Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-24

| II would cause no inconvenience would
do no harm to remain day or two. Some
time afterward he was called to see the
child, who was found to be suffocating.
Tracheotomy alone could save the child's
| life. An incision was made in the wind
pipe, and the orange seed was found i'm
bedded in mass of white pulp. When the
seed was examined. it was found that the
heat of the childs body had caused it TO
burst and sprout, and an orange tree was
growing in the child's throat. So the
seed of drunkard's habit is planted in
the throat of the child, and the deadly
upas tree sprouts and grows until the
victim is strangled to death.
1t is poison that kills. man mentally
TRANSFORMS a man of genius into the
tottering imbecile capable only of delir-
ium tremens. 1t degrades man NOR
ally from the level of man to the level of
the brute. 1t sends him on his career of
murder, and of lust, and Of every vile
passion that rules his being. There is
scarcely a murder trial in America in
which drink does not figure in the evil
dence affecting the life of the poor. There
is not one case in thousand, believe,
in which it will be found that the saloon
plays no part The evidence on which
Buchanan was convicted was obtained
in a barroom. The fact which led to the
unfavorable opinion in the minds Of the
Jurors who convicted young Harris was
his connection with drinking establish
ment. 1t kills the soul of the victim, de
stroys his moral power of perception,
and the world knows it.
Second-The saloon uses mans social
nature TO kill him. The power of the
saloon to destroy lies in the fact that it
is a social institution. 1t is not ques-
ton of drink or the drink habit in itself.
1t is the question of the debauchery of
mans whole being by direct appeal TO
his social instincts. Every saloon is
founded upon the club idea. 1t caters
TO mans social and aesthetic nature. 1t
appeals TO his sense of the beautiful.
The saloons are the most magnificent es-
Establishments in the city of New York.
They are the most magnificent establish
ments in any city. II is this tremendous
outlay of genius. of art, of money in
their equipment that makes their appeal
so resistless to- men socially. Men begin
to drink moderately with their compaD
ions. The process is first a moderate
drinker, then drunkard, then dis
eased wretch. Because Of mans social
nature the disease of alcoholism is con-
tagious-it is catching. The man who
treats is the man infected by this con- |
tagious disease. The saloon is the pest |
house in which he contracts the disease.
from which it is spread through society. |
THE POOR MANS CLUB.
Third-The saloon strikes at the foun- !
dation of social order in destroying the /
poor man in his poverty. Rum strikes
down the rich mans son. II is impartial /
in its visitation of wrath and destruc-
ton, but its reign supreme is in the dis
tricts of the poor. They are apparently
the only charitable institutions that are
always open. They have. free lunch
in which the ragged wretch may
crafty his hunger if he can buy glass
Of beer. But the fact that the men who
sell the drink can own magnificent
homes while the man in rags eats his
free lunch is evidence sufficient that the
free lunch is but bait to the trap. They
give a free lunch and sell a man for five
cents that which costs them less than
half a cent. 1t is here in the saloon
that the poor man is robbed of his hard
and it is given to the man less
worthy to have it. In certain district
If this city which has resounded with
he cry of starving men and women
more than once one of the saloonsis paved
With silver dollars. The man that owns
t is power in the community. He not
,nly owns the saloon; he owns the bodies
md souls of the poor wretches who sup
)ort it.
1t has been said that the saloon is the
DOOR mans club. So it is, and for that
eason it should be swept from the face
# the earth. He can go no lower. Ev-
ny saloon is not only drinking place;
t is a place where gambling is carried
N every day and every night in the
ear 1t is also place which is tbs con-
tant resort of evil women. The reason
hese things go together is because they
re birds of a feather To separate
hem is an impossibility. The one calls
or the other. and in the absence of the
ther would produce its complement. If
he church itself should run a saloon,
he stimulus Of alcohol would drive its
requenters to the qualification of every
Their passion.
I. V. Powderly says most vigorously:
i have had an experience of 20 years !
mong workingmen. My life so far has
zen spent in working among them, and
expect the remainder of that life will
e spent in their interests. That expert
nee causes me to say that liquor has
one more harm to workingmen than all
Their causes. The cry has been sounded {
nd parrotlike repeated that poverty
lakes drunkards of workingmen. If {
here is any truth in that statement, then J
! is not to the credit of the man or men
vho willfully add crime to misfortune.
very sensible man knows that the liquor ]
abit leads to degradation, disease, dirt I
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