The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-10-02
The Lager Beer Saloon.

! Tie old whisky bar, or rum-h01e was
bad enough but it had this advantage,
that it had the credit of being frankly
disreputable. 1t had no defenders. Lager
beer is not SO Intoxicating as those dis
| titled liquors, but the lager beer saloon
is more demoralizing than the Old dog
geries. The importation of lager beer is
tie worst evil thai has come into this
country since slaves were first brought
to Virginia. The effect is not immediate,
but the evil is progressive and the habit
debasing. A young man who has got
into the habit of frequenting the lager
beer saloon, is pretty nearly ruined.
| 1t Is because lager beer tipping is not
so disreputable that it is so dangerous.
In our cities the lager beer saloon is
everywhere and it is patronized by the
mass of the workmen. Little children
are sent by scores to bring a pail of beer
to their parents. They are taught TO
haunt these spots, and to drink from
their earliest years. Our modern drunk
enness begins on lager beer, SO that lager
beer makes most of our drunkards. 1t
is the parent not only of drunkenness,
bat of all stupid inelliciencv and un-
thrift. 1t is a besotlng drink, where it
does not produce absolute intoxicatiou.
| The lager beer saloon is the haunt of
lazy or crazy fools. 1t tempts men is sit
still and co nothing but talk Stiffness and
mischief. The one danger which threat
ems the Knights of Labor, comes from
the lager beer saloon. Mr.. Powderiy has
again and again warned them of it. If
their members can keep from the lager
beer saloon they can be trusted To lie
clear headed and diligent II is the men
who hang about the Lager beer saloon
| that stir up differences between employ
ers and employed. We never had re-
port of strike, perhaps just one, de-
generating into violence, but that it is
out of the saloons that crowd runs 10
beat an honest laborer. 1t is the lager
beer saloon that is always the headquar-
tiers of violence, lawlessness and anarchy.
The Chicago anarchists did their plotting
10 their saloons. The leaders of the sane
crew in this city keep larger beer saloons.
Shut up the larger beer saloons and you
have have broken up the whole organiza-
ton of the anarchists.
The corrupt politics of the day has its
center in the lager beer saloons. That is
where the pot house politicians gather,
where the candidate sets up a key for the
crowd. Shut up the larger beer saloon,
and you have done three-fourths of what
is necessary to purify the politics of the
country.
So we say. whatever else is left, shut
up the lager beer saloon. There is curse
in it. 1t must be abolished. 1t should
have no quarter. The man who sells
lager beer ought to be shut out of ii e
church. The man who makes it Shou
be ostracised from decent society. These
men are foes to God and their country.
There should be no mercy shown to tie
traffic. The sacred cause of prohibition
must make war on the fermented rs we'll
as the distilled stuff 1t makes no differ
ence what the politicians say, what Ger
man vote, the Republican patty may
lose, for the lager beer saloon must go;
and if the German vote or the Repubh-
can party resist they must go too. Dowr-
right abolition and prohibition, sweepii G
and complete, unyiclding and compul-
sorry, is the only thing to which we c. II
give consent.-Ner Yorh MdepeHdcH.