The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-07-12
w. C. T.. U.


Save the boys OF American from the
curse of the saloons, If for no other reason
than that they are to be the future citizens
of = country that is governed by the YER
diet of the ballot box.
No other man can give as many good
reasons why its boys should be properly
brought up as this country can.
They are the oldest young boys on the
face Of the globe. They take to using
canes and wearing high hats before other
boys even think of setting up to be any
body.
American boys are worth the trouble of
saving. There is a remarkable force of
character about them. They think, plan
and execute so vigorously that it is well for
every sober. thinking mar to do his utmost
to see that they start right.
What's the value of an American boy !?
The price of an immortal soul? Figure
that up, il you can, and you have an idea
of what a boy is worth.
If not a single boy in this country ever
got drunk the saloons ought to be abol-
ished just the same, for the reason that
they teach all kinds of d~eviItry apart from
drunkenness.
Gambling is not conducive to good NOR
ais, yet in the saloon can always be seen
the dice box and cards. Lets throw for
drinks is a common invitation nightly ex-
tended to the customers present. Pool
xIo.;r- f.a- . - - faaK,ra ~ saloons
and has started more young men on the
road to states prisons than perhaps any
other folly.
Swearing is another devilish art taught in
saloons. If all the oaths that fell from the
lips of patrons of gin mills dropped on the
floor, it would not take many weeks to fill
the bar-rooms up TO the extent of making
it impossible to gain an entrance.
Lewd conversation is the best way to
win the hearty approval of the average sa-
loon hummer. The more filthy the bet
ter. A clean story, even if well told,
would fall as fiat as a pan cake on the ears
of the patrons of a purely country saloon.
If smut could be sold for % cents a ton
there could be a good living picked up in
the average saloon without much diff
Guilty.
Disrespect for the word of God and its
teachings is another characteristic of habit
ual frequenters of saloons. You can al
ways neal within their walls a good word
for Bob Ingersoll, but never one for the
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The walls of a saloon are generally lined
with Yankee Sullivan, Tom Hyer, John
Morrisey, John L. Sullivan, Jake Kilrain
and other pugilistic notables; and is often
decorated with pictures that no boy would
be willing to point out to his sister.
Almost all the riots that this country
has been cursed with have been bred and
nursed in the saloons.
A barroom is no place for boys. 1t is
the most frequented gateway to the lane
that leads to hell.
The good people of American ought to
arise as one man, and try to save the boys
from this blighting curse.
The worst boy that tTeads this soil is too
good to be allowed to fall into any of these
%trap-doors to the pit.
Save him, if possible, for his own sake;
for his mother's; for the sake of his oun
t-y; and, if not for these reasons, for his
Redeemer's sake, SO that his blood bought
soul may live hereafter with Him who re,
deemed it.
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lation of America respond.-Ias Pioneer.