Evening journal., 1893-03-20
AGAINST The SALOON.
Father Flynn Says It's the Par.
ent Of all Evil.
LIQUOR MEN MUST WORK IN SECRET

They Want Screens TO Hide the Orgies \
OF Their Patrons From Public view. n
Profanity, ImmoralIty and Nearly (
Every Vice. He Says, Begins In the
saioon-cannot Pray For a Liquor Mans
Prosperity.
Rev. Dennis ]. Flynn preached on TN.
temperance and the Ethics Of the Sa.
loon at st. Mary's r. O. Church last
night. His discourse was divided into
the discussion Of three evils. impurity.
intemperance and profanity. He consId.
cred the saloon the parent Of all three.
After explaining the gravity Of the sin
OF intemperance and it's destructive
work In the home and It's reproach to
church and state Father Flynn next
discussed he propaganda Of this Triple
evil-the saloon. How does the state re-
gard the saloon and the sale of liauor1
The whole scope OF its legislation is 10
limit both. A man may 60 into the dry
goods business, the shoe business. or
grocery business without paying a heavy
license, but when a man wants to omen a
drunkard factory he must first get
twelve men to swear that he Is Just the
man for the position, that such place
is a convenience and a necessity.
Minors Can Buy Anywhere Else.
"The law will not allow a saloon keeper
to sell to minor though that minor
may 60 into a reputable store and buy
what he can pay for The state closes
the saloons on election days, and in
time Of any great excitement. for ex-
ample, during a strike. The saloon does
not conduct its traffic as respectable
business is conducted. with all the light
and publicity possible.
Wants to Hide His Patrons Orgies.
"1he store keeper wants all the, show
windows he can have so as to make a
display Of his goods The saloon keeper
wants the screen that would hide his
drunken patrons and their performances
from decent public, and therefore
knowing the disreputable character of
his traffic he is now trying through the
Legislature to restore the screen. All
these features show how the state re-
CARDS II aud also how the saloon keeper
himself regards It.
"The word legal will not hide It. for
many things are legal that are opposed to
the law Of God. Divorce is legal but
always wrong. Prostitution is legalized
in some places. Wholesale gambling is
legalized in Jersey, and a loaded bill now
In Dover aims TO introduce the same
thing. Yet all decent people have but
one opinion of all this. IL is poor de-
Tense for the average saloon keeper to
hide behind such company.
; The keeper of the vilest dive may pay
her license In some places and conduct
/ f4n Irr d. H..
which is after all only an annex to the
haunts Of lust.
Look Well Before You leap.
He called upon lawyers, Judges and
our citizens at large TO think well before
they inflicted a saloon on any neighbor
hood to be the breeder Of poverty, crime
and ignorance The rag man as he goes
through our crowded poor tenement
districts breaches a powerful sermon a.
be cries out rags and old bottles. They
always 60 together.
1.-The church, he said, teaches us thai
our actions ore invested with an awfu
responsibility inasmuch as It is eternal
II a matter is a sin or the proximatl
occasion of q sin we must shun It If w
hope to save our souls. It tells thu
saloon keepers Of the sins In which the,
participate or abet, the sins of profanity
impurity, brawls, murders, domestic un
happiness, the desecration Of the Sunday
No man can save his soul while engaged
in a business that actively takes part il
this sin.
"rhe church may pray that a man
crops may increase; that he may sci
y more dry goods, etc, but the priest can
. not pray that the patronage Of the salool
may increase, because that would meal
an increase Of drunkards and sim i"