Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-25
w. G. T. u. NJ.
RELATION OF THE SALOON TO
ANARCHY.
Continued from last lCeek.

lCIC ~ 1900
while discussing the work of temper
ance reformers, announced as its
motto: "War to the knife, and the
knife to the hilt." During IS years of
observation of and more or less active
opposition to, the organized liquor
curse of this country, l have been
many times shocked at the utter alb
sence of every humane sentiment,
and the utterly brutal disregard OF
; every divine or human law, or human
right, standing in the way of its pros
perity that has been evinced by the
| American saloon, both in its organized
and in its individual capacity.
Just now I have a vivid recollection
of the Rev. Chas. Haddock, a Metho-
dist Episcopal preacher of Sioux City,
who was shot down on returning from
a meeting in which he was seeking to
arouse public sentiment to the point
Of compulsory abatement of saloon
anarchy by the enforcement of law.
Shot down, not by a nan stung by the
hot gospel of prohibition, but by a
man who deliberately waylaid the
preacher to shoot him because he was
anarchy of Sioux City to obey law.
And to the everlasting disgrace of
| Sioux City it acquitted the miscreant.
(Arensdorf.)
This incident is also one of many
emphasizing the fact that saloon an
archy is of a peculiar and most aggra-
waited type. Under some circum-
stances we might pity the anarchist
of i'll Uniformed mind and Unbalanced
Judgment, of goddess morality and
perverted moral sense, the victim of
infammatory speech and sophistical
argument, and whose every passion
is set on fire of hell with duty-paid,
duly licensed whiskey, put when a
saloonist goes forth with prohibited
dangerous weapons on his person, and
with the murderous purpose in his
heart to destroy a man who is
engaged in the performance of his
sacred duty, secure in the conscious
ness of immunity from punishment
because of the power of the organlza-
ton back of him to nullify law and
debauch and t%errorize the civic and
| political conscience of city, county
and state into criminal acquiescence
with a form of anarchy the like of
] which for ~bIdcEness history fails to
record, it should cause every patriot
to clothe himself in sackcloth and sit
in ashes till the blushing blood starts
to his cheeks so hot and indignant as
to lead to the speedy and everlasting
destruction of the whole license abom-
nation.
That this is not a solitary incident
| of saloon anarchy is seen in the fol-
lowing part of a letter from a rum
seller, addressed to a gentleman in
one of our Western cities. He says:
"We will kill every preacher, burn
every church, massacre every mem
Der of every temperance society, and
all praying women, before we will
surrender our liberty or give up our
lawful business" The completeness
of organization, the conscienceless
methods employed, the vast sums of
money used for defeating temperance
egislatior, by the organized saloon
power of the nation, came to light in
response to a series of questions
addressed by a Nebraska brewer to
Harry P. Crowell, manager for the
saloonists in the Pennsylvania con-
stitutional amendment campaign.
NJ O-1--1n -, he Jatta~ coi6.EsTho
best documents for your work against
prohibition) are published by the Ma
tional Protective Association, which
is a Whiskey Poo Trust arrangement
and work, which will give you sam
pies of their literature, for religious
people, for farmers, and others. Make
your fight on the ground of high
license and Argue that
prohibition does not prohibit" He
also invited Mr.. Johnson to an inter
view for further information. The
letter fell into the hands of prohibi-
tionists, and Col. r. S. Cheever pre-
scented himself, with the letter to Mr..
Johnson, before Mr.. Crowell ready to
hear the inside history of how the
Pennsylvania campaign was won by
saloonists. Mr.. Crowell said: ave
assessed all sales of beer per annum at
ten cents a barrel. We assessed large
hotels $1,000, and they paid it, and
from twenty-five to fifty dollars on
all the smaller retail shops. Each
brewer vas required to solicit every
body he did business with, for barrels,
horses, wagons, grain, machinery,
drugs, ETC., under threat of boycott.