Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-24
cratic caucuses in our city of New YorK


tians go to the ballot box like oxen an6
vote the tickets which their masters, thu
saloon keepers, write out for them. Ani
the saloon keeper, who is himself 1
chronic violator of the law, looms up al
the maker of laws, as the judge of laws
The liquor dealers of New York have
their hands ON the district attorneys of
fee and control its policy. They have
as an assistant district attorney a mar
Z chosen by themselves and forced on the
Office in accordance with their demands
He is there for the sole purpose of doing
their dirty work, and in his hands are
placed the indictments against the liquor
dealers of the city.
We have en- the judges bench man
who has been notorious as the keeper OF
saloons and low dives. We have now on
the judges bench another notorious
scoundrel whoo ought to be serving term
in the penitentiary for his rascality as an
officer while doing the work which the
liquor dealers of the city demanded of
him. This man recently had the audac-
ity to lay aside his duties as judge and
enter the court as attorney for liquor
dealer who desired to open a saloon
within less than 200 feet of a church.
There are between 200 and 300 saloons in
the city of Chicago within distance of
200 feet of schools, churches OF 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 it. it is not a
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 the alcohol that is consum-
ed today. Men who frequent saloons do
not know how much they drink
A physician recently had a 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 a frequenter of a saloon;
that he spent his time there every day.
He stationed n man the next day to
watch him during the day and count the
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 10 drink. are coerced TO drink. |
The saloon as an institution tempts |
the weak men who need protection most.
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
:nds get drunk who do not want to. 1t |
IS forced down their threats. There are
very few saloons in our cities that have /
not auxiliary establishments which class I
hem properly with the dives. They APP
peal 10 the young, appeal directly 10
heir passion and make their money di-
-ectly through the debauchery of young
manhood and womanhood. The Deer
gardens Of our cities are the hotbeds jr
which are first planted the seeds Of a
lissolute life in those who attend them
Here young workingmen and young
women 90 in search of pleasure
md recreation and begin their down
ward career. The saloon as an institu-
ion tempts the young with practically
esistless power. Ii is established on
hat principle. That is one of the main
easons for its existence and the source
# its profits.
The principal patrons of the saloon, as
# the gambling hell, are the young. In
single saloon in Cincinnati 252 men en-
cred within an hour Two hundred and
hirty-six of them were young men, In
Jew Albany, Ind, in an hour and half
,109 persons entered 10 saloons. Nine
hundred and eighty-three of them were
Dung men and boys. c. H. Yatman de-
lares that in Newark, n. j., in FIVE min
ties he counted 90 young men entering
ne saloon. He passed his watch to a
rend and asked him to stand and count
or 80 minutes. In that time 592 entered
he saloon, most of them young men.
richard Morse says: "A city of 1900
opulation had 5000 young men. One
and twenty-one of them en-
cred 40 saloons in one hour on Saturday
light. In Milwaukee, on a certaineven-
NJ. 46S persons entered single saloon,
early all of whom were young men and
oys. If this process continues for an I
Their generation, it needs no prophet to |
lretell the character of the manhood of
nat generation that succeeds the pres
Mt. X
The saloon as an institution makes
rhine daily incident of life and makes
respectable with large class OF peo- ;
lie. The license fallacy introduces the
quor business with all its criminality l
ito the domain of law. No license sys- I
I'm has ever been enforced in the history
tho world In tho vary Matinee 80 I l