The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-26
Friday, Sept. 2G, 1890.
The Battle Against the Saloon.

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Mrs. Ellis of New Jersey lectured at sew.
eral places in the county last week under
the auspices of cecil County W. G. T. U.
Ga Saturday evening she spoke in the NJ.
L. Church at Rising Sun, delivering a
powerful and moving address on prohibit
ing the liquor traffic. Mrs. Ellis is one of
the ablest speakers in the ranks of the w.
Z. T. T., which can boast among them
some of the best platform orators in the
country.
The church was we'll filled in the even
ing, but fully three-fourths of the audience
were ladies. The voters who should hear
such speeches were not there to hear, and
herein is where the temperance workers are
handicapped. The church and the lady
speaker are not congenial 10 the average
rank and file voter, and while such work
sows the seed in good ground which will
bring forth hundred fold in the future, it
is comparatively powerless for immediate
results, which is our pressing necessity. TO
keep the monster saloon out Of our county
from which it has happily been excluded for
four years is the impending crises
Since the majority in whose hands I'M
fortunately the power 10 control the des-
tines of the county is placed, are careless
and half Indifferent to the great danger that
stalks like pestilence at monday, it is all
the greater obligation resting on those who
are quick ard alive to redouble their efforts
and 90 to those who will not attend the
meetings, where they could learn afresh
the diabolical record which the saloon
makes, wherever tolerated under any form
of license, and urge the duty they owe to
themselves and society to keep out the
saloon by their votes. 1t is inconceiyable
that any man who has seen the ruin, crime
and shocking beastliness which is spread
everywhere from the open saloon, after
witnessing the contrast which the prohibi-
ton of license presents in a community,
could hesitate for one moment to AIRY him
self on the side of morality, decency, good
order and sobriety. Every consideration
of coed citizenship urges him to take this
side. To hear sensible men repeating the
weak inventions and thread bare, self evil
dent falsehoods, invented by the saloon
party, that more liquor is sod and drank
where no licenae is granted than where the
open saloon exists, and that all the low,
vulgar whiskey criminals who sell little
clandestinely in out of the way places are
going 10 vote against license, is so purile
that it surprises eensible people to hear
such stuff. How can any one belieye such
utter nonsense?
Those who sell little whiskey in hole.
and-corner, and take the risk for few
dimes of going to the house of correction
for a year. are Of the lowest class of society,
the associates of thieves and other criminal
classes, and those who patronize such bus
mess are of the same characterless class. Is
the better element of society to give up to
this class, and license saloons TO make such
mean business, if possible, wear the SEM
blance ofrespectability?
No young men who are above the lowest
strata of society will associate with such
characters as sell and drink whiskey in
dark novels and dirty dens; but a fine, high
license saloon would tempt them in and
numbers of them would become habitual
drunkards who are growing up respectable,
useful men, the honor and pride of their
families and of society, if the open saloon is
forever banished from the county and the
state. In place of contemplating giving up
the ground so nobly gained and maintained
for four years, every voter who has the
improvement of society, the welfare of the
rising generation at heart, should spurn the
least suggestion of returning to license, and
instead push forward the cause and conquer
more territory and beat back further the
arch enemy OF the human race, till step by
step the whole land is rid of his presence
Talk with thoughtless voters and induce
them to think correctly about the great evil
of the whiskey traffic. Disabuse their
minds of the saloon lies, and shame those
who know better, till they leave such
cause and such company as are found on the
side of the liquor business.
AN ALLIANCE EXPERIMENT.-The