The Press., 1892-02-25
ABRAHAM LINCOLN PROHIBI-
 TIONISTS."
REV. DIR. wAYLAND ON THE SALOON.


 ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRoHIBI-
 =. TIONISTS."
 REV. DIR. wAYLAND ON THE SALOON.
 Suppose that an enemy were marching through the country, burning towns and villages, destroying property at the rate of $2,0O0,OOO week.. leaving behind desolation, widows, orphans and the dead bodies of men, how long would it be before the spirit of '78 and the spirit of '63 would be revived; before the bronze lips of Reynolds would quiver, as he stands in the public square looking up our great avenue, just as he looked out from the grove to see the enemy advane- ing on that fatal morning of July 1? How long would it be- before, from the cem- etery at Gettysburg, there would come a voice, saying: Comrades, citizens, the country for which we died is once more in peril ?"
 And is there not such an enemy among us :? The saloon is destroying property at the late of a thousand million dollars a year. To this we may add half as much more for the indirect waste and cost, and we may further add the four hundred millions of dollars, the cost of the crim- inal classes, nfne-tenths of, which are the creation of the saloon. It is establishing hundred thousand manufactories of widows, and orphans, and paupers, and maniacs, and criminals. It is devouring homes. It is debasing politics. Once Tolerated, 1t now claims to be supreme It governs the Empire State; it rules without dispute the commercial metrop. oils of the country.
 The saloon is the ally of everything that is bad, of the gambling table, of the lowest variety show, of the house of pros. titution.
 After alluding to the struggle with slavery, and the two classes of Abolition. ists, those of the Garrison and the Lin. coin schools, Dr. Wayland continued:
 And so, to-day, there is the saloon, as grasping, as remorseless, as blood-stained as ever was slavery, which has long since passed the point of asking to be tolerated Then there are those who hold, in the spirit of uatter-sovereignty, that eff A wants to make B drunk, to make him { pauper, to send him home to murder his wife and children, c (meaning by c ev erybody else) has no right to say 8 word. Then there are the prohibitionists, divid ed into the Garrison prohibitionists (whose aims hold in the highest honor and the Abraham Lincoln prohibitionist and when have said that stand witt them, have pronounced the highes eulogy that is in my power.
 As Abraham Lincoln said: of slav cry is not wrong, then nothing is wrong j; so the Abraham Lincoln prohibitionist say: elf the saloon is not wrong, thel nothing is wrong; if it is not wrong t grind up men and to coin their blood int money for the till of the saloon. if it i not wrong to make widows and orphan and convicts and paupers, then the word right and wrong may as well be droppe from the language, for they have cease to have any meaning" ..,.,,..t.. The Abraham Lincoln, prohibitionist hold that it is better to achieve the pos sible than to fail of the impossible, an that some positive result secured is be, ter than vast expanse of talk. The hold that there are some things which W fcan do, and some things which we canno do, and that the impossibility of doin something is no reason why we, shoul not do those things that lie within ou reach. ..
 We come then to the question: Wha do the Abraham Lincoln prohibitionist 4proposea First, we propose to hold ey Eerything that we have got not-to go bac I a step. ;.
 We propose that the restrictions agains selling to intoxicated persons and t minors be fully: executed; we propose further, that the saloon shall be close from & reasonable hour Saturday evenin auntil Monday morning. And this on tw [grounds; First, that it is during thi I time that the saloon does its largest bus , ness and makes it's greatest profit. saloon keeper said to me, Sunday E, worth three or four ordinary week days. The workingman is paid on Saturds evening, and by Monday morning tf great proportion of his wages is in tf drawer .of. the saloon. And, further, b Icause Sunday is the working mans dc .f of leislife, Is the day on which his drunl enness is the greatest curse to his famil, 1 the divinely-ordainedd day of rest and con fort becomes in the home of the drinkir man (if the term home can be applieds : the roof which covers him and his wretc
 ed family, day of dread and agony p
 We propose, further, that the right
 local option should be given to all tl
 counties. in the state, and that those VI
 are opposed to the saloon should not ha'
 it thrust upon them.
 Nothing can be more clear than the pr