Selected Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin Records, 1917-1918

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Let us take Sears Roebuck and Co for instance, -^f you wcre^in      i Cl'iieago and v/ent out to v/here this great plant is situated, the
greatesbo of its kind in the world,and v/ent in and asked the n.anager of •
I that concern v.hat they think of the saloon,he would tell you the "-^7 I
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following story* As- soon as we beg.an to build this plant of ours      :
saloons saloons slatted to grow, up around us like mushrooms • We :;
Saw at once 'that something must be aone to v^rotect our help so we pas::;e \
the eight block rule v/bich -moans tbat any employe of our Qoneern ,1
enters a saloon r^at amy tiaie in business hours or.out of them v/ithln j
eight blocks of our plant he looses bis sjob .#,|;^'MM//l'l<i^?^M#J^TM^estion . ;
That is whal the greatest .aiail order house in ,tb£ v.'orld thinks of tiie I
saloon* And remerber that Sears roebuck and co is not do ng this for 1
any ^^oral purpose at all .  t is a business proposition with them that '^
they  knov/ that they can't affors to keep.F^r:y thing but sober clerks I
they keep sober clerks and sober salesmen, *  ,  ' 1
and then if you would go back to the center of the city and go to -i^^arsh ;j
Marshall field and' co and ask them what the thing of tbe saloon they .1
would tell you tbiat they never liire a nan under any circun-;£tances if 1
if to tliere knowledge hhe^aknar5!yb.tj-iing to dx aa ib bie saloon . |