Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-02-02
w. g. T. U.
BY THE ". G. I. U. OF HOT SPRINGS.
Thoueht. from the American Issue.

Thoughts from the American Issue.
"a jury in Galesburg Ill, censured
the city for allowing liquor to be sold
to drunkards. Who would they have
sold to? Would they restrict their
manufacture of human destruction
Strictly to new material?"
"You may differ as to the method Of
abolishing the saloon, but be sure
that the way you vote does not please
the saloon keeper and give him the
protection he asks"
~Our graudfathers said the abolition
of slavery in the United States was
impossible, but their IONS abolished it
and their grand sons ought to abolish
the liquor traffic." "Thrue for ye,"
and if they don't their great grand
daughters will.
"Poor Freeman Cochran, on the gal
lows at Bethany, No., said not long
ago, whenever you turn up a glass of
whiskey, look in the bottom and you
will see the shadow of this rope.'"
"It is now accepted as an actuarial
fact by every insurance company in
England (says Nh. w. s. Caine) that
the average life of a total abstainer is
nine years longer than the moderate
drinker."
Increase of Crime Already Under High
License in Alaska.
Congress repealed prohibition in
Alaska "because it didn't prohibit"
In their ardent love for temperance ~
the national legislature set up licensed
saloons. just how the congressional
plan for promoting temperance works
in Sitka we learn from a recent editor
ial IN the Alaskan, the leading paper Of
that region. It says: "There has been
more drunkenness, fights and rows in
Sitka during the six weeks of high
license law and the two legalized
saloons than there was during the
previous six months of prohibition and
nine saloons or places where liquor
was sold contrary to law in this city.
Before the new law went into effect
the saloon men were careful whom
they sold liquor to, and it was very
seldom that drunken men we're seen
on the streets. Not a day passes that
there are not from mi to six drunken
men on the streets and fights and rows
are common occurrences"
After Your Boy.
One of the delegates to a state con-
vention of Christian Endeavorers, q
young man, dressed in a natty rough
and-ready snit, every movement alert
and eager and telling of bottled energy
within, came suddenly upon a red-faced
citizen who evidently had been
patronizing the hotel bar. Buttonhol-
ing the delegate a trifle unceremonious-
ly, the latter said:
"What are you fellows trying to do
down atthe meetings? You are hot
temperance, / see by the papers. Do
you think you could make a temperance
man of met"
"No," replied the delegate, looking
him over from head to foot with Il
keen glance, tive evidently couldn't do
very much for you, but we are after
your boy"
At this unexpected retort the man
dropped his jocular tone and said
seriously: "Well, I guess you have got
the right of it there. If somebody had
been after me when l was a boy I
should be a better man today."-Tem-
perance Banner.
A Standing Menace.
The saloon is a standing menace
wherever it exists, threatening the
home, the church and all the best
interests of society. There is not
a good cause in the country that is not
antagonized and injured byit andthere
is not an evil that is not abetted and
strengthened by it. Were some disease
Pretty