Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-12
THE SALOON KEEPER

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Wetzel County Prohibition Exec
utive committee:
Many hard things are said about
the saloon-keeper. The public
generally denounce. him as a bad
man running a bad business, and
that he will 60 where he is send
ing his patrons to-Hades. And
also that he and the government
and county courts are all in CO.
partnership, and 90 arm in arm
together in the business. Well,
what of all this? What are you
going to do about it? How are
you going to stop it? We had a
talk with a saloon-keeper and he
frankly said he was in the saloon
business for the money he made
by selling saloon goods, and that
if it was not for the cash he got
out of it he would not be there
at the business. But the Ameri-
can voter made it as legitimate to
sell whiskey, wine and beer as to
sell cattle, wheat or corn. This
saloon-keeper said no man can
sell saloon goods and not break
the present law, for it was made
to be broken like pie crusts. The
American people want it so. The
American voter is not responsible
for what his government does,
but he is responsible for what he
asks it to do. The saloon-keeper
says he he will continue in busi-
ness as long as the weakened,
sleepy-headed, CONFRONT sing
church members who 60 about
bowling about the saloon business
and maxim Ga long face when they
pass the saloon, because their boys
are in therein a place made
lawful by the votes of the Amer
lean people; the same citizens'
votes who are crying against the
traffic. They 90 right to the vot-
ing booth with the people they
condemn. Year after year they
vote with a license party which
makes it lawful to sell that which
inebriates, intoxicates, and puts
humanity down where the Great
Creator of God of all good can
scarcely reach them. Sending
men and women down to hell
through the drink traffic. A traf-
fic made lawful by your vote
Not the saloon-keeper's vote. he
is not in the majority. He doesn't
hold the winning ballot. The
Protestants, or church vote, is
over 6,261, 1893. These 6,261, 1893
are enrolled as communicates in
the Christian churches; men vo-
ters, not women and children.
You are responsible for the license
law. Are you as adherents to the
church and moral men of America
going to let this hideous monster.
the liquor traffic, 60 on destroying
the homes, destroying our young
men and women, body and soul ?
Why the very act of doing so is,
to say the least, unconstitutional.
No Legislature can barter away
the public health or the public
morals. The people themselves
can not do so, much less their
servants. The Supreme Court of
the United States has said so.
Yet higher authority is saying to
the American voter: "Woe unto
him that buildeth a town with
blood and establishes a city with
iniquity." "Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbor drink, that
putteth thy bottle to HIM and
maketh him drunken also, but
they also have erred through wine
and strong drink, are out of the
way and your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not
stand: when the overlooking
scourge shall pass through, then
We shall be trOdden down by it.
For among my people are found
wicked men. They set trap
they catch men. Shall not my
soul be avenged on such nation
as this A wonderful horrible
thing is committed in the land:
the prophets prophesy falsely and