The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-05
others to do the same.


Here is what farmer did. l COM
mend it to all the farmers of the coun-
try. He put up bill board by the
road side on which in large letters, he
printed some epigrams telling the truth
about strong drink. Here are few:
"Alcohol is poison, not food.
THE saloon Stays its best friend"
The saloon is the place where mod
crate drinkers are converted.into drunk
ards
"You can't buy beer and beef with
the same money"
'Whiskey never helped a man to get
Job or keep one"
Every man and woman can make SEN
timent which will discourage social
drinking and refuse to treat intemper-
ance as a joke or misfortune instead of
sin and crime.
See. too, that instruction on this sub
ject is faithfully impaired in the public
school.
Christian men must make good in the
fight. They must put up one that is
equal to the saloon mems fight. A
church member who votes for the saloon
hasn't as much christianity in him as
converted heather. The rum traffic is
the house of human industry.
A leading legislator and temperance
orator says that alcohol is killing of as
many Americans a year as all the wars
Of the world killed in battle in 1900
years. Alcohol is 10000 times more
destructive than all wars combined.
He shows the spread of alcoholic de-
generacy and says that, from the stand
point of the state, there is but one de-
cision, the great destroyer must be
destroyed. The people have right to
vote on such vital question and a
majority have the right to rule"
Let me close with an extract from an
address of Congressman Kendall, of
Iowa.
THE DRAMSHOP.
1T is significant, Mr.. Speaker, that
in all the perfervid oratory which has
been INDUCED in, in all the insidious
literature which has been circulated, in
all the voluminous advertisement which
has been already negotiated, nobody has
ventured to eXtenuate the saloon ex-
cept as an agency of evil too formidable
to be overthrow. This circumstance
is not remarkable. AS national in
stitution it is all liability and no asset. AS
a local enterprise it is all burden and no
benefit. The American dramshop can
not be defended upon any principle
which appeals to the moral sensIbility
or the business intelligence of the COM
munity. 1t is rebel against good gov
eminent. 1t dictates nominations, pur-
chases elections, corrupts the ballot,
and falsifies the returns 1t smirches
the legislature. soils the executive, and
stains the judiciary. 1t is the foe of
organized society. 1t overawes the
pulpit, undermines the platform, and
subsidies the press. 1t discredits the
Constitution, despises the statutes. de-
nounces the Congress, and derides the
courts. 1t is the destroyer of domestic
happiness. 1t brutalizes the husband,
desolates the wife, debauches the son,
and betrays the daughter 1t is with
out concern for truth, without regard
for honor, without reverence for virtue.
1t has no tolerance for church, no IN
terest in school, no consideration for
home, no expectation of heaven, no ap-
prehension of hell The patience of
America is exhausted, and we shall
temporlze with the infamy no longer.
All the manifold forces of sobriety, of
decency, of respect for order, of loyalty
to law, of love for mankind, are mar
shaling in invincible phalanx to pulver-
ize the rum power. And they will
eventually triumph"
CITIZEN.