The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-11-07
CITY PASTORS SPEAK ON
THE LIQUOR QUESTION

life was just as high as yours. Drink
has brought me to the gutter.
THE saloon has no respect for
my home If a cow gets on the
railroad track and is killed, the law
allows damages to the owner. What
damages eau the WOMAN collect
whose husba 4 has be-1 ruined by
strong drink? Men capable of earn
ing $4,000 per year have been sent
to degradation, but the widow of a
drunkard has no redress.
THE saloon has no respect for
my child. One thousand drunkards
died in the United States last night,
and that thing is repeated every
night. The saloon wants a boy every
day to take the place of these GUS
toners
Il do not care what it costs to
keep this town dry. If 100000
would keep the saloon closed and
save one of our boys from a drunk
ards grave, that price would be
small. While | was pastor at Walla
Walla. the chaplain of the peniten-
tiary was a member of my church.
| talked with many inmates of the
institution, with men who were step
ping upon the gallows and 80 per
cent gave drink as the reason for
their downfall. 1t costs $1S4, 900
a year to keep up the state peniten-
tiary, so that 80 per cent of that
amount should be charged up to the
saloon.
"A member of my congregation
who was collector of internal revenue
for the government, made visit TO
Washtucna last year and obtained
the following card which was being
used by the model saloons of which
w L. Mustard was the proprietor.
Friends and neighbors: [ am
grateful for past favorS, and having
supplied my store with fine line
of choice wines and liquors, allow
me to inform you that | shall con-
tinue to make drunkards, paupers
and beggars for the sober, industri
Gus, and respectable part of the COM
munity to support. My liquors will
excite riot, robbery and bloodshed.
They will diminish your COM
forts. increase your expenses and
shorten life. | shall confidently re-
commend them as sure to multiply
fatal accidents and incurable dis
eases.
They will deprive some of life,
others of reason, and all of peace.
They will make fathers fiends, wives
widows, children orphans, and all
poor. | will train your sons in in
fidenity, dissipation, ignorance, lewd-
ness and every other vice. l will
thus accommodate the public it
may be at the loss of my never dy-
ing soul. But l have a family to
support-the business pays-and
the public encourages it.
Il have paid my license and the
traffic is lawful, and if | don't sell
it, somebody else will. | know the
Bible says: Thou shalt not kill.
No drunkard shall enter the king
dom of heaven ana | do not expect
the drunkard maker to fare any bet
ter, but 1 want an easy living and
/ have resolved to gather the wages
of iniquity and fatten on the ruin of
my species.
Should you doubt my ability, |
refer you to the pawn shops, the
poorhouse, the police court, the hos
pital. the penitentiary and the gal
lows. where you will find many of
my best customers have gone. A
sight of them will convince you that
l do what l say"
An institution that will consent
to being guilty to such charges is not
the kind we want in Wenatchee.
Il hate the saloon because of its
accessories. Everything bad goes
with the liquor traffic. Its greatest
accessory is the white slave traffic.
There are 100000 white slaves in
this country Chicago alone has
$4,000. The average life of a white
slave is five years. Every 81 years
enough women in this country be-
come white slaves to make number
equal to the entire female popula-
ton. Every female in the United
States stands one chance in sixty
five to become white slave. The
saloon is the greatest cause of this
terrible evil. The gambler, the pimp
and the white slave are in every
community where they have saloons.
You might as well try to purify the
odor of skunk as TO regulate the
saloon and it's attendant evils Some
things are too rotten to burn"