The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-14
VOLUME XXXv.---NUMBER 44.
ANTr,sALooN
Republicans Issue an Adlrss. to the oOun,
try Mt Large,

try Mt Large,
CHICAGO, Oct, l3-The following ad-
dress Of the National Committee OF the
, Apti,saloon Republicans was Issued this
evening, The National Committee OF
Anti-Saloon Republicans appointed by
the conference held in Chicago, septem.
bsr 10 t, Is, say through their Executive
Committee 10 the Republican party in
the United States and all friends Of
temperance and to order this statement
and appeal, and they ask for 1t such &C
CeptanCe and such active response as the
gravity and urgency Of the matter shall
demand.
The evils Of the liquor traffic as embod.
led In the American saloon system have
reached magnitude and q degree OF de.
BtTuctiveness that threaten the iounds-
tlons Of government, society and the home.
The time has therefore come when polti.
cal parties and private citizens must take
aides openly for or against the traffic with
Ia methods and It's results, Neutrality Ia
henCeforth impossible; indifference lei
henceioTth betrayA 81 Of the trust involved
in citizenship, The anti-saloon Rspubli-
can movement recognizes and proClaims
this state Of things,
THE LIQUOR TRADE,
The American liquor traffic, whatever II
may once have been, is no longer q legiti.
mate and law abiding branch OF trade, ,sery-
lug 10 supply o natural and unlorced de. |
mand for any commodity, however, harm.
tul. The saloon system encouraged and
1iFaOfad hu tho JtatilIa.a hvaUaro ond II
wholesale liquor dealers, has become a
vast and vlgllant organization for forcing
a market for Intoxicating drinks. II
cIeates Q demand where none before ex.
cited; that 1t may profit by supplying
that demand, It artiaciRlly atimu,
!ates an evil habit that 1t may thrive
by ,panderlng 1t; 1t methodically
breeds debauchery, poverty, anarchy and
crime Tor pay; It purposely seeks TO mul.
tiply the number OF drinkers and hence
OF drnnkards; 1t invades every new com.
munity, demands tribute from every
nome and lies In wait with ireah entice.
ments for each new generation Of youth;
It deliberately fosters tue treating custom,
and intensides the widespread social
pressure toward drinking by inyenting
new Pretexs for treating and being
treated. Ii
THE sRILIFUL DEVICES.
Each one Of our two hundred thousand
drinking places forms distinct center Of
aggregate forces aud skilful devices for
spreading the drink habit among men,
Every plausible temptation and solicita.
tion that trained talent can suggest is used !
to entrap the young, the ignorant, the !
,oiling and the homeless, while the
knowledge that O customer oncs secured
Is usually customer for lie. The saloon
system ia an active cause, not an innocent
result; 1t Is the parent, not tho child
OF the mass Of human misery, which
everywhere accompanies II. Experience
Indicates that iouf.hlths OF the American
drinking and drunkenness is due in the :,
irst instance, not to any natural appetite Y
Of our people, but to the presence and !,
sleepless efforts Of this gigantic enginery
working seven days q week and twenty.
four hours day, unrestrGined by any
scruple and everywhere contemptuous Of I
public and private right.
CAUSE OF UNTHRTFr.
II the saloon is the enemy Of society, II r
ls the special foe Of the workinglnsn and |
his home. Defective laws and unjust Gus. Il
Ions which bear hardly upon labor opVht c
10 be and must be reformed, g
but the central cause OF the Q
nnthrift and the regutiye unrest d
among wage workers is the iriRhtful d
waste OF the wage fund included In the 81
gross receipts Of the saloons. This alb.
,orpton Of the earning Of labor by the
dram shop representing direct yearly
waste OF hundreds OF lnillIons Of dollars, :,
also, Of the working class to purchase and = =
consume the necessarlea and comforts Of l
.ile, thus greatly curtailing the produc- 81
'ion and trade, diminishing the tources o
d employment and tending to hold wages v
1t the lowest level.