The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-05-18


do no harm to remain a day or two. Some
time afterward hew called to see the
child who was found to be suffocating.
Tracheotomy alone could save the child's
life. An incision was made in the wind
I pipe, and the orange seed was found i'm
bedded in a mass of white pulp. When the
seed was examined, it was found that the
heat Of the child's body had caused it to
burst and sprout, and an orange tree was
growing in the child's throat. So the
seed of q drunkard's habit is~planted in
the throat Of the child, and the deadly
upas tree sprouts and grows until the
victim is strangled to death.
1t is a poison that kills man mentally
transforms man of genius into the
tottering imbecle capable only of delir-
iu1n tremens. 1t degrades man NOR
ally from the level of man to the level OF
the brute. Tt sends him on his career of
murder, and of lust, and Of every vile
passion that rules his being. There is
scarcely murder trial in America In
which drink does not figure in the evil
dence affecting the life of the poor. There
is not one case in a thousand, believe,
in which it will be found that the saloon
plays no part. The evidence on which
Buchanan was convicted was obtained
in q barroom. The fact which led to the
unfayorable opinion in the minds of the
Jurors who convicted young Harris was
his connection with drinking establish
ment. 1t kills the soul of the victim, de-
stroys his moral power OF perception,
and the world knows it.
Second-The saloon uses mans social
nature to kill him. Tho power Of the
saloon to destroy lies in the fact that it
is a social institution. 1t is not ques-
ton of drink or the drink habit IN itself.
If is the question of the debauchery of
mans whole being by direct appeal to
his social instincts. Every saloon is
founded upoa the club idea. 1t caters
to mans social and SeSthetic nature. 1t
appeals to his sense of the beautiful
The saloons are the most magnificent es-
adjustments in the city Of New York
They are the most magnificent establish
1aents in any city. 1t is this tremendous
outlay Of genius, of art, of money IN
their equipment that makes their appeal
SO resistless to men socially. Men begin
to drink moderately with their compan
ions. The process is first moderate
Grinker. then drunkard, then q dis
eased wretch. Because of mans social
nature the disease of alcoholism is con
tagious-it is catching. The man who
treats IS the man infected by this con
tagious disease The saloon is the pest
house in which he contracts the disease,
from which it is spread through society.
TIE POOR MANS CLUB.
Tbird-Thc saloon strikes at the foun-
dation of social order in destroying the
moor man in his poverty. Rum strikes
down tie rich nan's son. tits impartial
To its visitation of wrath and destruc-
ton. but its reign supreme is in the dis
tricts of the poor. They are apparently
the only charitable institutions that are
always cpea. They have free lunch
counter il which the ragged wretch may
crafty his hunger if he can buy glass
of besr. Dlit 7he fact that the men Who
sell tho t1..ial- can own magniilcc--t
homes while sc man in rags eats his
free lunch is evidence sufficient that the
free alunch is llst @ bait to the trap. They
giye a free lunch and sell o man for five
certs that winch costs them less than
half q cent. It is here in tho saloon
that tho poor Inaa is robbed of his hard
earnings. olsl Is IS given to tho man less
worthy to hax it, In a certain district
of this city which has rcsounded with
tie cry of starving men and wor.en
more than onca oao Of the s;.locLsis paved
with silver dc1la-.s Tho men that owns
it is . power III tho community. He not
only owns tho saloon; he owns tho bodies
and souls Of tho roor wretehos who sup
port it.
It has been sail that tho saloon is the
poor mans cls1b. So it is, and fer that
reason t should DO swept from tho face
Of the earth. tIc can go no lower. Ev-
cry saloon is nos only drinking place;
it is a place where gambling is carried
on every day and every night in Sne
year. It is also a place which is tn con-
slant resort of evil women. The reason
these things 90 together is because they
are birds Of feather To separate
them is an impossibility. The one calls
for the other. and in the absence of the
other would produce its complement. If
the church itself should run a saloon,
the stimulus of alcohol would drive its
frequenters to the qualification of every
other passion.
t. Y. Po derby says most vigorously:
II have had an experience of 20 years
among workingmen. My life SO far has
been spent in working among them, and
l expect the remainder of that life will
be spent in their interests. That expert
ence causes me to say that liquor has
done more harm to workingmen than all
other causes. The cry has been sounded
and parrotlike repeated that poverty
makes drunkards of workingmen. If
there is any truth in that statement, then
it is not to the credit of the man or men
who willfully add crime to misfortune.
Every sensible man knows that the liquor
habit leads to degradation, disease, dirt
and death. It is therefore unjust when
we excuse the intemperance Of poor