The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-21
:"LlcENsLNG THE ENEMY \.
The Theme of a Powerful Sermon
DIR. Sooy last Night. p

Lug 1HslHe VI, u tIOWerlul sermon by
III DR.. sooy; Last Night.
8 a large congregation at Fourth street
Nj. Z. church last night heard a strong
sermon BY the pastor. Rev. J. Il. sooy.
D. D.. from his theme, Licensing an
4 Enemy" The text chosen was from,
I Joshua, chaptert17. verse 10, as follows:
:; Yet It came to pass. when the children
4 OF Israel Were Maxen strong. that they
put the lCanaanitesi to tribute; but did
4 nit utterly drive them outs'
After giving II brief discourse on the
: history surrounding the text, DIR. Sooy
enered into discussion of the LIQUOR
4 traffic. He first spoke of liquor as an
s enemy TO health. and quoted medical
4 authorities in support OF this inference.
Alcohol Is especially injurious. and al
scehoi is the chief component part OF all
liquors, argued Dr. Sooy. and In refer
ences to the claim that there Is much
Z nutrition in beer and other splrltuous
drinks. DR.. Sooy quoted TO show that
the ratio between n snail amount OF
4 flour and large quantity OF Bavarian
beer-supposed TO he the most nutri.ive
i tbeer--with respectyto their nutritive'
qualities. was Overwhelmingly In favor
4. OF the molehlljof flour compared with
the mountain OF bcel'. Further med.
icais rlenawcrc casied on for statistics to
trace the. origin OF liver and kidney
complains to beer drinking.
s. Dr.. Sooy regretted that he discovered
Sin Wheeling n young radyEwho asserted
that heer-drink!nE was beneficial to her
E health. Beer Is positively inimicalo to
health. he argued, and no better proof
4 could be induced than the decision of
4, Milwaukee life insurance companies;
Z which do not Insure men In that city of
sbeer,swho are continual drinkers. These
ompariies found out by levperience that
: 1t didn't pay to insure the lives OF men
who flushed their stonachs with a!co-
holic swill Another fact along this
( line. Is the fact that when an epidemic
strikes q community the drinking class
: Is the first to fall victim. tss
Not only Is the liquor traffic an enemy
Z TO health, but is also n deadly foe OF
Z the home. The saloon Is an unsuitable
z monster. ever stretching out and tramp,
y ling down civilization, and. where the
4 saloon can't get a footholdf drinking
clubs spring up. The devastation and
4 desolation OF countless arce happy
7 homes are incontrovertible facts show
Z ins the blight!Ig influence of the sa-
Z loon. II Is no: poverty primarily that
! has given the poor houses ana asylums
their inmates. but mostly the liquor
hablt. for "the saloon."5 MS one diving
= put 1t. lis the bank for lovers"
Again. the saloon Is the enemy to
prosperity. Dr. Sooy showed that every
year twice all the guild In the nation
goes over the bars of the ration. The
country's liquor bill could buy up all
the gold that could be mined for the
(. next forty years. and ALI the silver that
could be mined for the mex; twenty
years. There Is s., 900 900, 600 In circula-
1 tlonEln this country. taking into con-
9 s!deration gold. silver. certificates, etc,
and the liquor bill for twenty month";
& amounts to this sum.
{tl DR.. Sooy scored the cries at. the cleo
lions of ."sound money, tariff. - rail-
road corporations" etc. while theY!uuor
traffic got but little attention from the
4 voters In addition 10 comparing the
Z c0untry's drink bill with the money
question. he argued aloES the same line
) Interference 10 the tariff and the wealth
of railroads, and showed by figures that
the amount of money spent every year
for liquor In the United States, swal-
: lowed up the tariff revenues, and if
Z spent5for building railroads could build
them up and down the country, across
& itt'ad then have money 20 spare for
many more miles.
order, but II now seems TO be control
4lirS municipal governments. The
7 courts are corrupted, by the liquor In
terests, and the police. as was shown IN
= New York recently. ..stuud in" with tho
4 saloon. keepers. Evident too. Is 1t that
I Sthe saloon Is vile, when detectives In
Z search of n criminal always look for.
K their man In q saloon, or accompanying
3 sinful places, the brothcl and gambling
he'll. II
Then the speaker summed up the sa-
Z loon as being an enemy TO health, to
the home. to prosperity. ard to law and
order and he DENOUNCED any compro-
5slpises with the saloon IN the way OF
{ high or low licenses. but argued for
h total abolition. He cited the answer OF
the queen Of Madagascar. who refused
ito license n traffic, which. she said. was
u "a curse to her people. Would to God"
5 were DR.. Sooy's concluding words, that
the American people were Of the opinion
$of that woman, .I
THE LIQUOR ,TRAFFTem