The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-04-28
W. C. 7. U. COLUMN.
us THE YOUNG MANasAFE2''
Edited By Palatka UniOu.


He is not safe if he drinks. There's
not a poor, depraved drunkard in
the city who ever dreamed of de-
bauchery when he took the first glass
perhaps at your table. The bright
est life has been blasted, the lOftiest
possibilities ruined by the curse OF
drink. 1t weakens the will, corrnpts
the morals, paralyzes the heart. He
| is only safe when he says: Never
drop shall pass my lips" The
dramshop is the enemy of the home
clothing the wife in rags and sending
/ the orphan children out into pitt
less world, changing happiness and
plenty into misery and want.
Political and municipal reform and
| the laws for their enforcement are
disregarded by the saloon interests
which have become, in a large
measure, organized anarchy, snap
ping its fingers at legal justice and
saying: Help yourself if you can.
The drink evil is the enemy of tho
church, building up barrier be
! tween the sinner and his salvation
| for you cannot reason with a man
under the influence of drink.
Man is an immortal being, and he
was placed in the world for the ac.
complishment of some high purpose
and the church in combating the
evil so regards the matter, and woulC
thus further that purpose.
Liquor is the enemy OF younl
manhood. 1t is the enemy OF liber
ty, transferring the brightest anC
best minds from freedom and happi
ness into jaiis and penitentiaries. |
is the enemy of virtue, fact wei
authenticated in the dives of prosti
tuition and iniquity.
Public sentiment has undergone
great change, as witness the chang
in Tennessee since the amendment
election fifteen years ago. There i
mot room enough in our country
state, or city for both God and tn
saloon.-Elder Geo. w. Gowen
Nashville, Tenn.
Will you help to make Palatka
fit place to make the young ma
safe?
If you do not take some part il
this effort against the open saloon
you are in favor of the liquor bust
ness or else you are, by your silence
silent partner to it.
A CHIEF OF POLICE TELLS ABOU
DRINK.
Chief of Police w. f. Wier. of BIZ
mingham, Ala, in addition to beln
good official, is making a record a
: lecturer. On the first Sunday i
April he delivered strong addres
before good-sized audience at tn
Birmingham Young Mems Christia
Association on Vices of the City.
He spoke on drunkenness. The lee
ture was not local one, as was eX
pected it would be; but nevertheless
it was an interesting and able one
He said that the first drink was tn
cause of much drunkenness, an
that young men inherited drinking
He said that the habit of drinkin
= was awful. Drinking, he said, lie
: to gambling, and gambling to drink
ing. Drinking includes prostitution
and prostitution includes drinking
He said that, while there may be a
: kinds of cures for the drinking habi
there was but one absolute cure, an
that was the Great Physician, VIII
must be sought by the young men
, be cured permanently.
A POOR INVESTMENT.
New Jersey has $50 saloon keer
ers, 1910 barkeepers-7 ,42C in all
busy day and night making DRUM
I ards and criminals, with 1922 Gle
gymen trying to cCunteract this ey
! influence. In Camden three cit
zens counted 1,205 men going into
corner saloon one Sabbath between
p A. M. and PM 1t is needless to as
why the men are not in the churche
Essex and Hudson Counties cOntai
more than third of the pOpulatio
d of our State Newark, the largei
city in Essex, has 1888 saloons, r.
. curing 800 policemen to make 6,3'
arrests. Jersey City, in Hudsc
County, has | ,02l saloons, $50 polio
men, 1913 arrests. The taXpaye
s maintain for these jails, prison
penitentiaries, >refOrmatOries, pOllt
stations, judges, juries, lawyers-a
requiring salaries, court fees, costs
prosecutions, etc. We well belieN
b what the United States Commissio
er of Labor has asserted, that fl
twenty dollars go out to care for /
results.-Mrs. Emma Bourne, Sta
/ President w. G. T. U.
LIQUOR ARIrHMATIC.-AN 0BJE(
LESSON.
BOY at the head of the class, VIII
are we paying for liquor as n
tiOn?"
$500, 900 900 annually"
"Step to the blackboard, my bO
! First, take a rule and measure til
silver dollar. How thick is it?n
O Nearly an eighth of an inch. "
~ "Well, sir, how many of them ca
= you put in an inch?"
Between eight and nine"
i "Give the benefit of the doub
. call it nine. How many inches won
q it require to pile these 100000, 0
IMP"
100 100000 inches"
,, "How many feet would that be-
y y 1888, 1873 feet
u How many rods is that?"
/ '505 $50 rods"
l. "H0w many miles is that?"
- II ,57S miles"
"Miles of what?"
l. "l,57S miles of silver dollars, la
; down, packed closely together, o
1t national liquor bill would max
s. This is only one years grog bill "
Boys, if you need facts about til
# temperance question, nail that to
!. post and read it occasionally.
70 would take ten men with SEQ
shovels to throw away money as ia
as we are wasting it for grog.-Chri
= tion Observer.
'e EX-president Grover Clevelal
passed through Jacksonville last F
n day. To avoid annoyance he we
a under name of Joseph d. Bryal
. hnf fharn initiating