The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1906-09-15
is THE SALOON A GRAFT?
Prof. Chas. A. ScanIon Shows II Takes
Everything and Gives Nothing

Is the saloon a graft? Charles
Scanlon, field secretary of the Presby-
terian general assembly temperance
committee, answers this up-to-date
question, YapXea-lite, by asking en-
other-and then some. Here are his
stickers:
DOES 1T PAY to license a traffic which
lessons the demand for the helpful things
of life, which increases their cost and
diminishes the ability to pay for them?
makes men less skillful, less steady, less
reliable; which lessons endurance, lessons
confidence, lessons credit, lessons the de-
mand for food, clothing, shelter and tools
~!s boEs Msifh II 1Sy ts wS5ff to- license traffic which
breeds idiots, pauperS, criminals, lunaticS
and epileptics and casts them upon soci-
ETY. to be supported by decent, honest, in
DOES If PAY to license traffic which
increases taxes by creating a demand for
almshouses, orphanages, reformatories,
police and criminal courts?
DOES 1T PAY to license thing which
that the government reports show that u
per cent of agriculturists discriminate
against him for using it and that 79 per
cent of manufacturers, SO per cent of
| tradesmen and 80 per cent of railroad Of
| ficials do the same thing?
DOES 1T PAY to maintain a national
quarantine against criminal and depend
ent classes from abroad and license ESQ.,
600 saloon keepers to manufacture such
products at home?
| DOES 1T PAY to support the families
Of saloon keepers and bartenders and pay
| their rent, taxes, insurance and buy lux
nes Of dor our mem IN ar 70 gel n Iew pen
! and license?
DOES % PAY to employ teachers to
upon the human system and license men
to sell a thing which inflames the stom-
ach, hardens the brain tissues. softens
ishes the blood, overworks the heart, re-
tards the elimination of effete matter,
dims the eye dulls the hearing, diseases
and muscles, the demand for which is
wholly artificial and when supplied serves
no DSgs eSes pfHFpqpsAe;Y " pAY to call ministers to
preach the gospel Of love, charity, hon
esty, purity, forgiveness and redemption
and license other men to engage in traf-
| fic which fosters hate, engenders strife,
ton?
DOES 1T PAY, to send missionaries to
the heather to point out the way of saliva
tion and from the same port and often In
the the. same g. vessel send them liquid damna-
DOES IT PAY to build palace for the
brewer, hire servants and buy silks for
his. wife and dress your own wife in rags,
family and finally send her to the poor
house and bury her in the potter's field?
| DOES IT. PAY to levy tax to support
| orphans and widows and license the MUIR
der of husbands and fathers? Does it
pay to license thing which is always
and everywhere known to be the enemy
Of everything which is sacred to God and
| man? Does it pay to maintain 275 life
| saving stations on our coasts at cost
| of a million and a half and out Of the
same pockets maintain 250000 life de-
stroying stations at two billions and a
half?
DOES 1T PAY to listen to the sophis-
| tries and falsehoods of passion, prejudice,
| ignorance appetite and greed and close
our ears to the voice of conscience, rea-
son judgment, suffering, religion and
God?
If these things do not pay, does it
pay to continue to hate the saloon, to
curse it from platform and pulpit and
through the press and to pray for it's
overthrow in secret, at the family al
tar and in the prayer-meeting and yet
continue to vote with political party
which, when in power, gives a con-
tinued lease of life to the saloon? If
THIS DOES NOT PAY, VOTE FOR
CHAS. w. DORSETT FOR COVER
NOR AND THE WHOLE PROHlBI-
TION TICKET.