The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

after these reSults-tO reap this harvest
of death-a sum nearly equal to the
| enormous aggregate of the money
squandered by the victims. The har-
vesting expenses must be added to
reach the total cost in this world; the
grand total cost can only be known
when hell is at last filled to the brim
and the records of eternity made out!
The saloon Outnumbers the church
20 to 1, in the centers of population
sometimes 40 to /. In New York City
there are 300 churches open on Sun
days, and from 5000 to 1000 saloons.
Three hundred churches are opened
two hours a day, two days in the week;
1000 saloons are open twelve hours a
day, seven days in the week. The
saloon is master Ofthe city government,
has a controlling voice in nearly every
State legislature in America, owns the
National Congress, body and soul, has
it's friends and champions in the SU-
preme Court. 1t is probable that they
have entered Pat Diver in line of pro-
motion to be Chief Justice in their
sweet by and by, when they shall have
succeeded in electing a demijOhn Presi-
dent.
All signs now point to the temporary
triumph of the saloon over Christian
civilization in America. The cOnse-
quences must be startling and appall-
ing. 1t is a terrible thought. But it
! is time we understood the real situation
and squarely faced it. What say the
| signs of the times?
l. The forces Of temperance and
social order are divided and fighting
each other more heartily than they
fight their common enemy. The saloon
is One in thought, in heart in action.
1t is hell united against Christianity
divided.
The prohibitionist carries a razor in
his boot for the high license man. The
high license man loads for bear when
he sees a prohibition crank. The edu-
cationaI propaganda spreads out his
wares and sOlemnly swears that he is
the only original, genuine temperance
man, and has the only bona tide rem
edy, all others being base c]Ounterfeits.
Each church sets upalittle temperance
ShebUng of its own. Our Catholic
brethren go into business for them
selves. The politician winks at each,
rides the wave of the movement, using
each in turn to serve his purpose.
Meantime, the devil laughs and grows
fat, buys newspapers, councils and
legislatures, strengthens his position
and assumes the aggressive.
2. The recent elections in several
States reveal the enormous power of
triumphant united saloon. Rhode
Island repeats prohibition. New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, and PennsyI-
vania vote down constitutional
amendments. Re-submissiOn has been
carried in North Dakota, and
South Dakota and Iowa are threat
ened. The legislature of New Jersey
has passed a bill practically multiplying
all regulations on the liquor traffic.
The Grand Jury of New York, sorrow
fully gazing upon thousands of indict-
ments against saloon keepers for the
violations of law, generously recon-
mend that the laws be repealed, that
the courts may be relieved and the
force Of indictment without trial closed.
In Cincinnati the saloons unitedIy and
publicly defy the law, and publish
their defiance to the world. The
Worlds Fair, it seems, will be turned
into a saloon and opened on Sunday.
The legislature of New Hampshire
threatens to nullify the prohibitory
laws Of the State, and the other night,
after the completion of a piece of dirty
political jObbery of the lowest partisan
type, in which whisky was the prin-
cipal argument used, the hall became
the scene of a drunken orgie during it's
executive session. The members
smoked, drank and gambled in all
parts of the room, and the speakers
were interrupted by drunken curses.
When the final vote was announced,
a member of the dominant party, a
Republican, leaped upon his chair and
swinging a whisky bottle over his head
shouted. "Hurrah for hell"
The legislature of New York, now
assembled at Albany, is doing it's best
to cap the climax Of this catalogue of
infamies by outdoing the devil himself.
The Republican Senate rushed through
the infamous StadIer bill almost unani-
mOusly. This bill failed in the AS
sembly by a margin Of five. There is