The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-27
LOCALIZED EVIL
NUMBER FOUR.
John Danner Calls Attention to
Some News Items.
SALOONS IN THE ORIENT.
Great Increase Under Am erican RuIe-The
Canteen Law and what the
President Told the We.
T.U. Women.

T.U. Women.
Editor News Democrat: In the
Cleveland Leader of February II, 1900,
1 saw among it's news items this
heading, "Whiskey a Curse in Manila"
The article went on to say: Captain
Frank NJ. Wells, captain of the First
regiment of volunteers, who has just
returned from the Philippine Islands,
spoke in the Garfield Memorial church,
in Washington, d. c., on Sunday, Feb
ruary II, under the auspices of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
on the liquor question in the Philippine
Islands. He declared that since the
Americans took Manila, four hundred
places where liquor is sold had sprung
up in Manila, while before the Ameri-
cans came to the islands Manila had
but three saloons. The F'ilipinos, he
said spoke we'll of the American SOL
diers save that he said the Americans
were bad people when they drank too
much liquor. Whiskey, he said, was
sold in the barracks at Iloilo. not over
fifteen feet from it's headquarters, un-
til he put an end to it by complaint to
the colonel and provost marshal. The
transport Indiana, on which he had re-
turned to the United States, he charac-
terizes as a whiskey transport, and he
said that he had unsuccessfully at
tempted to have the sale of liquor on
transports stopped, while in the Philip
pines"
1 have also noted in several papers,
that the beer sent from the port of San
Francisco, Cal, to Manila, since the
United States controlled in the Philip
| pines, would make a solid train of
heavy loaded cars with beer, 10 miles
| long.
| Does any one pretend to say that our
government has not got the power to
| stop the above named Outrages? 1t
would be a great confession of weak
| ness to say that we did not have the
power to do this thing. And if we have
the power and do not use it then it
becomes all good citizens to raise their
voices and use their ballots to con-
denim such gross immortality and
trampling on the weaker people who
would do right, if not seduced by a
great nation that processes to honor
God and love their fellow men as they
should.
| Any government that will condescend
of the people, must and will come to q
speedy and runious end. No man thai
is loyal to home and sobriety but must
confess that the selling of intoxicants
for beverage purposes is evil, only evil
and that continually.
Every dollar of revenue obtained from
this ruinous business, costs the people
ten dollars to take care of those that the
l.,
and thereby lawsuits and prisons are
the fruitage. No moral wrong can b'
made legally right by any tax or license
system. 1t simply gives protection ant
the appearance of a legal business
which God has condemned, and which
all good citizens should oppose. "Wot
to him that buideth a town with blood
and establisheth a city by iniquity," il
the record of the bible and no human
sophistry can upset this decree.
In the Pittsburg Dispatch of the 1911
inst, 1 see that the canteen law is t
stand. Miss Anna A. Gordon and Mrs
Stephens, of the National w. c. T. &.
called upon the president of the United
States and in answer to a direct ques
tion from Mrs. Stevens the presiden
very clearly answered that "the opinion
of the attorney general must be accept
ed as final"
!, This government, as I understand il
is a government of the people, by tn
people and for the people, and tn
greatest good to the greatest numbe
must always be the policy to follow
Now If good citizens and temperanc
people believe that the legalized liquo
traffic is a degrading and ruinous bust
ness and the policy of "the powers tina
be" is to continue this wreteched bust
ness, the only thing for them to do is t.
rebel at the ballot box. No politica
party will ever learn to do right so lon
as good people support it in doin
wrong. Christian brethren of ever
name and all sects, and fellow Ameri
can citizens, what will you do to defea
this hideous monster and all politica
parties that apologize for this crime o
crimes? Let all party names be los
: sight of and stand for eternal principle
of right against might, and of the hom
against the saloon. To vote for prin
ciple is the duty of all patriotic citi
zens, to vote for party, whether righ
or wrong, is to be in bondage to sue
party.
Let us all be free men and prove
by rebelling against this great legalize