The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-22
BY Mr.. Woolley at the Worlds
Temperance Congress
at Saratoga.
SALOONS ARE SIMPLY DIVES
Greedy, Booty, Crazy, Prosti-
tuition of the Law of Sup
ply and Demand.

u. Woolley delivered the FOLLOWING
address at the Worlds Temperance
Congress here:
AT every stage in the settlement
and development of this nation. the
liquor traffic was and is the advance
agent of physical, commercial. social
and political degradation. In the
light OF medical science at the pres
ent time, there is good reason to sus-
pect that the poor bodily stamina OF
the jamestown colonists was due to
strong drink. There Is no doubt at
all that the appalling Increase of in
sanity at present is due to that cause.
THE atrophy of business in high
finance, that has left the sense OF
trusteeship, in incorporate compan-
les, mere rudiment, like the yeri-
form appendix, comes from many
causes. But undoubtedly the public
policy OF discounting conscience and
moral courage for cash, as declared,
advertised and practiced in the
licensing system. has been the stroke
oar in the team OF crooked athletes
that have reduced and debauched the
legal profession, and hippodromed
elections into contemplate sham bat
ties where the united society OF
camp-followers plan and direct the
movements of both parties.
THE seeds of the
Commercial Whirlwind
that We are reaping now, however
sown, have been watered and fertil-
lied, even in the mind of growing
youth, not only with the poison out
put of the liquor trade bT. also, and
chiefly, with the poison principle, that
money-getting is the chief end OF
civil liberty. 1t is even clearer that
the combination of job-chasers and
captains of knavery that have fooled
and fleeced the people, all these years
have had the top root of their dirty
despotism in the liquor traffic.
The rape of the franchises in
New York City was made possible by
the procurress, Tammany; and Tam.
many is politics run by saloon power
Tammany handles the knockout drops
for the pocket-picking, while the big
thieves cart away the hard earned
capital of the people. The bold con.
tinuous robbery of the state ol
Pennsylvania and the city of Phila,
deiphia would be unifnaginable il
the absence of the saloon-centeret
general corruption. Everybody
knows how. after the earthquake ant
The fire, San Francisco laid the whirl
wind of disorder and crime, by sum
marlly closing the doors of the liquor
trade, at the mu2zle of federal guns
Dive Simply a Saloon.
"A dive is simply a saloon that hal
made progress in its own legic, {
greedy. boozy. crazy, prostitution o
the law OF supply and demand. where
the house rake-off Is hundred oel
cent, counting the short-change ant
the larcell: and the public takes care
of the oiral by general taxation
Slums are complete saloons. where
demand and supply, rake-off, bi-pro
duct and debris, precipitate In met
ropolitan, catch-baslns. But back O
all, worst of all. wlckedest of all
wretchedness of all are the distiller
the brewer and the wholesaler.
do not exaggerate, and l do no
speak extempore. when L say tina
relatively to even things in the biz
problem the saloon keeper with hi
barrels and demijohns and bottles ant
crockery and bulldogs and slotma
chanes and chattle mortgages ant
brass buttons. black-mailers, stagger
ing maniacs and -thieves-is Oh
the whole. a less destructive and de
moralizing citizen that the smootl
capitalist that supplies him an
crowds him and bullies him to hi
snperIative endcavor. and advertise
his whiskey as boon and a medi
cine, and his beer as a food and
blessing to old people, sick people an
nursing mothers.
Fight Against Intempcrance.
Mr.. woolley then reviewed tn
progress of the fight against intem
perance. After describing condition
which prevailed following the Civ
War. Mr.. Woolley said:
Then came the Prohibition part!
sweet of breath, clear-eyed and clean
handed, and called down the chri:
tion voter from the Ounce block Q
partyism, easism and revenuism. II
to the open field Of self-respecting In
telligent, upright fighting form. Ever
great graftless issue. now before tn
country, was in its platform. II
ample justification for existence