The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-02-15
oIARKsBURG, W, VA, FEB. Is, 1901
MINISTER PREFERS SALOONS.

The attitude of one of AIorgantown's
prominent ministers on the liquor qucs.
ton will prove quite grinding at least
TO the fellows who are always lending
their efforts to the blind.tiger and speak
easy. in preference to the saloon. Blu
II shows that he has studied the qucs
tion to his own satisfaction and has ar.
rived at conclusions so convincing to
himself, at least that he has the courage
OF his convictions and does not hesitate
10 express them. lie deals with a situa-
zion, which, in his own words. is the
most horrible and repulsive Imaginable
a situation that the law has proven
itself powerless to cope with, and such
as existed here many years, the memory
Oh which is fresh. He has taken radical
grounds for minister and yet his mo.
tive IS merely to do away with great
evil for less one, as he himself express.
e. it. What action will be taken on hi,
utterances along this line remains to b,
seen, but in all justice to the gentleman
il must be conceded that he means fol
the best and appears to have the good
Of the community at heart.
Here is what he says and which is 60
ing to stir things up in religious and
temperance circles, especially in TEN
perence circles, since that element OF
the population can not reconcile itself
to the legalizing Of the sale of liquor
notwithstanding that Outlines improves
conditions and keeps the sale within rea
sonable bounds:
"We know that liquor is being sold
here in speakeasies. Everybody in the
town knows it. There seems to be nj
way OF stopping the sale which has been
the practice for years and will probably
continue until the end OF the chapter
he continued.
Il have always been opposed TO the
open saloon, but l really think that an
open saloon properly regulated BY law
in its operation would be infinitely pre-,
iferable to the blind tiger which hides
from the light where officers cannot dis
cover how they are run.
sThey sell to minors and every one
else. They sell to students who are FIRE.
quSntly drunk on the streets. The fac.
ulty could prevent students from enter
ing open saloons and the town could
make it contrary TO law for students to
be allowed in saloons.
This town bears ON every hand evi
dences that liquor is being sold here
The streets are covered with broken beer
bottles in every direction. Everybody
sees them All efforts to prevent then
from running have proven fruitless ~
the past and am afraid that they will
prove equally futile in the future.
''The revenue feature does not appea
TO me, but l think that on the ground
that the saloons may be better regulated
and the whiskey evil confined to proper
bounds with more ease with license than
under existing circumstances license
would be preferable. am tired Of the
whole business
For some reason the name OF the min
lister is withheld by the Morgantown
Dominion. which publishes the interview
but any man Of the sacred garb, who
has the courage TO tAus express himself
win also be found with sufficient sor,
of stuff to disclose his identity at the
proper time.
The suggestions and companions h..
makes are worthy Of careful though. |
freiudieed, he began to study This ques-
ton but at the end be strives at con
EMISSIONS Of great force, showing that
ne truth 81 the situstion sotusliy out |