The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-05-18

the city Of Chicago within distance OF
600 feet Of schools, churches or hospitals
The crime is thus made an object lesson
to the children, as they are taught from
day to day, and faunts its defiant flag
in the very face of the church of Christ.
THE LICENSE SYSTEM.
The saloon forces the appetite for drink,
and thus produces abnormally thousands
of drunkards. repeat IL, 1t is not
question of drink and drinking. 1t is
the question of the saloon as an institu-
ton, and the saloon as an institution
forces down the throats of unwilling men
80 per cent Of tho alcohol that is consutn-
ed today. Men who frequent saloons do
not know how much they drink.
A physician recently had patient
whose disease was incurable, from his
point of view, because of the habits Of
the man. The doctor insisted that the
man was killing himself with drink. The
man declared it was nonsense. The
physician asked him as test how many
drinks he took day. The man replied
that he did not know, but certainly not
more than four or five. The doctor knew
that he was frequenter of saloon;
that he spent his time there every day.
He stationed man the next day to
watch him during the day and count the
number of drinks he took. The man re-
ported to the doctor that the fellow took
exactly 40 drinks that day, and he had
solemnly sworn that he never took more
than four or five drinks day. Men
are enticed into the saloon, are invited
| in, are forced in and begged to drink
and treated to drink, are coerced to drink.
The saloon as an institution tempts
the weak men who need protection most,
Without the saloon any man that wants
to get drink can get it; any man that
wants to get drunk can get drunk. But
with the saloon thousands upon thou
sands get drunk who do not want to- It
Is forced down their throats. There are
| very few saloons in our cities that have
not auxiliary establishments which class
them properly with the dives. They ap-
peal to the young, appeal directly TO
their passion and make their money di-
rectly through the debauchery Of young
manhood and womanhood. The beer
gardens Of our cities are the hotbeds in
which are first planted the seeds Of q
dissolute life in those who attend them
Here young worlzingmen and young
working women go in search Of pleasure
and recreation and begin their down
ward career. The saloon as an institu-
ton tempts the young with practically
resistless power. 1t is established on
that principle, That is one cf the main
reasons for it's existence and the source
Of its profits.
The principal patrons Of the saloon, as
Of the gambling hell, are the young. In
single saloon in Cincinnati 252 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
1,109 persons entered 10 saloons. Nine
hundred and eighty-three Of them were
young men and boys. G. H. Yatman de-
olares that in Newark, N. j., in five min
utes he counted 62 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 500 entered
the saloon, most of them young men.
Richard Morse says: ga city of 1900
population had 5000 young men. One
thousand and twenty-one of them en-
tered 40 saloons III one hour on Saturday
night. In Milwaukee, on a certain even
ing, 4GS persons entered a single saloon
nearly all of whom were young men anC
boys. If this process continues for an
other generation, it needs no prophet t
foretell the character of the manhood ot
that generation that succeeds the pres
ent.
The saloon as an institution makes
crime daily incident of life and makes
it respectable with largo class OF peo
/ pie. The license fallacy introduces tn
liquor business with all its criminalit,
into the domain Of law No license sys
tenn has ever been enforced in the histor,
Of the world, In the very nature 0
things it cannot be enforced. Law to b
, law must have back Of it moral pc wer
The license system is a compromise witt
i the devil. 1t satisfies neither tho dew
i nor the forces of good. There never. wa
prohibition law that stood squarel,
, upon the platform of suppression tina
was not better enforced than any hcens
! law under the same conditions.
/ u
? of New York. There Gre no less tina,
5000 places where liquor is sold withou
|, any license at all. And there is not
saloon in this city that does not violat
: the excise law at some point. They kee
! lopen at illegal hours during the days O
, the week. They sell ON Sunday. The
: lsell to minors And they are banded tc
| gether to defend each other when inter
\ fered with, whether guilty OF not guilty
IN CHICAGO.
: In Chicago some time ago boy, th
son of carpenter at Franklin park i
, moderate circumstances, was mad
!, beastly drunk from whisky sold over
license bar. The boy was ~ years old
He vent to the saloonand purchased hi
bottle Of whisky. He drank part of th
bottle in the presenceof witnesses in til
saloon. He left the place half crazeL
staggered around for awhile in tn
y neighborhood and finally fell across tn
track of the Chicago and Northwester
~ railroad. Here he lay for two hour,
when he was picked up still insensitl
by passerby. He was very i'll for sey
eral days, but finally recovered. The Sc
= loon keeper was arrested and fined
nominal fine. The boys father ha
brought suit in q civil court for $l0,O
; damages, and the respectable Liquo
Dealers association will defend thei
, brother saloon keeper, guilty or nc
guilty. Thieves Thus hang together an
have their code of honor.