Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
THE TEE-To-TUM.
Here May BE Practical Remedy f6P
the Drink Evil.

Here May BE q Practical Remedy fsR
the Drink Evil.
Ancient society lacked one disturbing
element-the saloon was unknown. Al
cohol was not discovered before the
Seventh century, and it is scarcely 400
years since brandy and whisky fell into
the list of beverages. The ''find' has
been veritable Pandora's box; and the
later decades of this age of crusades
have teemed with expedients to rid man
kind of the evils that have followed in
its wake. The saloon stands for all that
is cruel, vicious and criminal; and it
stands against a world repeatedly organ
lied for its extinction.
Temperance societies have been formed
and operated to suppress it. The church
has succeeded in making it disreputable.
Everybody knows that it is menace to
the nation. Parents fear its enticements
for their sons. Economists and moralists
vie with each other in denunciation of
its open doors. Thrones have been over
turned, dynasties have come to an end,
revivals have swept the world; but the
saloon has weathered every storm, -four
ished and fattened on opposition, more
than held its own in ''hard times" and
is today the best established institution
of modern civilization.
And why? Because we have forgotten
that man is IA social being. We have
churches for the satisfaction of his re-
Hgious instincts; schools for the devel-
opment of his intellectual nature; pictures
and sculpture and music and literature
to meet his aesthetic cravings, and mar
kets for the supply of his physical neces-
sites. But for the qualification of his
social wants the workingman has never
had anything better than the saloon.
Think of the human contents of our
cities; thousands of young men congre-
gated in fostering centers, in lonely and
isolated lodgings; tens of thousands Of
the disinherited crowded thick in tene-
ment houses and cheap and nasty rock
cries, in filthy allies, in Chinatown, Jew
town, ''Hell's Kitchen" Battle Row
Poverty Gap" ''Tramps' Roost" and in
paupers' barracks generally, where they
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them over the affairs and interests of the
day. In spite of all our charities and
palaces the saloon alone is free and open
to the homeless and the wretched poor.
Do they want society? Here they must
find it. Do they want amusement? Here
they must seek it. The saloon is theiI
parlor, their drawing and reception room.
Its lights are always blazing, its atmos
phere is warm and CHEEKY and good
comradeship is never wanting. Wha
wonder that the saloon is popular ani
inexpugnable!
But its rival has at last appeared, Al
least such is the opinion of the practica
editor of The Review of Reviews, but il
is still confined to England. The ont
in Whitechapel, East London, is wei
worthy of note. 1t stands on the grea
thoroughfare. and is large, neat build
ing of two or Tree stories, very attract
i've outside and coy and brilliant within
as any Continental cafe. The first foo
is a public restaurant, scrupulousl,
clean and homelike, where one can sc
for his money the best of tea, coffee
cocoa, soup, meats, vegetables, puddin?
and buns. In one corner Is count,
where tea is sold In packages, and tn
sales average some 1000 pounds week
| The second floor is a network of apart
ments for the use and accommodation O
the members; a smoking room for loung
ing, newsroom, a cafe, classrooms TO
the benefit of students, chess and draft
rooms, spacious billiard room, and
hall with seats for 500 people, with
stage at one end, from which addresse
are made on Sundays and whereon pei
formances are rendered every Saturday
The originator of this institution,
Mr.. Buchanan, a wealthy philanthropy;
and member of the Church of Enc
land, has given it the name of Tee-To
Tum. Already eight have been estal
lished in various parts of London, an
although the original cost of each wa
about $4,000, the first year is ia
enough gone to assure Mr.. Buchanan
handsome dividend ON the capital stock
The problem has been solved in Lon
don. Why can't the experiment be trie
in each and all of our great America
cities? Ayei why shouldn't there be
Tee-To-Tum in every dark and noiso''
section of New York, Chicago, New d
leans and San Francisco? Think of tn
brightness they would bring into MAJ
cold and desperate lives! How the
would sidetrack long line of yout.
men on the downward road! And the
would pay expenses!
We have done a great deal of fierc
talking on this temperance question
Would to God we could cease for a spac
our speech about high license and prob
bition and set to work to establish Tee
To-Tums wherever homes are ovel
crowded and unattractive. and whel
ever our country's youths are withc-
the conveniences and comforts of a De-
lor!-Rev. j. Sanders Reid in Christia
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