The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-10-13

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II is strange that men who would
be ashamed TO stand behind a bar
and sell whisky will advocate saloons
Why will men advocate saloons when
they would feel disgraced to sign
petition for an election to vote a
saloon inf A saloon keeper can not
get membership in any lodge or
church IN Stanford. Saloons can't
exist without men to run them and
yet the man who goes into the bust
ness cuts himself off from the church
from the lodge, from life insurance,
from good society. Shame on the
man who will advocate an institu-
ton that damns the man that runs
il and destroys the souls and bodies
Of those who patIonize it. Is such a
man any better than the saloon
Seeperi When man puts his name
TO a petition TO have saloons, does
he not put himself on level with
the man who runs the saloon? There
il no difference. The man who aids
and abets a murderer is guilty of
murder before the law. The men
who are helping IN any way to put
saloons into Stanford or into Lin
coin county are saying by their ac-
tions "Let the blood of all the muir
ders those saloons will cause, be up
on Us and upon our children. Let
the broken hearted wives. mothers
and sisters come to us when their
loved ones are destroyed by the sa-
loom And the God of heaven will
demand indemnity for these lives at
their hands. The daughters of some
of these men will be drunkards' wives
.their sons will be drunkards because
the fathers brought back the saloon
There are fearful judgments ahead
for these men. There never was q
saloon that did not produce these
results, and there never will be one
that does not do the same thing.
Men close their eyes and stor
their ears and rush ON to their owl
destruction. Is it not time that these
men stop and think before going any
furtherf Again, can any man be
silent when such a battle is raging
Can any one be innocent who stands
idly by as though he was WATCHING
"a contest between wild beas SITS? Their.
is work for everyone to do. Com,
10 the front. Show your colors. Lin,
up with the men and women who ar,
trying to save their homes and your.
from desolation.
If your neighbor is on the wrons
side, try to show him his error. 70,
can do what others cannot do. Tn,
great mass of the people are oppos
ed to the saloon. They do not wan
ii. They know it is the creates
curse authorized by civilized society
The very idea of licensing men t.
establish and operate such an insti
tuition, is horrible! The very though
Of it makes men shudder. Womel
are already weeping at the vision %
husbands, fathers and brothers stag
gering from these dens of infamy I,
homes from which happiness has for
ever fled.
|, The young men are the hope o
,, our land. but the saloon comes /,
? ensnare and destroy them. Socia
, drinking makes more drunkard,
, than all others forms Of drinking
, The saloon furnishes the conditions
that foster and cultivate this PERM
cious habit. Youth is unwary. The,
do not know the danger Of the so
cial glass. They imagine it is mani,
and they drink it, not because the.
, want it, but to be sociable. But ala
the appetite once formed, and the,
, ore lost, May heaven save US iron
the curse of the saloon.