The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04
ECONOMIC DAMAGES.

The Burden Entailed Upon the Public by
tho Liquor Trafic-Pestilence, Famine
and Moral Desolation.
4 recent number Of the Chautduq9Gn
presents Il discussion of the economic
effects Of the saloon, by means Of
letters written for that magazine by
prominent men. These are a few SEN
fences from the letters:
THE paralysis of industry, the in
crease of pauperism 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. Il. See
tye, President of amherst College,
The liquor interest is to-day antag-
onistic 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 a public nuisance
and danger. "-HGn1ilton W. Mabie,
associate Editor Of Christian Union
THE indirect economic damages of
the liquor traffic in the manufacture
of paupers, criminals and madmen are
ghastly 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 \
greater curse to the Anglo-Saxon races
than war, pestilence and famine. -
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 IL
cense, l am not sure; but between pro-
hibition and free whisky, they would
be practically unanimous for prohibit
ton. Ex-senator j. j. 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 a drink better his condition
to add another five cents to his
wealth?
1T 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. "-LcWis Miller,
President Of Chautauqua.
"Who dares to think of dollars in
connection with the saloon? Think
rather of pestilence and famine, of
moral desolation and every evil thing.
He who lives on the income of the sa-
loon is 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 ard grief. Count the cost
of the saloon if you can, but count it
not in dollars. Bishop S. H. Merrill
"One>~yho buys flour is richer for it,
rs well as lie who sells it. 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 rs well
as themselves, ~ William Hayes Ward,
Editor Of Independent.