The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-06-20
same deadly appeal to passion.

same deadly appeal to passion.
The saloon system is the recruiting
station of the Whisky Trust and
Brewery Combine. Under the law of
life, the men already enlisted in the
army of drink will be dead within the
limit OF twenty years. The slogan of
the saloon is, New recruits! New re-
cruits!" As a hundred thousand men
drop out of the ranks, a hundred
thousand new recruits are made.
Never a maimed and bruised and
dying man falls out of the ranks, that
the saloon is not ready with a new re-
cruit, and from this vast ever increas-
ing army, the masters of the Liquor
Interests are yearly drawing a thous-
and million dollars in toll.
The curse of the system is that it is
protected and sanctioned by the laws
of nation and state. What avails it
that the influence of church and school
and home is against the saloon system
when the influence of the laws of the
nation and state are behind it?
1t is vain for priest and teacher and
father to point the young to the evil of
a system which the laws of this nation
and state sanction! In this truth is
found the vast distinction between the
petty criminal in celler and alley,
plying his trade in liquor, and the
open saloon upon our streets with the
loving arms OF the law thrown in pro-
lection around it. No human langu-
age a measure the deadly influence
of law when it sanctions and upholds
an evil.
l call your attention to this great
truth. The curse of the liquor traffic
can be confined to the man who
drinks. 1t reaches over the head of
the man who drinks, and lays it's
bloody, brutll hands upon the help
less and the weak. No young man
ever fell a victim to drink, that the
blow did not fall upon the breast of
the mother who bore him. No husb-
and ever went down the rugged road
made by drink, that some white faced
woman did not go down with him.
clinging with all the strength of a
woman's love to his arm, and with
little children, ragged in pitiful misery
holding to her skirt. In my young
manhood, I started to fight this evil
my hair is white today. Sometimes in
the crusade, 1 have suffered defeat:
sometimes victory has come: but
WEATHER victory or defeat, 1 have
never faltered. I have been reviled
and rediculed by thousands of strong
men; have been blessed by thousands
OF strong men; I have been blessed by
thousands of women and children from
whose lives 1 have helped to lift the
! shadow OF this curse. And this has
been a reward to me greater than the
combined millions of men who oppose
me.
No man or woman ever lived a
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death without the spirit of sacrifice.
Nineteen hundred years ago, the Man
OF Galilee not only taught, but lived
this eternal truth. Millions since
then following, imperfectly it, is true,
in His footsteps, have gone down by
fame and sword, but always, thank
God, with their faces fixed to the front
and the light of immoral courage
flashing from their eyes On the
shoulders of such men and women as
these, this old worlds civilization has
been lifted to the stars and to God.
Oh, my brother, my sister, put your
shoulder to the wheel. If victory comes
yours the shout of joy; if defeat
ut were better to be a
At the tomb of defeated right
Than to reign as king of the carnival
OF victorious might"