The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-02-07
A PREACHER
REV. COILS, OF LEXINGTON,
Makes a Vigorous Attack Upon
Saloons.
he Answers Bishp Potter, of New
York.
he Answers Bishp Potter, of New

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Christian church, Lexington, preach
ed to a large audience on Sunday
night, January och. He earnestly
plead with the citizens to refuse 10
put in public office men engaged in
the liquor business.
He assailed the recent utterance of
Bishop Potter, Of New York, who
said:
"The saloon is social necessity;
repeat it, it is a social necessity, in so
far as tue recreslive instinct in hn-
man beings makes it social necessi.
ty. The man who keeps the sa DON
and who says it is the poor mars
club tells the truth. 1t is a place to
which the working man can 60 to fluid
refuge after the days toll is done
from his untidy wife and squalling
children"
Rev. Coils comments thus:
IL could understand the paid re-
tainer of the saloon ultering such SEN
timents. But how one wearing EpiscC-
pal honors, how q minister of Him
who came 10 seek and TO save tn t
which Is lost, hOW even a man claim
ing TO be simply philanthropist
could hold views like these | am no,
able to say.
"rhe Bishops position is this: The
working man comes home tired; be
needs cOmpanionship and recreation; ;
home Is unattractive, there are no
pictures, no music, no carpet; there
are peevish and squalling children
and a cross and nntidY wife; the sa-
loon is open to him, there are light,
heat, pictures, music, companionship,
and there he is welcomed and enter
tanned. The saloon meets his wants
and so it is necessity and the saloon
keeper is his best friend.
well, there is nothing new in
this. We have heard it before. The
startling thing is it comes from a
great American churchman and not
from the orator OF Liquor Dealers
Association. But how false is the DO
sition! True is it that the working
man needs recreation, that he may 20
back to his work on the morrow re-
freshed 10 body, quickened in mind
and better fitted for his daily calling.
That is recreation. creating over his
wasted energies. 1t is not dissip ton,
the scattering of the forces that
kind nature has provided.
"The best thing have seen in an
swer to the learned Bishop came
from Father Doyle, the editor of the
Catholic World. sm glad to read
such utterances from Roman Cath
olic. Perhaps you have read his
works. He says: There is great
deal OF maudIin talk these days about
the saloon being the poor mans club.
In the name of the poor but honest
workman, resent such an imputa-
ton. The saloon has been a club in
deed to beat the brains from too many
a poor fellow in intOXtcation a club
to knock the money from his pocket
that should have gone tor the clothing
of his family and the feeding OF his
children; club to level him to the
earth again when be would try to
rise to honest and independent man
hood. There may be laid at the doors
of the saloons of this city too much of
the degradation of mankind, 100 much
of the prostitution OF womanhood and
too much of the damnation of child
hood for a dignified churchman to
stand forth and apologize for their ex-
istence or to give them countensnce
in their law -defying ways"
Rev. Coils here indorsed with
highest praise the above. Continuing
Rev. Coils said:
ooh, the curse of our land is the
saloon. 1t debsuches our men, it
ruins our boys, it breaks the hearts of
mothers and fathers and wives, it fos-
ters gambling and prostitution, It lis