Evening journal., 1907-10-24
penounees Liauor Irafio.

Editor THE EVENING JOURNAL.
The campaign for God and country
Tor Sobriety VS.. Drunkenness noars its
end. Will you permit an old resident
TO say few words? l can look back
In this town full forty years. AS my
memory brings up the names Of men
whom the devil Of rum, to my knowl-
edge, destroyed in this city during my
years OF residence here, I wonder how
any man who believes in God, in the
moral law. in the life to come, can
support the saloon. If l were to pub
lish the names Of the men, liquor sell
ers and liquor drinkers, who during the
past forty years in Wilmington have
gone down to shameful deaths through.
rum, it would shock the town. How
many splendid men. in all walks Of life,
from the mechanic up to the pulpit.
have been destroyed? How many men
have died in Farnhurst? How many
have, committed suicide? How many
have died IN the horrors Of delirium
/ tremens? How many to-day in our
lcity are a source of sorrow, OF shame
to their relatives? And yet men prate
OF the blessing CD, aye, the respect
ability, Of the rum traffic! l assert
that there is but one reason for the ex-
istence Of the saloon, and that is the
big money" in the business. Is it not
fact that. as a rule. as soon as a man
makes a pile" in the business he gets
out OF Il? Why? DO men give up the
dry goods. lumber coal or grocery bust
ness? No. When they grow old the
sign over their door Is changed to read
u. 4. Roe & Son, Dry Goods Did
you ever see saloon sign that read
y, T. Roe & Son. Beer and Whiskey?"
Whye
Now there has been a triumvirate at
work for the saloon during the cam
palgn. And they have dragged in the
labor movement, the Single Tax, per-
sonal liberty, freedom, and one of the
orators has had much to say OF Catho-
hcity, Now ! am a member OF the
Brotherhood of Carpenters. and as
labor man denounce the action Of the
labor paper in this city. The Central
Labor Union last spring refused to take
sides on this liquor question. The
labor paper bears the headlines. "Om- /
cial Organ OF the Central Labor
Union.' AS to the Single Tax, from
what I hear, its advocates state II |
stands against privilege. II stands for
the moral law. Where Is the harmony?
And personal liberty" Freedom has
been the cry Of some know some who |
are thus shouting who are such advo- ]
Gates OF freedom CD that they are ad- |
vocates OF the rottenness Of free love. |
Now some of these saloon advocates |
have had the unmitigated impudence |
TO get up on street corners and to |
preach in the press as to the duties OF |
Catholics on this saloon question. And |
they have had the amazing impudence |
TO try and tell Catholics what the
teachings OF the Catholic Church on tho |
drink question really are. or course
those who know those oracles OF wis
dom pay no attention Every Catholic |
knows that II all Catholics obeyed the |
church there would be no drunkenness. !
Every Catholic knows that the church /
constantly implores every man who
processes to be a Catholic TO get out
OF the saloon business. Every Catholic |
and for that matter every man familiar /
with the temperance work, knows that
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union Of |
America Is the largest temperance So !
ciety IN America. And in it's ranks are
laymen. priests. bishops and archbish-
ops. or course any business that pays /
big money" will find supporters
Chattel slavery, piracy, Mormonism.
opium joints. all find supporters. But
the citizens of our city. our country, |
our state. who believe IN God, in the
moral law, IN the life to come. who /
love this republic. the reformer wheiherl
Single Taxer labor man or any re-
former, win all vote to close the saloon.
The saloon and rum corrupt and de-
grade the voter. Whiskey and the sa-
loon drown the soul Of men. The re-
former IN any line knows that the
'boozer" is useless in reform. His
brain Is dead. In the saloon every /
moral sense is outraged.
A saloon in fun operation. doing a ]
good (?) business, say at midnight. is /
a type of the Internal regions or Farm
hurst Close the saloons by your votes. 1
men OF Wilmington, and then let those /
men who boast they win break the law
by starting "speakeasies." try TO do so.
We plain. common citizens stin run
this town.
A ST. Mary's Parish Voter.
Wilmington. October "a.