The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18

exactly ID drinks E0at dAss se
solesnniy sworn that he never 't7'~ -, 80
than four or Eve drinks day. Ms.
a~. enticeSi into the saloon, are insi.es
in. are forced in and begged 10 a.isA
and treated TO drink, are coercta 10 VI 4aas.
The saloon as an institution Temps
the weak men who need protection 'l'oss-
| Without the saloon any man that wants
tn vs,t drink can get 1t; any man ina.
wants 10 get drunk can get drsink' D.s
| with the saloon thousands upon 'h",l.
sands ret drunk who DO not want a. -
/ is forced down their Threats Ihers are
very few saloons in our cities that nave
NOT auxiliary establishments which Class
them uroperly with the dives. ihey ap
| peaI TO the young. appeal directly ~
| their passion and make their money oi'
rectly through the debauchery OF young
| manhood and womanhood. The Deer
gardens of our cities are the hotoeos "
which are first planted the seeds OF u
absolute life i'm those who attend them
Here Young workingmen and young
working women go in search of pleasure
and recreation and begin their down
| ward career. The saloon as an instltu-
/ ton tempts the young with pracacaiiy
resistless power. 1t is established on
that principle. That is one OF the main
| reasons for its existence and the source
| of its profits.
| Tho principal patrons of the saloon, as
of the gambling hell, are the young. In
| a single saloon in Cincinnati 2o2 men en-
| tered within an hour. Two hundred and
| thirty-six of them were young men. In
New Albany, Ind, in an hour and half
LOO persons entered 10 saloons. Nine
| hundred and eighty three of them We're
young men and boys. c. II. Iatman de-
clares that in Newark, n. j., in five min
utes he counted G. young men entering
one saloon. He passed his watch to a
friend and asked him to stand and count
| for 30 minutes. In that time 592 entered
| the saloon, most of them young men.
Richard Morse says: "a city of 1900
population had 1900 young men. One
| thousand and twenty-one of them en-
tered 40 saloons ia one hour Oh Saturday
night. In Milwaukee, on Il cert2incven-
ing, 4GS persons entered q single saloon,
nearly all of whom were young Elcn and
boys. If this process continues for an
other generation, it needs no prophet TO
| foretell the character of the manhood OF
that generation that succeeds the pres
ent.
| The saloon as an institution makes
crime daily incident Of Eso and makes
it respectable with large class CT peo-
pie. The license fallacy introduces the
| Nth oil ~, i4r
into the domain Of law. No license Gys-
tenn has ever been enforced il the history
of the world. In the very nature of
things it cannot be enforced. Law to be
| law must have back of it moral Z, yer.
The license system is a compromise With
the devil. 1t satisfies neither the devil
nor the forces of good. There never was
a prohibition law that stood squarely
upon the platform of suppre sion that
was not better enforced than any license
law under the same conditions.
We have license system in the city
of New York. There are no less thar
5000 places where liquor is sold without
any license at all. And there is not q
saloon in this city that does1ot violate
the excise law at some point. They keep
open at illegal hours during the days OF
the week. They sell on Sunday. They
sell to minors. And they are banded to-
gether to defend each other when inter.
fered with, whether guilty Or not guilty.
IN CHICAGO.
In Chicago some time a5o.a boy, the
son of a carpenter at Franklin park in
moderate circumstances, was made
beastly drunk from whisky sold over q
license bar. The boy was 10 years old.
He went to the saloon and purchased his
bottle of whisky. He drank part of the
bottle in the presence of witnesses in the
saloon. He left the place half crazed,
staggered around for awhile in the
neighhorhood and finally fell across the
track of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad. Here he lay for two hours,
when he was picked up still insensible
by passerby. He was very i'll for sew
eral days, but finally recovered. The sa-
loon keeper was arrested and fined O
nominal fine. The boys father has
brought suit in civil court for SO, 200
damages, and the respectable Liquor
Dealers association will defend their
brother saloon keeper, guilty or not
guilty. Thieves thus hang together and
have their code of honor.
Mr.. Jacob Riis says that in New York
some time ago he saw boy entering a
saloon on a cold November night, so
small that he could scarcely carry the
pitcher. He entered the saloon and for
babe the barkeeper to serve the boy un-
der penalty of the law. The man was
as astonlshed as if he had been told to
shut up his shop and go home. And he
might have told him that with good au-
thorlty, for it was after o'clock in the
morning. The saloon keeper was indig-
nant and told the reporter to mind his
business and get out of the saloon, while
he filed the pitcher. The law against
| selling to minors is about as much re-
spected as the ordinance against swear
ing.
A little more than year ago boy,
aiter carrying beer whole day for a
| shop full OF men over on the east side of
New York, where his father worked.
crept into a cellar to sleep off the effects
| or his own share in the riot. It was
saturday evening. On Sunday his par
ents sought him high and low, but it
was not until Monday morning when
the shop was opened that he was found
killed and half eaten by rats that over
run the place.
Saloons are forbidden to harbor disso-
lutte women. and yet scores of saloons
keep regularly all the way from o5 to 35
OF these women practically in their en-
Pioy. A license law is roaring farce.
IL mas never been enforced; it never can
be enforced.
what, then, shall be done with it? The
FORCES OF civilization are rapidly dividing
INTO only two classes on this question
those who believe in the saloon. that it
Is good thing. that it should be protect
ed, and those who believe that il is an
unm1tigated curse and must be DESTROYED
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