The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-09-18
The Work of the Saloon.


Dr. H. X. Carroll, of the N. y. Hde-
pendent, was one of the speakers at Wood
stock, Conn, recently. His theme WAS
1.-The Republic of the Future" Refer
ring to the dangers before us, he said
The saloon is bad, and only bad
There is no aspect in which it can be
considered as beneficial, either to morals
or to religion, to the state or to lndlvld-
uals, to industry or to commerce. AS a
market for our grain and grapes it is a
waste; as an employer 1t makes labor un-
productive; as public business it pau
perizes the many for the sake of the con-
scienceless few; as source of taxation it
hardly pays the State tenth of its cost.
What is it good for? To instruct in vice,
to harden in crime, to reduce to poverty,
to paralyze Drawn and brain, to wreck
homes, and to betray every interest dear
to an intelligent and prosperous people.
You cannot found church. or establish
a school. or open a hospital, or undertake
any enterprise for the relief or improve
ment of mankind without finding that the
saloon has been in advance of you, and
made thousands of victims. In spite of
all your efforts, it will gather out of
society, out of your homes, even out of
your public schools and your churches,
many of your most promising youth to
| be trained in it's horrid school of vice
You cannot overtake it in its work OF
iniquity, you cannot rob it of its prey.
What will you do with it? Warn against
| it? Yes. Form societies? Yes. Circulate
the pledge, and educate the people? Yes
| You will do all this. and tax yourselves
to support its paupers and punish its
criminals, but you will let it multiply its
dens and increase it's business. When
you ask for legislation against it, it will
stand between you and your legislators,
just as it has stood between you and the
House of Representatives for these years
and refused you even the concession of a
commission to inquire into its character
and results. Do the gentlemen of the
House of Representatives who have de.
feated this bill the seventh time. while
the Senate has for the seventh time ap.
proved it, consider it a matter of no I'm
portance? They have created commits
sions tor almost everything else. Com.
missions for yellow fever, commissions
for cattle disease, and even commissions
for cotton worms and grass hoppers; but
that m0nstram h0rrendum, which Mr.
|
srructive than the three historic scourge,
of war, pestilebce and famine combined,
they persistently refuse to have inyesti.
gated. Why? Is it not because of the
tremendous influence of the saloon in
politics? We say beautiful things about
the ballot; about its executing the free
mems will as lightning does the will OF
God. But too often il is the ballot. moi
| nf the fraaInan hnt nf fha ola nf the
saloon. If we are ever to have pure
ballot, honest municipal government. ano
a hober manhood, we must suppress the
saloon; and to tins end we must not for
give stubborn Legislators more than sever
times. And while we carry on with
greater vigor our schemes for educating
public sentiment on this subject, let u.
draw the lines in political action between
those who stand with the saloon against
the people, and those who stand with the
people against the saloon"
What They Say.
"Messrs. b. Salisbury & Co., of Battle
| Creek, Mich. who are extensive mauufac-
tursrs Of Ladies and Gentlemen's furnish
ing goods, say under date of August 18Th,
1881: We have good many visitors, and
they ask what machines we use. We tel
them thatwe have used ''The Davis for IT.
years and they suit us for our work, better
than any other, and that We have tried d
good many different machines"
The Ellsworth Kansas NeWs says
''rhe Davis does "a greater variety OF work
than any other machine in the market. and
SO well, while its appointments are so CON-
plete and simple in construction that The
| most taStidious see ut once its superiority
| wi nix saI IA h.
| fine decorative work, executed tn perfection
itself, sewing chenille upon cord, silk vel
vet and common cloth, making vines, au
| tumn leaves, moDograms, roses and flowers,
worked In gold. For sale by Frazer u Bro.
| Agents, Elkton, Md.