St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-11
THE WORK OF The CLERGY
SOME or THE NOTABLE DfSc0yRSES
DELIVERED YESTERDAY
REV. CROOKS INVESTIGATING

He Denounces Saloons and Broth
X elsa Census Made of the Lat
ter Rev. DIR. Ingersoll Con-
Guides His Series-kev. j. w.
DaviGs on "rhe Sinner and tn e
Law"
Resulting from conference among
the ministers of the Twin Cities. and in
accord with a concerted plan CT action
along the whole line, Rev. John w.
Crooks, of the Burr street Baptist
church. has spent much time of late
gathering information in relation to the
saloon business. the Sun day violations,
and spoke last evening upon Saloonisln
and municipal morals. He said the age
in which we live is the great epoci!-
making age of the world. Forces are
reaching out for veal Or woe in every
direction, whose Influences none eau
measure. Christianity is slowly bind
| ing the race into brotherhood. and
perneating it with the ethics of Jesus
| Christ. The press is transforming the
whole world into All audience room.
! Out of this great epoch L believe that
the United States will come far, far in
| the lead. Immense results are produced
in few days, and sometimes in few
| hours. We are living under tremendous
| pressure. We are burning nerve en-
| ergy. l expect to live longer than
Methuselah-that is, in all that goes TO
make up mans life; in events. Be
cause of this fearful pace at which we
| live many are led to the use OF stimu-
lants. as they believe, to keep up their
strength and spirits. And the use of
stimulants leads to excuses ia other di-
rections.
There IS tabled python of ancient
| Greece who is said to have devastated
the country and drenched the land in
blood, but was destroyed by the polished
shaft of Apollo. As civilization
have marched across the centuries, led
on by the torch of Christian truth. there
has followed in her wake two huge
| pythOns. one the brothel and the other
the saloon. They have left their DAMN
ing tracks on the pages of history, curs-
ing, blighting and blasting humanity,
| and it is time for the polio of our law
with majesty to hurl the polished shaft
OF his power at these monsters and lay
| them low in death. Python No. is the
| saloon. that abomination OF deSoaton:
| the seven plaques of Egypt in one; that
! triumph of hell, the American saloon.
Let HE linger to ask what the saloon
| is doing? FirSt-It is accomplishing a
wonderful mission as an educator in
| teaching people to drink. The percent
| aye OF liquor drunk pro rata has IN
| creased 300 per cent in the last forty
| years. 1t is the most successful re-.
crulting agency for the poor house, the
| asylum and the Jail that has ever exist
| ed 1t Is doing tremendous business
| In these Western states. Minnesota has
one saloon to every one hundred people.
| Nebraska one saloon to every one hun
| dred and thirty-three people. Oregon
one to every fifty eight people, and Ne
vada one to every thirty-two.
1t Is almost past belief the amount of
bribery which the saloon is using every
year to perpetuate its existence. The
| liquor dealers of Albany, n. Z, admit
ted some time ago that they had ex-
pended 100000 to influence legislation.
L believe it is high time for the moral
element in this city to come together
and firmly bind their interests against
L
to scores, and almost hundreds, of Sa-
looms in the city of st. Paul who are
violating the city ordinance regarding
the Keeping open of their places for
business ON the Sabbath. have myself
all the informationthat is necessary to
convict any number of these saloon
keepers Let every church and every
minister stir up this question, and never
give up the fight until the municipal
authorities will be compelled to execute
the law they have sworn to obey.
PYTHON NO. 2, THE BRoTHEL.
This is the second abomination of
desolation which is fostered within our
city. 1t is all outrage and a burning
shame that there are eighteen brothels
and TWO houses Of designation running
in full blast, and each one is, in a GER
tain sense, under. the protection of the
law. This fearful vice of immortality is
simply honeycombing our city. There
are thousands of our young men who
are trapped and deluded by these dens
Of infamy. l have laying on my
study table the names and ad-
dresses of these twenty hell holes.
Every one of these places is well
known to the police authorities.
They are brought before the police
authorities every two months and fined
500. Thus the city makes a revenue of
$4,000 per annum out Of those devilish
places of carousals. This is what is
called the orthodox prostitution; but
remember that there are hundreds OF
girls kept by private individuals fol-
their own pleasure, and many of the
men who keep such are said to be
married men and away up in society.
This is an awful condition to be going
On while many of us are totally I'M
aware of its existence To this end
let every Christian citizen, irrespective
OF his creed, rise to purge our city from
the curse, and let us put the dynamite
Of public opinion under the saloon and
under the brothel and roll them like
barrels into the pit of hell, or redeem
them like saints for the kingdom OF
righteousness.
We may sit and fold our hands anc
sing our hymns; but if we do nothing
to stem their awful tide of Iniquity
God will not hold us guiltless; unles:
we use every legitimate means to Shu
up and shut out of our city these two
NEST accurSed pythonS. We little knoR
the power eXerted by and through these
denS of infamy. l have reason to be
lieve that many of our public officers
are first named in these places. Her,
the states for conventions are not un
, | frequently arranged. Conventions ar,
organized and candidates agreed upol
in the midst of scenes too revolving 70
+ me even to suggest. [ do not here con
denim the poor creatures who are made
the instruments, as they are the vic
tins, of mans luSt-of mans lnhuman
ity. If l were woman | would ask n,
greater favor of heaven than that
might devote my life TO uplifting thes
poor fallen women and creatures, liter
J ally plucking them as brands from tn
: awful life of burning in which the,
. live. In preparing for my remarks to
1 night l have devoted somewhat of tn
: past week to Investigating in orde
2 that l might know whereof | speak
The scenes which | have witnessed All
the information L have gained has hor
rltied me beyond power of words to ex
press, and has made me pray as | hay