The Press., 1892-07-07
~. .. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
The saloon Our Enemy. Why We Should
 Suppress It.

Suppress It.
 BY HON. B. B. JOHNSON, wALTHAM, MASS. The substance of an address delivered at the antlzsal0on m convention, Bridgeport, Conn.,, Jan. fys Io9S Continued from last week.
 ooNNEcTIoUT's VOICE.
 Nov turn to the concentrated opinion of the saloon as recorded in Connecticut statute books. How do these laws define it's character? Think what the underlying meaning of these laws is.
 Remember that all kinds of useful and safe business enterprises may be set uI without hindrance or regulation.
 A saloon can't obtain vote except npon the request of twenty-five legal voters.
 2s Applications to county commission CTS Tor license must be endorsed by five taxpayers of the district.
 8. Any one may object and have z hearing.
 A A,saloonist cannot sell without giv ing 9 bond to obey. and pay damages.
 0. No liquor dealer can endorse al application or sign another's bond. E 6: No licease can be issued to county commissioner, sheriff, deputy sheriff, con stable, grand juror, justice of the peace presenting agent, selectman, or to { woman, "unless she is of good repute." T No minor can be employed in ol about saloon.
 8. No sales can be made in dwelling house. 9. No sales in town, city, county ol state building, or in house of ill fame ol gambling place.
 10. No sales between Il p. m. and a. m.o
 Il. No sales on election days from 8 m. to close of polls.
 A2 No sales between 12 p. m., Satur days, and 5 a. m., Mondays.
 13.. No sales within 1000 feet of fail ground. s-
 A. None within one mile of military encampment, if the commanding officer so orders.
 15. County commissioners may revoke at any time and there is no appeal. ,E16. Can't buy in a license town ant bring into no license place. IT. In no license places sales can onl. be made on a physicians prescription.
 IS. Semi-annual lists of paupers wht use liquors are to be furnished, to b. served on all dealers. 19 At request of friends of drinkers fthe authorities shall warn all dealers 0 the names of such. K %. If dealer violates the law he for feits his license and bond.
 Does friend need such hedging about Not Only a.danger and an enemy.
 These laws the liquor. traffic violate here and the Christian citizenship doe not see it.
 Turn now toa few propositions scien tifically correct.
 1. Intoxicating liquors are poisonous liquors.
 2. s'To intoxicate" means ito poison
 3. Intoxicating liquors paralyze,-tha means that when man is drunk his brail is paralyzed.
 4. Poison should be taken only as al antidote for poison in the system.
 5. Poison should be taken on the di rection of a Christian physician, who un derstands it's nature and the value of tn body.
 6. The laws of health, business an, the state recognize that there are thre legimate uses of alcoholic poison, chem ical, medicinal and mechanical.
 7. The laws of health, science ant morals prove that any other use is crim inal-an outrage on nature and destruc tive of manhood qualities.
 The modern saloon is promoter o the use of poisonous beverages, therefor it is our enemy.
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