Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-11-05
w. c. T. U. column.
w. G. T. u PRINCIPLES:
Saloon Lamentations.

The brewers and saloon keepers
are putting up an appeal to the
sympathies of the people. They
are going to lose money, or be put
out of business or out of the way
OF making a living if temperance
laws prevail. The manager of a
large brewery, in fighting against
the passage of the county local OPP
ton law in Indiana, said, it is re-
ported: "This situation is a trag-
edy' Here is our own company,
for instance. If this bill becomes
a law, it will be only a question OF
a short time until we will have to
close down one of our plants We
have sixty-fve agencies in Indi-
ana with large,accounts that won't
be worth ten cents on the dollar If
we are to have county local option.
The law will throw thousands of
people out of work, and will wreck
an immense amount of property"
This sort of an appeal is very eff
fective with the people who have
no intelligence, and with those peo-
pie only. Men who are feeding
like the vultures on the slain are
calling for nor corpses in order
that they may not lack flesh for
their feasting. They whoi are
living and thriving on the weak
nesses and misfortunes of their fell
low men do not want their own
prosperity interfered with. Shall
these brewers and distillers and
saloon keepers be so precious in
our eyes that we shall allow a dis
ease breeding and vice-culturing
business to proceed in order that
these vampires may continue to
thrive on ill-gotten gains?
The pure-water system inaugu-
rated in Cincinnati the last yea1
has cut down the number of ty-
phoid- fever cases and thrown
many nurses out of employment.
Shall we 60 back to the old germ
laden water and compel the men.
women and little children of the
city to drink it in order that these
nurses may not lack employment!
This were royallycommendable as
compared with reinstating the sa'
loon business, because these nurs-
es, as a class, are respectable an1
and desirable citizens.
The gamblers, whose places are
occasionally raided, and who are
Inconvenience and interfered witt
in their business, very greatly tt
the retarding of their prosperity
might raise the same pitiful plea
and the lottery men, who would
like to make an easy living off thu
ignorant and inexperienced, might
join in the plea to be permitted tt
go on in the way in which the!
had come to be successful in max
ing money. But no sensible o
humane person would stand TO
the lottery men, gamblers or sa
loon-keepers as against the vic
tins whom they seek to destro,
at every turn.
When Christ was doing his di
vinely-humane work on earth, go
ing about doing good, it was
great interference with the plan
of the devils who besought him
"Let us alone" 1t was just this
and nothing more. If they coul'
only be let alone, they could d
their work and take care of them
selves, but it would be at the ex
pense of humanity, and Christ di
not comply with their request.
When Paul was preaching tn
glorious gospel of Christ at Ephe
sus, the idol shrine makers real
lied that if the power of idolatr
should be broken down, the
would lose in business and in gel
ting of money, and their mob we
gotten up to howl down the Son
God. And the %successors of theE
idol sellers are to be found in tt
persons of the men who wish
keep men bound in ignorance ar
darkness and vice and crime an
poverty and shame so that the
themselves may continue to NAL
money.
The more we think of it the mo
we are sure that it would
better to turn the horde Of distil
ers and brewers and saloon keeI
ers out of their vicious bushes
and set them to make an hone
living. If they cannot do Thu
they can go to the poor-hous'
which, to-day, are, for the me
part. occupied by the victims