Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-02

are unconstitutional They remind one of
a ground-hog trying to root up the Rocky
Mountains.
There are three ways IN which this evil
can be fought: First, total abstinence and
moral suaslon; second, prohibition and
third, by licensing. We can stop the little
boy, but we cannot check nor save the old
SINNER. He has got too far on the route, and
his ticket to perdition is already punched.
BY the-help of God we can save the little
children, and here find millennium. You
can easily prejudice child, and you
should fill its mind full of preiddice against
liquor, in the Sunday School, at the fire.
side, in the home circle, at the breakfast
table. The speaker said when he was boy
he remembered reading what was called
Sargents temperance tales. Those stories
put upon his mind such horror of alcohol
in all its forms that he verify believes had
he never been converted he would always
have been total abstainer
If you use il as a medicine, keep it with
the medicines upon the medicine shelf
with the
RHUBARB, THE IPECAC AND CASTOR OIL.
Nothing can keep young man down in
this country who abstains from strong
drink. He IS sure to rise, prosper and be
respected. Tell the boys that this liquor
traffic absorbs one-fifth of our income an
nualiy, and, by way of illustration, say to
them that the result is just the same as if a
hire should sweep our country once every
five years, burning up all we have; it
would do no more devastation than does
this liquor traffic. Where does the labor
er's earnings go? Do they go for the neces-
sarles of life, or into the savings bank? No,
they find their way into the losing bank,
over the sloppy bars Of beer saloons, and
their only certificate of deposit is a red
nose bad breath, lost reputation. They
are kicked into the middle of the street
with the cigar stunpS and other squeezed
lemons, and we are met by this degraded
individual on the next corner with,
Please, mister, give me fifteen cents to get
a bed" All the money you pay over other
counters you get value received and are
protited thereby but for that you pass over
the liquor bar you get nothing but a soul
destroyed. :" But" you say. Jack is a
good fellow. He pats me on the shoulder
and is very clever" True, but why should
he not be 50, are you not working for him
It is cooler behind his bar in his shaded
saloon, behind the screens, than it is
where you toll in the field, at the forge, or
in the workshop. While you are laboring
hard to earn your daily wages
WHOSE BACK ACHES AT NIGHT,
Yours or Jacks? Not his, surely; for he
has spent the day in his shirt sleeves,
tilted back in Il chair against partition
swapping low-necked stories with lot of
loafers and hangers-on. You eat round
steaks, cut off close behind the horns
while he feeds upon the choicest cuts of
porter-house. His wife, not half so beau
tiful, intelligent nor good as yours, sports q
sealskin sacque worth $500, bought with
IL -
buy your wife a 81 shawl. His children
are arrayed in the best, while your little
ones prettier, brighter and more promising
in every way, are running barefoot. Who
built the elegant residences of the brewery
men, the costly palace saloons? The labor
ing man, who has not a curtain to his win
dow, carpet on his floor, q book in his
house, and who enjoys none of the comforts
of life. Who pays for the costly funeral
of the liquor man, with q miles length of
carriages, hearse with nodding plumes,
and his marble sepulcher? The man
who never rode in anything bet
Ter than dirt wagon or dump cart,
and when he dies will be thrown into q
shallow hole in the Potter's field We
must go to the poor men and help them
especially the young men. The speaker
said he was a prohibitionist first, last and
all the time. He was not in favor of n
license it was a league with the devil and
covenant with he'll. 1t simply says, let
US divide the blood money and then we
will stand by you. AT present the liquor
dealers in this city pay an amount so small
that it would hardly cover the expense of
THE FUNERALS OF THEIR VICTIMS.
Prohibition is the only true way. The
first total abstinence society was formed in
1886. The Washingtonians organized in
1910. They have made such rapid strides
in a few years that it is folly to say prohibi-
ton is impracticable. In fifteen years pro-
hibition will be the law of the land, and as
Sam Jones says: when that time arrives
no one but fool will drink, and no one
but a scoundrel will sell it, Maine Kan
sas, Iowa, and Nebraska have already
adopted prohibition. The South is teach
ing us a lesson. They have local option
voted by counties. In Kentucky a coun-
ties have adopted it. In Georgia III and in
less than one year that whole State will
have declared for local option. Prohibi-
ton is coming as sure as sunrise. We have
had large immigration to our shore. The
Germans have popularized the drinking of
beer, and the IRISH who could not rule
their own country, but came over here and
very kindly consented to rule ours politi-
cally are at the head and front in the LIQUOR
Ga1lc. The speaker said he did not be-
lieve in a liquor license high or low,
but OF the two evils he preferred the
least, so he chosea high license This he did
merely as matter of expediting and a
local measure. Make it high enough to
prohibit. The saloons in this city now
pay s. per month. A movement has
been inaugurated to put it up to $50 per
month or 5000 year. At Omaha the
authorities put it up to $500 a month or
$4,000 year, and the consequence was
that all grog-shops, saloons and dives were
closed. 1t prohibited. Put the license up
to $50 per month in the city and 300 of the
400 saloons will be closed. 1t will shut up
all the beer dives deadfalls devils pits and
corner groceries. The revenue per annum
from the 400 now in this business is $24,-
600. From the 100 that would likely take
ont the higher license $4,000 would be
raised.
NoTE.-As the large congregation filed
out of the church at the close of the
service, they found lying upon the sidewalk
in front of the door young man in a
beastly and most helpless state of intoxica-
ton. lie was rather tall, well dressed in a
dark suit of clothes, and had a dark mus
tache. a liquor dealer who happened to
pass that way was ungenerous enough to
remark that the young man had been pro-
cured by the divine to play the part of a
frightful example