Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-04-10
TT E NEWS LEADERS MODEL
SALOON

News Leader ana the luleS- us
patch To give description of Il
model saloon, "such an one as they
approve and can commend, and
stating that we would be glad TO
publish the reply in this paper.
Here is what the News Leader
says
THE saloon may be Il nuisance and
il may not be. Ii may be an advant-
age or IA disadvantage to a neighbor
hood. a quiet, well conducted place
where liquors of good quality are
sold at fair prices i'm strict compli-
ance with the law meets IA public
need in many neigh oOrhoods and
localities. We are not prepared to ac
cept the doctrine that the drinking of
few glasses of beer or even of "A
moderate amount of spirits in itself
is n sin or "A crime or necessarily in
furious. 1t all depends on the con-
stitution and the surroundings and
habits of the individual. Milk is
poison TO some men and liquor is
poison To Others. \ man who can
not drink milk should let it alone
and the man who cannot drink
liquor without drinking too much or
having it disagree with him ought TO
refrain carefully from using il. The
use of il for him is a sin.
when Il saloon is conducted i'm
violation OF the law, when it sells
mean or doctored or adullerated
liquor, when II sells To minors or i'm
ebriates or drunken men or diSorierly
and immoral conduct is permitted
ON the premises or gambling is en-
couraged or Sunday laws and clos
ing regulations are violated. the
saloon so conducted is n nuisance and
ought To be closed. When an Install
ment house with the temptation of
easy terms and long payments i'm
duces foolish men and silly women
10 buy things they cannot afford and
then hounds them To death, il also
is nuisance and ought TO be closed
Almost any business can be SO con-
Quoted S To be "a nuisance, an evil
and plague. The liquor busine,
can be so conducted as 10 do no more
harm than any other business.
Everything can be miSused, prevent
ed, made n means of sin and wrong
and misery. We have known men
who ruined themselves and their
families by reading books, becoming
such infatuated book worms and con-
firmed idlerS and dreamers that
they neglected everything. And so
everything can he used innocently,
carefully and sensibly SO rs to avoid
harm and disaster and TO promote
the pleasure and enjoyment Of life.
Liquor, cards, dancing, the theatre,
tobacco, cloathing, books, the very
church services themselves, may be
so used or misused as TO ruin lives
and destroy the peace and comfort of
families. And any and all of them
may be so wisely and moderately
used as To cause harm To nobody and
make life that much more worth the
living"
1t is fair TO presume, in view of
the fact that the News Leader gives
its support TO the saloons, that the
business in Richmond is condL cted
strictly right, and in compliance
with the law in every sense, or at
least rs nearly so as is possible. If
so, many OF the saloons there have
been slandered in the newspapers. 1t
would be we'll for the saloon men in
other sections TO study Richmond
methods.
As bearing on this aspect of the
question we clip the following from
recent issue of the Times Dispatch.
statement OF the organ of the
liquor dealers themselves:
A SAN FRANCISCO VIEW
To the Times Dispatcrh
Sir:-In the Times Dispatch of
last Saturday appears an editorial
headed lis Every Saloon NUS
ance?" 1t may be interesting TO
know what the Wholesalers and
Retailers Review, a liquor organ of
San Francisco, says on the subject:
A man who knows the saloons
we'll cam honestly say that most of
Them have forfeited their right to
live.
The model saloon exists chiefly
in the minds of the editors of liquor
journals, in the Imagination of GER
tain type of ministers, and in the
mythical stories sometimes rehearsed
at saloon mems camp fires.
Unfortunately, the average tip
pling-house is place of ill-fame, a
place of shame and debauchery.
with comparatively few excep-
tions, our saloons are houses of
drunken men, profanity, and obsceni-
ty of the vilest possible type.
1t is no wonder that even in the
better towns of the Wild West, as
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