Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-09
ECONOMIC EFFECTS.


the Liquor Trahic-Pestilence, Famine
and Moral Des0latiOn.
A recent number of the ChdutduQuan
presents a discussion of the economic
effects of the saloon, by means of
letters written for that magazine by
prominent men. These are few SEN
fences from the letters:
1.-The paralysis of industry. the in
crease of paupcrism and crime, direct
ly due to the liquor traffic, are the
heaviest economic burdens our mod
ern society bears, greatly outweighing
all the burdens caused by war or
famine or pestilence. DR.. j. II. See
tye, President of amherst College.
"The liquor interest is to-day antag-
ionistic to all the economic interests of
, society; it disturbs the entire business
and political systems; it impedes
and interrupts production and de-
stroys the completed product In short,
from every point of view economically,
the liquor traffic is public nuisance
and danger. "-Hamiltom W. Mabie,
Associate Editor of Christian Union.
''The indirect economic damages of
the liquor traffic in the manufacture
of pauperS, criminals and madmen are
CHASTITY in their enormous and per-
manent total. Mr.. Gladstone was not
extravagant when he said in full Par
Lament that the ravages of intemper-
ance. because continuous, have been a
greater curse to the Anglo-Saxon races
than war, pestilence and famine. y
Joseph Cook.
my disbelief in prohibition prob
ably renders me a more disinterested
observer of its results, and l do not
hesitate to say that though attended
with some deplorable tendencies, it
has been of great advantage to the
State. both morally and from the ma
terial and economic standpoint Very
few of its citizens would willingly re-
turn to the dominion of the dram-shop
with its attendant crime, disorder and
social misery. Whether the people
would prefer prohibition to high Ii
cense, l am not sure; but between pro-
hibition and free whisky, they would
be practically unanimous for prohibi-
ton. "-Senator }. }. ingalls,. President
of the United States Senate.
The man who buys that which sus-
tains his body has his strength and
force to exchange for the creation of
new wealth. The man who buys cloth
ing. though it wears out, has refined
himself and kept himself in condition
to buy new clothing. But can this be
said anywhere of the liquor traffic?
Does the man who exchanges his five
cents for drink better his condition
to add another five cents to his
wealth?
lit seems to me that this principle,
which can be readily demonstrated,
carried out to its final results, must
show that the saloon-keeper stands in
the same relation as the lottery
keeper the gambler, and all classes of
fraud. and, therefore, must be as
fundamentally condemned as are these
great evils of the land. "-Le,uis Miller.
President Of Chautauqua.
"Who dares to think of dollars in
connection with the saloonp Think
rather of pestilence and famine. of
moral desolation and every evil thing.
He who lives on the income of the sa- |
loon is a pauper. He lives at the ex-
pense of others. and gives in return
nothing that can help or bless. His
trade is blight His prosperity en-
tails want and grief. Count the cost |
OF the saloon if you can. but count it |
not in dollars. Bishop S. NJ Merrill |
lone who buys -four is richer for it,
rs well as he who sells il. Liquor may |
enrich the seller. but it impoverishes |
the buyer. All experience shows that |
the community is richer by driving out |
of their business those who are en-.
riched by public pauperism. and by
forcing them into employments where |
they shall enrich the consumer as well |
as themselves. William Hayes Ward,
Editor of Independent. |