The Progress., 1893-05-20

~ our n'NfirM l'iF ~ iHn t;fH. TINS
tiaus Co. 80 tho ball - box like oxen AMI
vote tho iiol,rts which thoir ma ers. tho
saloon k""pcr7. write put fnt ihom. And
the saloon k""pcr. who "a himself a
/ chrome vi"laiur Of tho law. lpoms mp "a
IN" mnDor of law. as the judge 81 lava
The lpror dealers Of Now Nur', have
tEoir bands ou thr district attorney = of
flee and control itS policy. Thoy have
~ m assistant district attorney = ulau
. chosen 10 Themselves and forced nu the
office IN accordance with thoir domarls
He il there for tho sole purpose Of doing
their dirty work, and IN ht h1nd1 lr"
placed tho indie mont = against th" liquor
/ dcalors of the city.
We hJyr,u tho lud.p's hcnch u man
who has b"'u notorious "a the Keeper of
/ saloons and low dives Wohpvo now on
/ the judges bench 1uo'hrr notorious
scoundrol whoougit 90 hn srrviug ~ t"rm
IN tho pcuitontiary for Ina rlscaitv ~ m
officer while doing the work which the
liquor dealers Of tho city lcmaiicl of
him. This man recently had the aulac
/ ity to lay aside his duties as u judge and
outCr the court ~ attorney for liquor
dealer who desired tp open saloon
within loss than 2OD fcNt of church
There are between 200 and 500 saloons IN
tho city uf Chicago within distance Of
GOO foot of schuuls. churches or hospitals
Tho crime IL thus madn an object lesson
to the children. as they are taught from
/ day to day. and narui9 its dotinut 'laE
in the very faco of tho church Of Christ
THE II'ENsE SYSTEM
Tho saloon forces tho appetite for drink.
and thus produces ahnormally thuusHndr
of druukards. repeat 1t. It ~ not -
question of drink aud drinking II u
the question of the saloon ~ M iustltu.
ton. and the saloon "a I'M institution
forces down the throats of unwilling men
80 Ter Ccut of the alcohol that IL Cousun-
cd today. Mon who frequent saloons do
not know how much thny drink
\ physician recently had patient
Whose disease was iucurahlc. from lis
pont of view. because of tho hablts Of
the man Tho doctor Insisted that the
mrn was killing himself with drink. Tho
man declared 1t was nonsense. The
pi ysiciau asked him as a test how MANY
drinks he took day. The mau replied
that he did not know. bat certainly MOI
morr than four or five. The doctor knew
that he was trcgurntCr of n saloon.
that hc spent his time there cvery day.
He stationed man tho nest day to-
watch him during the day and count { lc
number of drinks hc took. Tho man re
ported 60 the doctor that the follow took
oxnctly 30 drinks that day. and no had
solomnly sworn that hc never took more
than four or five drinks n day. Men
are rntiCcd into the saloon. are invited
in. are forced in and begged to drink
and treated tOdrink. are cocrccd to drinL
The saloon rs an institution tempt,
the weak men whonord protection most
Without the suloOn any man that wants
to get drink can yet il; any man that
wants To- get drunk can get drunk. Dut
with the saloon thousands upon thO;.-
sands get drunk who do not want 80. 1t
j. forced down their throats There are
very few saloons in our cities that have
not auxiliary establishments which class
thcm properly with the divcs. Thcy up
peal to the young. appeal directly 20
their passion and make their money Ill
rectly through the lebauChcry of young
manhood nud womanhoOd. Tho uucr
gardens of our cities are the hotbcds j."
which are first planted the seeds of u
dissolutc life in those who attend them
Hero young workingmen AMI young
working women 20 IN search of pleasure
and recreation and begin their down
ward career Tho saloon as an institu-
tiou teinpts the young with practically
resistless power. II is established Oh
that principle. That il one Of the man
reasons for its existence and the source
OF its profits.
Tho principal patrons Of the saloon. as
of tEo gambling hell. aiS tho young In
"A single saloon in Cincinnati 9J9 men on.
tered within III hour Two hundred and
thirty-six of thnm We're young men. In
New Albany. Ind. in M hour and "A half
l.l0D persons entered 10 saloons Nine
hundred and eighty-thrcc of them were
young men and boys. G. II. Yatman de
clares that in Newark. N. j.. in five min
utes he counted O. yOung men entering
one saloon. He passed his watch to a
/ friend ard asked him 60 stand and count
| for 20 minutes. In that time 502 entered
/ the saloon. most of them young men.
/ Richard Morse says: "A city of 1900
population had 5000 young men One
thousand and twcnty-one of them en-
tered - saloons in one hour on Saturday
night. In Milwaukee, on certaincvcn-
ing. iGS persons entered a single saloon,
nearly all of whom were young men ana
boys. II this process continues for an-
other generation, it needs n, prophet to
forctcll tho character of the manhood of
that generation that succeeds tho pres
cnt.
The saloon as an institution makes
crime daily incident of life and makes
II respectable with large class oil pco-
pie. The license fallacy introduces the
liquor business with all its criminality
into the domain Of law. No license sys.