The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-07-29
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.
Boy Stealing.

chained to a kidnaper on their way
to prison, the murderer for few
years, the kidnaper for life. A
Pittsburg paper said, contrasting the
murderer, who, IL he behaved we'll
enough, would be released in four
years, with the lfe-sentenced kid
naper: "He didn't kill man, he
stole boy"
The liquor seller is constantly COM
hitting both crimes. Nearly all MUIR
derers are saloon customers, and the
doomed boys and young men begin
thelr dolorous downward way in and
out of the swinging doors of the
drink shop, into jail and prison and
poorhouse and drunkard's graves.
Which is worst. to give or sell
liquor to hopeless sot, or to youth
who has never tasted 1t? To whom
shall we decide to give liquor, a lost
drunkard or a youth from whom the
world expects so much of high en-
deavor?
The high-toned club room, the
fashionable cafe and bar room, the
respectable saloon want the custom
not of drunkards but of youths who
are susceptible to their meretricious
attractions, and the moderate drink
ers who give their example and in
fluence and vote to sustain the liquor
traffic.
The Presbyterian Banner had a re-
port of speech made at liquor
dealers convention in Ohio to this
effect: Gentlemen. the drunkards
will soon die. We must toll in the
boys and young men. A nickel spent
now among boys means dollars to us
bye and bye"
Youths who have been we'll trained
do not learn to drink in low dives,
they take their first glass in respecta-
BILE club room, cafe, restaurant, bar
room, saloon. They begin in yonder
and are kicked or stagger at last out
of low drink shops into gutter and
grave.
The more respectable and attrac-
tive drink shop, the more danger
Gus it is. If a boy has been we'll nur-
tured he never will learn to drink
II he has to go to a low disreputable
saloon.
The undergraduates of colleges and
universities learned to drink in the
Rilded reputable places, not in the
dives.
Webster avenue. Wiley avenue sa-
looms do not tempt we'll trained
youths. The Fifth and Sixth avenues
and Forbes street places lure them to
begin the downward way.
In Professor Hopkins most excel
lent book, Profit and Loss in Man"
there are figures obtained by the Y.
NJ. G. A: I'm a city of 80 900 inhabi-
tants, GOO young men entered five of
the prominent saloons in one hour.
There are 1876 saloons in the city.
In city of 10000 population, 452
young men entered four saloons in
one hour. In a large Western city.
47S young men were seen to enter
single saloon in one night. In an
other large city, 236 young men went
into prominent saloon in one hour.
In town of IL 900 population, 72J
young men visited thirty-four of the
fifty saloons of the city in one night.
In an Eastern city, the Y. M. c. A.
secretary visited nineteen saloons in
one evening and found 275 young
men. In another Eastern city with
a population of 10000, during one
Saturday evening 355 young men
entered five saloons in two hours. In
a city of 10000 population there are
$50 saloons, and 1045 young men
entered seven of them one SATURDAY.
night, and only seventy-five attended
all the churches in the city the next
day! In a city of 1900 population
more than one-third of all the young
men went into the drinking saloons
in one hour"
Call conventions to plan for chill
dren's Fairgrounds! Why not join
all the real temperance forces to
make the streets safe for the youth?
Remarkable and commendable inter-
est is shown for the sanitary and
moral welfare of the children. Most
of what children need can be fur
nished by sober fathers! More than
food and proper surroundings can
be had for our young people when
the time and money now wasted for
drink is used for the building and
blessings of homes. Our boys and
young men are in mortal danger from
licensed and illegal drink shops. De-
stroy these ante rooms to perdition.
Vote to prohibit them and to elect
officials who believe in sobriety and
civic righteousness and therefore can
be depended upon to destroy the
drink traffic and to strengthen the
foundations of home and school and
church. The People.