SIR! this, and the people and the law gave me the license, and what I did in regard to such a thing." We answered that it is one of the I did according to law. If anybody is to blame it is the people who things that go along with the licensed saloon. That is part of the Nichols the Tailor" made the law." business. Then the ghost of the man who signed the rum petition My friend must have thought that we took a pretty cool view might say "Of course 1 signed the petition for the saloons, but of the tragedy. We suppose that he expected that we would have that was the law, and I was no better than the law. What is the called the chief or sheriff to look after the affair. But we justwent law for if it is not to be obeyed. Prohibition didn't phohibit nohow. back to bed and was soon asleep dreaming of other things IS WHAT YOU HEAR FROM YOUR I ain't to blame because John Keeler killed the brewer. John than the licensed saloon. It is a wonder we don't get mad and t.c.ir DRESSY FRIENDS drank too much, that's all. He ought to have been temperate. He things, but these are common things. We have seen them be!.ire was the man to blame and he should have been hanged." and possibly will again. As long as we have saloons we must expect Then along might come the soul of the man who rented the our children to be outraged, our wives and daughters to be insulted When you say. "Where did you get those place for the drink shop, but his soul might be so small that it and hell to be near our homes. It was not many days ago might slip into heaven unseen. He might say: "I needed the money 'GLAD RAGS' when we were coming up 3rd street one night about ten o'clock, to buy some more old shacks to use for some more saloons, and we saw a young man push another out of the door of Cusick's I gave a lot to charity, and charity needed it. I did what the law saloon, and then knock him down on the street and kick him. A said anyhow. My shack did not make Keeler drunk it was the Cfowd soon gathered just as a crowd gathers for a dog fight. The beer that Roessner sold. I hadn't nothing to do with it. young man picked himself up and went limping down the street NICHOLS THE TAILOR And then might come the soul of the legislator who drafted holding his head, leaving his hat on the walk. The young .man the bill, or who voted for it, or who came from a dry county and who committed the assault went back into Cusick's saloon, saying, International Falls. Next to City jfictfel sold out and got awful sick the day the vote was taken and stayed "Damn him, I'll learn him." Yes—the shame of it was they were away. Or there might come the spook of the dirty politician who both learning that which they would find hard to forget. Oh men Who vote, will you continue to vote for the licensed saJoon? Will There were no police in sight that night. Of course none yon? needed. It was just an incident. A saloon row. That's all. We were came on up the street a block and found another drunken brute Who was looking for trouble, It was because of incidents like fhese, and many others that we could mention, that we have seen coming to this "City of Destiny" that made us say to our Since friend of last Saturday night, Oh that's nothing. It would do no gocd to report it." This, and a lot of other things that are repulsive and horrifying, we must expect as long as we have the licensed saloon. Our friends, the enemy, will say, "The blind pig will be That is too old a gag for us. We have found out by experience W*orse." that "Blind Pigs" are more numerous where the "Old Sows" are. We have lived in both towns and know from experience. The opposition speaks of cold facts. They are cold, all right. $750. $750. They can sneer at "dry preachers and priests and sanctified editors," but many of them know far better than the most of us, the f. o. b. Toledo f. o. b. Toledo damnable effects of the liquor traffic. Their slurs and their sneers Wdnt help them Win their fight. We can understand how a man fight for his business, even though he knows he is not right. Will But how any man with his eyes open, who is not tied up in the salmon business, can fight for the saloon, we cannot understand. OVERLAND The saloon does not pay not even the man who runs it and gets ftis living by it. Will men, with the ballot, be true to their homes, their wives, mothers, sisters and chlidren on August 2nd? We VOte for hell when we vote for the saloon. Honest men! You know FiVe-Passenger Touring Car—Model 83 &S w^ell as do that the saloon never did you any good. I believe 1 Show my love for the man behind the bar by voting DRY Mon Which bar? The saloon bar. dfay. C. H. Blake. 35 Horsepower motor Full streamline body u-i High-tension magneto ignition Deep Divan upholstery FIXING VOTERS—SLUSH FUND. Electric starting and lighting Did you get that, Mr. Citizen? You have contributed from 50 Tires, 33 by 4 in., non-skid in rear (feints up according to your means, for postage, etc. Was it usee Left hand drive, center control Demountable rims (one extra rim) fat legitimate purposes or was it used for purchasing the opinion newspapers, colonizing voters, and influencing the public? This is the largest four-cylinder Overland that will be produced this year that's the nerve for you, when Hinky Dink and his gang have tflten past-masters of the art of colonizing and running the public's fetteiness for several years, it may be that the gang thinks there is HE long, low streamline body is unmarred by angles or projections. From the rounded edge of the 6me money in the county they can't grab, and after being used to radiator to the full curved back, there is not a break in the lines. The hood slopes gently upward it's hard to quit. But you know the old saying that drowning and blends into the beautifully curved cowl. The doors are flush with hinges concealed anJ itten will grab for a straw, etc. Same thing, but they can't see the handles inside. The fenders are long and sweeping in their curves, with gracefully rounded surfaces. liifaw. The Press does not believe that the breweries have helped The running boards are clean and free from obstructions, the storage battery concealed, the tire-carriers iff pay the postage or anything else for the county option cam placed at the rear. The windshield is built-in, and conforms to the curve of the cowl—a part of the car itself, ffoign, there being no breweries in the county, and the taxpayers this county like to run their own business. not an apparent tfterthought. The wets are using the arguments that to vote dry increases The car is superbly finished in a rich, deep Brewster gren, dlicately striped with pure ivory white, brewery interest hire ttfime. If that is a fact, Mr. Voter, ask that and set off in pleasing contrast by black enamel radiator, fenders and runnig board shield. fins what about the Beltrami county and Cass county jail. They ate now being used for residence purposes only, by the sheriff Koochiching county jail is the dumping ground for the Booze Model 83 touring car is a beautiful car. It asks no odds of any car at any price—it is at home in Gang—they have commenced to fill it up and court is just over. any company. slush fund If they would use their to pay the freight it would help tax-payer lome, but the working of the county is compelled to f&ok after that end of the business. Between the 1st day of January and the 30th day of June, the tax-payer paid for board of TWIN CITY AUTO CO. prisoners $898.75 for those that were imprisoned through crimes caused by liquor. This is copied from the sheriff's record, which Statement can be confirmed by examination. 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