Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-23

ton period was taken up in gathering
dollar bills from the audience. which
were carried one at a time by the
ushers to DR.. Slough, who stuffed them
INTO bucket on the platform. AL
most two hundred dollars were COL
lected in this way, and with the pa,l
collections amounted to over $500 for
the meeting.
In beginning his, lecture DR.. Slough
SAID he has no fight against liquor men
as individuals, but that he will con-
tinue to the best of his strength to
wage battle against booze ali over the
state in all the places where he is
scheduled to appear during the next
year and as much longer as may be
arranged.
His text was Woe, woe, woe, to him
that buildeth a town with blood, and
establisheth city by iniquity"
He called liquor the greatest outlaw
In the country from the standpoint OF
the business interests, the criminal
courts, general morality and politics
He spoke of the large percentage of
large business and industrial firms that
bar the users of alcohol from their
ranks and the great number of maga-
zines and reputable newspapers that
refuse advertisements of liquor In any
form. '
What Booze Costs Nation
He blamed liquor as the greatest
factor in the high cost of living, quot
ing the statistics of the expenditure
last year in this country of $780,
O37,256 for alcohol, exceeding by far
the amount involved in other economic
questions. He showed that the Panama
canal could have been fully paid for
by the cost of booze during fifty DAYS
and that 100000 battleship could
be built every four DAYS by the money
wasted for liquor. New York CITY
spends $1,O00,000 a day on booze, he
said.
He showed that on an average $40
or pubic money is spent in repairing
the damage done by alcohol to every
dollar received in taxes or licenses or.
liquor selling. In Dauphin county
alone he quoted statistics showing
S182 900 spent in 1912 for the main-
tenanoe of the pool, the prison, the
insane and the criminal courts. To
Offset this only S67.7O5 was received
from saloon licenses in the county and
this city, $3.50 of it being from the
county alone.
Crime Resulting From Booze
"seventy-f1ve per cent. of the muir
ders and four-flfths of all the crimina,
cases are due to booze, and 80 Der
cent. of the poor in this city are trace
a
poor family that can't trace its con-
dition to the front or the back door of
a saloon.
Il believe every man should have
every dollar he earns in industry. but
we bark up the wrong tree when we
charge all poverty to Industrial con-
ditions; 1t is the booze that Is to blame
And yet you tell me It is good business.
Where are your brains? Most of YOU
must sit on them. In the name of
humanity. turn off the spigots of the
beer barrels"
Conditions in This County
I'm Dauphin county you maintain
1876 retail liquor licenses, 26 whole-
sale, bottlers and breweries; one
saloon to each thousand inhabitants.
The liquor interest is back of every
thing that is crooked and criminal
and 1t is the greatest danger to man
hood that you have.
Il would like the legislators to ex-
plain why n saloon must nay both fed
erai and local licenses and taxes, and
why club and lodge bars must not.
DR.. Schaeffer, of the State Depart
ment of Education. says that more
drunlkards, especially the Respectable
drunks, are made by clubs and private
drinking places than by the saloon.
There are about twenty OF these places
in Harrisburg that ought to be closed.
or else every decent. self-respectine