The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-16

free country, and that personal liberty
permitted him to strike wherever ht
pleased.
The other said, Where my nose be-
gins your liberty ends. So the wild
ows and orphans caused by the drink
curse have a right to say, Where the
sacred precincts OF my home begin the
personal liberty OF the saloon ends.'
Farmers and manufacturers are glad
to place their products on exhibition at
county and State fairs, but whoever
heard OF saloonkeeper trying to win
prize for the greatest drunkard he ever
made, for the most completely wrecked
home he ever caused, or for the hungri-
est child he ever robbed?
Let us look at some of the products
OF the saloon, even il its owner is not
proud OF the exhibit.
Three-fourths OF the insane, three
fourths OF the paupers, and eighty per
cent Of the criminals must be charged
up to the saloon. One hundred and ten
thousand men and women crawl into
drunkard's graves every year. Listen:
1t would make funeral procession with
hundred and ten thousand hearses in
line, or it would take three hundred and
forty trains, with five coaches to the
train and sixty corpses to the coach to
haul the saloons dead for one year. At
the funeral there would be more than
one million broken hearted paupers,
wives, mothers, brothers and sisters
what picture!
In CoNCLUsIoN-I ARRAIGN THE SALOON
AS A LIAR.
1t sends the husband home with lie
in his mouth to his wife. 1t sends the
boy with lie to his mother. 1t prom
ises comfort and sends grief. 1t prom
ises plenty and gives poverty. 1t can
hardly write an advertisement for a
newspaper without filling it with lies.
1t falsely labels its packages and lies
about the food properties of its beer.
1t steals the blush from the cheek of
the wife, and the rose from the cheek
Of the daughter. 1t steals the milk
from the breast of the mother and
takes the last crumb of bread from the
starving child. 1t takes the Goals from
The fire and the clothes from the back
Of the shivering family. 1t would steal
the education from the ambitious boy
and rob the family of its happiness.
l ARRAIGN THE SALOON AS AN INFIDEL.
1t believes not in God, Christ or the
church. 1t is one of Gods worst enc
mics and the DEVILS best friend. It's
music is the song of the harlot; its SER
mons are lewd stories, and its prayers
ire the heart rending cries of delirium
1t would upturn the sacred
table, crush out all hope
If future life, and close every church
n the land.
ARRAIGN THE SALOON AS A MURDERER.
During ten years more than fifty
thousand people in America alone we're
struck down by men under the infiu-
,nce of strong drink.
ARRAIGN THE SALOON AS AN ADUL-
TERER.
The saloon and the house of shame
20 hand in hand. The back door to
1ne is the front door to the other, 1t |
arouses the passions of the young men, |
md blasts the virtues of our sisters and |
daughters. The saloon is the recruit
ng station for the house of prostitu-
ion. And what shall / say more. The
saloon is the trap-door to hell, and those
who frequent its bars are debarred from
Ill that is good and pure; but they find
In open door to misery, poverty and
he prison, premature grave and eter
lal damnation. Truly Soloman has
said, Wine is mocker, strong drink
S raging, and whoever is deceived there
by is not wise. T"
CLAUD F. Witty.
Detroit, Mich, 339 Stanton Ave.