The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-05-13
THE RELATION OF THE SALOON TO PAU
PERISH.


We cannot describe the sorrow gamb-
ling has caused. 1t is such a great sin
just feel like writing it SIN in letters Il
foot long. We cannot think of any
school so successful as saloon. They
are sending out graduates every year all
over the world regardless of age, sex or
color. And they are really accommodate
ing too they will take anything you have
on tuition even To mortgage on your
farm. 1t has been estimated that one
tenth Of the voters of our government get
drunk, and that there is 5000 100000
paid for liquor every year We have
10000. 600 families in the United States
Not more than one-half of those are pat
rons of the saloon, consequently those
who are not patrons are taxed to furnish
IL living for those vino are. And some of
our men whom we would like TO honor
and look up to do not seem to have
enough gumption to look into these
things but just sit down and wonder why
there are SO many poor people in the
world. Sum it up for yourself and see
what you could do for 5000 600 families
with 5000 900, 600 1t has been truly as
serted that four-ffths of all the charity
cases OF community can be traced di-
three ourths of the work of the police is
to look after the saloon products We are
taxed to maintain the police to punish
the criminal and keep the pauper Think
OF IT, if every pauper in the United
States were Il tax payer we could have
school the year around and great many
other things | could mention.
In the BIRD chapter of Proverbs we find
these words I(,l hi
bers, for the drunkard and glutton shall
come to poverty" We have enumerated
millions of dollars paid for liquor and
read of thousands of crimes committed
caused by drinking it.
But there are few things we know
There are men living in this community
mot bad men) who, ten or fifteen wears
ago, owned good farms, plenty of stock
and everything necessary to work farm,
are homeless today. 1t was not extrava-
CANT wives or children who did it. for
some of them did not have any. 1t was
the saloons and their crowd. have seen
the saloon men come out and pat those
weak men on The shoulder AMI say come
in, calling them by name, when it was
not his intention to go in nor do [ be-
lieve they would have gone in had it not
been for this persuasion. And we are, at
The present time and have been for wears.
supporting pauper in Weiser who owes
his condition to the use of strong drink.
And know of several horrible crimes
committed in our little city by those
whose brain was maddened by that ter
rible curse, but shall not describe them
here. ! tell you, my dear sisters, if the
saloons continue to increase they will i'm.
poverlsh our nation. Daniel Webster has
said ''lhe Intelligence of the people is the
security of the nation" When we say
nation we mean our boys and your girls,
for they will naturally associate them
selves together Internal scord never
Will save them. let us talk us we pray.
Let us turn all our guns on the enemy.
loaded 10 The muzzle with indisputable
facts and reason and christian appeal.
Sitting supinely down and brooding over
our past defeats and disappointments will
only be holding our hands up for the tv-
rant To rivet the shackles the more firmly.
II any has said I'm give it up if we fail
this time, let her consider what would
have been the result if Washington or
any OF our great generals had acted on
that plan. No. as for going back there
is nothing to go back to. We cannot
give the hand decentralization to bus
mess that has robbed our friends of their
homes, made paupers. thieves and Grim
lnals OF our husbands and sons and brok-
EN- the hearts of our mothers and wives.
There is nothing left us but to stand
by our colors and see to IL that the whis-
key ring does not run our next election.