Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
PASTOR CRlTlCISES
SALOON BUSINESS
Dr.. J. w. BR0UGRER breaches
ON BLOOD MONEY"
Question of Profit and Loss
Ever Presented to the
World

Blood Money" was the topic of DR..
J. Whitcomb Brougher pastor of the
Temple Baptist church. He said in
part
What shall it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his
life? This is the greatest question Of
profit and loss ever presented to the
world Mans faculties have become
50 dwarfed by sin and by the love of
the world that the value of character
and things eternal is not appreciated.
We set our affections on things of this
world sell the eternal for the temporal,
give up the spiritual for the material
and prefer hell to heaven.
In the mad rush for money men are
willing to sacrifice the higher for the
lower desires.
What will it profit city to gain
$1,000 or $500 a year and make Grim
inals? The licensed liquor saloon is
the greatest center of lawlessness and
crime known in the world today. Very
few saloonkeepers make an honest eff
fort to observe the laws passed for
regulating their business. The saloon
is the natural rendezvous of the Grim
inal, the vicious and the outcast.
Making Criminals
"A father who would teach his child
own support would be a iend and
criminal of the deepest dye. A city
that is willing to make criminals out
of its own people in order to gain
money for its support must be placed
in the same category.
"What will il profit a city to gain
$1,000 or $500 per year and pauperlze
labor? The devil never. invented a
more pernicious institution for rob
bling the laboring classes Of money
needed for the necessities Of life than
the saloon. The saloon is the enemy
of the laboring man under all cir
cumstances.
IF the present city council increases
the liquor license the people who drink
the liquor will have to pay the in
crease. Most OF this viii come out of
the pockets of the laboring people.
What will it profit city to gain
$1,000 or $500 per year and destroy its
young men and young women? ono
of the sternest indictments that can
be made against the saloon is that 1t
is the most deadly foe Of the Ameri-
can home that was ever conceived
The saloon business cannot be run
without the destruction OF young men
and young women.
Ruined Lives Pay Cost
s"The father or mother who would
be willing to support their nome or
nav their taxes out of the disgrace of
their children would be beneath the
contempt of humanity. No words
could express our condemnation OF
such parents. A city that would be
willing to pave its streets or reduce
its taxes by running young men ana
Young women must meet with the
same severe condemnation.
"What shall it profit a city 10 gam
$1,000 or $500 n year and destroy the
souls of men and women? One of the
most tyrannical habits that man
can have IS that of drinking lntoNl-
eating liquors Along with the drink
habit comes a whole horde of other
temptations and sins. There is not a
solitary thing to be gained that Is
worth while by licensing liquor saloons,
INCREASING the license does not
change the character of the business
nor decrease the damage it does. Just
as much liquor will he sold. The more |
respectable the business, the more |
young people win be tempted to ruin !
The more money gained by the city |
the longer it viii take to get rid Of !
this infamous curse. There is no profit |
i'm the licensed liquor saloon for the |
city or for the individual The hour !
will come when good men viii see |
this, and the liquor business is bound |
to GO