The Progress., 1893-05-20
THE MODERN SALOON.
REV. THOMAS DIXON CONTINUES AS
SERMONS ON rHE GATES Or HELL

serve tho Law. Ia, ~ ~ Is-Tha saloon
T.~'i l. Organized LavIcssnc'a The
Ni,r. "T Civilization.
Nrw YORK, MAY li-Rcv. Thomas
Dixon. Jr.. delivered today tho fourth
sermon of tho series on the Gates IF
Hell In Modern Babylon" Tho sublcc,
was The Saloon In the city" The text
chosen WA from lI1ba'Skul5 ii. II. Woo
unto him that eivCth his ncighhur drink. y
The problem of thu sllupn - 50 Old
and vet over new. II ia scarcely posi-
bln 10 trC9t IT thoroughly without 70.
ppating wat ono hHs said 'gain nul
again And vet 1t "a - subject upon
which repetition il needed Truths ara
never learned until they are diunod into
tho cars Of the unthinlSing multitude
They must ho repeated "A thousand times
before they are even recognized. Orig
inaity ~ not much Of force in reform
work The secret Of SUCCESS Il. after
all. repetition Tho curse of drink
seems to bo commensurate with tho
progress "f the pressure of life. In our
advanciug civilization the moro intense
our life becomes the moro deadly hC.
como the powcy Of the saloon md the
ravagcs of intcwpCrauCr Tho modern
city has brought men into closer r'la-
tious than over before IN tho history of
the world II has guiCkonod our rate Of
living. Mothusclah lived in years, but
he did not 1.-Two IN thought IA compared
with the modern man Everything tonds
to stimulate and To intensity lifo in the
city. even To the point of insanity. IN the
reaction of nerves, and the result IA the
debauchcrv of drink.
Tho paragraphcr was wiser thln he
dreamed whom he recently made an
other joke on the Indian aud his prog
ross A leading citizen of the village
had returned from n trip to the great
west and asked by one of the company
Did you SEQ amy signs of civilization
among the lndiansy why. Yes" r.
Piled the leading citizen hopefully.
mighty nigh all of them drink whisky
and smoke cigarettes" The iutenapr the
civilization of today the higher these
evils rise and the greater the consequent
curse.
The use of alcohol an the nervous sys-
tenn has not been understood IN the past
We are gaining light DR.. N. &. Davis
has called attention recently to the illu-
sions that have been imposed upon the
human mind by the use of alcohol in
both health and disease. He has shown
that 10y its anpsthetiC effect on the ncrvc
cells of the brain the consciousness Of
the individual IL lcsscned. and he IL de-
luded with the idea that he has been re-
licved of the suffering instance. of
cold or hcnt-whcn. ~ "A fact. he has not
been relieved mt all. but his power to
perceive has been deadenpd so in the
progress of disease its use has the same
anpsthetic effect. II does not remove the
exciting cause nor increase nutrition. II
has proved curse in thousand in
stances. even in its uso from medicinal
point of view.
The enormous extent Of the drink evil
is impossible for the mind of man to
grnsp II Ia the one deadly shadow that
ovcrsprcads not simply the life of tho
people in the city. but in the whole ma
ton II is the one curse that touches TIA
financially. socially, politically and NOR
ally. II has concentrated its forces of
late in the cities IA never before II has
been shown tlst the city of Chicago alone
consumes SiO. COO. 900 worth of beer in n
single year Pittsburg spendsSlS, 900, 900
for drink New York spends not less
than 500. .0O0. 600 to $40 900 for beer
alone. We have about 5000 licensed
drinking places and about 5000 Illicit ea-
Establishments where drink is sold with
ont license. and the drink establish
mcnts swing wide their doors day and
night and seven days i'm the week. As
compared with them the church cuts M
insignificant figure in the life of the pco-
pie.
On Fourteenth street there is his
toric saloon with it's outfit of evil adj
venturers and ndventuresses who daily
and nightly throng it, It il fitted up
in magnificent style. Its chandeliers
flash with ,cauty. Its brilliant light
invites the passerby to the late hours
of the night, and even In the morning.
Thousands upon thousands of hurrying;
feet cross its threshold daily. It. busi.
ness never ceases day or night. by is
side stands a church. silent and grim
and unlighted save on special occasions.
Below Fourteenth street there arc III
churches; there are 4.0Gj saloons
The saioo as an institution Strings
opca more Il ors 10 hell than any other
po,rcr in The modern city.
BUCHANAN-uARRIs.
First Because the staple of it's conf
merce. the rlmodity in which 1t deals,
ia deadly poison. The principle of its
fascination over man is the principle of
its power to poison those who consume
it. IL kills man physically. II makes
him the prev to every disease that may
attack him the first place. The man
whose system has been broken by the
power of drink is the first victim Of ev.
cry pcstilencs that afflicts the race. A
young man iddenly died with pneumo-
mia next do, TO me the other day. The