St. Paul daily globe., 1895-06-24
REV. A. j. ID. HAUPT TOUCHES
UP SALOONS AS PEACE DE-
STROYERS.
A BIBLE STORY COMPARISON
LARGE PERCENTAGE OF CRIME
CHARGED TO WHISKY
SELLERS.
REMEDY NAMED
POSSIBLE
In Government Ownership of Sa-
looms and Kindness to
Drunkards.

''The Saloon, With the Causes and
Costs Of Crime" Such was the sub
ject announced for the morning SER
mon yesterday at Memorial Evan
gelical church. Rev. A. J. D. Haupt,
the rector, occupied the pulpit, and
took for his text, ga certain man
went down from Jerusalem to Jeri-
cho, and fell among thieves, which
stripped him of his raiment, and
wounded him, and departed, leaving
him half-dead. Luke, X, 80. He
said:
Jerusalem, the City of God, stands
for everything that is high and
pure and holy. 1t was indeed the
city of God. There was the temple,
and thither all the people of the
Jews were wont to assemble to do
sacrifice and worship to the Lord OF
Hosts. We may regard Jericho, on
the other hand, as city of worldly
wealth and pleasure; and we find
that the way from the one to the
other of these is filled with robbers.
How striking the analogy between
road between the high and holy city
Of Jerusalem, and the worldly city
of Jericho lying on the plains, and
the course of mankind as he takes
the road from the city of God-from
holiness and righteousness that
of wealth and worldliness. When a
| young man or young woman turns
away from a life of Godliness to
life of worldliness, gaiety and fash
ion, it is indeed going down from
Jerusalem to Jericho; it is indeed
the traversing of road filled with
extreme dangers and infested with
thieves; it is indeed doubtful if ever
they will reach Jericho; that is,
whether they will ever attain the end
of their ambition for worldly wealth
and pleasures. Some do, for not
every one that passes down that way
falls among the thieves, but alas too
many do. Desires for pleasures in
crease, but we soon find that it is
impossible to go far in this line
without money, and so the young
begin to live beyond their income,
which often does not increase so
rapidly as their wants, and it soon
steals away their honor and their
honesty from them, and the result
is gambling, [--cgery or embezzle-
ment,
LEADING TO FINAL SHAME.
But who and what are thieves and
robbers? Luther defines them as those
who rob their neighbors of their money
or their property, or bring it into their
possession by unfair dealings or fraud
ulent means. Under this definition
what shall we say of many of our
saloons, gaming houses and places of
like resort? Do they not bring money
into their possession by unfair deal
ingS and fraudulent means? | do not
mean to say that these people are in
tentionally thieves and robbers, but in
tentionally or not it is in the nature of
their business. How often the poor vic
tins that enter their places with
enough in their pockets to keep them
and their families well come out with
out a cent full Of discouragem des-
pair and poverty, and what have they
to show for it? Only few hours ex-
citement, the false hope of rapidly
growing rich, the fascination and de-
ceit of having won at first and then of
having lost all. Are these places in
any way benefit to any one except the
proprietors, unless it be the manufac-
turers and the few hands they employ?
And do these advantages begin to com
pensate for the woes, poverty and mis-
fortunes entailed upon the masses by
such places of iniquity? Do you find
many fathers or mothers that are
anxious or willing to have such places
run in their neighborhood, unless, in
deed, they are given to such vices
themselves?
If the evil results of such places were
few and far between we would say
little about them, but they are SO oft
repeated that it is time the public was
doing something for its own safety and
protection. / have not been member
of the Society for the Relief of the
Poor these last few years for naught
We must as body polite protect our
selves from those who are willing to
make living by encouraging and en-
flaming the
VICES OF MEN.
Perhaps the most potent factor in
this line is the saloon What does it
do? Well, it violates the laws of the
land oft times openly and above
bOa ld and th1lS teaches Ia awleSSneSS