The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-22

liquor men say. Give them a chance
on our boys and they will catch them
with free nickle drinks, and they are
gone. Will you vote for men who
will buy votes with liquor OF license
men to make drEnkards Of your boys
after they are elected?
Here is a case of appetite formed.
A great manufacturing company in
Massachusetts, recently paid their
hands on Saturday evening seven
hundred ten dollar bills, each bill
being marked. By the following
Tuesday four hundred and ten of
these marked bills We're deposited in
the bank by the saloon keepers of the
town. Four thousand and one hun
dred dollars had passed from the
hands of wOrkmen on Saturday
night and Sunday, and left them
nothing to show for this great sum
of money but headaches and poverty
in their homes. Well might these
men cry out to the State: Save US
from ourselves! And the helpless
wives and children. Save US from
our husbands and fathers on the
Lords day.
A greatprOfessOr Of an educational
school said if the institution saved
one young man it would be worth
more than the institution cost.
When asked if he had not exaggerated
a little he said, not if it was his boy
that was saved. 1t might be some
Of our boys who are caught m this
liquor trap and through our vote.
Major George Hilton said last
autumn at the a~nti-salOOn meeting in
Washington
Come with me to the home near
Los Angeles, Cal, and see what the
government is doing for the old
soldier. This home is in the most
beautiful spot that the eye of man
ever gazed upon in any land, but the
avenue which leads from the home
to the beach would make you weep
with shame and pity for your gov
eminent. Lying on either side of
this beautiful VENUE every day are
many men dead drunk, men who
fought to cement the bonds with
which this country IS bOund-and at
the home is the saloon run by the
United States Government, where
they are made drunk. Come with
me to the home Of 1000 of our sol
diers at Dayton, O., and see how the
government is manufacturing drunk
ards out Of its old soldiers. There
you will see q sign reading, Govern
lnent Knitting Factory 1t was
once Il knitting factory, but It did
not pay, and was replaced by d
saloon, where the bone and sinew
of our old soldiers are knitted into
drunkards. There they 7 fed more
than 46 barrels of beer a day. More
than $50, 900 of their pension money is
taken from the inmates of this home
annually at this saloon, and if their
money runs out, they are issued
checks, each good for a glass of beer,
which are deducted from the sue
ceeding pension. These checks are
not good for bread or shOes-0nly
beer. If they get drunk and become
offenders they are put on the rock
pile. That is the way the Old sol
diers are treated on their march to
the grave. When | think of the
government taking their pensions,
which should be a blessing to them,
back through their debauched bodies,
1 wonder that the soldiers all owe
this broad land do not rise I'D in
arms"
All this could be changed if think
ing men weuld take the proper steps
at the ballot box. This dreadful
traffic is 50 extensively tolerated b.
the church, the world, and civilized
nations that in the minds of the peo-
pie Of many nations, Christianity
and drink are 50 closely connected
that Christian AMI drink are con
sidered by some nations interchange
able terms. Especially it in India.
Many times have, the nations come
to the missionaries and said, 1--WE
have decided to become Christians
have you any brandy for us?" Why
is this? Because so much liquor
come from so-caIIed Christian lands
the two are associated in their minds