The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-08-21

10 OlilN lOI IAlOlll anu
that is let the executors of the law do
their sworn duty -enforce.the law. Of
course these law breakers will kick like
Texas broncos and whine about the in
justice of the law, simply because they
are not allowed to continue in law
breaking. Every law breaker is an
enemy to the state. Then one man has
just as much right in the eyes of the
law as another and is equally entitled
to its protection and should have it.
If one man has the right to open up his
place of business and sell cigars, light
drinks, ice cream, ETC., on the Sabbath,
then the butcher has right to sell his
meat; the grocerman has the same right
to sell his stuff, and the dry goods man
has on equal right to open up and dispose
of his goods. Then what: You have
no Sabbath. You throw down the gates
and let the flood of godlessness and evil
pour in upon YOU. The community is
demoralized; the home, the foundation
of good morals and governmt mt is co.,
rupted; you open the way for all kinds
of lawlessness and so prepare for the
coming of such scenes of carnage as
characterized the days of the French
Revolution.
The foundation of our Republic is
good morals and law will be recognized
and obeVed by all good citizens and it is
their privilege and duty, growing out of
the divine right of self-preservation, to
see to it that right law is enforced.
federation of outlawrY will bring awful
results and we who tolerate it will suf-
fer, for the sowing always determines
the reaping.
What can we say, when church men,
bers are leaders in violations of law
Alas, for our churches, when its men,
bers have no more regard tor the law
OF the Master they profess to follow and
honor. They evidently think more OF
the bit of money they can make thus
than they do of their solemn obligations
to God, to his church, the community,
and to their families. Truly the love
of money is the root of all evil. Avarice
buries every element of honesty and
honor out of the soul unless 1t is sub
dued. If people who claim to have re-
ceived the grace of God in their hearts
will not recognize even the law of the
land, how can we expect it of non
christians.
Secretary Bryan is right when he
says, The saloon is an outlaw and a
nuisance, and it lives by suffrance
where it lives at all. You do not defend
the saloon as an institution. You
tolerate it, if you tolerate it at all, on
the theory that If you tried to abolish it
you might get something worse" 1t
is hard to think of anything worse than
the legalized saloon. do not find any
slaughter houses in our streets or close
to town. Why do not our butchers
build their slaughter pens in the town.
They would be more convenient for
them, easier of access and it would save
their time to reach them and time YOU
know is money-therefore it would be
money to them to have them close at
hand. One trouble is they would have to
consult Ithe people around them before
they could build the pen in their town.
as it impossible to confne the odors to
the!pen. What hubbub would be raised
were an attempt made to erect slaugh-
ter house in our streets, and rightly so
too. But you allow number of saloons
ten of them-to be established and fill
air with poison and then say to the
people who are compelled to breath the
odor and suffer from it, that you have
no right to protest. You would howl
like Comanche scared at rattlesnake.
yet allow ten places to exist that are
veritable slaughter pens. only they are
Strengthening your boys and sacrificing
your girls, and filling the air with the
stencil of polluted morals, and debauch-
ed manhood and womanhood, for the
money they get; while the slaughterpen
is for the preparation of animals for
food. 0 consistency thou art jewel.
was interested in the suggestions
published in your paper, to the civic
club Of our town. Quite a number
asked the ladies to get rid of the saloons.
| fully sympathize with all suggestions
IN regard to getting rid of the saloon,
but really would not 1t be in better
taste, and show more courage, to ask
the men-the voters, by whose fran
chlse these plague spots are permitted
in our midst-to rise up and put them
out instead of asking the women of our
town who compose the club to do it for
US? | have not the least doubt you can
count on the club and the great mass of
women of the town to do their part, use
their influence and labor to the utmost
of their ability to get rid of the saloon.
Let US be men, manly men, who are not
afraid to agitate and do our duty, in
stead of trying to impose one of our I'M
pleasant duties on the women. God
bless the women in their work and help
the men to do theirs. Yours truly,
T NJ FRANCE.
etter Erom Sheriff Caoroa noW;,,