Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-30

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for these legitimate and lawful uses
constitute, Ihave no doubt, a very large
proportion, Of the sales made by the
druggists Of Kansas; 80 that the guam
tity, Of Intoxicating liqnors sold as
beverage il reduced TO a very small
amount, and this amount viii grow
smaller year after year. ,azi m
THE SOBER, LAW RESPECTING STATE n
My fellow citizens, those who as
sert that the drug stores have been
transformed into saloons, or that drink
ing and drunkenness have increased in
KansaS, ought to know that they are not
telling the truth. There Is not an in
telHgent, observing man in Kansas who
does not know that drinking and
drunkenness have been enormously
ldiminished-in this State during the
pastfye years. II is no doubt, true
that liquor is sold in many places in
violation Of law. But no intelligent,
truthful man, who knows what the CON,
dition Of affairs was six or eight years
Itago and lis to-day, viii deny that a
great reform has already been accom-
plished. 4 hayetrayeled over the State
a great dealduring the, past two years.
II have attended public meetings ia
ia hundred different \ towns and
cities--political meetings, soldiers
reunions fairs and other gather
ings, at which from 5000 to $4,000
people were assembled il
is one of the rarest Of things to see d
: single person under the influence Of
liquor. Ihave heard hundreds of'peo-
' pie speak Of this remarkable fact, and
always with Satisfaction and pride.
Wherever the saloon has been banis.ied
nineteen twentietlis Of all the drinking
and drunkenness prevailing have been
abolished with it. The social feature
Of the drinking habit goes With the
saloon, and this social feature the
American habit Of treating-is respon.
sibIe for nine-tenths Of all the drinking
! and drunkenness in America. The
loafng pface'the' saloon afforded, with
! its hangers-on, has gone witlfthe saloon.
The bad example set before young boys,
the allurements OF good fellowship
which tempted SO many, developed
and nurtured by treating all these
: have gone with the saloon. And yet
, not to-day, nor next year, nor for a de-
cade to come with all the good results
ofthis abolition OF the saloon be realized.
The old generation Of drinkers will,
many Of them, probably continue TO
liquor in some way-but their boys,
! our boys, all the happy, hopeful, bright
, eyed and rosy-cheeked young fellows
who are growing up on the praries Of
Kansas, will grow to manhood un-
tempted. by the social allurements OF
J the saloon, soberer, happier, healthier,
men than their fathers were. =
FATHERS, MOTHERS, WIVES AND chill
Il DREN REJOICE.
! And where is the father who does
not rejoice over his prospect? The
man does not live who is SO degraded
> so brutal, that he would wish his boy,
!. or the husband of his daughter, to
: acquire the drinking habit. Where,
/, then, is the man who is not willing to
give his voice and his vote to sustain
the party which, respecting and obey
ing the formally expressed win Of the
, people, proposes to abolish the saloon
J and the irightful crime, poverty,
4 wretchedness and vice of which it is
the fruitful source? Suppose that not
! another drop OF liquor should ever be
/ sold,, as a beverage, in Kansas--would
any human being in the state thereby
suffer harm? If every salooon in
Kansas should be closed tomorrow
!, and never reopeend, would any man,
: woman or child within the limits .oI
!, the state be injured? Has whisky,
! since the first drop was distilled, ever
benefited any man who drank it, OF
made the life OF any wife, mother OF
> !, sister happier, or brought JOY to the
heart or smiles to the lips Of little
! child? Has any good ever come out Of
the saloon? Has any human being
been hurt or harmed, in any town OF
!, city of this state, by the closing of the
saloons? Not one-not single one.
=, In hundreds OF Kansas towns whence
: the saloons have been banished, there
:, are thousands OF homes where wives
. and children wear better clothes and
sit down every day to better meals,
than they had provided for them before
! the saloons were banislled. Is there a
! home anywhere in the state that is less
2 peaceful. prosperous and happy, or a
3 child that is clothed in RAGS or wifa