The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-22
The GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS A5oUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.

why Drunkard Makers Are not Entitled
10 the Respect of Decent Peopie-A
Prayer That Some Day tic Voters VIII
stop Rum Selling.
have heard all | want to hear about
regulating the liquor traffic. To my posi-
tive knowledge the pcop,e have been irving
to regulate the liquor business in this coun.
try since ls4S. What has been the result?
Laws to regulate it have only had the
effect of ntrenching still more strongly the
hold of the deviish institutions.
The Nation and most of the States per.
NIT the traffic to go on providing it Is will
ing to pa Il certain price That means
hell for revenue only. ] would be willing
to get up before my aud ience in America
and plead for prohibition but n-ver for the
license system. "To license the liquor
traffic is a sin. and | do not propose to be
one of the sinners who favor it. Ii pro.
hibition is unattainable, he next best sys.
TEN ls free liquor. No other crime against
the people is licensed except the crime
against God and man of manufacturing
and selling for beverage purposes spirltuous
and malt liquors
1t is wrong to steal. wrong to commit
arson, wrong 20 murder and the laws
say So No one proposes to license either
OF the above crimes. Why should not the
law say it is wrong 70 poison the bodies
and tde morals of the people and cease
to grant some men the privilege OF making
money by so doing
Low.license Is bad and high.iiccnse is
even worse. Judas Iscariot would not have
made his case any better If he had taken
sixty pieces of silver instead of thirty
pieces OF silver for betraying his Lord.
There is not en- )ugh money in America
to justify the sale of intoNicants to tho
people is beverage. The greater tho
amount 50 received the more heliish the
liquor traffic becomes. Men IN the sl!no1
business are no. IN Il Tor fun. Chtrg!
them 800 Tor the privilege and they de
mand our bows to get square with u,
Make the sum $1,000 and they want oar
girls thrown in.
Never in the history of the State of New
York was so much revenue obtained from
the liquor traffic as at the present time
Why? The Raines law has brought about
a combination between drunkenness and
prosttution-tha is what has resulted
from the existence of Raines law hotels
which were started Tor the purpose OF po
ltical revenue.
Drunkard makers are not entitled to the
respect of decent people. They are in o
wicked business. Saloons are an insult tc
the Holy Trinity: they are the foes ol
womanhood and childhood. | have no pl
thence with those who have a good word
to say in favor of distil,eIies, brewcIie, OF
saloons. They are a stencil in the land
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including sundays.
The only fear that those engaged in the
liquor traffic have is that prohibition may
come to power with men behind the prnci
pie who will enforce it. For that reason
ii for no other-l am IN favor OF every
State in this country passing prohibition
legislation and OF he people electing mer
who favor such legislation to make the
principle mean exactly what it ought to
mean.
While ] ask the miserable drunl:ard tc
stop drinking | call upon the people tG
do something better than to elect those
for Office who viii grant those in the
liquor. traffic anything they want if they
will only divide up the filthy lucre thus
obtained.
Years ago heard a gentleman named
Smith-a noted auctioneer-make a speech
in Newark, n. j.. in which he said that in
dream he had a conversation with the
Devil on the license question; and he gave
the Devil credit for saying that he was not
so mean as to grant a few devils the right
to sell certain drinks and then punish Other
devils for drinking them. or because they
could not stand the effects.
The liquor traffic is not fit for the region
of perdition, to say nothing about this
country.
/ hate the whole liquor business. and
my prayer is that some day the peop,e
will pulverize it.-Georgc l.. Scott, in the
New York Witness