The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-17

luC lN11xCHAC0H OEUSt1AACs
rise Comments the Uniform Prayer
Meeting Topic of the Young Peoples
Societies-Christian Endeavor, etc.-for
October IS. "A saloonless Nation: Why
Not? How?"-Hab. 2:1-14
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
During the past summer have talked
with a great many hotel keepers in Penn
sylvanfa whose barro0ms have been al
ways the larger part of their business.
To man, 1 found them convinced that.
ultimately. the saloon must CO. Several.
when I remarked upon the Improvement
in their hotels candidly confessed that
thev were developing this side of their
business, as preparation for the in
Anybody who sees much of men in the
saloon business can amplify this testi-
mony almost indefinitely. Tho spectre of
the approaching abolition of the saloon is
ever before the eyes of the liquor men.
It would hearten some Weakened and
pessimistic Christians to know how con-
WINGED the liquor men are of the victory
of the temperance forces.
Saloonkeepers have degraded Ameri-
can civilizations. 8. Mcclure.
A marvellous shifting of public interest
holocaust burst. There Is nowhere an
enthusiasm for war. The ancient spell
Of the glory Of arms seems to have been
ideals have gripped mankind. We find
people in all walks of life talking of such
great goals as a land without flies or
tuberculosis and other ancient scourges:
of an Industrial order wherein the chill
dren shall not be sacrificed and workers
enae, mot . lose their manhood OF Social
to persons and in solicitude for the COM
mon welfare. Among these widespread
expectations and purposes we find also
the resolution to abolish the traffic In
human flesh in harmful drugs and In
Intoxicating liquors The fight against
the saloon is in tune with the deepest
note OF social thinking today. The stars
in their courses are fighting against
liquor.
The one momentous truth that may be
instilled Into the minds and consciences
OF the young Is, that nobody can safely
tamp,r with an Intoxicating beverage.
On the red book of entire abstinence
alone are they safe-Cuyler.
A. attempts to Improve the saloon
are like efforts to develop a benign form
of tuberculosis and cancer, and a harm
less brand of opium. Evil In its character
and its consequences, the only logical
way to deal with the saloon is to abol-
ish 1t.
The oldest and commonest arguments
heard in license courts in behalf Of ap-
plicants for bars is the plea of ''neces-
sity." The statement has been made so
OAtcu tHdl IL mas COIne 10 De WlQely Uc-
| leved. that a barroom in every hotel Is
necessity OF the travelling public. Every
man whose work calls him to sojourn in
hr tells. especially in small towns, can
| testify that it is not the commercial
travellers (who constitute 80 per cent OF a
hotels patronage). who patronize the bar.
but the local residents. So far as the
travelling public is concerned. the bar
| room is needless Instead. 1t is the focus
for the spread OF the gangrene of drunk.
enness. idleness and evil among the local
| men. The greatest source of social fnfec-
| ton in our American life is the saloon.
| What If men should establish factories
| for making typhoid germs and putting
them into our water supplies and our
milk? We could make men immune
I! against the typhoid. but we cannot make
i them immune against the far more dead
! " manufacture of intemperance.-Amos
; r.. Wells.
! The fact that the grandsons of the men
who first abolished the saloon from KAN
sas are still keeping the state dry. and
steadily making more stringent the pro
hibition laws. = evidence IN favor Of =