Iowa
Old Press
Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
April 23, 1874
State Temperance
The Buchanan county Bulletin says:
The ladies are meeting with excellent success in procuring names
to the petition to the Council to raise the saloon licenses. Nine
out of ten of our population not directly interested or dependent
in some way on the liquor traffic recognize the justice of this
demand, and it is probable, with the backing of public sentiment
which the petitions will show, that the Council will refuse to
grant it. The petition will be presented at the regular meeting
of the Council on Monday evening. After speaking some hopeful
words for the cause of temperance the Washington, Iowa, Gazette
says: The great temperance engine is still running, in this city,
under a full head of steam. We cannot say whether the spirit that
move the leaders, is becoming greatly diffused, but one thing is
clearly developed. The enthusiasm of those who have enlisted
heart and soul in the cause, is becoming greater, and this
spirit, leaven like, may yet permeate the entire community. Even
though the movement were to stop now, there are few but will
admit that it has been beneficial. The Des Moines Journal
says that a few days ago the ladies of Jefferson visited the City
Council of that place in a body and made an appeal for
prohibition. The result was that the Council appointed a
committee to draft a prohibition ordinance, and will undoubtedly
pass it. One saloon man had quit the business and several others
are offering to sell out at cost. The temperance crusade has
broken out in Vinton, Benton County. The ladies are visiting
saloons and drug stores; some of the proprietors of which are
disposed to yield. The prohibitionists of Waterloo are determined
to inforce the law to the very letter, and prevent druggists from
selling spirituous liquors for medicinal purposes. A large
temperance mass meeting was held at McGregor on Monday night. The
speakers advocated the banishment of the cup from the side-boards
of society, believing it to be the root of the evil. No definite
movement toward a crusade has taken place. The Marshalltown Times
says the physicians of that city have signed an agreement to not
prescribe liquors for medicinal purposes under any circumstances
whatever.
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Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
April 30, 1874
A case of considerable interest has just been decided by the
court at Cedar Rapids. James Bronson, a shoemaker in the employ
of Frank Yarnall, a dealer in boots and shoes, went into a saloon
kept by one Ponelka and there became intoxicated. He lay there in
this state for nearly ten days, being kept drunk all this time;
his clothes were taken from him and appropriated by the saloon
keeper, and filthy rags, filled with vermin substituted. Yarnall
sued Popelka for $100 damages under the provisions of section
1,557 of the Code, which gives employers right of action and
damages in such cases. The jury awarded sixty dollars to Yarnall
in which public sentiment strongly concurs.
Forty-six saloon keepers of Keokuk publish a card pledging
themselves not to sell ale, wine, beer or other drinks to minors
or other persons injured by the use of intoxicating liquors. They
declare further that they will not discountenance any person or
persons engaged in the liquor business that will not unite with
them in carrying out this reform. To aid them better in their
purposes they solicit notifications in writing from parents,
guardians, wives or relatives, and ask also the aid of all
parties personally interested.
Judge Maxwell has issued an order to the Sheriff of Polk county
to close all saloons and other places in Des Moines that were
declared nuisances at the term of court yesterday.
State Anti-Temperance Association
A "State Liquor-Dealer's Association" has been
organized in Davenport, whose purposes and plan of operation we
condense from the constitution of the organization, as quoted in
the Davenport Democrat:
The constitution of the Association announces its purpose to be
that or organizing societies throughout the State of Iowa whose
object it shall be to remove the so-called Maine Law and its
appendances, and to labor for the introduction of a judicious
license law instead. We will oppose the encroachment of puritanic
temperance demagogues, who now more than ever entertain thoughts
of depriving us of the liberties guaranteed by the constitution
of the United States. Every honorable citizen, or others who have
declared their intentions to become citizens of the United
States, can become members of this society. Every
member has a right to demand large assistance from the society;
to what extent such aid shall be given is optional with the
Executive Committee. It shall be the duty of every member of the
society to support such candidates for public offices as are
favorable to a general license law, whether such candidates be
one one ticket or another."