The Press., 1892-07-07

J dustries, your many church spires, your schools and thousands of homes, and then it rests upon the community tone-standard "a saioon-the pervading power of the church, the grip of Christian citizenship, and Bridgeport's measure of the value. of manhood all come to strangers mind with large interrogation.
 Your children, anxious for truth, are influenced by the community standard. They soon learn that liquor dealer is at the head of your school board. They read on the walls of one side of the street the declarations: "The saloon has the sanction of law" "It has right to exist. '
 On the other side they see:
 'The saloon is an evil"
 ''It will work ruin to body and soul"
 "We can't stop it."
 Bridgeport, by such -an invitation to the grog-shop, identifies it's character with that of the saloon enemy.
 To secure it's departure we are com pelled to arouse conscience, illuminate the brain, convince some that it is dan- ger, some it is immoral, others that it is a tax maker.
 For permanent results we must have convinced wills, consecrated purposes, and hearts, as well as eyes that see.
 HOW IS IT HERE?
 It needs no demonstration to prove that tho coIonr ;, do,,o ;ootoI boro tbo4 it's character is the same as elsewhere.
 It needs no more to prove that the community needs 8 thorough awakening to sense of it's danger.
 WHY SHOULD THE DRAM SHOP BE CLOSED
 1. Because it represents minority rule Not over one-sixth of the people are in favor of it.
 3. Because wherever it is in partner. ship with the homes, one or the other must die. -.
 For on the home is founded family school, church, state, country-all that is good. ,., -. ..-. s.-:f.
 On the saloon, avarice, appetite, crime poverty, immortality, ruin-all that is bad
 3. Because it attacks every home and demands your boy. In 1891 it has killed directly 80,0OO men and women, and must have now 80,O0O of our boys and girls as recruits.
 4. Because it has now $50, O,OOO stag gering victims in this country and mus soon have $50, 900 to take their places, ol go out of business.
 5. Wherever the saloon is, there is { nursery of vice and ignorance.
 6. It hates the school and church, fol they are centers of civilization.
 7. Because honest industry is com pelled to pay tribute to it through tn, cost it creates.
 8. Because it destroys peace, safet, and life. %
 You ask how is 1t possible that it exist. with such character?
 visions of society.
 In one are found preachers, teachers best business men, best physicians, ,womel and humanitarians'
 In the other, the Devils poor, appe tized victims, avaricious, social clubbists liquor dealers, spineless, thoughtless ta, dodgers, those who vote s'yes'' to save dollar on their taxes, and those who mak, a dollar by the sale. .
 The first class is good and too apa thetic. .- -..
 The second is bad and too active. Turn now and measure the enemy b, broad principles. WHAT IS RELIGIONS VOICE? Every system from Confucius to Mo hammed- Greek. Hindu, Protestant ant Catholic, alike-pronounce it unholy. THE VOICE OF EDUCATION. Connecticut and thirty-three othe states are compelled by law to teach ev cry child in the public schools that it i danger and poison.
 VOICE OF SCIENCE. The voice of science, as uttered b, Richardson, Ray, Thompson and Carpen ter is that it is danger to the body per sonal. LABOR's BUGLE. Powderly: '.The saloon our deadlies enemy"
 Burns: eff we drink alcoholic liquor our cause is lost"
 THE sTATEsMAN's WARNING. Gladstone, Lawson and Cain considere it the highest statesmanship to fight thei celebrated battle against the. ''publics l Gas saloons are called in England in 1896 Hoar, Colquit and Wilson destroye the original package" system because i I was an ssunmixed evil" THE VOICE OF BUSINESS
 May be found in the will of John Jaco Astor, who forbade the use of any of hi five hundred buildings for the manufac ture or sale of liquors.
 In the course of Pullman, of Illinois who had clause put in the original dee of the territory of Pullman, the city founded, that the land should be forfeite if ever used for the sale of liquor. l In the example of Fairbanks of Vel mont, who posts conspicuously the notice "No man need apply at this factory fo employment who uses intoxicating lie uors beverage" An example which followed by Connecticut manufacturer I would drive the saloons from the state.
 THE TESTIMONY OF ECONOMICS.
 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge: "Clos up the publics and you would close nine tenths of England's prisons" Carroll D. Wright: "Ninety-two pe cent. of our crime is the result of intox eating liquors" Earl of Shaftesbury, 'Seven-eighth of the insanity of England and Americ comes from the use of liquors. D
 PUBLIC OPINION. I The saloon is outlawed in Maine, Ne Hampshire, Kansas, Iowa, North Dakot, in thousands of towns cities and countie