The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-17
THE GREAT DESTROYER
soME sTAisrLINc FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF ENTEsipEnANcE.

The Unceasing War With the Saloon
Power---Onward Sweep OF the
Temperance Movement is One OF
the Signs OF the Times.
The onward sweep Of the temper
ance movement Is one OF the signln-
cant signs of the times. The South
is leading but the Ohio legislature,
by an Overwhelming majority, mas
passed county local option measure
and the banishing of the open saloon
from a goodly portion of the Buckeye
domain ia not a remote possibility.
In this connection the almost fran
tic efforts of brewers, distillers ana
saloonists to turn the tide OF prohi-
bition is likewise significant. IL mas
taken on suspicious aspect when the
Model License League and the LID
erty League in public assemblies oner
resolutions about reforming the sa-
loon. eliminating the dives where
crimes are hatched, and propose
schemes for model" licenses.
The reform" proposition on the
part of the foes of temperance Is
| little late in arriving, and their latest
appeal to the farmer to rescue his
market for wheat. corn and rye from
| the CluTC06S OIL InG ldDdilCo 10 IL hASCR
ing with the cowardly and damnaple
| business they represent.
II ia too late to stampede the Amer
lean people by showing OF the
! amount OF revenue that comes from
the LIQUOR traffic, and by the use OF
scare lines calculated to show that
taxes will be materially raised II
these whisky revenues are cut on.
The doggeries of this country are
costing the people vastly more than
they are paying back--the balance OF
trade, SO to speak, is against them
It is too late to intelligently cry
"confiscation" of the business when
local option prevails. The courts
have repeatedly declared the saloon
business inimical to the public good
and these same courts have penahzeu
that business heavily.
1t is too late to protest that the
,,nuor business is reputable" and
lust as honorable as hardware or dry
goods. The saloon has wrought only
evil morally, socially and politically,
and IL there are any really honorable
men 1t it the time is at hand to real
ize the stigma and reproach that ie
now upon 1t.
II is too late to set up the scare.
crows of "fanaticism," "blue laws
"sumptuary legislation" hypocrisy,
etc. The people who think right anc
live right are no longer disturbed bI
such terms, and they have ever peei
4 idle anathemas.
It is too late to remind the church
and clergy that they should not mi,
In politics. Ministers and church
men have somehow gotten the nouol
1 that they are yet citizens with rights
Q It is too late to array the Bible ant
o the sayings of Jesus on the SIDE
q the traffic, as in the case in recen
q literature from the Model Licens
!. League. The Norman polygamist
= have likewise sought to JUSTIFY piura
marriages in the same way. Tne sa
loon in keeping with Christian ethics
= The very idea is shocking, and It
!. blasphemy, and no one is misled o
it. ,,
y II is too late to talk boycott
'e the business of those who sign loci
W option petitions. The boycott cu'
at both ways, and is dangerous veal
1t on. The same force and sentimeI
ie that votes local option can easily an
d. summarily dispose of that prop'
to sition. ~,
II It is too late to hope to bring tn
We laboring class as an organized 1or'
O. to the support of the traffic. or a
"a. men the laborer knows. that llqu'
an is his deadliest foe.-The Bee Hiv