The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-07-24

our pest. what shall the harvest be
for US, and what shall our reward be
for service rendered? Are the profess
ed christians fighting this foe of the
church and the home as they ought.
Alcohol is killing off as many Ameri-
cans year as all the wars of the world
have killed in battle for 2300 years.
Alcohol is killing 3,5OO,OOO white men
every year or five times as many as
many as have been killed in war in 2900
years; so it is ten thousand times more
/ destructive than all wars combined.
/ This is the testimony of Hon. r. P.
1 Hobson, of Alabama. One of the best
American christian workers says, the
slime of the pit as represented in the
American saloon has been transferred
to our mission fields There is a brew
cry in Jerusalem; a distillery on Mt.
Lebanon; American saloons is Damas-
Gus. He says the saloon is the church's
greatest foe in its foreign work. The
missionary goes to christianize while
the rum shop follows IN his steps to
destroy his work, even to hurl the
people back to worse than heather
darkness. He concludes, the saloon is
the spawn shop of infdelity. 1t is the
hot bed of anarchism. 1t is the inexor-
able enemy of both church and home.
If possible the saloon would make it's
nest in the Bethlehem Manager; 1t would
open barroom on Mt. Calvary: it would
establish its trade on the throne of
God himself
The Internal Revenue report for year
ending June Both, 1913, shows that the
American people drank more whiskey
and beer, smoked more cigars and Gig
arettes and chewed more tobacco than
during any previous year of the nation s
history. The drinkers of our country
consumed 143, 300, 600 gallons of whiskev
and brandy. an increase of 1900, 900
gallons of over the previous year; Ga. =
r 500, 600 barrels of beer ram down the
throat of lovers of the amber brew, or
100000 barrels IN excess of the pre-
vious year.
Smokers blew into space Z, 707, 000 900
cigars. and 14,012, 900, 900 cigarettes
/. during the year, or 2l7,00O,OO cigars
and 2, 100, 900 cigarettes more than ever
before consumed in a single year. The
pipe consumed 403, POO 600 pounds of
tobacco, or 8, 400, GOO pounds more than
, IN 1912
Snuff scrubbcrs disposed of 80, 200, 900
pounds, or 1000, 600 pounds more than
the previocs year. Yet the same re-
port shows that the number of saloons
in the country decreased by $1,000 dur
ing the year.
Some business men are convinced that
prohibition is coming and do not feel
that it will hurt their business at all,
even some of the liquor men feel it is
coming. The anti-saloon league feels
the time has come to strike for prohibi-
ton. We must help its advance: faith
, ers will then buy milk for the babies in
stead of liquor.
The other day a man went to his home
in one of our cities, while drunk, and
cut his wife's throat with razor. She
ran screaming to the gate and sank to
the ground her wide open eyes stared
but saw nothing. Then in his drunken
frenzy the man cut his own throat.
Who did it? The licensed saloon. That S
its business. But the people commits
stoned the saloonkeeper to do 1t. True
the wife let whiskey alone, but it did
not let her alone. The licensed saloon
did up that family. 1t paid, perhaps,
$1,000 for the right to do that thing.
What if two threats were cut, the
saloonkeeper made his money, and the
two children that were compelled to
witness the tragedy, what of them
He'll was turned loose in the devastated
home. o, there's money in it for the
saloon man, and the people share the
profits Husbands may go to perdition,
so may wife and children, but there's
some blood money to pay public ex-
penseS.
Oh, church of the living God, what
are we doing to remove this curse from
our land?
The Christian Endeavors adopted as
their motto in their convention just held
IN California. "a saloonless nation in
1920" May we see its contamination,
no doubt will be the prayer of every
christian. and the wish of every good
citizen. Yours truly,