Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-12
AN UNHAPPY OUTLOOK.

and Walters Union, says the Toledo
(Oiio Times:
I'VE might as well look the situation
fair in the face" said Mr.. Sullivan
I'VE have the employers to fight OH II
side and on the other the prohibition
element with millions of dollars and
brains and prestige that we have not, and
we are going to get I e worst of it.
Through the South the sentiment is
tremendous against the saloon. In Geor.
gia everything is gone, aud | expect that
Alabama will go the same way. In Ten
nessee every effort we have made to stem
the tide against the saloon has failed"
MIR. Sullivan was gloomy over the out
look. Speaking OF the effort to segregate
the cooks and the walters from the bar.
tenders he said:
THE only cloak of responsibility about
this organization is the cooks and walters,
and now there are members in the organi.
zation who want to throw that away.
The only claim W have upon the labor
"S'N 10 biouSh Jul WdittIS anu
cooks, and the minute they are segrega-
ted j see the finish of the Bartenders'
Union"
A more complete admission of the UNI
desirable character of the liquor trade,
in all its branches, could not be devised.
If prohibitionists have a monopoly of
money, brains and prestige" it is be.
cause the God.giveu attribute of a clear
mentality, which endows man with the
power to acquire money and prestige, has
not been passed across the saloon bar.
The ~prophesied Finish of the B~artenders'
Union" will, we hope, mark the dawn
of better days for the members of the i'll
considered organization.
THE UPAs TREE OF NORTH AMERICA.
In Southern Africa and some of the
tropical islands, there is a tree called the
Upas, which is so poisonous that death
is said TO be the fate OF man or beast that
comes within reach OF it. But naturally
we are not to suppose the tree is cult
waited or its propagation encouraged by
the people or the government of those
countries. Yet in our beloved country,
the United States. a government of the
people and by the people, we have a tree
whose poison is more deadly and destruc-
tive to humanity than the Upas of South
Africa; and strange to say our govern
ment. whose function and duty is the
suppression Of vice and crime and the
protection Of the weak against the strong
and the promotion of righteousness, en-
courages the cultivation and develop.
ment OF this accursed tree, the American
saloon. Its poison is so deadly that it is
said hundred thousand men find death
annually through its influence, besides
making widows and orphants of those
dependent upon them and filling our
jails, aims houses and a~syluins with in
mates surely this tree does not bear
good fruit.
According TO a Boston paper Of recent
issue there are five times as many muir
ders in the United .tates annually as in
Australia, eight times as many as in Jap
an, ten times as in Canada, fourteen
times as in England and Wales, twenty.
five times as in Germany; Italy alone, in
all Europe, has ever shown a worse con.
dition than America, and that country is
improving while America is retrograding
in this respect. The number of capital
crimes increased in this country from
! ,S08 in 1855 to 8, 49, in 1904, and yet
only one conviction is obtained in Amer.
lean Courts OF Justice for every seventy
murders.
II our country was threatened with an
epidemic or plague which was in any de-
gree as destructive to human life as the
American saloon, every precaution in
the way of quarantine and rigid meas
ures would be at once adopted to prevent
its spread in this country and yet we
protect this hellish institution by statutes
Why Because of the paltry revenue de-
rived from it.
What folly and inconsistency then, to
license and encourage that which pro
duces 30 per cent Of the crime of this
country
But what shall be done with this tree?
Our Savior said Every tree that beareth
not good fruit is hewn down and cast in
the hire, and now the AK is laid at the
root of the tree. What is this AK made
ready for the hands OF the good people
OF our state' Is it not the ballot of which
we are so proud!
Surely the time is ripe tor some yigor.
Gus choppihg TOT we nave oeen waiting a
long tihe 70 ge' up a sweat as the late
oani Joues Saia ABOUT the man VINO went
AFTER a load OF WOOD OIL a cold frosty