The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-02-27
The Temperance Wave.

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/ 1t IS very gratifying to see the tenn
perance cause begin to show itself in
the columns Of The REPUBLICAN. Sure
" the temperance cause is one of the
greatest friends that humanity has and
the liquor traffic the greatest enemy;
then why oppose the right and uphold
the wrong. Why not step in the tenn
perance ranks and dethrone the liquor
business and we believe the time is fast
approaching when saloons mustigo. To
this let every righteous thinker say
speed on, oh, time, speed on, when the
saloon must go, nevermore to return.
Some writer's claim the best way to
| promote the temperance cause is by
high license and thereby limit the num-
Der of saloons. That would mean a
compr omise with the devil as the open
saloon is the devils stronghold in this
world. We believe the only safe wav
to promote temperance is to put the
saloon out of existence.
The saloon in any form means de-
bauchery and crime. Some will tell
you that to have a smaller number of
high license saloons and keep them re-
spectacle that drunkenness would be
greatly done away with. There could
be such a thing as having a fewer num-
Der of high license saloons, butTto have
a respectable saloon would be an utter
impossibility as one has never existed.
never can, as their very intent is evil,
because they are of their father. the
devil.
Now, fellow citizen, looking things
square in the face, what are going to
do? Brother church member. what are
you going to do? Mr., Preacher what
are you going to do? We feel Glad to
know there is are number of thelcalled
ones who are striving to destroy the
saloon, root and branches. Again we
find a number Of the said-to-be-called
ones who oppose. This class puts me
in mind Of the man that met the bear
and eXcitedly began to pray" oh, good
Lord, oh, good devil, and was over
heard by another party and upon being
asked why he prayed to both God'and
the devil he answered he didn't know if
the bear killed him whosej hands he
would fall into, so he thought it best to
be friendly with both. 1t seems as IF
there are a number of would-be promi-
nent people who would like to be friend
" with both the church and the saloon.
They have met the bear and are on one
! side or the other Did you ever read
che that is not for me is against me
and ne that gathereth not with me scats
tereth abroad. Some will say they
are running the church into politics.
You never will get rid of the saloon
any other way but for the Christian
church with all its branches to raise up
in the power of its might and vote the
saloon out of existence That is what
has alarmed the brewers and saloon
keepers. The church has begun a new
to shake off the dust of her feet. |
verify believe the church with the
friendly cooperation of those outside of
its pale means to rid our American soil
of its curse, the licensed saloon. The
two old parties have had warning after
warning for nearly quarter of CEN
fury andmany opportunities for longer
period than that and what have they
done? They tell you they:need the in
ternal revenue collected fromtthe liquor
traffic to help run our government.
They never tell how many thousand
souls are sent to drunkard's fgrave
annually nor how many go toIthe'peni-
tenitaries, asylums and poor houses be-
sides the many thousands of crimes COM
mitted that is never let out to theIpublic
and the rum demon is the origin Of
nineteenth of them. We hope to see
the time when the saloon must go.
A. J. L.
Mt. Lake Park Feb. %, 1908.