The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-13


ing very little drinking except neal
GRANVILLE, licensed town of White
county, near our border. The diff
ferent terms of our circuit court oc
cupy three or four days each year
Statistics show that in Maine
where the liquor traffic is prohib-
tied, there is but one criminal tt
1920 of population, while in Cali
fornia where licensed saloons pre-
vail, there is one criminal to every
600 Of population, and throughout
the whole union the prevalence o
crime is in almost exact proportion
to the amount of intoxicants used
Edwards county, Illinois, and Vine
land, New Jersey, are cases il
point, and in the south where loca
opLion has lately been adopted by
many counties, one of the first re-
suits noted is, that the amount o
crime is so perceptibly and 'speedi
ly diminished that it does not anC
cannot fail to attract attention anC
remark.
They oppose prohibition, in face
of the fact that in Portland, Maine
it has reduced the number of places
where Intoxicating liquors are sold
from over 300 to 4 open and 25 Sc.
cret ones, in face of the fact that in
the villages and smaller towns the
traffic has been wiped out altogeth
er, and a generation has grown up,
within the thirty years that the
traffic has been prohibited, who
know not the taste of rum.
Following prohibition in Maine
has come the result Its advocates
hoped for. Crime has been per
ceptibly lessened, and where it ex-
lists it can be almost invariably
traced to the secret whisky selling
which the law has not as yet been
able to reach. The moral and f.
nancial condition of the state has
been vastly improved. Prohibition
has reduced the consumption of in
toxicants from $4,000, 900 to $500
600, and that tells the whole story.
OF course the brewers and distill-
ers will oppose prohibition for it
takes out of their hands the classes
they want. They want the privi-
lege of making drunkards as well
as supplying those already made.
Every saloon in a place means that
a number of the boys in that place
will become drinkers and drunk
ards. No saloon can subsist upon
the custom of old and confirmed
drinkers alone. A dozen young
men ruined in character and health
for every saloontexisting, would not
be too large an estimate. And
these boys will not be the ones in
the community that can best be
spared. If there is anything well
established by experience it is that
the drink craze is no respecter
of persons but that all are liable to
be affected by it. The rich as we'll
as the poor, the children of chris
tian parents as well as the hood
lums of the street, are equally in
danger.
Prohibition reaches out it's pro-
tecting arm and tears these boys
from their grasp, Prohibition can
not restrain the confirmed drunk
ard, for there is no law which pre-
vents entirely any wrong doing.
The work of the church is not so
much to save confirmed wickedness
as to save those innocent from con-
tamination. Prohibition cannot
keep the confirmed drunkard from
his fatal indulgence, for that habit
once fixed never sleeps, and is al
ways dragging its victim down.
But it does prevent the young boy
from acquiringhabit. If may not
rescue the sOt of this generation,
but it prevents the innocent boys
who will make up the next from
becoming sots. That is the strength
of prohibition and that is why the
merchants in human souls hate it
snd oppose it. They are after the
boys.
Every parent in the country, if
he loves his children, should be a
prohibitionist, for it is the only two
ways to
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