The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-01
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The Saloon is public enemy: the en-
emy OF the home. the school, the State, |
the Church. II is an unmixed aud un-
mtigated evil. 1t blights everything it |
touches. IN its victim, it poisons the |
blood, skaters the nerves, darkens the in
telect, sears the conscience, paralyzes |
ihe will, manaces the man and cunSigns
him, body and soul. to unquenc be ere |
Into the home it brings Idleness, hunger.
nakedness, discord, contentious, cruelties.
miSeries innumerable and unbearable.
and transforms this most sacred retreat
iniu Il hell on earth. Il throws its dark
SHADOW over the schools and the drunk
ards child clad in rags, cringes and cow
ers with degrading shame-the innocent
object Of contempt and scorn,-or seeks
shelter in the more congeniel schools Of
vice and crime in the slums of the city.
In the State, il seizes the sources Of pO-
litcal life and the channels Of public in
formation, and by liberty and boycod
buys and browbcats its way to power
1t obstructs wholesome legislation,. per-
verts the judiciary, paralyzes the execut-
i've, and defeats the ends Of good govern
ment II is everywhere the great power
Of evil, the sum of all villanies, the might
lest revoult against God and righteous
ness, the most diabolical ass lit on Christ
ian society. Like a mailed warrior, it
trampels under its horny hoofs helpless
women and children, and offers their
auivering hearts in sacrifice at the shrine
of mammon. 1t destroys everything
which Christian people hold sacred.
and. polluting the commerce of the
world, sends desolatlon and death to the
ends Of the earth.
THE AMERICAN ANTI-SALooN LEAG UE
has for its immediate object only one
thing, to wit the utter destruction Of the
open grog shops; and to aid in this very
important and worthy enterprise ali sects
all creeds and all classes are cordially in
vited and earnestly solicited to lend a
helping hand. The labor and danger in
cident to cleansing the Augean stables
and Staying the many headed Python
sink into comparative insignifgance
when compared TO the work Of cleansing
the political atmosphere of the disgusting
and soul-destroyiug business OF grog sell
ling, and Staying the many headed SER
pent of the liquor traffic. The enemy
with which Hercules had to contend had
no votes with which to influence public
opinion. and to corrupt the law makers
and those who administer and execut,
the laws; consequently his laboss were
but as boys play compared with the
Tabor of ridding the land of the many.
headed monster with which we have tt
contend.
TEMPERANCE STATISTICS.
According to a carefully prepared
statement by one who has ample Opper
tunity for thoroughly correct know edg
on this subject, we expended in one yea
for Intoxicating liquor in the U. S. tn
enormous sum of 81, POO, ,OOO. .OOO. Will
according 10 the oftieial report of the ACT
sng Director of the United States Mini
made some time since the entire col
money of this nation was only G04 mil
B0os of gold and GA of silver. So it
made to appear by the officials figure
that the American people spend aaaVa j
for intoxicating liquors almost the entiE
gold and silver coin money Of the natioI
And the question which now presents j
self and demands recognition and repl
IS. Has this nation in whole or in an