Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-08
HOMES VS.. SALOONS.
A SERMON IN FAVOR OF HIGH
LICENSE.
All Political Corruption is Hatched
in Saloons-Objections to High
License Critically Reviewed

Sixth-street NJ. Z. Church, upon the sub
ject High or Low License-The Home VS..
The Saloon" drew large congregation.
Every seat in the building, both down
stairs and in the gallery, was occupied.
He read Acts xxi, 3d. But Paul said
/ am a man, a citizen of no mean city
and, beseech thee, suffer me to speak
unto the people" Timothy v: but if
any provide not for his own, and specially
for those Of his own house, he hath denied
the faith, and is worse than an infidel"
He said he would touch upon thoughts
suggested by those quotations. but the sub
ject of his discourse would be . the Home
VS.. The Saloon The police of every city
testified to the undeniable fact that the
saloon was prolific source of disorder
violence and crime Physicians tell us
| that it is the cause of
| PHYSICAL DEGENERAcY IN INDIVIDUALS
And families. The liquor traffic of the
| United States runs up a bill annually of
81 200, 100000. The amount thus expended
in two years would pay off the entire Ma
tional debt, and leave large surplus If
the amount expended for liquors in one
year were paid into bank and disbursed
1
day it would take 100 years to thus pay it
out The amount of breadstuffs annually
destroyed for the purpose of manufact-
uring liquor is valued at 81 .4O0,-
GOO The material so used is worse
than destroyed. Not long since process
sion of laborers carried a banner upon
| which was written "Our children cry for
bread" What is the cause of this destitu
ton? Stop the distillery and breweries
\ nd f1,a 4
legitimate channels. Suppose the 81, 100000
worth of breadstuffs they destroy annually
| was placed in one immense warehouse, and
| the liquor dealers should surround it. ap-
ply torch and burn it up? Would they
be looked upon as good, representative
citizens; men to place in the office of Gov
ernor, men TO be elevated to positions of
public trust? No! They would be looked
upon as thieves and criminals. The strong
arm of the law would gather them in and
they would be thrown into Jail for
DESTROYING THE PEOPLES BREAD.
Would not it be better, however, if they
would destroy it in the manner stated than
TO poison, divert its use, make it the source
of crime and the cause of 10000 deaths an
nually, the filling of our almshouses with
| helpless and destitute, the sending annually
OF 10000 of our people as madmen and
| idiots to our insane asylums? Better that
the breadstuifs had been destroyed by fire
| than turned into a liquor that drenches
your streets with blood and paints your
homes-in mourning. Yet we are told that
this liquor business is material to our ex-
istence; that it cannot be stamped out
without serious loss. Who is it takes care
of the paupers? 1t is the honest laboring
class. Simple justice would make the
| liquor traffic take care of the paupers and
crime it produces. If such a tax could be
imposed all in the liquor business would
go out of it the business would not. could
not stand it. In a communication to the
daily press, liquor dealer said that it
would send 100 men out with the great
army of the unemployed. Suppose it
would We could well afford to put them.
and all the other liquor dealers in the
city, in the Golden Eagle Hotel and sup
port them, if they would quit the business.
Who is 1t that now supports the hundreds
OF paupers, the direct offspring of saloons
BUYING THE PRESS AND coRRUPTING VOTERS
A few nights ago the saloon keepers and
wholesale liquor dealers of this city met in
| secret session 1T the Clunie Opera House
a little bird who watched their actions and
listened TO their proceedings from the
house-top tells how they assessed them
selves five dollars head to raise funds to
purchase portion of the local press at So
cents line, the balance to be used in cor
rupting voters at the DO Is You must
watch the liquor dealers on election
day, for they can and will buy votes; not
the vote of the honest fair-minded elector,
but of the degraded hummer, the offspring
| OF the rum mill, who has graduated from
the toe of the saloon-keeper's boot. Such
a man will sell himself for dollar-for a
dollar represents so much whisky, and
whisky is what he wants. They assess
| themselves to corrupt voters, to corrupt
the press. But whoever heard of them
assessing themselves for the purpose of
supporting the drunkards family? No
they make the drunkard, and the cause of
the restitution of his family, and the care
| OF the latter is dependent upon your
charity and mine, and such institutions as
the Towards.
ALL POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Is Matched in the saloon. 1t is there where
| the bosses are created, the states made, the
rings made, under the collar of which YOU
so often chafe. 1t is stated upon the high
est authority that nine-tenths of all the
crime in New York is directly attributable
to the liquor traffic. War, famine and
pestilence, with all their devastating horrors,
have not done so much evil in the world as
has the liquor traffic. Gladstone said, shut
up the public houses of England and you
can dispense with nineteenth of the
prisons One hundred reasons can be
| given why the liquor traffic should die to
where one could be offered in favor of the
abolition of African slavery The latter
did not cause 10000 deaths annually, did
not starve women and children, cause muir
der and arson, and fill to overlooking our
prisons and asylums.
WILL DEFEND WITH PERTINAcITY
The liquor dealers will fight for exist
ence, will defend their nefarious business
to the bitter end at all hazards. at any
cost. What legitimate business makes 20
per cent profit? Every drink he passes
over his bar brings him that profit. The
liquor traffic dies hard, but die it must
Revolutions IN favor of reform never go
back. He referred to many evils that had
to succumb to the popular will of the peo-
pie. The obtaining of the Magma Charter
in 1915 securing to the people free speech
and free press, and a trial by jury Duel
ing many years ago was popular in the
United States, especially in Kentucky If
| Henry Clay and other eminent statesmen
who engaged in that practice in that State
were now living they could hold no politi-
cal office, for the State Constitution for
ever debars any man from holding office
who ever engaged in dueling. Thirty
years ago David Terry and d. c. Broderick
fought duel in California. Broderick fell
and Terry was considered hero, and pet
ted for the act. But dueing has long
since been buried in deep grave, and
Terry to-day moves about like an outlaw,
with the
| BRAND OF CAIN UPON HIS BROW
Disowned by his own political party.
Slavery for years controlled and ruled, but
a grave was dug for it, although it took
bayonets and bullets to do it, and was the
cause of an immense loss of life Another
grave, deeper and wider than any of those
mentioned, has been dug, but it is empty
yet If it costs million lives and the
death of another Lincoln, it must go. 1t
may cost much bloodshed, but the death of
that great evil, the liquor traffic will surely
come; it must fill that grave some day.
Die, thou accursed and abhorred evil.
stepped as thou art in infamy and guilt
Some spear will pierce the demon through
the heart and it will fill that grave. Pro-
hibition will surely win in the end, but the
victories of tomorrow will avail nothing
to-day. In the mean time thousands of our
noble youth must sink into premature and
DIsHoNoRED DRUNKARDs' GRAVES.
Cannot we do something in advance of pro-
hibition? Cannot we build bulwark of