Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-05
THE ACCOUNTABLE SALOON.
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business and financial view to take on
| this subject.
1t seems not to have been seriously
considered that the eighty millions of
people that live in the home territory
of the United States expend year by
year more than 81, 800 100000 for in
toxicants. Some estimates are far in
excess Of this vast sum. Doubtless
this is the lowest estimate of the ex
tent of the drink traffic. Why not stop,
| if only for little time and see what
this means?
First OF all, it means that with this
wasted money we could pay off the en-
tire national debt, and have a very
! handsome balance left
1t means that with this expenditure
We could irrigate every acre of land
capable of irrigation. in all the arid
deserts of the United States, and
! furnish
HOMES FOR FOUR MILLIONS
of families and support for more than
I forty millions Of people
1t means that we could build hun
dred and fifty dreadnaughts every year
costing sl0,o00.000 each or we could
build seventy five of them every year
costing 100000 600 each. But what
do we want with one hundred and
fifty or even seventy five of the horrid
monsters of the sea- We already
have more than we need, and we bet
ter sink those we have than to build
seventy five or a dozen or even half
dozen dreadnaughts
1t means that with this immense
sum we could endow fifty universities
with 100000. 000 each, and that is far
more than the endowment of any uni
versities in this land or any other
Besides we scarcely need so many uni
versities
1t means that with this yearly ex-
penditure for drink" We could endow
one hundred and fifty colleges with
SO, 900, 600 each, and
GIVE EVERY BOY AND GIRL
in the United States college educa-
ton.
1t means, that we could supply a
hundred and fifty thousand families
with $4,000 home for each family.
1t means. that we could supply three
hundred thousand families with a
$4,000 home for each family
1t means, that we could endow fif-
teen hundred libraries with 1000, 600
each, and so bring the choicest and
most valuable literature within the
easy reach of all the people.
1t means, that each year. we could
build sixty thousand new. comfortable.
commodious and well located churches
costing S25, 900 for each church.
1t means, that
WITH THIS WASTED MONEY
plenty of good food at low prices.
plenty of good clothes al half the
present cost, good shelter and home
comforts for all the people. good
schools and churches for the entire
population might be supplied
1t means, thank God. it means. that
hundreds of thousands of our young
men would be saved from ruin, thou
sands upon thousands of desolate
homes void be rebuilt and filed with
joy and gladness; that broken hearted
mothers, wives and sisters would be
brought into
a NEW LIFE OF JOY
and comfort, hope and blessedness.
that poor little helpless. neglected,
abused children would enter upon a
new life of promise.
1t means that three fourths of the
force of the attendants and officers
and courts and prisons and poor
houses and asylums could be dis
behsed with ana a vast expense saved
to the public
1t means that the wreck and ruin
brought by the constituencies greed of
the saloonists would be prevented.
Too long, all too long, has the
UNSPEAKARLY ABOAlINABLE SA-
LOON,
the saloon that represents the rum
traffic of every sort, been tolerated.
Would to God that a storm of
righteous wrath might fill the souls of
all good people. SO that right speedily
the saloon. the rum traffic, with its
awful harvest of waste and poverty.
and crime. and sorrow and suffering.
ana wretchedness, and woe, and death
may be destroyed