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is the governments plan of raising revt

is the government S plan OF raising reFe-
nue. and the higher the license, the
poorer the estimate placed upon the
business by the government.
We are led to form conclusions as to
the good or bad properties OF thing by
the results it produces. Therefore, to
ascertain if the saloon is right or wrong,
we must consider the results. Scientists
everywhere agree that liquor, to large
extent, destroys the brain cells of him
who drinks it and therefore greatly re-
duces INN more nearly to the level OF the
lower animals, for to take away mans
ability to reason reduces him to brute.
The effect OF liquor on the physical nature
of man is equal to its effect upon the
mental, changing the strong man to
physical wreck, who is no longer able to
withstand the ravages of disease. So far
the results are bad.
The most effective OF all the results of
alcoholic liquors is upon the moral nature
of him who persists in its use. To prove
that alcohol debases man, we need only
to observe few habitual drinkers. 1t is
through the effect upon the moral nature
that the saloon deals its most deadly blow
I'd society. The family is the unit of all
society. Follow some drunkard home
from the saloon and you see result illus
trated as nowhere else in the world. 1t is
here that we find the most deadly effect.
The influence of the saloon upon the
family OF him who daily visits the saloon
is most degrading and demoralizing;
absolutely destroying the hopes of the
most sanguine by placing them upon a
plane in life inferior to that of the family
of the abstainer. Alcohol and happiness!
How antagonistic are the terms. Who
ever heard OF the Devil making happy
homes? Such thing is absolutely i'm
possible. God is the source of all hap
piness. For the saloon to produce hap
piness in the world is just as impossible
as it is for the Devil to make happy homes
for it is the DEVILS supreme power in
the world. How many homes have been
wrecked by the saloon! Homes change
ed from all that home means, all that
Cod would have them be to a most DESC
,itte place aud happiness Is foreign to
the vocabulary of the members of that
home. Homes where every act was
guided by noble ideals and where purity
and peace reigned supreme, have been
ruined forever by the hated saloon.
Flow many homes have been so changed
IN this county under the very observation
of those who will be called upon to settle
this question by their ballots. ] need
not point these out for all are familiar
with cases where men have been reduced
| from honorable positions to the most
| degraded, cases in which homes have
been broken up'and families made desti-
tute; even cases where the most homes
and reliable citizens of our county have
been degraded to the most vile and wick.
ed, and even reduced to such straits as tt
take human life. Alcohol wrecks homes
God declares that the liquor business
is wrong and therefore pronounces Hi
| Judgment against the busiF ess and thost
connected with it. The saloonkeeper i
not the only person responsible for th'
results Of his business. To be a keepe
one must have something to keep. TIL,
saloon keeper keeps his saloon. VIII
gave him the saloon to keep? The count,
court. Who gives it the authority tt
give men saloons? The men who vot
for the saloon, and every man who vote
for the saloon is equ ally responsible witt
the saloonkeer for the results it create
in the world.
am surprised at the position man.
church members and SO called Christian
take upon this ISSUE Some taking tn
stand that a saloon is prefe ,rable to
"blind tiger" and others tax ing the po
sition that we must have tt le reveru
Fetc. To my mind there can b no com
promise of this question. If he 'salool
is an evil ih the community, and ever
fair minded'H,an will coacede that it is
then it is the duty of the chuu IN TO figh
it in every hand ., a. -,
AS already shown, liquor DIR iaking i