The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-20
THAT BOY OF YOURS
The First of the Four Lee
lures Here by DR..
Taylor.

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Street Methodist church last night to hear
the first of the four addresses to be given
by Rev. DR.. e. o. Taylor
Rev. G. F. Smith presided After sing
| ing My Faith Looks Up to Thee Rev.
Dr. Moment, of the Presbyterian church.
offered prayer.
Dir. Smith introduced the speaker, DR..
Taylor. He began by expressing his delight
| IN beng In, this the capital city of the
State and to meet such a cordial recep-
ton He said the scope Of these addresses
would be educational. Being here under
the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League
movement the desire was to begin here
and now with the campaign of education
to be hereafter carried on.
DR.. Taylor gave the subjects of the
lectures for tonight and Saturday night.
and entered at once upon the consider
alton OF the topic before him THAT Boy
OF Yours" The most beautiful thing In the
world is a girl-the greatest conundrum
IS boy. The anarchists, the gamblers
understand the value of the business
principle of looking after the boy. The
saloon man understands it. He knows
the tide of temperance is rising and he
seeks to reach the boy, and therefore
free beer tickets are here and there given
away to them. The saloon men are just
as systematic and thorough in their work
OF making drinkers as other business in
this country are in creating their Gus
toners
1t Is perfectly plain that the scale of
crime has been rapidly getting lower IN
age ratio In the past twenty-five years.
He had read only a little ago of a 10
year-old boy holding up and robbing a
postmaster in Indian Territory, and lit
tie later of fifty-five boys of about that
age convicted of crimes being sent out on
one train to reformatories in adjoining
States.
1t was a demonstrated fact that SO out
of every 100 child criminals were children
of drinking parents. And that the sa-
loon was the most potential factor or
agency in creating boy criminals.
1t was not the purpose of the govern
ment to make money out of the drinking
habit of its citizens. It's great purpose ls
to make citizens.
There is such a thing as manhood IN
Raleigh but remember the more liquor
you have the less manhood you have.
Twenty-Five years ago the boy drunkard
was almost unknown, but today they are
to be found everywhere. nifty years ago
the tobacco habit was formed; between
twenty-five and thirty years OF age. To-
day it IS formed between five and ten
years of age. No boy that uses tobacco
can have a good memory. He cannot re
tain the things necessary to weil-devel-
oped education.
Four girls are graduating to one boy.
The ballot is in the hands Of the men.
The ballot therefore is not in the hands
of our most intelligent citizens.
The agency most dominant in the use
of tobacco is the saloon.
We put the iron heel of ostracism on
the poor woman that falls. but lift it off
the young man. Why the difference?
What right have we to discriminate?
Until we treat the young man as we do
the woman we may not hope to lessen the
60 per cent. that are guilty of the social
evil
The want of obedience to law in the
home accounts for the increase IN crime.
Ii life in the home runs low obedience to
law will run low
Teach the boy to spurn the cup from
earliest boyhood.
Here DR.. Taylor gave a number of SIM
pie but striking illustrations or now par
ents failed to enforce law in the home
and showed the consequences thereof.
The prophet said: Make two links to
the chain, obedience to law and legal pro-
ents failed to enforce law in the home
and the State forever.
Take out of the road legalized tempta
tion-the saloon-and save the boy
Tonight DR.. Taylor lectures at the First
Presbyterian church ON Microbes and
Men" He said last night he would be
glad to haves the doctors and druggists,
the chemists, the teachers, the students
and men generally as well as ladies to
hear it.