The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
Captain Dutton Talks on the Evil
of Saloons.
WHISkEYTHE BANE OF MAN
After His Lecture 1O7 Men Signed the
Pledge He Will Be at the
Presbyterian Church This
Evening. ''

| Presbyterian church yesterday morn
ing and evening, and in the afternoon
! spoke to a small audience in the M
E. church.
In the morning he chose for his sub
| ject Are Temperance Societies Need
ed?"
He said in part: ''In the city of Dial
las. Tex, the saloons run wide oper
night and day, seven days a week
Across the river is the charming little
town of Oak Cliff, where the business
men and men of wealth of Dallas re
side. No less than 20 wholesale anG
retail liquor dealers of Dallas owr
homes Oak Cliff and, when in 1894
the people decided to try to open liquor
was circulated by the citizens denounc-
| ing the plan. Strange to relate, not
one saloon man desired to have liquor
| licenses issued for the town. This as
| founded the people, and when they ask
| ed these saloon men why they had thus
| fought their own interests one an
| sWered thus: I do not wish to have
my family of boys surrounded by the
temptations of the open saloon He
being in the business, knew what to
avoid to insure the safety. of his own
boys.
1T seems strange that the saloon
keepers would not be willing to see
the churches of the land abolished even
though they are, at the same moment
sapping the life blood of the church
stealing the very souls of it's victims,
not even respecting the clergy. The foul
serpent coils its Shiny length around
the pulpit and strikes its. poisonous
fangs into the hearts of those high in
power.
THE w. c. T. u. is doing a grand
work. 1t has accomplished great
work. One woman, 20 years ago. real
izing the awful grip the demon of
drink had on Americas manhood, start
ed out with little bar of white rib
bon upon her breast. She did nothing
but work, work. work, but she lived
to see the day when the little white
ribbon encircled the globe. Frances E.
Wizards influence will never die.
Il have come to the conclusion that
this giant evil can never be throttled
by party action. in politics. Some ear
nest religious workers have said: 1T
can be done in the churches. We have
no need of organized temperance So
cletles.' Temperance organizations
have existed for 100 years on this great
continent, and for more than 100 years
the people have been talking temper
ance. All these old societies accom-
plished something, as temperance SEN
timent originated in their ranks. Do
not believe that I think that organized
temperance societies are above the
churches in their mplishments-no
indeed The church is pre-eminently
the great civilizer and with it's spires
pointing heavenward. as an index to
the path it teaches us to follow: with
chimes O. TAI tn ra1
ifornia, indicates the increasing civil
ization of our great land. Temperance
societies are but stepping stones to
the church, and we should lead the
members to our affairs. The I. O. G. T.
and the w. C. r. Z. are powerful aux
iliaries of the church.
Where whiskey is religion cannot ex-
list, so we must expel whs1ey and make
room for religion. Whiskey and relig-
ion cannot mix any more than can oil
and water.
Are the temperance organizations
needed in every community? Yes; to
counteract the influence of the open sa-
loon"
About 100 persons listened to his re-
marks in the NJ. E. church Sunday aft
In the course of his remarks he said
that the reason the reform movement
made no greater Roadway was that they
We're not organized on a working basis.
The liquor dealers have stronger or
ganization than any other body in eX-
istence. They have local, state ma
tional and International organization
which is the most perfect in existence
to-day.
Why do not the reformers succeed?
Lack of union and cooperation is the
answer. A little town in the South had
three saloons and the people got tired
of them and held an election to GUST
them. What did a big brewery do but
send $40, 900 to that, town to purify poll
tics, as did a certain gentleman in Hell
ena recently.
If the reformers We're an organized
body they would bury the saloon face
downward, as the Welshman did his
wife, so that the harder they might
scratch the deeper they would sink.
What is the condition of temperance
in the South? Twenty-seven years ago
Fairfax. Va. had 56 saloons. The peo-
pie decided to rid the town of saloons.
The legislature was petitioned and
special bill was promulgated to drive
saloons from Fairfax township. The
bill was passed. the saloons went and
have not yet returned. At Camp Alger
the soldiers instigated the canteen. This
was in direct violation of the law and
the county attorney at once went to
Washington and brought the matter
to the direction of the war department
The entire canteen was confiscated and
the proprietors were fined $1,000
The speaker continued, giving an ex-
haustive analysis of the temperance re-
form work in all the southern states,
his report being most encouraging.
In conclusion, he said: why is the
lamp burning in yonder little home at
midnight? Why the pale-faced little
woman sitting there with the scalding
tears coursing down her furrowed
cheek? Her husband is entrapped and
in prison in the shiny coils of the fear
full serpent.
Il gave series of lectures in Jack
son, Tenn, a college town of 1000 pop
ulation and supporting 60 saloons. The
pledge was signed by 2,400 people, and
two Good Templar lodges We're organ
lied.
within six months the saloons We're
closed-routed by organized and sincere