The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10

CoNCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK
WINNING ALL ALONG LINE

United States Senator Clay Gives
Best Method to Use in Acquaint-
ing the Younger Generation
with the Dangers of the Saloon.
In speaking of the best methods to
employ to make the younger gener-
alton fully acquainted with the dam
gers of the saloon, Senator Clay, OF
Georgia, recently said;
"The Schools and the churches have
a great responsibility in this matter.
/ regret that the Church Is so open
to criticism on this question. The
saloon influence is SO destructive, uni
versal and insistent, 1t undoes so
much of what the Church tries to do
that IL Is little short of marvellous
to me that she is not more outspoken
against the saloon. The schools are
doing far more than in the past, but
not SO much as they might. The pu-
pills should be drilled necessarily In
the knowledge of the effects of al
cohol on the human system.
Another important and sadly ne
elected work of the churches and our
schools is the teaching of the power
of clean ballot The people and the
youth should be taught that the ballot
/ is put into the hands of the citizen
for the making of clean, honest, state,
city and national government; that
| bad government, corruption In poll
| tics, is an impossibility, If the clean
citizens of this country Will use their
ballots as they should.
Viewed in the light of this me-
glect. the corruption of our body pol
itic to-day lies at the door of good
church-going citizens, because, being
in the majority, by the proper use OF
the ballot, they could remove the
guilty, grating politicians.
ANY minister or teacher who fails
to teach this continually Is lament
ably derelict in his duty.
''It is deplorable fact that the in
stitutions of higher education In this
country, the universities particularly,
are criminally, wilfully negligent In
pointing out the dangers of drink
and the power of clean ballot. SO
much so is this, that it is nothing but
the strictest truth when I assert that
our great universities are to-day moth
ing but institutions for the manufac-
ture of drunkards and sports. Not
SO much by the evil they teach, but
by the good they do not teach"
The Senator then related story
of how young man of his acquaint,
ance, gifted, especially brilliant, had
been sent to great university. with
: glorious prospects, came back, In lit
: tie more than year, physically, men
tally and morally ruined through
drink.
"Let the Church." exclaimed Sen
, ator Clay, pacing the floor with tru
Senatorial strides, 'let the Churcl
and our educational institutions bu
9 teach the curse of drink, but poin
out the power of clean ballot. ant
the future of this country would b
: glorious.
: "And mind you can't teach on
s without the other. The saloon influ
n ence is so interviewer in our politica
0 fabric that anything that means deaf
d to political corruption means the criI
h pling of the saloon SO that its recoy
@ cry is impossible. The saloon is th
,. mother of all our moral ulcers, is tn
= father of practically all existing poll
(. ical corruption, the hermaphrodite {
k sin. without the miasma from tn
e saloon swamp, the disease germs !
W politics would die. On it they exist.
Is do you know that the liquor lobb
e, in every State is responsible for tn
X. meagre amount of reform legislatio
)e we usually get, lowers the who
30 moral tone of the States legislator
~ in a word, makes political corruption
ID lists?
ly You'll have to excuse me furtl
70 err" the Senator said, good-nature'
in ly. "If some of my folks down In n
Of State read what I've given you, |
Is pect it will throw up some dust.