The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-15
SECOND AMENDMENr ONLY

I'VE give a worthy citizen hearing on
the second amendment, without endOrs-
ing or being espOnsible.-ED. DEM.
The objection is sometimes urged
against the second amendment that IL
will ruin the business of 10000 men.
Sorry to injure any legitimate business.
1t is not the men, but the ruinOus busi-
ness that thu amendment aims at. Most
all the men are able-bOdied and of good
capacity for some other calling that
will benefit instead of degrade society,
and these new channels will soon be-
sought out, and the families of the liquor
sellers themselves will be blessed in the
change. But putting the very worst
feature upon the change, would 1t not be
chea per for us to give each one of these
10000 men a farm or house in town
and furnish it and give them yearly
allowance, than to let the work OF desc
latiOn and destruction go on by the con-
tinuance of the traffic, which is costing
the State of Ohio each year more than
we expended during the war.
The Catholic priest at AnamOsa, Iowa,
recently made the following very plain
and truthful remarks at the funeral of
Mrs, Fox, woman who had lived the
wife of drunken and brutal husband:
Mrs. Fox was fine woman, but she
suffered the abuse and neglect Of a
drunken husband, and bore her trouble
like saint. Tho saloon keepers were
her enemies. They took money from
her husband which belonged to his
family, and his wife and children were
left in sorrow and poverty that a saloon
keeper might thrive. The hands of the
saloon keeper are stained with the blood
OF the dead woman, and God Almighty
will hold them responsible on the last
day as accessories to her sad DEATH"
Vote for the second amendment only, so
that the temptation may be removed
from drinking men, that our youth may
never learn the direful habit, and that
the men now engaged in the liquor
traffic may engage in more honorable
and useful business, whereby their own
families may be saved and they will
bless the law as much as the former
slave owners now bless the laws that
emancipated the slaves. Bishop Ireland
says: "Our disgrace and our misfortune
in America is the number of Irish saloon
Keepers. | blush for the old race when
ever | walk along the streets of our
cities and read over dOOr-ways so often
Irish names affixed to the words, saloon,
wines and liquors, imported liquors."
&c. To what base uses noble names
have come. Compute in any one city
the sums of money spent by lrishmen in
In one western city of America there
are 500 saloons kept by Irishmen for
the benefit of Irishmen. Allow the aver
age receipts of each saloon to be SIS per
day, you have an annual expenditure for
liquor by the Irish Of the city of $8,-
2l2,5OO. Add to these sums the
value of time lost through drink,
of wages uneaTned because men
visit saloons, and $l2 100000 per annum
ia NJ nt foo narh 4.
annual losses to the Irish of one city.
Repeat the calculation with due proper
ton from st. Paul to New York, from
Boston to Philadelphia, and you will
know why we are poor. 1t is idle talk
to advise the people to secure homes of
their own, to leave the crowded cities, to
gain by labor and economy a cOmpe.
tence for themselves and their families.
We must lay the axe to the root of the
evil, which is the saloon, that Is swal-
lowing up their earnings. 1t Is echoed
by the saloons in Ohio that prohibition
Is failure in Kansas. All we ask, Is to
let US have such failure. We quote
from few of the late Kansas papers.
The Winfield Courier says: "WinfieId
has population of 1900, with the pro-
hibttOry law enforced The city has no
police except the marshal, who has
been made street commissioner to keep
nlu enplOyeu. In6 city Is ruSne0 with
business, and is exempt from drunken
ness" The Ottawa Republican cOrrOb-
crates the above as follows: "Ottawa
has population of five thousand. The
prOhibitOry law is strictly enforced. The
city IS quiet because there are no saloons
to create drunken rows. The city has a
marshal and night watchman."
The AtchisOn Globe has been a persis-
tent opponent, and yet its editor is fore
ed to say: Nothing but our sense of
duty as an Independent journal impels |
us to remark, that Notwithstanding our |
earnest opposition, the prohibition cause |
is gaining ground every day. We are
really afraid prohibition will be sue
cessful national issue long before san
guine prOhibitiOnists expect it. RevO- |
lutiOns sometimes come with the swift |
ness of a whirlwind." Every day and
every hour brightens the prospect for |
Ohio stepping in as the third prOhibi- |
tiOn state of the grandest nation in the |
world; which will be the keynote for the |
whole country to wipe out this great |
evil from our midst. From the East and |
the West, from the North and the South, |
the agitation goes forward.
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