Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-07-26
TIE LIQUOR PROBLEM.
Az ANSWER TO WHAT TO Do WITH
THE SALOONS.
AKTIcLE III.

ed 10 provide food in connection with
its sales Of drink The profits on this
food 20 TO either the company or its
agent Food attracts many to the
company saloon to fall into tempta-
ton. The drink appetite attracts
others who. instead Of spending their
money for solid bread and meat, pur-
chase and drink this liquid. respect
lableized' destruction. The topper con
teammates the abstainer; the moderate
/ drinker entices the young man to be-
gin Oh. how short-sighted is sucn
temperance wisdom, If these tenn
perance men(2l would be willing to
I risk Keeping n restaurant simply for
good, truly organized for temperance.
how much greater their success and
blessing to their city would be. 1t
seems as though any man with a
/ thimble-full OF brains could see that
| it would be much better to keep the
peoples food as far from drink as pos
sible, if he really wants to reduce
drinking And yet this is a phase OF
the much praised Goth system Men
act as though they thought they could
not do any real temperance work nm
less they tote along the devil as an
attraction.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Milwaukee illus
trates what can be done in the line of
cheap eating rooms. free from cigar
stands and drink. have been repeat
eddy at their coffee house and gotten
good, substantial meal for from Is
to Y cents. while the room would be
crowded for an hour with working
men and boys What a field is open
ed here for our rich temperance men
who are longing for some chance to
fight the rum fiend without being call
ed a prohibition crank. Organize your
companies, my good brothers, but
shut the doors on this LIQUID devil
Make your rooms pleasant furnish
good food, papers and books; add all
the temperance and other lectures
possible: give it your love and best
thought; and | will volunteer to draw
your articles of partnership or incor-
poration for nothing Our laws favor
such undertakings. The '.tetotums'
Of England have proved that such eat
ing houses can be made a success.
financially and morally.
| cannot give space to show how
much more general and powerful the
work and influence Of the temperance
reform is in Scandinavia than the few
local companies under the Goth svs-
tenn; how the laws are being broaden
ed each year so as to enable the county
districts mole and more to restrict
liquor selling; how distilleries have
decreased in Sweden from 17S to 124
in 1929 to 564, in 1865. when the Goth
system was introduced, and how. in
the country districts, distillery can
only be started by getting consent of
the community at the General Com
munial Assembly. Out of 500 COM
munities, the peoples representatives
at the General Assembly in only 10
have used their privilege to license
abstinence societies now number more
than 10000 members in Sweden, APP
propriating 900 kroner for the politi-
cal struggle for prohibition last year.
but nothing for the Goth system.
All OF these forces have been work
ing to stop the tipping habits of the
people, and that they have been many
times more powerful than the res
trictive" legislation. including the
Goth system, is shown by the follow
ing quotation from an official report,
issued by the Swedish government in
1888:
The Swedish legislation has done
much, and it can do much more to re-
press the abuse of spirituous liquors;
but it must be owned that it would
have been powerless, or at least that
II could not have obtained anything
like the actual results. if it had not
been upheld by public opinion a. we'll
as by the efforts II numerous temper
ance societies; and perhaps still more,
if better food. more healthy lodgings.
increasing prosperity, better popular
education, a better developed senti-
ment of the dignity Of humanity and
morality. had not made the use of al
coholic eNcitants more or less unne-
eessary for the people; and, above all.
opened their eyes to the vice of drunk
enness and its consequences.
Like a class OF American politicians
who, for twenty years, have claimed
that every advance in intelligence, in
wealth, in general prosperity is due to
the tariff system, 50 a class of Gothen-
/ burg advocates have tried to make the
world believe that scandinavian pro-
f gress i'm temperance and snbrietv. is
I due % their system, when, as a mat
+ ter "a fact as Mr.. Wavrinskv we'll
SAYS la enc If his answers, 4 II due
least 81 AN Is tho Goth system All
Of these reform efforts have ha3 to
+ fight this system by which the DRINK
traffic has been kept M high pres
sure nearly 50 vea Ii there Is one
quarter III The yiI ne IN il that Is
claimed for il. il ought e show some
grand results Is this time but ii ean-
not jn facts when We consider all the
other forces that haze been 1T work.
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