The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1902-11-01
HOME VERSUS THE SALOON.
Mr.. Editor:-
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Elkton. Md.


Truth for truths sake is evidently
an unknown quantity to many. For the
sake of ones own honor" is n maxim we
would like to recommend to the men who
are entrenching themselves in the posi-
| ton they have taken on the License
Question. that rum and ruin are the
very best things for the people Of Cecil
county to vote for at the coming election.
If it were only possible Ito call the roll
of the drunkards and drinkers in Cecil
county to md when and where they be-
gan to tipple'-and it would NOT be
under Local Option for the better class
of young men, what an army would pass
before us: what an argument ii would
he i'll favor of License. how proud the
saloon would be of its product. and if
added To it could be the roll call of all
the women and children who suffer for
'he comforts which the money so spent
would bring; would they be an increased
argument for the License voter?
The liquor business takes from the
people more than billion dollars each
year, and gives nothing in return. but in
fiictS upon the public an awful burden of
poverty and crime, and the dcbauchery
ol puDllt morals.
If our Local Option Law was not good
tthe one to he voted for is better, strong
err, why has not the Pulpit and the
Press used their utmost endeavor to give
us good Prohibitory Law and helped
enforce it. instead of openly or by mfr
ence weakening it? Where should we
expect to look for examples and help than
To these two mightiest influences over
the public mind? We do not forget that
many have done this in our county.
We Know too well that the Local OPP
non Law was not enforced as it should
pe' nut we do deny that there We're more
Speak-eaSleS' under it than under Lii
cenSe. and for the reason which Rector
IL. y. 'aStleman gives. it was impossible
To get Il witness to testify or n Jury to
convict. y man who will swear that he
called for, drank and paid for (whiSkey
under the name of Ambrosia could not
be expected to tell the truth if it would
incriminate his companions. II seems
TO the average reader that the Local Op-
tion Law was pretty generally enforced
III Hartford county. if clergyman could
not get whiSkey for his sick child, but
~ - not Just clear to us why the Pro-
'''ii''H VI inc county are blamed Tor
those Is or 20. United States Internal
hevehue Licenses left hanging on the
walls i'll Belair-whose walls The sue
cess or Herndon and Falls Church are
just the argument we want 1t is time
we We're getting ancestry for our child
relS children, if sturdy MARYLAND stock
VINO snail determine there shall be no
sale of liquor in our fair State.
Elghth-tenths of all the crimes that fill
our Jails and penitentaries-mor than
three-fourths of all the inmates of our
asylums are the direct or indirect product
OF the awful curse of rum, beer. cider or
ambrosia, or whatever name the drink is
called IN the place where the drink is
sold.
nave had men tell me recently that
'he meahest drunk of all is the cider
drunk.
Another evil and one of the worst be-
cause the victim is not RESPONSIBILITIES
,nat a man will as surely bequeath 10
MS children an appetite for liquor. As ne
VIII MS form. features. or any gift or
ulsease as the case may be. What a
legacy to leave them . In urging young
man to reform, he said 1T is no use,
was born with the appetite, it is in my
Diood, children with abstaining parents
no not know what they have to be thank