The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-17
ANACONDA NEWS,
THE ARMY Of DRUNKARDS
4
Some of Them Give the Bible as
an Excuse.
so SAYS CAPTAIN BUTTON
The Temperance Lecturer Delivered an
Address to a Large Audience
Last Evening in Cohn
Hall.
so SAYS CAPTAIN BUTTON

- Captain W. C. Dutton lcctured las
I evening to a large audience at Cohn hall
In the course of his remarks he said:
4 q do not believe all the whiskey drink
ers are in the saloons. a great deal of
Z this is going on in the back kitchens and
pantries. The goody-goody people some
times do this.
. Drinkers take the Bible as an excuse
!. for their habits by quoting Pauls pre-
/ scription to Timothy: "A little wine for thy
stomach's sake Can you prove that
I Timothy partook of the beverage? No
evidence is to be found on the subject
to show that he drank.
The licensed saloons of this country
7 ii placed side by side, would make a
street $50 miles long. On both sides are
these hell holes, from whose doors the
lurid glare of the fires of the Internal re-
Eions shoot forth to trap unwary men,
Or this street we sec no school houses no
churches with their spires pointing heav-
onward: here you see no private houses
, for not even the saloon men want their
. familles to live near their saloons for
there they would be contaminated and
ruined. We see travelling down this street
an army of men, eight abreast, 10000, 900
moderate drinkers, who are on the broad
and slippery path to destruction. An
other vast concourse comes in view. i is
composed of middle-aged, old and young
men. who are clothed in rags. their noses
smashed, their eyes blackened, their hair
unkempt. On their feet are Shackles on
their hands are handouts. These are the
100000 confirmed drunkards of this coun-
try for the year 1897. A column of HUI
mainly $500 miles long. three abreast,
now passes. This column is 100000 wrecks
caused by whskey. ---
again l look down, and, behold, the
mangled, bleeding forms of the 10000 in
nocent victims of murderers, wrecks and
fires caused by whiskey in 1897 I see
$1,000 men in striped uniforms passing
These are the men incarcerated in our
penal institutes for 1897 They attribute
their downfall directly to liquor
Another vast multitude nears me as |
gaze. These are shrieking and raving,
tearing their hair and clothing. and, with
, their mouths frothing, present a fearful
picture. These are the maniacs who have
had their reakopwdsthgaaeds bygshea awful
curse, whisky sF8ftM aRoiEtfa Nstronp
they number and 9 their rallkE are con,
stantly being augmented, the new re-
cruits coming from the great army of
immoderate drinkers.
/ What is this coming down the street?
Why these means and heartrending sighs !?
This army is composed of the heart
broken mothers, with emaciated faces.
clothed in rags; the little innocent chill
dren, crying for bread; theyod men, suffer-
ing for foedzaII of stiiese! depehaents upon
the unproviding drunkard These are the
inhabitants of our almshouses: these are
our $1,000 paupers. left by the drinkers,
they must be cared fM by the sober.
THE saloon ia dbl trial forAts. existence:
the American pe9plesare. M1aSiury; the
time will come$wHen 4he A11itiry will decide,
and the saloon will be forced to close.
2 What do you hear I'll the saloon? Any
thing good? Only vulgar songs Women
OF virtue are there slandered by the foul
tongued devils-these lords of creation
Boys, it's time to change your hitch
ing post. Do the right thing and you will
never regret the STEP"