Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-29
drank liquor.

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l know man who got drunk
and went home at a very
late hour. In little while his
house was wrapped in flames,
burning one member of the family
to death. He, himself died from
being burned and the mother took
sick and died very soon after.
know of good lady who is hav-
ing to work hard to support the
children of a man who got drunk
and froze to death by the roadside
too drunk to reach his home.
SALOONS BREED CRIMINALS.
In the rear of these 900, 900
drunkards we see another great
crowd coming. Who are theyl
They are the 100000 criminals
from the jails and prisons. In
the front ranks we see men
whose hands are crimson with
human blood. Some have ropes
around their necks; others on
their way to prison for life.
Every crime known to the law has
been committed by the persons
while under the influence of strong
drink. Statistics show that at
least seventy-fve per cent. of the
crime committed in the United
States grow, directly or indirectly
out of the liquor traffic. By OBJ
servation I find that not less than
ninety per cent of the murders
committed are tracable in some
way to liquor. It is hard to call
to mind a single murder where
neither party drank or went about
saloons. Go to the prison cell,
and you will find nearly every
prisoner will admit to drinking
more or less.
I am in favor of suppressing
crime as far as I Can, and as the
open saloon is a breeder ef~crime,
I am in favor of stopping the
saloon. You say this is interfering
with personal and inherited rights.
That is not true. The supreme
court of the United States has said
that no man has natural or in
herited right to sell liquor Or do
anything else that would be detri-
mental to his fellowman, and I
know, and you know, that there
have been some, yes good many,
good men who got drunk and COM
mitted deeds that would drive
them to commit suicide.
A man woke up one morning
and asked the jail-keeper 'Where
am II" and when he was told that
he was in Jail, he asked, "For
what am 1 in jail?' "For killing
your wife," said the keeper.
"Whatl Ny Lord Have I killed
my wife, the best woman on
earth? How, how did I kill my
wife?" "You shot her last night
while you were drunk "My
Lord! Take me out and hang me
at once"
Stop the saloon and you stop
seventy-fve per cent of the crime
Then the schools, colleges and
churches will have a better chance
to prosper; there will be a saving
of nine or ten hundred million
dollars to the people, for the
money spent in saloons is worse
than wasted. If there are any
old blear-eyed devils in town they
make it convenient too sit out in
front of the saloon on beer kegs
or chairs and make remarks about
every woman that passes his way.
The saloon dethrones reason. in
fuences passion and inspires
Grim of every sort and degree.
You will find connected with
houses of i'll fame, the liquor
traffic, as a feeder. No person
develops into a criminal at once
but the seed is sown and it finally
produces fruit. "Be not deceiv-
ed, God is not Knocked: for what
soever a man soweth that shall he
also reap: for he that soweth to
his flesh, shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to
the spirit shall Of the spirit reap
life everlasting, ''-;Gal. 6:7-8.
Sow whiskey and reap drunk
ards, widows, orphans, insanity,
pauperism, robbery, murders and
all other crimes.
A GLANCE UP THE STREET.
My brother in Christ, how can
YOU be neutral on SO great 9 ques.