Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-13

w. c. /. U. COLUMN.

The most talked of man in America
today Is Anurew Carnegie and whilst
h he say is not lnIal.iDle, yet wnen
he speaks people usuany listen. In an
address before a railroad \. M. &. a.
recently, he SAID; A drinking man
should have no place In a railway sys.
tem.' This remark, whist neither Or
lgInal nor brilliant, has a certain value
of It's truth n because the
canny Scotchman said it. He might
have ADDED, The drinking man has no
pace anywhere least of ali in the
home, yet the drinking man is u the
finished product OF the sa4oon, ana
there is a certain incongruity in ostra-
cising the drinking man and support
ing the institution which made him
thus, which the american public is not
SLOW to observe.
The Chicago American, in n of its
editorials quite lateiy, calls attention
to the laughter and gibes INDUCED in
by persons when a drunk man staggers
along the street and comments thus:
THE sight of a drunken man going
home should make every other man
and woman sad and sympathetic n
horrible as the sight is, it hould be
useful by inspiring those who see 1t
with a resolution to avoid the drink
habit, and help others to avoid it"
Now a good way to help others avoid
this terrible curse and avoid it our
selves is to do away with the factories
which make drunkards, viz, the legal
lied dram shops" For the past few
years the Chicago Tribune has each
year published a statement regarding
crimes of violence in the United
States. This report is based upon
what the news dispatches bring to the
Tribune office. According to Tribune
figures, in the rear 1901 there were
$40 murders committed as the direct
outcome of drink. The same statistics
give 4.646 murders as the outcome of
quarrels. 1t is a matter of common
knowledge hat few quarrels end in
murder when the principals are both
sober, but accepting the more con-
servative figures, $40 murders stand as
a charge of appalling blackness against
the saloon. The sale of intoxicating
drink under any regulation by any
method produces crime-makes muir
der. Murder touches us closely enough
at times. The whole country stood ap-
palled when a single murder was com
mitted in Buffalo last year, but how
long a the legalized liquor traffic
spatter the blood of its crimes in the
face of Christian and civilized people.
In the early morn of Sabbath day. Jan
nary &c, 1902. in the cultured city OF
Boston, Michael Kilroy reeled home
with pockets empty of money. His
wife timidly asking for money for the
necessities which were staring them
in the face. He answered her by a blow
which knocked her to the floor, and
choking back her cry for mercy he
kicked her with his heavy boots. Then
he sat for hours listening to her means
When her little 9-year-old girl. answer
ing her pitiful cry for water" put the
cup to her bloody, thirsting lips, he
struck the cup from her hands;
brute. Granted. Yet the American sa
loon is turning out such brutes every
day. No other agency has ever beer
found in the history of the race to in
spire men to such deeds except drink
Drink is preparing more Michael Xii
? roys. So many, many tragedies doe.
drink inspire that the public scare,
pause to note one, more or less
They are so common they attract NJ
attention. A remedy has been suggest
ed in socialism. tne idea being that tn,
love of gain is the prime motive of tn,
existence of the saloon. Socialism hat
its beginning in the greatest bee
drinking countries of the world ant
whilst it is gaining widespread inter
: est, so far 1t mas had no appreciate,
effect upon decreasing the drink evil
When socialism embodies in a practi
cal form the extinction of the liquo,
traffic, then will temperance hosts en-
/, let under the socialistic banner 70,
that is what we stand for-not regula
ton, but the total and entire annihila
ton of the legaliZed liquor traffic.
MRS. G. Il. WILSON,
, Press Reporter w. C. T. u.
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