The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-04-15
Does It PAY:

4 lNot4 ~ L~f l-s>-N L u +NiNi
BY PROF. CHAS. SCANLON.
Does 1t Pay:
Does it pay to license a traffic
with less the demand for the
helpful things of life, which in
creases their cost and dimini>hes
the ability to pay for them:
Does it pay to license which
makes men less >lliIlful less
steady, less reliable; which
lessons endurance. lessons self
respect and the respect of
others, lessons cOntid fence,
lessons credit, lessons the de
mand for food, clothing, shelter
and tools with which to work:
Does it pay to license a traffic
which breeds idiots, pauperS,
criminals, iunatic> and epilepticS
and cast them upon society to be
supported by decent, honest,
Industrious people?
Does it pay to license a traffic
which increases taxes by Great
ing a necessity for jails, pen
etentaries, asylums, hospitals,
almshouse>, Orphananges, re
fO~rmatories, police and criminal
courts?
Does it pay to license a thing
which decrease a man ) lndustrl-
al efficiency so that government
reports show that - per cent of
agriculturists disc + i N i n a t e
against him for using it, and
that 70 per cent of manufact-
urers, 80 per cent Of tradeSmen,
and 80 per cent Of railroad
officials do the same thing?
Does it pay to maintain a
national quarantine against
criminals and dependent classes
from abroad and license 100000
saloon keepers to manufacture
such products at home?
Does it pay to support the
families of saloonheepers and
bartenderS and pay their rent,
taxes and insurance and buy
Injuries for them in order to get
a few pennies IN revenue AND
license out of the many dollars
> which they fitch from the peck
cts of industry:
Does it pay to employ teachers
! to teach children the evil effects
! Of alcohol upon the human
system and license men to sci
a thing which intiameS t {
stomach, hardens the brain
tissue, sOftens and Weakens the
} blood vessels, impOverishes the
blood. OverWOrkS the heart
4 retards the elimination of etfett
Z matter, dims the eyes, dulls the
! hearing, diseases the throat
1 lungs. kidneys, liver, nerves anC
! muscles, the demand for which
= is wholly artificial and whe1
supplied serves no good pur
pose:
Does it pay to call minister:
4 preach the gospelof love, charity
\ honesty, purity, forgiveness an(
- redemption and then license
other men to engage in a traffic
y which fosters hate, engender.
strife, breeds dishonesty, i'm
- purity and destruction?
Does it pay to send mission
- aries to the heather to points GU
- the way of salvation and from
- the same port and often in til
same vessel send ''liquor dam
Z natiOn?'
Does it pay to build a palac
; for the brewer, hire servant
: and buy silks for his wife an
: dress your own wife in rags
! make her take in washing t
: support the family and tinall
send her to the poor house an
bury her in the potters field?
Does it pay to levy a tax t
support orphans and widows an
license the murder of husband
and fathers? Does it pay t
license a thing which is Away
and everywhere known to b
! the enemy of everything sac
red to God and man?
9 Does 1t pay to maintain o
. our coasts 276 life saving sta
= ions at q cost of a little NOR
! than a million and a half an
. out OF the same pocket an
4 under the same flag maintai
{ 100000 life destroying station
8 at two billion and a half:
Does it pay to listen to tn
Z s~ophistries and falshoods c
. passion, prejudice, ignorance