The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-19

is denied them. No plan reckoning on
the poor mans cooperation, however sys-
tematicaily it be applied, however self
sacrihcingly he may give. can possibly
provide him with space enough TO live IN.
Rapid transit may help Us in the future,
but many hundreds of thousands in the
present are doomed by the doom OF lack
OF space. Il drives them 10 drink. To in
temperate drinking. Cramped in their
tenement houses, cramped in their saloons
these the only clubs they have, these the
only clubs possible 20 them 1T present
what are You going 10 do for them?
believe in my soul the chIych should
cry aloud for room and space in which 10
grow, and she must let men grow their
own way. IT IS Idle 10 put up stake and
bind them with sticks and various withes
and ties to It. We must trust mankind
more. Many VIII say. apply this princi-
PIE 10 the home. give them larger home
room, better teneInents God knows some
OF US have advocated this, and shall con-
tIuue to do so with al our might But is
II unreasonable 10 believe that we shall
also advance the we.i-being OF multitudes
by doing something to remove this ban
and curse from off the only form of city
social lie which is open TO then2 | dare
not believe ii.
lou may think man would do better
by not going To I saloon ut all, or not
drinking at all. In many cases, of course,
he would. But that Is not the question.
Have you got any religious or moral patent
medicine by which we shall absolutely stop
Ills drinking, and suddenly turn away tho
feet of hundreds Of thousands from the
wei-beaten path 10 the saloon? None but
fanatic or 4 fool will dare to say 80.
Then | say, since the saloon is not in
itself of necessity an evil thing, take
hold of it and make it as good a
n -, D.
ton from 1t rs much Is you can. Take
down the lewd picture and put up the
artistic. Substitute the table for the bar.
add the bowling-alley and the billiard
board. Let there be flowers there. On
miniature scale, some such place as the
roof garden, Madison square. Vigorously
exclude the drunkard, make room for the
respectable wife, and you have done some
thing.
And all this can be done. believe. with
out loss at least of money. There might
not be a fortune IN il, but do not think
there would be financial ruin. | do not
mean for moment that there should be
the slightest suggestion of religious infiu-
ence about it anywhere. The whole
movement, in my judgment, would simply
be an effort to purify the atmosphere that
is at present unnecessarily poisonous.
| may say, in conclusion, that / do not
think there is any objection on the score
of morals to the opening of the saloon for
certain number of hours on Sunday.
Better far omen for certain definite hours.
and after these hours keep the blinds up,
SO that all passers-by can see the law is be-
ing kept. than this miserable, sneaking
business going on all the day long. the
creeping of men and women and children
in and out by a back door.
May | express a hope that those who be-
Eeve these suggestions of NINE have moth
lug whatever in them but evil, viii believe
at least that | only make them under
strong sense of duty both TO God and man.
w. S. RAINsFoRD.