The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-15
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The CURSE OF LIQUOR
Capt. Dutton Spoke Last Even
= ing on That Subject.
The HARM IT DOES TO MAN
The Reasons Why Saloons Should Be
Il Closed and Drinking Stopped-Tne
Campaign in Other Counties
in This State.

NJ. Captain W. c. Dutton, temperance
'slecturer and state organizer of the 1. o.
&c T., addressed large audience at
1.-the Presbyterian church last evening
he More enthusiasm was aroused than
was manifested at the preceding ses-
fsions
HI His subject was why shall we close
1.-THE saloons? Why shall we stop drink?'
He said: did you ever sit down and
think of this awful whisky business?
1 man buyssa piece of real estate, erects
thereon a building, fits it up with costly
machinery, stocks it with grain. For
all this he pays his own money. The
Wheels begin to move, and an internal
revenue officer steps in and takes full
control The owner of this costly plant
has no more authority than his mean
est helper. The liquor, as soon as it is
manufactured, Is carted to a bonded
warehouse and placed under govern
ment seals.
4 How does the manufacturer get the
whisky?
He buys internal revenue stamps.
goes to the warehouse, affixes the
stamps to the kegs, and carries them
away with him. The key goes to the
saloon, whose owner is under a five
thousand dollar bond to sell this liquor
to no minor.
"still many good people call this
legitimate business.
TN many states in our land laws pro-
hbit the sale Of intoxicating liquors to
confirmed drunkards. Nowhere in the
republic can drop of liquor be legally
ssold on election day.
with all these restrictions upon the
traffic, how can they consider this bust
ness as legal as any other?
Drink is an enemy of legitimate bust
ness. In 1897 245,S72 licensed saloons
t1ourished in this country. Over the
bars of these saloons passed 81 ,oo2, 500, 900.
What did Americas manhood get in eX-
5change?
/ Billions of dollars are spent in this
Country for liquor. What do the toilers
get in exchange? Heads like nail kegs;
tthroats feel as though they had been
swabbed out with a gooseberry bush:
a nice warm bed in Jail or in the peni-
Tertiary.
I'm 1897 $4,000 prisoners were incar-
&cerated in our penal institutions whose
4sdirect downfall was caused by whisky.
8 who spends all of these dollars?
SThe buns and toughs?-'- Those with
swollen faces, bleared eyes, matted hair
ftoes protrudlng from their ragged shoes.
with trousers torn to ribbons and coat
tied with string to hide the other gar
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the Woodworking man, who tolls from
the rising to the setting sun, who sup
ports the saloons.
Down in Jefferson, of your own
state there We're nine saloons.
"a Good Templars' lodge was organ
lied.
1.-THE saloon men laughed and pre-
dicted it's early death.
''These good people held fast with
logged determination-the saloons are
gone-the lodge is still there. Carbon
ado had no saloon last September.
These are the only towns in Montana
that can make such proud boast.
IF the workingmen of this nation
would deposit for 60 days the money
spent for liquor they could purchase
the Pullman plant
During the great railroad strike in
Chicago the workmen paraded the
streets carrying banners with this in
scription: Our children cry for bread
That afternoon they went to picnic
and drank 1,400 kegs of beer.
1.-THE people are kicking about hard
times, but they can always find money
to buy whisky.
"Some fellows go to saloon and
sing and dance and have a glorious
good time. but hell is turned loose
when he goes home to his wife and
babies.
The day will come when the people
demon. drink. Our manhood is asleep.
while it's boys are plunging downward
in the Internal light and glare of the
hell holes. They stagger home. tumble
with the night key, reel upstairs and
fall in drunken stupor on the bed.
IAN awful awakening is bound to
come. Let us lift the drunken wretches
from the gutter and restore them to
family, friends and society. The mod
crate drinker in his little boat is float
ing down the smooth current of slug
gish stream The stream gathers force
and carries him over the cataract, and
he can do but little to stave off his i'm
pending doom. Thousands have gone
before. Take warning. Sign the
pledge. You have everything to win
nothing to lose
At the close of the service many ad-
ditional signatures were attached tC
the total abstinence pledge.
Captain Dutton will again speak to-
morrow evening at s o'clock in the
Presbyterian church.