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

Keep regularly all tho way from % 70 80
of these women practically in their en-
ploy. A license law is roaring farce.
II has never been enforced; 1t never can
be enforced.
What, then, shall be done with it2 The
forces Of civilization are rapidly dividing
into only two classes on this question
those who believe in the saloon, that it
is good thing, that it should be protect
ed, and those who believe that it is an
unmitigated curse and must be destroyed
and outlawed. Regulation has been
tried and found wanting. License is o
dismal failure. The idea that the saloon
as an institution can be improved is n
dream OF madness. 1t has been said Dy
the church taking charge of the saloon
tho evil of the drink traffic can DO miti-
gated. The difficulty is that alcohol ia
poison which produces disease. Thr
difficulty is that no man ever becomes a
drunkard except he first becomes q mod
crate drinker. The road to drunkenness
is the way Of moderation.
The church cannot afford to cultivate
the appetite for drink and create habits
that kill the majority Of those who form
them. France and Belgium, the two nu-
tions where light alcoholic drinks are
most INDUCED in by 80 called moderate
drinkers, now lead the world in the
number Of drunkards. They are the
most drunken nations on the face Of the
earth. To soy that God made alcohol is
81 L.
made strychnine and arsenic; that he
made Benedict Arnold and William NJ.
Tweed and Tammany Hall. In like man
ner God made hell and hurled the devil
into 1t. 1t may be said you cannot
sweep out darkness with broom. You
can Danish it with O candle-meaning
thereby that you can mitigate the drink
curse by making the saloon better. The
trouble with this proposition is that you
propose to sweep out alcohol with alco-
hol. repeat, how can you sweep out
darkness by turning ON the hose pipe
charged with ink? Can weeds be rooted
out BY sowing weeds? do not see how
you, can sweep out hell by flooding the
earth with liquid damnation.
1T MUST BE CRUSHED.
The plea is absurd. The saloon as an
institution must be crushed and outlaw.
ed. Men will drink? Yes. They will
sneak round the corner and find it? Yes.
But the weak and the young will be pro-
tected. The poor will be rescued from
its clutches. All that is necessary to
bring this question home to the hearts of
/ every citizen is for it to touch his own
life. An old man, says the Chicago
Journal, recently applied to a peniten-
tiary for the position of u guard. He was
told that he was too old. He said that he
had his second sight; that he had been q
dead shot in his youth; that he was bet
ter shot now than ever; that no convict
could escape him. Finally after long
argument he was given O trial. He told
the keeper that he had lost all his people
that he must have the job, or nothing
opened before him. He was in despair,
He was given u gun and put on duty.
The next day the convicts were taken
across the fields to their work. Sudden
ly a convict leaped over fence and
rolled down an embankment and made
break for liberty. The old man lifted
his gun and shouted to the convict tc
halt. Three times he called to him tc
halt, but on the prisoner sped. Ther
came the crack of the old mans rifle
and instantly the man fell. He wa
shot through the heart. The old guarC
came up, and with a sigh looked at tn
PROSTATE body, and when they turned
the dead man over and his face cam
into view the old guard staggered bacl
with cry of horror. He recognized hi
own son.
We are ready to weep over such trag
edy. We are willing to support the law
which make it possible to shoot down
man at the stockade, provided 1t is som
other mans child. We would not b
able to perform the work the old guar
I'D If we had to shoot our own boy, an
yet the principle is the same. The brotl
erhood of man is great fact Of the rae,
Some Of US feel that it is none of ou
business if saloons destroy other people
children. 1t is as much our business {
if 1t were our own child. repeat agai
this terrible indictment Of the salool
It should be made over and over agail
II has never been controverted. 1t Cal
not be controverted:
, The saloon cuts down youth in its vigor, ma
hood In Its strength and age In its weakness.
II breaks thD fathers heart, bereaves &
mother, eztinguishes natural affections, eras
| conjugal love, blots out fllial attachments al
, blasts parental hopes and brings down mour
ing age in sorrow TO the grave.
| 1t produces weakness not strength; sickne
not health; dLath, not life.
| II makes wives, widows; children, orphan
| hthers, GendS-and all OF them paupers al
4 beggars.
II feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcoul
ep!demics, invites cholera, imparts pestilen
| and embraces consumption.
. 1 1t covers Sho land with idleness, misery al
| crime.
1t fills your jGils, supplies your almshous
; 1 and demands your abylums.
| IL cngcIdcrs controversies, fosters quar-,
| and cherishcs riots.
, 1 1t crowds your penitcntiaries and furnish
' ! victims 20 your scGTO!ds.
1t is tho lfsbl0od Of the gambler, tho el
4 mert Of the burglar, tic prep Of the highwa
man and the support VI tho midniGhtinCe
! GnIy.
1t countc.cucrs tic lar, poets tho thit
estoems lhs b,asJheUer,
4 II violates o1.. cations, rovereuces fraud, hO
ors iAtamy.
! 1t dc:Gu4eB bsnoyo,cnce, hates love, scor
| virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
. IL inc.tos tho father to butcher his helpll
| Offspring, Lc.p5 the husband to m,, sacro /
. | wife and tho child 10 grand the pa,ricidal az
, | II burU5 up l,2G, Consumes women, dCtGs
life, curses God and Cc-pisos heaven.