Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-09-01

A VOTE FOR A LICENSE PARTY
is A VOTE FOR LICENSE.
The Wesleyan Methodist thus COM
ments on the paradox of voting no in
local option contests, and supporting
an old party ticket at other or the
same elections:
What makes it right to vote against
license when it is the direct issue alone
and right to vote for continuing the liq
uor business when that issue is Joined to
other issues? We do not understand the
working of the minds of these men.
Nothing We have ever learned in psy-
chology affords any explanation of such
conduct. Specifically, we know that if the
Republican or Democratic party wins in
the state election the law permitting the
sale of liquor when the price is paid Will
be continued.
How are we to understand such men?
We unhesitatingly affirm that if all the
men who vote against license when that
the party that stands for the suppress
sion of the saloon the Prohibition vote
would increase to an extent that it would
command the confidence and the respect
GENTLY to strike terror to the vendors of
strong drink"
Oliver w. Stewart says: "a Chris
tian who votes the ticket of polit-
ical party that stands for the license
of the saloon. votes for the saloon.
The Christian man who votes for the
saloon is in need of salvation from
the saloon. The fact that the saloon
is a power, and that this government
is committed to it and to the license
of it, proves that there are thousands,
( might say millions, of Christian men
who need to be saved from the conse-
quences of their own acts in support
ing that policy
Prohibition deals only with the traf-
fic to protect society, not with the
moral act of drinking Persuade the
child not to go near the open well ii
you please, and trust that it will not
be tempted to fall in, but the sensible
thing is to put "prohibition cover"
on the well, and vote for those who
will pay you few dollars in license
money for permission to keep it off
from 5 a. m. to 1880 p. M, to see if
they can drown the child.-Prohibi-
ton, Allegheny City, Pa.
81 must live," said saloonkeeper.
81 do not see the least reason in the
world for it, was the answer.
A hog in the gutter. A man lay
close to it. The hog was sober, the
man was drunk. A passerby remark
ed, so that the hog could hear: "A
man is known by the company he
keeps" The hog got up and walked
away.
Righteousness exalteth a nation"
How much? When? How? Can l
abolish the saloon? How much right
eousness is worth while, or how little?
Every righteous atoms weight exalts
the nation. Every sin degrades it..
Which way does your vote count?
DR.. Louis Albert Banks says: "The
labor unions and the church ought to
unite for the destruction of the I'M
American liquor saloon. The saloon
is the spider and his web is American
life, and the overwhelming majority of
the human flies caught in that web
are workingmen."
We license a saloon that makes
man drunk; we pay policemen to re-
move the drunken man to Jail; we pay
the officers of court high fees to try
the prisoner; we pay big salary to a
Judge to sentence him; and if he COM
nit crime, we pay the expenses of
penitentiary to shut him up for years.
The money spent in the saloons of
st. Louis, Mo-, last year would build
1000 homes costing $1,000 each, put
$500 worth of furniture in every home,
10 tons of coal in every cellar, $50
worth of groceries in every pantry,
give each family bank account of
5000, and there would be $4,000 I'M
spent.
What shall be said of nation that
encourages institutions that clog and
fog the brains of it's citizens? Do not