St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
SALOONS AND SCHOOLS.
Rev. Thomas McClary and the Cut
in the Educational Salary
Appropriations.
A Contrast OF Money Spent on the
Schools and on the Sale of
Intoxicants.

Rev. Thomas McClary occupied the
pulpit yesterday morning at the Bates
Avenue NJ. E. church, the subject of
his text being Our: Schools of Evil
and Our Schools of Virtue" He SAID:
st. Paul has 500 saloons. A low esti-
mate averages the receipts OF saloons in
the United States at $4,000. We may be
sure that our city is not below the aver
age. Some of our saloons, of co urse, do
not receive that amount, but others re-
ceive ten times that amount. So we are
spending the snug little sum of Sl,316.-
GOO for liquors, and we can't afford to
spend $4,000 for schools. Each saloon
pays $1,000 license. which makes $685.
+ 600 paid into the city treasury. Dedu ct
ing that from the drink bill we have
1857 900; this is s541,000 more spent for
rum than is asked for our public schools.
+ The saloons are schools. They run
seven days in the week; fifteen hours
. day. They graduate their students. and,
in 1891, gave US 1913 men and boys
brought into the municipal court
charged with drunkenness = straight
DRINKS they call them; l call them
3 crooked DRINKS. They gave US that
year Seventy-three women and girls
brought TO court for the same thing land
! they gave us nine-tenthS Oe all the
crimes and cost of crime our city en-
dured. Yet, these schools must be sus-
tanned at cost of SIS paid out of the city
for every one received.
That's it, gentlemen, keep up your
rum shop and crowd down your schools.
Take good care of your SalOOnkeeperS
and cut off the salaries of the hard
working school teacher, who gets $500
and over for the most important work
that is given mortals. Take care of
the bartender and be sure and
not allow the girls who teach your chill
dren and are trying to make good citi-
ZenS of them, to have more than barely
enough to get through year On. Pay
Sl,3l6.000 year for that which debases
the appetite and passions, makes crlnl-
inalS, pauperS, orphans, and causes Sor-
rows untold. and not afford enough to
sustain royalty the schools which are an
honor to our civilization. Cut Off the
kindergartens, where the work is most
important and useful, and keep up the
-abeergardens and whiskey shops where
Juvenile criminals are manufactured.
Is not that noble record OF the Golden
Gate Kindergarten in San Francisco
with 5000 children graduated in eleven
years? And not one of those children
has shown criminal proclivities. though
they came from classes where children
are in danger.
o people of st. Paul, shut your sa-
looms, your schools of vice, and open
your schools of virtue. Spend your
money for that which is good. Save the
money spent for rum and spend it for
education and religion, and it will yied
a rich return. Put the black flag over
the saloon and the star-spangled banner
over the school house. Don't pay the
saloonkeeper for debasing your chill
dren, but pay the teacher for elevating
them. Don't legalizs wrong, but pro-
hibit it. There is money enough, if
properly used, III our city to sustain
everything that is worth sustaining i'll
royal manner.