Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1907-11-16

gone out with their spe J. binders and
tried to show that the saloon is now
q legitimate business and that Il.
ought to be perpetuated. Havq
looked through the sunny Son
1t is sasurprising sight. Fhey
turning the jaiIs into storage h0UE
for cotton. Some persons think Ii
a shame to turn out from bHsines
all the men who are engaged IN tt
liquor traffic. What are you gOin
to do with SO many men who haf
invested so much wealth III this bBs
ness?" they say. ! ask you to lOd
at the heart-bfoken widows look d
the barefoot boys and girls, look al
the filth and dirt 10 the wake Of thii
business, then say you IL Is d shan.
to turn out the men who have en-
gagged in bringing about these terri-
BILE results? Turn them out and they
will find better business.
But 1t is said that prohibition does
not prohibit. Do you know we have
npon the statute books OF this State
I a law prohibiting murder? What are
you going to do? Remove the law
because 1t does not altogether pro-.
hibit murder? You say No. we pur-
pose to find the murderers and, II
they are found, to send them to Tren.
ton to be electrOcuted.
Put the things about which We are
speaking before boys and girls con-
tinualiy and many are bound to fail
before them. Take them away and
how nicely these boys and girls do
without them; how nobly they get
along without them. | simply re-
peat the text: Render unto Caesar
the things which are Cesar's and
unto God the things that are Gods"
1t IL our duty to render unto Cesar
the things which are CRsar's and not
a bit more and to God the things
that are Gods. You and / must
answer to God for the responsibility
that rests upon our shoulders. And
If you and l permit these things TO
exist, we become party to their re-
suits. l do not mean to dictate to
you tonight, but hope we may do
our duty this week. We are profess
ing Christians and, by the grace Of
Cad, may we do the things that are
right and do our duty to promote
better conditions in this country.
pray God that His wisdom may en-
able each one of US to see where we
ought to stand, and that, In the fear
of6Od, we may register our protests
and vote as we pray. May the time
soon come when the privilege 2lillll
granted to you and me to say
communities whether wet or dfy.
believe that men will go to the poi ts
and say, by the grace OF God, "dryR
that we may be able to take from the
way OF these weak persons the awful
conditions which surround them. We
look about Us and see the ruin which
the evil monster has left in his train.
Awful conditionsl You and l shall
be held largely responsible. May God
help you and me to put out OF the
you g mems and young women's
way this accursed stuff pray thatl
as you and come In contact With
men who tipple with it and say that
1t is right and proper, we may be able
to show them that their example is
the kind that for generations has
been sending men to hell. II our
fashionable women could realize thst
the only thing for them to do IL to let
the wine glass alone. Every day,
You and look into the maelstrom Of
this evil and see a fashionable girl
who thought that In order to get in
to society, as she should, she had to
be willing to take q littls champagne.
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