Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09
or DEsTRucr1on]
now YOUNG Men ana Womcn are
Swallowed up In 1.-THE saloon il
the Root of Evil.

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NOW YOUNG Men ana womcn are
swallowed up In 1.-THE saloon il |
the Root of Evil.
A whirlpool is to be avoided and
many q time has the good swimmer
been caught and carried down to rise
no more alive. A city with all the at
trations. full of fast life and rapid at
fractions. fast life, rapid movements.
giddy whirls, men and women of adj
venture, with the degrading. influence
OF the saloon back of it all. will form
a whirlpool difficult and dangerous to
pass over. Parents as rule wish only
the best for their children, they there
fore rear them in purity, throwing
around them every protection posi-
bles giving them every advantage OF
an education and moral cultivation.
One after another reaches his majori-
~ and seeks a place in the world for
himself. The city must be visited and
there he finds world OF information
and many new experiences. He has
often read about city life, but now he
Is in the whirlpool and begins 10 feel
the stormy effect upon his unprotected
life.
With little fear and trembling be
ventures to take sip of every cup OF
pleasure. After first taste he says to
himself. what is taste to a full meal
of such rich pleaSure-not to think for
moment that he is coming close to
the whirlpool of death. And at the
same time training and education and
the apprehensions that I'll the souls OF
his parents as they wait for encour-
aging returns. But the word comes.
after while that the boy, or 1t may
be the daughter, is not following out
the plan of life given by humble hon.
est parents. And it goes from bad to
worse until the child upon whom had
been bestowed so much care In early
life has now become entaugled with
the sins and crimes of city life. They
came too near the whirlpool and were
carried down with no power to resist.
Parents everywhere are afraid TO let go
OF their children, because of these aw-
full results
| Now a city governed with big eye
of respect FOR the saloon interests,
where the places of vice and crime are
open Sunday and Monday, will be a
whirlpool and a danger to those who
are not positive In their mind and
| character toward evil Young people
come to the city and are soon caught
| In the gay whirl Of pleasure and sin.
Poor frail human nature has an easy
connection with these criminal rela-
| tons and it is high time to assist the
parents in the protection OF their chill
ltyI Il Ncof hut
have been the greatest source OF trou-
bic to every nation.
| The saloon, the brothel and the card
| table are the acknowledged leading
| evils of the day but the saloon in
duces everything that Is vile and wick
ed, making all other evils "a hundred
| fold more wicked than IL would other
| wise. In the time OF city riots the sa-
| loon must always be closed because of
the danger of multiplied troubles and
| frlghtful extravagances which will
surely occur when men are intoxicat-
| ed. Why not then close them for all
time? And IL you are so alarmed at
| the sight OF a mad dog why be so easy
about an evil that contains hell and
destruction for multitudes of otherwise
| good and useful members of society
Consistency thou are a Jewel" but l
don't see the jewel.
But go to church and be religious
pray off a book or otherwise-have re-
| ligion, but be as weak as water and
court votes by unlawful means, and
help TO elect a man who favors saloons
and fake hosls or anything else that
will, bring the money 20 town, even at
the expense of city honor and good
| government The man who helps TO
make this whirlpool OF destruction will
sooner or later go down himself. Time
will tell the story for every one. The
man that is not afraid to commit sin IL
already a sinner and needs immediate
| help.
Yours In the fight for sobrlety.
| c. C. BRUNEH.