The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-10

will put his stamp upon him. The sa
loon is the great modern unmaker o
men. Men sometimes turn themselve!
| into an advertisement. They carry {
| billboard around on which is writer
Remember the Danbury fair" Ant
there are other men who walk oul
streets who are fast turning themselve:
into advertisements. The old marks o.
| the maker are being obliterated-tht
play of thought from the brow, insight
of destiny from the eye, and the manly
carriage from the step.
| General Booth in his work in tht
| slums of London has what he calls q
! system of elevations. Men low down ir
! manhood are taken in and graded III
by a system of training.
Our American saloon is a mighty
system, not of elevations, but of de-
graders. Men go in at the top and go
out at the bottom. You have noticed
how the saloon is made with different
sets of doors. Doors within doors. Yes,
and more doors than we can see. In
side that first door there is laughter
and the clinking of glasses. Behind the
next there is a staggering, railing man.
Open another and you come upon the
bieared eye, the besotted face, the leer
of fool, Penetrate yet deeper and you
come upon the hungry children and the
moaning wife. Yet another door, over
which is written Leave all hope be-
hind who enter here"
And what is the bearing of all this
upon the nations capital? Upon the
divinity of men? Upon those magnifi-
cent and unbounded possibilities of
soul and brain of imagination and
character of industry and enterprise
that are the promise and potencies OF
the nations future?
| denounce the saloon as the unmaker
of American manhood. AS the destroy
err of American capital, as the perverter
and destroyer of the nation itself.
In facing this great question of the
saloon we must take our stand upon
the broad platform Of our humanity 1t
is no partisan question. No question of
creed or churches or societies. 1t Is the
cause of all. 1t is the cause of the
great Roman Catholic church led by
the noble Bishop Ireland. 1t is the
cause of all Protestants. 1t is the cause
of every mother that prays, Of every
father that loves his son, Of every
young man that builds for the future.
1t is the cause of every believer of
Jesus Christ; of every believer in the
value of soul in time and eternity. In
our methods of work we must be broad
err, wiser and more united. We must
find a working platform, broad enough
to take in every man who believes in
God and man; moderate drinker or to-
tai abstainer Over against us is a
mighty commercial and political power
to the last degree. over
against it we must present an organized
under the leadership of our
saviour.
Then there are two great forces to
wield--life and legislation. The latter
the expression Of the former.
In my rural home some years ago I
discovered that the hornets had built a
nest just inside the shutters. My little
boy lay few feet away asleep on a
bed / knew what it meant to stir up
a hornets nest; and there lay the boy.
l meditated few moments and then
decided. ! went quickly and shut the
WiHuoN' IHeH Wdlleu Ill night anu
got a long pole and went outside and
just swept the thing down.
Let us shut the window; shut out of
our homes the influences that ruins our
boys. Shut the window in every posi- |
BILE way. And when the fullness of
time has come; when life, when senti-
nent, when conscience has grown to the
legislative point, then not with the pole. |
out at the poll sweep the curse from the |
and.
1t is a long, weary battle
"But right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win.
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sim