The record-union., 1891-08-01

who are honored for years of trusted
service. And, in free America, these
men say, "You shall obey our will or we
will drive you from the city bankrupt"
They send petition for saloon license
to man of well-known temperance prin-
ciples and ask for his signature, and if he
refuse they threaten him with the boy
cott With here and there rare excep-
ton, the saloon men of our land are
LAW BREAKERS, LAW -DEFIERS, ONE
AND ALL.
This is no question of city revenue; I
beg you rid yourself of that insane idea.
Six-sevenths of all the crime, four-fifths
of all the poverty is traceable directly to
this traffic. Five-sixths of the tax for all
our crime and poverty should be paid by
the miserable business that produces
such curse. When every saloon pays a
thousand dollars annual assessment it
will only meet its proper share of our
awful burden of taxation. The first high
tax put upon the traffic in San Diego
was $500. With nearly 1900 people we
have some seventy-five saloons. With
10000 more population you have 800
more dens of infamy. With one-half the
population of Los Angeles you double
the number Of saloons and more. You
will have to get something better than
citrus fairs to fool the 'tenderfootn into
the belief that one saloon to fourteen
voters means prosperity. You might
line your river-banks with factories, and
under such conditions you would be
poyerty-stricken and accursed. 1t is
proposition that you can sit down and
figure out with mathematical ex-
actness. Something energes from
your sewers, bat it is not
prosperity. But there is ten-fold more
prosperity in your sewers than in your
saloons. Three thousand dollars daily
thrown into your saloons is measurable
loss; three thousand dollars day spent
in stores for groceries and drygoods is an
immeasurable gain. This traffic cannot
stand for an instant upon grounds of
legitimate trade. But when it becomes
defiant and refuses to pay any consider
able share of the expense it causes-nay,
more-When 1t organizes and dictates to
our citizens, and defames them to the
world, and destroys their business, you
have another question for consideration
LET WHISKY BE KING
And you cannot sell your property at ten
nation. know it. You know it. You
will pay the price for this whether you
wish or not. You may come up and meet
this question now like men, or you will
| pay the price in deprecated values and
padlocks that close doors to trade. The
! business men of this city could better
| afford to tax their whole property at ten
per cent. than have the report go forth
| that one man has been boycotted success
| fully in this city by an organized ring
! Tell the capitalist when he comes to your
! door that he may invest his money here
| but that at any moment he may be con-
! fronted by the emissaries of whisky
ring and demand that he sign petition
for saloon directly under his parlor
window, with the hint that if he refuse 10
! sign his name he will be boycotted and
driven out OF business. And what will
! be the result? He viii tell you that he
had better be serf in Russia than live
under American liberty that is in effect
MISERABLE LIE AND SHAM.
My friends, Central California is the
! garden OF our State. Beyond the
! Tehachapi Mountains there are choice
hooks and beautiful sections, but there is
BUT ONE SACRAMENTO VALLEY,
And you only need to sweep it of mans
| YlIeness to claim Gods promise, written
all over this his richest handiwork. But
you must secure to every man who sets
foot on your soil the assurance that he
! shall not be oppressed. y GU must also
show disposition to hold in check the
traffic III those poisons that send blight
and wee to human hearts and happy
! homes.
And now generalization upon nv
text. Do you look and yearn for higher
and better things, and do you still cling
to Old associations? My brother, if the
demons go, the swine must go; if
THE SWINE REMAIN, THE DEMONS RE
MAIN.
You cannot get rid of the pain and keep
your sin. 1t is impossible in the VERY
nature of things. Christ can cast out
the demons, but he will not be particular
about your swine. You may find fault
with Him; you may beseech him to de-
part; you may say He is too radical but
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remain. o, my friends, why can we not
| see that we cannot dissolve the bond be-
! tween sin and wretchedness? They are
| boon companions.
! a FINAL THOUGHT:
The Christ, what will you do with
| Him? If this had been in years past a
| God-fearing, Christ-loving city, training
| its youth faithfully at the family tireside
| to love the truth and hate all impurity
and evil, do you think that you would
be thus bound and delivered over to vour
enemy? o, the sadness Of it ali. The
loathsome swine SO dear, and human
souls so cheap. But let me tell you this:
Ii you would make your city pure you
must yourselves be pure. You must let
the Savior cast your demons out; de-
mons OF greed, demons of lust, demons
| OF pride, demons of selfishness demons
| OF dishonesty, demons of injustice, de-
| mons OF every sin. Personal righteous
ness will give you
| MUNICIPAL RICHNESS.
| And they besought him that he would
| depart out of their coasts, and he entered
| into ship and passed over"
| How easily he is sent away. How
easily this city may let it's opportunity
pass by Only few weeks Of ease and
inaction and the deadly octopus has en-
clrcled you in its Shiny folds, and for
decade it may be that prosperity will pass
you by. So Christ comes to each indi
vidual tonight. You can Danish him if
| you will. He takes no heart by violence.
de Will not be an unwelcome guest. But
to the heart that is open to receive him.
though your demon be legion, he will
cast the demons out; he will come in and
sup with you, and abide with you, and
make your heart his home. He will look
out through your eyes upon other lives
| to bless and cheer them, and some day.
though your dying bed be
BUT A PALLET OF STRAW,
BE will make it soft as downy pillows
! are, and you shall not know DEATHS ter
rors; for he himself shall wrap you round
with light as with a garment, and SO Won
and he together shall go home.
Her Aim.
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