The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-08
REvl.D. DASS,D.D.
, WAN1SLlDPUT0N
STRIKES VIGOROUS RBAL
BLOWS AT SUNDAY LIQUOR
TRAFFIC IN HIS SERMON ON
SOWING WILD OATS"

Last night Rev. l.. d. Bass, ID. ID.
! another strong sermon in which he
attacked the Sunday liquor traffic in
Cairo with much vigor He said in
part
Every one may rest assured that
| his eternal salvation hinges upon his
Town will For whether we reap sor
: row or joy whether Of the flesh we
/ reap corruption or of the spirit rear
eternal life, 1t will not be our father
or our own mother, II will not be our
ineighbors. neither will 1t be Gods
; harvest that we reap-every man
must reap his own sowing So of a
, eli y or of nation. Sow cards. reap
gamblers, sow whiskey reap drunk
ards: SOW Sabbath breakers and reap
/ violators of the law. Your mayor and
city council are not fulfilling their
oath of office and are guilty not only
Of neglect to enforce a state law but
a city ordinance. You have an ordi-
nance upon the statute books Of this
city which reads: (Chapter 81, page
2733, section 553): Not to keep open
on SUBSEQUENTLY: If any retailer
of vinous. spirituolts or fermented LID
,uors. shall keep open any dram shop,
business on Sunday, for the purpose
of retailing vinous, spirtuous or fer
mented liquors on that day or shall
retail or give away any vnous, spirit
ucus or fermented liquors on that day
shall be fined not less than SIS nor
more than 500 dollars for each Of
Tense
Modern civilization has no more
pitable sight than is revealed when
brewer and Catholic priest distillcr
and Protestant clergyman, saloon
keeper and Sunday school teacher,
bartender and class leader stand
shoulder TO shoulder, voting twin bal
lots. and obsequiously supporting the
party policy which sustains this con
spiracy of silence concerning the hid
eous cancer which eating OUT the
very heart of our institutions. Oh
but you say you must not violate per
sonal liberty. How incongruous
seems this cry of personal liberty
from the lips of the saloon keeper,
and those who back him up. If lib
erty has fallen so low that her defend
ers are the class of men who debauch
the manhood the womanhood, VIC
l.t Stu tt,ts
and the civilization of this country
God pity liberty. The idea of these
Isen arrogating to themselves the po-
sition of special champions of the lib-
critics of this people is absurd, ridic |
ulous and nonsensical. But what is |
their cry? They say personal liberty; |
their cry? They say personal liberty; |
II was personal liberty that enabled T
The assassin to shoot dawn President
IL was civil liberty that
made him swing from the galows
'or the act II is natural liberty that
permits the saloon keeper to sell in
oxicants that set on fire the vicious
ust and wicked passions of men on
ought to pour his poison into the gut
er. and send him, If he persist in his
ibominable business TO Jail. What
= there left for us, Christian brothers
when confronted with facts like these.
lut to make our protest so loud so
dangerous and SO effective. that it
,annot pass UNDECIDED? bar keeper
n Cairo once said. Any bar room in
afro is a bigger man in politics than
N the churches in Cairo put together.
guarantee that the saloon keeper in
louisville, KY. found out today that
he lid could be put on. Gov. Beck
IN has appointed. mayor who will
ee that the Sunday laws are en- ,
orced. No man can successfully deny
hat as a class the saloon keepers in ,
his country are of the lowest char
cter. They are impure. profane, ir-
eligious. vulgar and often criminal; !
nd their saloons are like themselves.
\ no place as here-outside the
iothel-ls the atmosphere so satu-
ated with all that is vicious and r
rrulpting. Here one meets with the
Orld's fithiest conversations; filthiest
lctures. and filthiest souls because
ere congregate societies filthiest
Juls.
The saloon Is the stem around
aich cluster all the fostering vices
I the community. The saloon. the :.
rothel and the gambling hell walk
fm in arm, forming a triple alliance '
evil, and are always inseparable =,
the work of damnation. In fact. :
permitted. they always live In the
.me house-the saloon on the first .
oor. The brothel up stairs. and the
lmbling hell in the basement; but
1wever separated as to walls. or
ace. they know where each other
yes. and they regularly consort with :, :,
'ch other. inseparabIe in sympathy =
ID cooperation. and banded together :
1-f-T,..r fs..s avR natural affinity /