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


number of s1gners to petition t.
secure an election on the subject
and I would have it. and plac'
the responsibility where it belong
on those who vote for the saloo1
for it is either saloon or no ga
loon. As a christian you dom
have to succeed, thank the Lord
but you do have to he true and dc
what you can for the right and
against the wrong and you can't
be true and remain quiet and see
hell grow fat on drunkards-the
natural product of the saloon.
HoT-BED OF CRIME.
The saloon Is the hot-bed of at
least seventy.five per cent of the
crime committed in the United
States. Are we in favor of the
suppression of crime: Then re-
move one of the great causes. The
licensed liquor trafficl How can
we honestly pray: "Thy king
dom come, Thy will be done in
earth as it is heaven" and then
remain silent on this great ques-
ton? Let US come to the help of
the Lord, to the help of the Lord
against the migbtiest power for
evil on earth.
You cay we can never abolish
the whiskey business. This may
be true, and would be should
everybody be like yourself, saying
you can't, you can't but as I have
previously said, we don't have to
succeed, we have only to be true.
The thing we have to decide is
whether the saloon is right is e.
nough for any christian to know
about it. I have by study, obser-
vatlon and experience, decided
that the saloon is evil, and only
evil, continuously, and I have de-
termined to pursue the course of
the wood-chuck, and not of the
jay bird. One cold, stormy eve
the woodchuck lit on the window
pane and began to "hit-a-lick,
hit-a.lick, hit-a-lick," trying to
get in to warm himself. but jay
lit on limb near by ard began
to say. ''you can't, you can't, you
can't" So, next morning when
the landlord went out he found
the jay lying on the ground frozen
stiff, but the woodchuck was still
on the window pane, "hit-a-lick,
hit-a-lick." So, whether I ever
succeed or not, I have decided
with the woodchuck, to continue
to "hit-a-iick"- k"-and keep hitting.
Remember, we are at the lower
end of this street. considering IT.
for one year. What great army
is this we see coming in at the
upper end of the street? It is the
army of six million $4,000, ,000,)
people who are in the habit of
going to the saloon and getting
liquor and drinking it as a bever-
age. You say this is alright if
they do not make hogs of them
selves. This is castings refec-
tion on the hog race, for hogs do
not get drunk, and when men get
drunk they are below the brute
creation. Poor, miserable drunk
ardsl I am sorry for them; so
are you if you have any sympathy
for humanity. Yet if there were
no am-drinkers there would be
no drunkards. No little piggies-
no big hoggies. No dram-drink
ers-no hog drunkards, as you
call them.
God made man a free moral
agent.
Man made the Legislature.
The legislature made the law.
The law made the saloon.
The saloon made the dram
drinker.
The dram.drinker makes the
drunkard:S
The drunkard makes a demon
in hell.
Read l Cor. 6:1O.
DRUNKARD HAS BAD INFLUNCE.
Dram.drinking is wrong, be-
cause it leads to drunkenness
The devil can use one moderate
am-drinker more effectually
than he can a COW pen full of
drunkards. No boy wishes to
follow or initiate "common"
drunkard; but if you have any
Colonels, Majors, Captains or