The Portland daily press., 1892-02-08

would no for their good were it to inter-
fo,.o - -, ~ ,,,o az a city and commonwealth
do h. a rieht to say to these men, When
you buy
Your Wines and stronser Beverages
if is greatly to our advantage that YOU
should make your purchases beyond the
state line and we are willing to forego
all the Profits that might be made, OF all
the extra business life that would seem
10 annear did YOU trade at home in view
Of The risks inevitably involved in the
Another thing-It is greatly for our in
terest to keep at a minimum the saloon
mower. and the best method of securing
this is to utterly prohibit the saloon.
1t does not take very wide experience
or very acute perceptions to discover the
fact that there is no more ominous evil
loon interest. The people of Portland
know something about it, but it is al
most nothing that you experience here
in COMPARISON with the exhibition that is
mode If e in such cities as New York.
Cbicaoo S. Louis and Cincinnati.
If was a very great relief in late cleo
I. lion in orr CITY to know that the shift
mo of The saloon OF liquor vote from one
Marty to another did not win the victory
For the marty with which it was allied.
And Vet the closeness of the contest was
an ominous disclosure of the POSSIBLE
ties even here.
But in other cities and commonwealth
of our country
The Saloon Party is Absolute
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enormously rich. The keepers of the sa-
looms are dependent upon the brewers
and distillers, their places of business
being. as a rule, mortgaged to these men.
The saloons, elegantly fitted, are the re-
sort of men. each of whom has vote,
most of whom would sell their vote for
strong drink. few of whom would dare
vote against the expressed wishes of the
saloon keeper. Is it any wonder, there
fore, that the INSCRIPTIONS, talented and
enormously wealthy men who manufac-
ture strong drink dictate the policy of
parties, control legislatures, defy or ST.
lence the police?
During these days, we are observing
the glad spectacle of nation rising up
against men who would fasten upon one
Of our commonwealth the octopus of a
lottery. and we have witnessed its grand
victory Some time we are going to
see such an uprising against men who
now are not only intrenching themselves
in one state, but in many states, who
not only are stealing mems money, as do
the lottery magnates, but are robbing
multitudes of men of that which is vast
ly more worth than money
Not yet for the people of America are
not yet aroused to
The Peril of Their Condition,
and too many of our leading men are
hopelessly in bondage to this iniquitous
monopoly, but when enough citizens
shall have been robbed of their manhood
and enough homes have been made desc
late, and the money of the people shall
have sufficiently enriched these high
handed men who deal in strong drink,
there will be an uprising which will be
as much more imposing and mighty than
the campaign against the lottery has
been as the saloon power is more mighty
and more satanic than that of the lot
terry.
1t nightly stirs my blood as either
of the grandest republic that the sur
ever shone on, that men whose business
is so utterly outrageous should be able
to dictate our laws and elect our magis
trates, and to the day of my death hope
as an American citizen, to light this
monster which Indignantly deties oul
civilization.
Another thng-It is for our interest.
and am using the word interest on this
occasion in no selfish sense, it is for our
interest to maintain matters as they at
present are in Portland in view OF the
fact that the
Young Men and Boys
of Our city are being saved from perils
which any city, that can do it, isin honor
bound to save its youth from
Two years ago few Of the high-minded
self-respecting young men of our town
would have been seen entering the grog
gcries, which were in full operation up
on Centre street, some portions OF Com
mercial street and other parts OF the
city. Much less would they be found il
the vile apartments to which the Liquor
traffic has been driven today. 1t is {
great safeguard against forming thu
) drink habit when leading hotels and re
spectacle drug stores are no longer freel,
selling strong drink as a beverage.
Put upon Congress street elegant sd
looms, with the finest of stained glass
windows, have the rooms filled with ricl
furnishings, let it be possible to gain en-
trance to their apartments, Brilliant,
lighted, made attractive by music, with
out being observed on The street, does
any man who knows human nature i'm
agine no more drunkards would be mad'
in year than under the present regime
There are few of us SO free from The
faint of alcohol in our. views as to be
able in the fiery years of our existence Il
pass unscathed through such allurement
as these, even though our homes may b.
pleasant, but what must be the
Danger of the Youth
who can find no whore else so pleasant
room, SO cheerful company as can be Sc
cured by the purchase of a drink!
OF course there are those who vii
say, he is the best man who has faced
such temptations as these, has tried th
strength OF the tempter and has kept him
self victor. There are thousands of TIL
best and most honored citizens of TIL
United States who have passed through
the season Of sowing their wild oats, AM
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