The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-18
BABES SOLD FOR DRINK.
Major HiIton's Brilliant Arraign
Of the Government.
He Charges High License Win
Debzs<hInx Infants for the
sake Of Revenss-

fneresless sarcasm, quick logic. DHnsrgsls
Anecdotes, aad startling comparisons. He
/ look5ng yoang, clean-eut and vigorous
@oraetsraes his rich tenor voice
gets slightly husky. but his
enuncia;son 10 Of TIE dearest. aud
bis light blue eyes penetrate the snstenee
He e Of the biODee type. bis thoughtful
/ face being set on well by a heavy candy
rarssaehe Major HiIton's ten years ex.
r-srisune a She Internal revenue books Of
( the rgitei states treasury department has
giveu him q fund Of knowledge which he
can Use to great advantage q temper
! snee agitatOr.
RGGHTEOrssEsz IS. EEgEsUE-
HIS theme sunday night. before packed
/ house. vas ~EighteOGsnezs versus Reve
nue." He quoted from the pro
/ verts Of Solomon Better IL a
/ little with righteousness than
great revenues without right He eiaoor-
I ated particularly upon the small adFsnr
I iage gained for Christianity by sending
missionaries smoug the heather when.
simultaneously. so-calied Christian nations
/ are sending earzoes Of rum 70 enslave the
beaihen worse than ever The New Eng
/ laud states were the logtest ia their agita-
/ ton for the abolition of slavery, yet Major
( Hilton recalled the fact that one vessel
Z which left Massachusetts bay for Africa
carried only one missionary but -9,UOe gal
/ Ions Of Sew England rum
AFTEES0oS BIBLE EEApISs.
The bible reading given at the First Pres
{ byterian church AZ p. m In the afternoon
was very interesting, the 1th Palm being
selected. These bible readings viii con
tinue during the week.
BETRAYAL OF BABYH0oD.
Last evenings lecture at the opera house
was attended by a large audience. Rev.
Elliott w. Brown opened and closed the
meeting with prayer, and q large collection
was taken ap for the benefit of the W. G. I.
u. ~ aichmen upon the walls Of Zion was
the theme, the FIRST eight verses of the
thirty-third chapter Of Ezekiel being read
20 form the basis of the speakers elab-
OrRtiOns. The lecture was really an al
tack upon the prevailing high license
system Of regulating the liquor traffic.
Tonight he viii eudeavor 10 show the re-
laiiOnsbip Of the government 20 the
liquor traffic Ia the course of last
nights lecture he said Ia substance:
The sin Of Judas might be looked upon
a. light In comparison with The continuous
{ crime Of the liquor traffic in betrayal Of
humanity. The salOODkeeper OF this
Christian land in this nineteenth century
Is beiraying mankind. womankisd. boy
{ hood. giflhOod, and babyheod. Why, only
I last year IL was gathered from the statistics
I that 214s boys and 1866 girls, ell under the
I age of Ii years pair0nized the saloons in
I New York city alone. / have seen in that
Z honeycombed city men, women and chill
/ dren drinking beer. slOP beer. out OF old
/ Thompson. Of the society for the
/ Repression of the sale Of liquor to
m nOrs, states that In one year in New York
/ in one year $4,000 children went int the
/ saloons between Il and p. m, and aud
I 8 r. N, and over hundred were seen
going into one saloon during the noon
hour. Do you wonder how the appetite is
fastened upon the children, when their
parents send them out 10 buy beer, and
10 increase a revenue to the government
Tor which II has no use. In Chicago IL
was found that 1900 children visited the
saloons of that city, and this gave rise TO
the famous Law ana order League. | re-
member little scene at one of the inyes-
LEGATIONS Of the league. A little fell
low. between the age of ) and . years,
came staggering into school al . O'Clock in
the morning He staggered from desk 10
desk until finally he sank helplessly into a
chair. He was taken up and asked where
he obtained his liquor The poor besotted
babe was too unconscious for some time,
but after time he began fumbling his
pockets. He took out boys parapher-
malta of strings, nails. tops, etc, but
seemed puzzled 10 not find what he was
looking for
Then a bright idea struck him aud be
stopped and picked up Il brightly illumi-
mated card from the door. Il had holes
punched all around the margin. Jerry
Monroe" he said, gives US those: one
punch means glass OF beer, two holes
whisky straight, and the boy who
has the most holes in his card in
a month gets prize" We'll, what
is the prize" why the first prize is
pocket pistol, the secOni, life OF the
James brothers, aud the bird, mesr-
An. you eau laugh. but think of 1900
children going into such dens AS Jerry
Monroe'si Once when ! was coming down
Wabash avenue ] saw a great gilded slgu.
There was a magnificent palace with
doors swim <ing inward and outward.
read the sign. IL was Jerry Monroe'sr'
Why, they eau well afford TO paw $50 for
debauchlng your children, Look AT your
newspapers II you want TO know what
the liquor traffic does for humanity.
one day man was walking along this
ihoroughfarc. aud heard sounds
laughter across the street There
was big crowd laughing at
the soOr. He felt Hn irrestlbie impulse
q cross the street and see what il was
about Down in front OF the grand bar
was little eight-yeRr-old boy, covered
with mud, and lying on the door too drunk
90 get up. Aud the saloon keeT er and the
bartender aud this crowd of stGlwari,
gFown-up men were laughing at the poor
thing. The Ilsn eibOwed the crowd aside
and picked the boy up. II was his own
baby son, Funny, wasn't it, Luny,
Z Christians in this nineteenth century
in Christian lsnd' He took the
boy home, aud the little fellow
lay at the point Of death for three weeks.
-Four weeks after when the boy had Just
recovered, his father passed down the same
street. There was the same laughter. the
same crowds, aud the same Impulse TO 20
over and see what 10 was all about, for
he thought OF his own boy there a few
weeks before. Eleowiug his way through
a a
IN com pany with little fellow six years
old, and the crowd was trying 10 make
them dance hut they were too drunk to
stand. He picked them up, aud
then that saloon keeper. MS lar
tender. and that crowd of big
men struck him and Knocked him down.
and beat him. kicking him and trampling
upon him. and that fac. Is upon chicago's
Z police annals today.
Thus did Major Hilton fire his audience
I last night. wen deliver them up to
/ you, Saws the government. "for 80 many
pieces of silver" OF course The law never
Contemplated such violations, but where
was the saloon kecper who would not VIC
( late liquor laws. He referred ia bis anec-
dotcs 10 such cases as that OF Lizzie Nc
+ Qnirk of New Nors, who tried 10 hsrter her
4 seven months old babes for drink. and
! thea threw one iu cellar and au-
/ other in an ash barrel a l.ttle girl
I who died Of pneumonia on Oregon
I street. tiEftthuNs u me MUSIC
OF this curses aud t,ssihemy OF her drunk
. su parents, the ease of man named
+ Aichsel shade. In Chiea-c. who ia a
/ drunken &c beat his SICK ulfr's brains ont
with their own little helpless baby; an en-,
-iueefs her0is'n On an Eastern road. the
.''fisrs salnouAeepcr. MO. more honest
t' Usual. put the SEN over hiS place.
TIA cad e. He'll. tle uiRn lie NcR York
u bo, 1lst setting his 10 cent drink soon
enough, shcI shC hargg oaer. aud three DAYS
atterwsr,i, stuug by Femnrse, hung himself
20 his cell door. souls sold u SATAN. aud
betrayed q The lleaor trHsic nv the gov
crumcut Tor nickel apiece. Lastly Mayor
Htlto1 reached the highest climax hy his
graphite account of an engineers heroisrn
lu rushing iatc = burning locomotive aud
saving the lives of so Jersey City excur
slaDists. bis clothes being burned OF him,
Ass hand which seized the throttle eeiug
burned 20 the bone, aud a. he pulled ths
throttle, dropping down almost lifclcs,
upon the red coats The application ths
lrciucer made Of this was that he tQuOl
trahc Was Nae burning train, with lpi "a
souls IN q yearly, ani al shrtskiug muir
der OH would some heroic engineer
seize the reG bot throttle, and quite 1hs
tTsin aud rs shriekins human freight
safely Into tho hsrt-nr 81 Prohibition
4 Very Mysterious Murder.