Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1907-08-21

srles Scanlon, + ED Secretary O.!
The As-ambiy's Temperance
Commitf,

(Sopy furnished by Her ysilsc " CT u
lfmore liquor Is sold where there are
no saloons than where there are. would
brewers. disiillers aud Wholesale dealers.
who own about seventy five per cent. of
all saloons. pay license. rent, taxes. in
surance, attorneys fees. contribute large
sums of money to influence The press. TO
publish and dislribuIe literature, and in
other ways To obtain license, all to Lessen
liquor men now be maiu tanning five ma
tionsl organizations, at heavy expense %
oppose all prohibliiory measures. if
such me isures did not interfere With
the trailer Would they keep an ex
pensive lobby at the national csp-
iial t. urge the re-. oration OF tie
can'een or army saloon, and to pr,
vents prohibitory clause In the Stat, hood
bill foi Oklahoma and Indian Territory
IL they were not financially interestedy
Are beer wagons aud speaks easies"
ana blind pigs" and liquor agents alone,
worse than all these evils plus the open
saloon? Do not the records ofhundreds
OF towns show that saloons do not lessen
these nuisanccs, but affords additional
temptation To drink and is the spawning
place OF the most degrading yicess
How do saloons help town. Dothey
make better fathers, husbands, sons or
hrotherst Do they make mothers. wives
and children comfortable and happyp
Do they help TO build up churches and
makes IL easy for parents TO keep children
in SCHOOL,
III saloons help business why are G rand
Forks, Fargo and Wahpeion, n. d.. better
towns in every way than East Grand
Forks, Moorehesd aad Breckenridge,
Mimi, respectively opposite the first
named, with only the Red River OF The
North separating thems
Do not saloons mean drunkenness aud
does not drunkenness mean less steady
and less skillful labor Do not sober
men work more and retain their earn |
lug capacity longer than drinking |
menl Do not life insurance companies |
gay that an abs,ainer is from 80 per cent. |
10 40 per cent. better risk than drinkerg |
Will not the business Of town be de. |
termined by the amount of goods which |
Its citizens can buy and pay fory Is not |
the purchasing capacity of man limited
to his earning capacityy Do not sober
men as rule earn more than drinking |
men, and do not their families consume |
more and therefore help business? Is !
the credit OF drinking man as good as |
that OF an abstainer, IL not whyl Do |
not all 20 itical economists agree that
the morals Of a bread-winner are fully as |
important factor in his value 10 the /
community as his physical and intellec. |
tnal qualitiesy Can man buy beer and |
beef with the same money? Who pays |
the license and ali other expenses of the
saloon keeperg What would go with that
money If IL did not go for liquor?
If ii is such a disgracefui thing to sell |
liquor that you do not want lo associate
with the man who does it, is il go d |
thing for you 10 vote for him to do bad
thingy If il is bad thing to be drunk
ard is il good thing 10 license men 10
make drunkards? If a saloon l. good
thing why those who patronize it de-
sire 10 be shielded from view by screens
while they do SO, and why must it be
kept away from churches and schools
and out of residence districts?
Is there anything in logic, morals, rea-
son, religion or common sense which
says that the church should throw down
her arms and strike her colors when sin
forms political alliance? If Christ said
he came not to regulate the works of The
devil but TO destroy them, is IL not
enough for Presbyterians that they be AS
their Lordp
Is il right to vote for a thing which O
decent man ought to defendg
Is not the license system the Strong
tower TO which the traffic doth resort in
its every time of needg Is IL not 1.-THE
revenue which ii pays" which is ALWAYS
mentioned by the "tiade"-w hich This evil
is on trial for its lifeg Is not license The
most da .gerous and deceptive ex pedieut
yet tried 10 defer or defeat he overthrow
of The traffic? liza thing Is so demoraliz.
ing tTaI il mus, be prcLihi ton SUNDAYS
and rirci on -si-l :. aIu 80 dangerous that
IL must be 70 hidden In case Of riots, fires
or other occasions Of great excitement,
ought IL TO be permitted at any timer
IL Mayor Jones In Minneapolis, aud
Governor Folke In Missouri can close
the saloons en- Sunday, Il IL not procfl
tina, other executive officers can enforce
the law IL they will To d. So?
l. he government more lea Gus of
revenue Than of justicef Shall pro
hiiit the slaughter of hnffsloes andJ
license the buichery of babiess Shalll
not The cry of the child and The mother
be poured into the ear of the State, which
is the ballot box. and the power OF moral
sussion be supplemented by the strong
arm Of the iawy Are the devil and his
nsrfoas weighing our Arguments or
counting our voiesg
"Shalithe throne Of iniquity have fell
lowsbtP with thee. which frameth mis-
chief By lawY"-- (Ps. "a; 20).