The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-01-26

pay your taxes? Now let me tell
you solemn fact: For every dollar
put into the county treasury for sa-
loon licenses the county pays two
dollars in hard cash, and your taxes
are doubled
The men who sell liquor ought in
all justice to support the families of
their customers who are brought to
poverty through intemperance. A
law to that effect would make men
careful how they sell liquor to drunk
ards.
Idaho ought to fall in line with
other states and pass law this win
ter closing all dram shops as early as
midnight certainly, forbidding the
sale Of liquor TO minors and drunk
ards and abolishing "wine room at
tachments. "
AS to the locating Of the agricul-
tural college, other things being equal,
the locality or town supporting the
least number of drinking places
should be chosen. The people who
will send their sons and daughters to
that institution would prefer that the
"demon Of drink" should not abide
near the college.
Chauncy M. Depew declared in
recent address that sthe saloon de-
stroys eighty thousand youths annu-
ally by sending them to drunkard' s
graves" l wonder how many of this
number are recruited from Weiser and
vicinity?
A recent cable dispatch gave an
account Of the suicide of two men at
Monte Carlo, the gambling den of
Europe, ending with the suggestive
sentence, "The gambling tables at
Monte Carlo are doing rushing
business this see onl'
According to recent Investigations
in New York city, over two thousand
poor persons go insane in that city
every year. This is said to be an
increase out Of all proportion to the
growth of the city population. But
more suggestive than all is the fact
published in the Times that in cover
one half of the cases alcoholism is
the direct cause of insanity"
The saloon is the recruiting office
of the devil, of blasphemy and inf
deity. 1t is the duty therefore of all
who love God and the church to op-
pose the influence of the saloon. -
Rev. FIR. @. ]. Burns.
No man but total abstiner is al
lowed, under the laws of Michigan,
to be employed as engineer, train-dis-
patcher, fireman, brakeman, or other
railroad servant. Any railroad VIC
lating the law is liable to fine of
$500 for each otfense.
The Carriage and Wagon Makers
international Union, in session at
Columbus, Ohio, last August, pro-
vided for organizers in each state, and
that any person in the union who be-
comes intoxicated shall be summarily
dismissed. This industrial union
thus presents good precedent for
other kindred organizations to follow.
By the general concurrence of opin-
ion Of every civilized and Christian
community, there are few sources of
crime and misery equal 10 the dram
shop The statistics of every state
show greater amount of crime and
misery attributable to the use of
ardent spirits obtained at these retail
liquor saloons than to any other
source. There is no inherent right
in citizen to sell intoxicating liquor
by retail.-U. S. Supreme Court, Nov.
10, 1890.
General Eaton, United States Com
missioner of Education, states that
"eighty per cent. of the crime of our
country is the result of intemperance,
and nine.y-fve per cent of the de
PRAYED youth are the children of
drunken and depraved parents.
Alcohol is the devils brat. and
never should be sustained by law or
voted for by any Christian man. We
have tried for 337 years to restrict
the liquor traffic by license. Thus
far it has been as futile as it would
be TO make laws to untwist the whirl-
wind; for no law can moralize a
crime. Rev. Hugh Montgomery.
! heartily approve of the proposed
movement against the system of
gambling which is now poisoning the