Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
"satan,s seat Is I'm che saloon. y

Some wiseacre started the argument that
prohibition Of the liquor traffic could not be
the most important question, because in
Mohammedan countries where they have,
polyRamy and other evils exist and now that
idea IS being worked up in different FORMS as
an unanswerable argument, and people who
don't want prohibition or who do want some
thing else jump at it as they have jumped at
every ether fallacy which has been invented
to lull sleepy consciences. Is ii not curious
how people do love to be deceived into
doing or believing tFset which they
want to. do or believe anyway Here
comes believer in Georges absurd theory
that all the woes of humanity spring from
private ownership Of land, and accuses the
Pioneer of overlooking the lessons of history.
He says that China and Japan, aS well as the
Mohammedan nations, have nolquor traffic,
but they have all had land moDopoly as we
have, and have ike us, failed tOdevelop the
divine ideals. That is true enough; but ii
would be about as logical to argue that hands
and feet and eyes and tongues are the causes
Of all evil because all nations have them and
in all nations evil exists. Indeed these un-
ruly members are very much more intimate
ly connected with the universalitE OF evil
doing than land ownership, even,when that
degenerates into monopoly. If the Pioneer
were published in Turkey or Utah, We should
NO doubt be calling for reform in the mar
riage laws as the first and most essential re-
f0Bm.. If published in China, we might
point to some other iniquity as the chief
center and source of the general depravity.
But here in America we cannot conceive
how any man with pair of eyes in his
Head can fail to perceive that Satan'S seat is
In the saloon, even though he does, not by
any means contine himself to it as means
of capturing his victims. There are a great
many evil things in this country which have
no. direct connections with the saloon and
there will be plenty of sighting for the soldiers
Of Christ to do after they have captured and
abolished that stronghold of the DEVIL But
until they have done that they cannot wage
successful war on tine other evils, 1t is
true strategy to cut of the enemy from his
base of supplies so that he will he forced to
fight at disadvantage. The saloon is the
devils base of supplies in this portion OF the
worlds 4ttle-ground; therefore. the saloon
most be abolished before Christ can triumph
over Satan here. .--Ne,U York Pioneer
the TRUE Remedies.
The Peoples Friend, OF Hobart, Tasmania,
in September, published a letter to its editor
from the late John B. Finch, as R. w. G. r.,
with greetings to the Tasmanian Grand
lodge Of Good TemPlars, in which he said:
.eOur enemy is the alcoholic dnnk habit
war cry is: Total abstinence and total pro
hibition.' The stronghold Of the liquor traffic
is the ignorance of the people i'm regard tc
the cause Of the evils Of intemperance and the
true remedies Of such evils. The ignorapce
must be overcome by literature and lectures
and the Temp!ar army must furnish TIM
/ means to provide both Templars were not
enlisted for holiday parade The battle
! with the liquor traffic is battle to death
! No license Of any form, nor under any cir
/ cumstances, for the alcoholic beverage traffic
! must be blazoned on the shiaad OF every
! Templar."
| Omtnous~
| The recent formidable mobs of the unenn
| rloyed in London have an Ominous signiki
| cance The drink waste in Great Britain i
enormous and nothing is more natural unde
| such circumstances than that there should b.
| great poverty and suffering A recent re
! port shows the Poor Guardians Of Londoi
| have 81, COO paupers on the parish rolls com
pared with n 900 for the corresponding
month last year. This shows that the Lon
4 don prisoners Of poverty are increasing a
arapid rate. Beer and bad trade are closel.
7! linked together. Abolish the one and tn
other would quickly improve. 1t Is imposs
BILE for the people of any country to vast
their substance as largely as in great Britai
for strong drink and NOT have legitimate il
dustries greatly paralyzed thereby. m NC
tj0ndL Temperance Advocate.
Work on the Potomac fats at Washingto
is progressing. About SOB acres have bee
q reclaimed from the overflow OF the orsiinar
high tide, 6, l50, 900 cubic yards Of the Y, 200
600 required to I'LL the flats to the require
y hoieht have been dap0sit0d.