The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-08-06
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
The VICE OF INTEMPeRANcE.
The Saisou 10 Not the work.ngmsn's
Friend. For It Kills More Of Then,
Than Does Any Other Killer Known.
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The Salsou 10 Not the work!nsman's .
Friend. For It Kills More OF Then,
Than Does Any Other Killer Known
Selling Liquid Dsmnation.
The saloon Is the workinsman's worst
enemy. 1t u trap to catch him on bis
way to work and on his way home.
While Mr. st. John was Governor oi
the State of Kansas a woman made her
appearance in his office. With tears run.
ning down her cheeks she besought him to
pardon her husband who had been ceu.
victed and imprisoned for homicide. She
stated that the State before prohibition
was adopted) had given 4 man the right
to start o saloon between her home and
her husbands workshop. The once sober
mechanic became a frequent visitor to that
resort, and in a quarrel he killed I man.
The woman claimed that it was the fault
she and her children were deprived OF her
husbands wages that she 20 much needed
After thinking the matter carefully over
and finding out that the man had sincerely
repented and was desirous of leading q So
Der and industrious life, Mr.. St. John par
doned him.
The toilers of this land have all they
can do to live in moderate comfort. They
should let the saloons alone for the sake
Of their families, If for no other reason.
Why swallow the clothes and food OF those
at home that they love? Why make even
more bare the cupboards at home! Why
make still more desolate the barren rooms
that shelter those who are not 50 well she..
tered as some horses are?
The workingman works too hard for his
pennies to hand them over to bartender
for that which makes him less worthy to
be loved by his wife and children.
The saloon says, Stay here until early
in the morning-home is no place like
this" Wife says. Come home; little Sa-
rah is sick and wants her papa" Which
voice is best to listen to and obey? You
know.
The saloon kills more workmen than any
their manhood. If there is any brutality
in their makeup it makes them more bru.
tai.
Men do things when they are drunk that
they never would think Of doing in their
sober senses. To strike a woman-even
If she deserves its cowardly. Yet men
do that thing when drunk and sob bitter
tears OF repentance after having done it.
But the tears 80 shed do not wipe away
the wife's recollection OF the sot, even Il
she forgives him.
How many mechanics, just about climb
ing the ladder that leads to easy street,
drink that which makes the ladder totter
and fall; Il Is so hard to climb up and so
When you fall down how it hurts-wife,
children and all.
The men who would successfully solve
the labor problem must not leave out Of
the question how to exterminate the sa.
looms of the land. II all the trouble con.
nected with the struggle between capital
and labor could be properly arranged to-
night it would get wrong tomorrow II the
present saloon system is permitted to still
60 on.
1t is not well that this country should
60 on half drunk and half sober. Such q
state Of affairs means quarrels without
number. Capital on a drunk stands for
oppression, and is thoughtless as regards
the rights of labor. When labor is on a
drunk the bosses are practically told that
they have no rights that workmen are
bound to respect.
Factories, workshops, schools and
churches are blessing Saloons are hell.
breeders and make more devils in day
than all the churches can make saints in .
week.
What keeps factory districts in poverty
Is the presence OF saloons which get pos.
session OF the wages OF the employees. All
flesh is fodder with the saloons, and what
belongs to the workers is appropriated by
the saloon keepers.
have not the power to describe what
the saloons of America take yearly from
the workinsmen. II could you would be
startled!
The average American toiler is too good
. man to be wounded and even killed by
the saloons. He deserves better fate.
Liquid damnation is sold by those au.
thorized to do so "for the public good"
But it would be "for the public good" if
every saloon in this country was closed so
tight that dynamite could not open them.
Readers, am going to keep on asking
the toilers of this country to keep away
from the salooas until I cannot either
write or speak. Suppose ask in vain?
Will that fact hurt me when / have to
give an account Of the deeds done in the
body?
The saloon is here, but that does not
make it right. The saloons ought to 90 to
where they belong, and that place is not
heaven.-George r. Scott, in the Witness.
One Minute For Brandy.
In the frightful tunnel disaster which
recently occurred in New York City, on
the New York Central Railroad. when
nineteen people were killed and forty-one
were injured the Dolice and firemen of