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

hibition speaker from the West
and one who is known in all parts
Of the country, delivered his lee
ture. ''The $50 Mile Street to
HE'LL" at the Grand opera house
last afternoon before an audience
that filled the theatre.
Rev. Adams is an enthusiastic
prohibitionist and believes the
time is fast coming when the sale
of liquor whether by the state or
the "blind tiger" shall be thing
Of. the past. He has been a pro-
shibition lecturer for seventeen
years, lecturing in all parts of the
country. He will speak at the
court house tonight on "Y he Dead
ly Parallel.
Rev. Adams spoke as follows:
STREET OF SALOONS.
The licensed saloons Of the Uni.
ted States, if formed into street
allowing twenty feet space to each
saloon, would make street four
hundred and fifty miles long, solid
on either side without break or
cross street in it-solid from end
to end. Let us imagine them
brought together and formed into
a street, and let us suppose that
the moderate diam drinkers and
their families are marching in at
the upper end.
Come. go with me, and let us
stand at the lover end and see
what it turns ont IN one year.
Did I say at the l>wer end? Yes
For this street is on an incline
plain, and I take willingly and
knowingly enters and travels this
street, is travelling down, down to
a DEVILS hell. And unless they
repent and forsake this way they
will land in hell.
The liquor traffic and saloons
are to the devil what the church
is to God. The church is great
power in lifting up and saving
humanity, while the saloon is a
great power in dragging down and
destroying human beings-miLd,
body and soul. The success of the
saloon is the overthrowing of the
schools, colleges and churches.
They are antagonistic-one to the
other. The kind of training and
support that would build up the
saloon would prove detrimental to
schools, colleges and churches,
and vice verse. So you can see at
once that there is no good thing
to be derived from the liquor
traffic. Yet it is being sustained
by our government. No other
reason was ever assigned save re-
venue.
No christian nation can hope to
be prosperous when she absolutely
refuses to put stop to this great
curse, but continues to permit
men to engage in a crime produc-
ing business, under the high
license system. AS a christian I
cannot afford to give my consent
to the liquor trafic-slmply for
revenue. This is why the saloon
keeper is in the business, for the
money he can get out of it, and he
will tell you so.
The saloon is as ''national" as
a national bank, and as lawful as
public school, made SO by the
license system. It could not exist
otherwise. The saloon could not
stand on it's own merits but hides
it's deformed face behind the plea
of expediency-''businessfo for rev.
enue."
SUPREME CoURT's DECISION.
The supreme court Of the United
States has decided that no man
has natural or inherited right to
sell liquor, therefore the privilege
can only be granted to him by the
people. This being the case, the
legislature of the various states
have enacted for the people of the
several states what is known as
the high license system-selling
to any man who may be able to
pay the price-the privilege to
deal out death and destruction.
If it was not for the protection
and support of the government to
this great evil it could not stand
twelve months.
Everybody knows it to be a
great curse, but whatever state
or nation licenses it must protect.