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SOWING AM) LEAPING.Fifteen pickpockets and sixteen drunks is the jail record of “Cheese Day.” Many drunks, as the Times rightly stated, were not locked up, for Freeport reports that some were locked ud after thev arrived there,J. *' 'having too heavily imbibed of the goods which now mrkc Monroe fam-one A.fpnin «-,nU nff'iin a oil COnJH hpft!on the streets “I have never seen so j many drunks in my I if® ” Wad all the | drunks been locked op who were «*e®n parading the streets the jail would heve been ton smell. Some of our “good meaning” people who so ,slr®n-voudy opposed the “Dry” campaign last spring by word and ballot, had the pleasure (and I suppose they felt proud?) to see the harvest of their spring sowing. My! they must have rejoiced over the work they did last spring when they saw these “swill joints” full of men, women and boys, and hear their shrieks and shouts;when they boys several yeavclow twenty-one go staggering along the streets, vomiting over everything, and spewing forth in their drunken stupor the rankest vulgarity possible. My, wont that church man who voted “wet” last spring have much to be thankful for when he goes to churcn next Sunday and recalls that bountiful harvest of his sowing.Shame upon the people, whosoever they may be, who know that they had a part in making possible a dirty curse to exist in cur city which knows no respect of persons, sex or age. Shame upon the man who lacks the courage of manhood, who in the faceof things as were seen on “Cheese Day,” does not resolve with serious determination that this curse MUST
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Monroe Informer
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Oct 11, 1917
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