The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-04-11
THE ELECTION.

THE ELECTION.
BY = small majority the people of
Lincoln have decided that they prefer
strict regulation and progressive re
striction looking to ultimate extinction
of the saloons. to the experiment OF
prohibition. II will not be difhcult
for the thoughtful man to read in the
election figures the ultimate eiimina-
ton Of the licensed saloon. A great
many Lincoln voters last Tuesday
voted against prohibition. not because
they favored the licensed saloon. but
because they wanted to be in better
shape to enforce prohibition when it
did come.
Men say that AS long as whisky is
made ii will be consumed. but while
that is absolutely true. it is equally
true that the day is coming when it
will not be consumed in licensed Sa-
looms. and when the moral sentiment
of a community will make it 50 dam
gerous to offer il for consumption
that there will be comparatively few
who will venture it.
Some there may be who hug to their
breasts the delusion that this wave
Of Temperance reform is transitory.
stoned II may recede for time. but
it viii never go back TO where il
started from and even in the going
back il viii be TO gather strength for
a still further advance 1t is the in
exorahle logic OF events Already
more than sixty per cent of the area
Of the United States is dry territory
so far as the licensed saloon is con.
cerned. and the territory is growing
A vast majority OF American men
look upon the licensed saloon as an
evil. and they diner only as 10 methods
of Kidding the country thereof II is
TO be regretted tina, these differences
Of opinion lead TO so many bitter de-
nunciarions and to 50 much i'll feeling.
In the opinion of this humble little
labor paper nothing can stop the on
ward sweep of temperance reform.
Men may differ as to the methods TO
be pursued. but while thus differing
they have the same end in view. The
liquor traf6c is disease that has long
been co1rSing through the veins of the
body polite, IL can not. any more
than malaria OF typhoid be oastei
with one dose Of medicine, Ii will Ne
Quire n course Of treatment 10 purify
the system.
Now that the question Of the course
OF treatment has been settled for AZ
least another year The wSsewo-ker
humoly bees to offer = bit OF advice
10 those who have differed from il As
10 the kind of treatment best cAlculS-
ted TO eradicate the disease
II something more attractive than
the saloon can be offered to the work
ingnan the treatment will be all the
more effective II is not enough 10 say
that the nottingham ought not %
spend his time and substance in the
saloons The fact is that many OF
them do. Why not. while administering
the treatment. undertake TO offer :
counter attraction to the saloon. And
what better counter attraction could
be offered than q commoaious. well
equipped and attractive Labor Temple
wherein the worsingmen could fore
gather TO discuss topics that would in
terest and enlighten. engage in in
nocens amusen,ents in clean and NOR
ally healthful surroundings. and sc,
that comranionship which every nor
NAL man Graves and must have.
Such an attraction would be an hour
ly temperance sermon. = daily ohSecl
lesson in right living. II would de
prive every workingman of the excus,
that he has no place else 10 So
when told that he ought not TO so I,
the saloon Il will be y direc, appeA
TO his manhood.
The w2geworser makes bold TO 81,
that the Civic League could engSg'
in no better temperance reform worl
than to set behind the Labor Tempt,
movement and help the projectors o
that magnificent enterprise TO p0sl