The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-08-25
W. C. 7. U. COLUMN.
HOW THE TEMPERANCE FIGHT
Edited By Palatka Uulan.


WILL END.
Extracts from a sermon by Rev. J
F. Cowan, Boston.
We do not agree with our friend
the pessimistie croakeF, that the sa,
loon is here to stay, any moro than
we believe that the malaria which
Dickens pictures SO graphically in
his American Notes, was here tC
stay. We have cleaned up oul
swanps, and We can clean up ouI
licensed death traps. Scientists dc
not believe that consumption is here
to stay.
Fraternal orders that pay death
benefits are naturally anxious TO de.
fer the death of their members as
long as possible. Sixty four of the
chief beneficiary societies in Ameri.
ca exclude saloon keepers and bar.
tenders two admit them rs hazard
Gus risks.) There is only one such
organization of any size that has not
placed some ban upon intemperance
Two admit only total abstainers, IL
exclude habitual users, Ii pay no
benefits in case of alcoholic excuses,
IL exclude drunkards. This pro-
death and pain go together.
Army hospital statistics prove the
same thing. Geo. White, governor
of Gibraltar, tabulates such statistics
in the Westminster Gazette. Out Of
1000 abstainers there Were 40 hospi-
tai cases; out of 1000 non-abstainers
80 cases.
Never before were SO many hard
and irrefulable facts driven home
upon the public mind, convicting al
cohOl with the loss of battles. the
loss of markets to manufacturers
whose workmen are not sober, the
wrecking of trains, the breakage OF
machinery and the deterioration OF
the race.
In Paris they fed puppies on alco-
hol to dwarf them. In England they
have been doing that to their men,
as the investigations into the South
African war have revealed.
The sledge-hammer facts are be-
ginning to tell. Ernest Crosby, son
of the late A. J. Gordon, D. ID. says,
'anti-alcoholism has fairly become
the fashion speaking of Europe
where he has made special study
of cOnditions). thanks to the studies
and propaganda of such men as
Kraepelin, Legrain, SerieuX, Lee
grand and Others"
Perhaps not every one is ready for
Mrs. Mary Ii. Hunts prediction that
in 1903 the last saloon will leave
Texas; in 1909 the last brewery and
distillery will be banished from
Ohio; in 1916 the fire will die out un-
der the last distillery in Illinois; in
1919 the liquor business will end in
Pennsylvania; in 1920 the rum traffic
will cease in New York state; and in
1925 by vote of the people the MANA
facture and sale of alcoholic drinks
will be abolished i'll the United
States.
A few years more or less will not
matter; it is coming, as sure as fate.
What, with the quantity of liquor
consumed increasing every year?
Yes, and because the increase in the
amount consumed per capita is
arousing thoughtful people TO pre-
vent the worst kind of race suicide
that threatens us.
Do you expect TO reform all the
drunkards? No; "let him that is
filthy be filthy stiU. But in the
perfected hu,isan society drunken
ness III be quarantined as smallpox
is.
This is winning fight that we are
waging against the drink traffic.
IN SOUTH CAROLINA, a dozen or
more counties are in open revolt
against the dispensaries. Tillman's
dispensary scheme, after thirteen
years of history, finds itself in such
un intOlerable mesh of scandal and
corruption and the whole institution
| such a national stencil that a leg
islative committee is now trying to
get at the bottom of the mess.
While he is calculating regarding
the failure of Prohibition and the
multitude of speak-easies in Maine,
he sees staring him in the face, ac-
cording to the records of the inter
nal revenue department., about three
times as many speak-easies in his
own state as there are dispensaries
And more than that, nine-tenfhs of
these speak-easies are in South
have these wonderful Tillman dis
pensaries.
In the Prohibition districts where
there are no dispensaries, there are
no speak-easies.
There is one CLEAN of hope for the
distinguished Senator. He declares:
IF the dispensary is abolished, |
will stump the state for Prohibition
rather than see high license"
AS a matter of fact, under the new
constitution adopted in 1895. South
Cardinals limited to either the dis
pensary or Prohibition.