The Arizona sentinel., 1895-09-28

even more so now. Don't aid 1T , lowering him and his family Speak kindly or keep your mouth shut. Assist him as a man and q brother, respect him and his , family, he will then honor and respect you, and will end by re- specting himself, the rights of his fellow man and his business. You will not then find him selling rum
 to children or drunken men and
 and his saloon made a resort for
 thugs, buns, thieves and men
 looking for job and praying not
 to find one
 You can then take your family
 into his place of business to get a
 glass of wine, lemonade, beer.
 Yes or whisky without fear of hay
 ing them offended by profane or
 loud words, or indecent sights, just as well as you can in the drug
 store around the corner or the
 grocery over the way, and the
 drink so taken will work no greater
 moral evil than if taken at home, or
 at the communion rail of your hi ost
 pretentious church.
 Dives, places of low resort, any one will say, down with them, there is where the seed of crime is sown and germinates and all the license paid by them will not defray court
 costs for the crimes committed or traceable to such places. Again I say make the sale of rum respect able by getting good men in such places, but don't censure every man because he sells whisky, and not only get him down, but etern- ally kick him. Many of them have noble feelings and generous i'm pulses, cultivate them, they will grow. You cannot plant the most lovely flower and water it with bit terness and contempt and expect It to bloom into g four of beauty, and It is a Well-known fact that when the cry of distress is heard the purse of the saloonkeeper is among the first to open to the needs of the poor. You will not associate or affiliate with them or their fam flies. OhI you good Samaratins, when you were in need, at your church affairs, did not these same men aid you, was their money worth 100 cents on the dollar. and will it not buy as many tracts for the heathens as if it never aided in paying for a drink. Yes, today were l an hungered or a thirst Il would go to one of these very men for a meal or a cup of water, scorer than to any one who wears a white 1 cravat, and sanctimonious smile, | reform saloonkeeper. Aye and any one else, but don't try to con- vince him that he is entirely black, and that you are as white as snow. While the Lord may not approve of the sinner, He, I believes, esteems him as highly, as he does a hypo-I crite, who tells you he is saved and yet lives.
 Let us good people learn that we can reform no one by suspicion, doubt, or standing off. Show the | man that you have an interest in his moral and temporal welfare not measured by dollars and cents, and you will make him your friend, | don't turn the cold shoulder, don't | drive him out On the barren waste | of life, if you want to see him in 1 the pastures of peace. Many l would come back, if they were sure of partial reception gwen to the prodigal, no there is nothing left l but to wonder, in the night of sin, over the plains of lost hope no matter how brightly the lights may shIne from the homes of the good or what childhood memories may awaken amid the blasts of ad- versity. Selling whisky or drink ing the same is not morally, wrong any more than selling and drink ing coffee, tea, or any drug you may perceive from the reputable store.kegper. The use to excess of any or all of these is crime against society and yourself, this is logical fact. Have we not got ten to large beam in our own eye, to see 80 many mOles in others. I