Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-04-08
Sunday GU Booze.

| given IN Nuscdtlnc. Ie uiu hot o"'O
cate third party prohibition, but
pleaded for sobriety because it 10 OBJ
yiously the only stand to take. His
sermon was replete with appalling
statistics and figures.
1.-THE attitude of the liquor traffic
may best be expressed" he said, in
part, sin the words of "A saloon-keeper
used TO me, what the III do we
care if it hurts your children and ruins
your homes?'
"a man says we've got to have the
saloon to pay ex penses and pave the
streets. Let me tell you that every
dollar you use thus will do so much
toward kindling the flame OF hell
and making them SO much hotter for
you.
"There are only one or two reasons
why the saloon has not been kicked
into hell. One reason is because of pol
tiles. There isn't Democrat or Re-
publican that does not know away
down in his heart that the saloon is
wrong, and if they knew they could
carry the State they would nail down
prohibition plank ia the platform so
quick it would make your head SWIM.
"If we didn't have saloons the
farmers would trade in our town comes
the wall. You're dirty blsck-hearted
liar. Let the farmers get whack at
the saloon business and you know
they'll knock it into hell at the first
| chance.
"There are whisky orphan children
enough in the world, If they would
stand holding hands they would reach
five times around the world, punctured
every fifth point by drunkard's
widow.
"If it wasn't for church members
signing the petitions the saloons would
never live said saloon keeper TO me.
AS / said before, hell is SO full of such
church member. that their feet stick
out the windows.
"We've got in the United States
100000 saloons. Averaging fifty feet
frontage, they would if placed side by
side make a solid street reaching from
New York to Chicago. Averaging
four employees TO a saloon, there are
l 100000 in our land dealing out this
double-distilled liquid damnatior.
ain January next year 100000 young
men enter the saloons TO begin to
drink, for that is the rate the sal Don
gathers them in. Let me ring down
the curtain, let the saloon go On with
its corruption, and on December 81,
let me raise it, Watch them as they
go Keeling and staggering past. Why
they aren't all here. No, 10000 of
them are missing. That many die
every year.
81 hear there is q story that | own
some stock in a distillery. You're
damnabIe, dirty, block hearted liar,
and if yoa'll come up here IN knock
you down, you trible extract Of dam
nation. | defy you to show it up. |
ask noquarter from that gang, and
III give none.
"Ninety per cent. of the erimi nails
are drinking men and seventy-two per
cent of the insane patients come from
Incorporate people. That's what
makes necessary jals and peniten-
tiares and insane asyiums.
at costs twenty cents to make gall
lon of whisky, and it is sold over the
counter for "a. The farmer gets the
twenty-cents. The rest goes ito the
saloen-keeper, to the aUnited States
Government, to our big corporations,
to help pay the expenses for tracking
criminals, and to the officers.
"When the time comes that ,Calho-
lies and Protcstants will say TO the ss E
loon Stop that day the saloon will
pack up its grip and head for hell !
charge the church with being respor =
sible for the grog shop, and defy an y
one to contradict it,"
Getting two boys upon the platform
he stood them up in view of the audi
eace tHo, gin mill," he said, "what
is your raw material? Those boys
And what is your finished product?
'Blear.eyed drunkarde, anarchists,
cut throats,' He's got 10 have hoy
from every ftth home. Open " III
craw, and I'll feed them in. Hold On, ,
you cry, that's my boy srhat ma es
no difference. In he goes. don I
know those two boys standing there,
but | wouldn't give either one of them
for all the breweries aud distiieries in
the world. Come here, Willie. Here S
my boy, I'll fight for him, and III
fight as hard for your boy. SHere, kids
take this dollar and have a3Christma s
blowout. and Sunday dismissed lthe
two boys he had calledlto help. him.