The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-04
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

The saloon n Robber--No Amount OF Rev
snuc Can Make a Business Lawful
When II Runs Msn--A serious Hind
rance In Temperance Work.
One Monday morning had occasion
to visit bank. writes the Rev. o. w.
Scott. The receiving teller was doing
business with well groomed gentle
man nt the window. As I waited my
turn 1 saw this man pass In a large
pile of silver dollars, besides big roll
OF bank bills. | recognized the man as
liquor dealer in our city. The record
was entered and the man retired.
A little conversation with the teller.
who abhorred the saloon, also. revealed
the fact that this keeper of local So :
loon had just deposited 500. And"
said the teller ''he probably took oil
this in on Saturday and Sunday
This. despite the fact that our "strin-
gent license law" provided and en-
Joined that no liquors should be sold
on the Lords day!
The saloon is a robber! The transac-
ton which l witnessed in that bank is
only one of thousands of similar in
stances occurring all over this land.
This tendency to spend their weeks
pay at the saloon on their way home
has led many corporations to change
the workmen's pay day from Saturday
to MOndqy. / have known some wives
of drinking men to go to the counting
rooms, and the moment their husbands
were paid OF secure as large a portion
as posslbl,, of the weeks income before
the saloon robbers could lay hands on
it, One visit to saloon often uses up
a whole weeks pay
A few days since | was visiting
friend In Boston. A drunken man.
whom my friend knew, passed us. The
man was a wreck, and was probably
less than forty years old
My friend said: There goes a man
who inherited fine business on one
of the principal streets of this city.
but in just few years lie ran that
business through and now works for
So week. After paying his weekly
lodging bill he lives on the rest. living
or the counters of the saloons" The
liquor dealer had GOT all his property.
and was drawing heavily ou his small
weekly earnings Yes. the saloon is Il
robbert
While pastor in Pennsylvania it
was carefully estimated by Il reliable
student of social science that the min
eral income of that State at that time
was S76,000,000, while the liquor bill
the same year reached til grand total
OF STS,00O,0O0. This the readers wilt
not fail to note Is $4,000, 600 more than
the valuation OF the entire mineral lu-
come (coal, iron, etcJ for that same
year.
The presiding judge of Dauphine
County lin which the State capital.
Harrisburg is situatedI has stated that
the county would be better TO pension
every licensed liquor dealer in the
county with $1,000 a year, aud have
them retire from business. than to ac-
cept their license fees and take thc
responsibility of paying the bills ac-
crulng (police, jail. court. relief. etc.
etc., from the annual license fees
paid by said dealers.
One of the serious hindrances in
temperance work is the consclenceless
act of respectable CO men who rent
their property for saloon purposes.
General John A. Dix held property in
a certain city. and was Informed by
his agent that he found it very diti-
cult to rent the property for ordinary
business purposes, but could readily
rent it for a dram shop. Instant reply
came from the General 1t read: Il
would rather my property should stand
idle and empty for all time than that
it should be rented for such a purpose"
Noble words and yet every moral and
religious man. every man wishing the
welfare of his community ought to he
endowed with the same sentiments.
Were this so the work OF redeeming
this land from the drink curse would
be greatly impllfied.-Ram's Horn.