The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-07
Rev. n. S. RObIee Says That She Has
Aroused the Conscience OF KAN
sas. Should Win.
STRONG PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE
ore Kenosha Minister Attacks Saloons IN
Kenosha and Urges People 90 Secure
Some Abatement to Nuisance

Rev. Roblee, gave an address on
Mrs. Carrie Nation and her saloon cru
SADIE at the Congregational church last
evening. His text was "Woe unto
him that giveth his neighbor drink,
that puttest thy bottle to him and
maketh him drunken also" He cited
the Improvement that has been made
in temperance lines in the last IS years.
Intoxicants were used so years ago at
nearly all social and religious gather
ings. Lyman Beecher, D. D., attended
an ordination 65 years ago where S4o
worth of whiskey was used. kew. Mr..
Chambers attended funeral in Ph1la-
delphia in 1925 where only himself and
a deacon were sober. In 1872 resolu-
ton to prohibit minister from selling
intoxicarts was voted down by the
general conference of the NJ. E.
church. Great strides have been
taken since those days; for now no
member, to say nothing of the minis
ter, is considered worthy of place IN
the christian church who is engaged IN
the traffic or INDUCES himself. The
business has been driven from the open
place to the cellar, garnet or back room
and is placed behind screens. The
dealer is ostracised from good society
and is counted the enemy of mankind.
It is the enemy of man, because it cor
rupts his heart, enfeeb1es his will and
para1vzes his conscience. It puts out
the fire on the '.hearth; it empties the
table of food: it tral storms the father
into fiend, and dooms his children to
suffering and shame. Statesmen re-
gard the saloon as the worst enemy of
the State. There can be no municipal
reform until we deal with this open
sore of civilization. IF our republic
shall perish, it is predicted, it will fall
because Of the debasing effects of this
traffic. The trinity of horrors to all
civilization is the gambler, prostitute
and sa1oonist, and the greatest of these
is the sa1oonist; for he feeds and be-
gets them all.
What shall be our attitude toward
this evil. First. We can choose to do
nothing. We can say "the saloon
has come to stay and supine1y do
nothing. Snakes, snails and skunks
''have come to stay as well, but all
decent people try to get rid of them.
Second. We can sanction the saloon.
But what is morally wrong can never
be legally or politically right. A
thing is not right because perverted
taste and poor judgment say it is right.
A traffic that eats outEthe wealth, the
brain, the morals of the people, as this
business does, cannot be right.
Third. We may antagonize the sa-
loon. No one method will do it, but
''a1i at it, and always at it, will
drive this scourge back to hell. In
cool moments we say Mrs. Nation is
wrong, but when we think of the awful
curse the saloon is to our land, how it
eats out manhood, curses the home,
and robs legitimate business, we are
silent. Existing laws ought to be en-
forced or repealed. Prohibition pro-
hibits, as effectua11y as license regu-
1ates. License does not regulate in
KenosKa, because the men who have
sworn to enforce the laws do not en-
force them. We have become towards
in the face of this hideous monster.
Preach against it; protest against it;
punish it whenever you can. Mrs.
Nation is at least arousing the courage
of Kansas.