The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-22

A4-NNSs GGDSloAll4cllJ llNCSt lilLlNESY COl~ lections are easier, and better classes of goods are demanded. There is de- mand for better classes of tenements and a steady growth in home buying. In addition there is a constant decrease in necessary taxation. Reduced court expenses, police forces, fire losses, pauper charges, diminished contagious and Q corresponding increase of order Illness and responsibility mark the ab- sence of public drinking places. With the passing of the saloon begins new era in school attendance, in church membership, and in everything vital to the American home. The saloon and the American home are incompatible, Whichever thrives the other goes down.
 No matter how high the license, no saloon system thert by rompensates the community for the unnecessary ex- pense it causes. It has always been an expensive luxury and cannot be otherwise from its very nature. To say nothing of the misery and indi- rect losses attributable to New Ha- vens 425 saloons, the $200,000 they pay into the city's treasury does not meet the expense they cause. It is a sink ing business of the most disreputabe kind and yet New Haven believes it necessary to her welfare. A saloon to every 300 people may be necessary to accommodate the large number of students coming from all quarters of the land, or to furnish places for still 1 letto drills, and pistol practice or to afford suitable haunts for the demlmonde and the gambler. But let it be hoped that the customs of New Haven are not like the laws of the Medes and Persians, that cannot be changed
 Recent investigations have shown conslusively that the disasters on our railroads are very largely traceable to indulgence in strong drink. A very careful scientist, not a temperance crank, has demonstrated and tabulat- ed the effect of single drink and of a succession of drinks upon the senses of sight and hearing, and upon the alertness and responsiveness of nerve. It is a startling revelation, and af- fords solution to many of the mys- iterious accidents that have happened recently.
 ! Perhaps the most hopeful feature of the agitation against the drink traffic. 1 is the stand being taken by employ CTS of labor. The economies of drink | ing and abstaining are being studied 1 as never before and the revelations coming from the investigation are most convincing. Corporations and employers of men in general are en- forcing rigid rules respecting sobriety 1 in the interest of economy, efficiency, and reliability They have the right to clear eyed, quick witted prompt cared, steady nerved, and resourceful service and are demanding their rights. Were all who employ their fellow men, to incorporate in their agreements the total abstinence clause, the future of American prestige in commerce and manufacture would be I established, and this appeal from American labor drunk to American la- 1 Dor sober should be our countrys mightiest. It would settle forever the drink problem. It would he true economy.
 Employees are often censured for lack i of interest in the welfare of their em- ployes, Few employers feel like put l ting forth effort and time upon men who bear the tag of failure and weak ness They know that when a man yields himself to the insidious infu- ence of drink, he is not his own. He becomes unreliable, and it is but nat ural that confidence, sympathy and brotherhood should be withheld Drink is the one great cause of social de- struction. Wipe it out and upon the one great plain of sobriety and respect ability, all men will become brothers.
 Now that civic societies are shutting out makers and vendors of intoxicants as undesirable members, and insur- ance companies are drawing the lines closer and closer aginst those who drink as risks; because industries are protecting themselves in the interest of economy; and public utilities are demanding sobriety as a potent safe guard of the public safety and com- fort, it becomes municipalities to favor them by all means in their power, and not legalize a traffic that makes their struggle doubly heard.
 New Haven needs to clean up in the interest of it's manufacturing enter prises; It's railways it's university,
 schools and churches. The city has extensive factories, but 425 saloons to hamper and burden them is a great railroad center but 425 saloons to in crease the watchfulness of the mana gers, and decrease the assurance of safety to traffic; has a great univer- sity, but 425 saloons to use every vile possible to debauch the students; has many homes whose hapiness 425 sa- looms are blighting and incorporating therein closets with skeletons, grim, loathesome, shameful.
 Better clean out all the disgraceful business in the interest of economy, responsibility, and true prosperity in maintenance of fair reputation abroad: in honor of our illustrious dead; in earnest of the influence we ought to exert upon the moral, intel lectual and material prosperity of our nation, because of our advantages to that desirable end. Let us see to it that henceforth no legalized pitfall in
 New Haven shall blast any trustful, susceptible, capable, young mind that comes to us to be prepared and inspir- ed for manly mission.
 
 At the City Mission.
 Mir Calderwood of Yale university