The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-10

demned to die. Let it be remembered.
however, that this Law is no new dis
covery of the sociologist; it was writ
tensin the New Testament before ever
the word sociologist was invented.
Barring the Bar.
Page advertisements in the news
papers, a bookful of modern songs,
brilliant cartoons by the score ridl-
Guile and scorn and jest, are all new
weapons welded against the liquor
business. Contrast the character of
the lachrymose temperance literature
of half century ago with the write,
militant productions that pour from
the press today. and the changed
status of the fight will be apparent
Out of a prison cell is said to have
come this indictment OF the bar,
which is colloquial name for the
saloon:
"A Bar to heaven, door to hell;
Whoever named it, named it we'll.
A Bar to man1iness and wealth;
door to want and broken wealth.
a Bar to honor, pride and fame;
A door to grief and sin and shame
A Bar to hope, a Bar to prayer,
A door to darkness and despair.
A Bar to honored, useful life;
door to brawling, senseless strife
A Bar to all that's true and brave.
A door to every drunkard's grave.
Bar 20 Joys that home 1mparts,
A door to tears and aching hearts;
A Bar to heaven, a door to hell,
Whoever named 1t, named 1t Well
A clever flank attack upon the
drink habit is this bit of current ad-
vice to the married man who must
have" his "occasionaf' drink of wh:s-
key:
start saloon in your own house
Be the only customer you'll have
no license to pay). Go to your wife
and give her two dollars to buy a
gallon of whiskey, and remember
there are sixty-nine drinks in gall
lon. Buy your drinks from no one
but your wife, and by the time the
first gallon is gone she will have
eight dollars to put into the bank
and two dollars to start business
again. Should you live ten years
and continue to buy booze from her,
and then die with snakes in your
boots, she will have enough money
to bury you decently, educate your
children, buy a house and lot,
marry decent man and quit think
ing about you entirely"
As Sam Jones Saw It.
Only the rare evangelist today is
without a booze" sermon. This
fight against strong drink has begot-
ten a new militancy in the ministry.
One of the pioneer preachers to fight
liquor. and the man whose influence.
even after his death, made Georgia
dry" was Sam Jones. The modern
sociological expression of the temper
ance question has never done anything
more compelling than this anecdote
of Jones:
A man once said to Sam Jones:
THE church is getting my assessment
too high"
Jones asked: How much do you
pay?"
Five dollars year." was the reply.
WELL said Jones. "how long have
you been converted ?"
About four years." was the answer.
What did you do before you were
converted"
| 'I was a drunkard."
How much did you spend for
drink?''
About $3.50 a year.
How much were you WORTH"
ST rented land and plowed a
steer
What have you got now?"
Il have a good plantation and a
pair of horses ---'aa- azas
Well" said Sam Jones. you paid
the devil $3.50 a year for the privilege
of blowing a steer on rented land. and
1 now you don't want to give the Lord
who saved you, SIS a year for the privi-
lege of blowing horses on your own
plantation! You are rascal from the
crown of your head to the soles OF
your feet!'
The Nations Real Wealth.
War has taught the nations that
real wealth is man-wealth. The rich
est country is the one with the great
est store of best manhood and woman
hood. Whatever hurts 1t in the char
acter of it's youth Injuries a country
most previously. THE Christian
World of Cleveland, touches, in prac-
teal fashion, upon this phase of the
temperance issue:
Life insurance experts figure
that each young man and wom-
an of good habits and sound
physique is an asset to the nation
as producer or conserver of wealth
to the amount of $4,000. There are
in the United States 100000 chill
dren and young people under rs
years of age At $4,000 apiece they
are an asset of $4,000 O0,O 900. In
mere dollars and cents the youth OF
our nation are worth more than our
iron, our silver, our gold; more than
the cattle on thousand hills; more
than the grain from a million fields
And the legalized liquor traffic is
the ruthless destroyer of youth. 1t
begins the work of destruction be-
fore birth, handicaps boys and girls
physically and morally, and renders
tens of thousands not only unable to
produce or conserve their quota of
$4,000, but makes of them depen-
Q0nCS anu uIOCSlA dt'fSS, OSCAAo
mic loss to the nation and a men
ace to it's stability"
OF course, this is no new discovery
Nearly century and a half ago Oliver
Goldsmith wrote:
I'm all the towns and countries I
have seen, never saw a city or
village vet, whose miseries were not
| in proportion to the number of its
nublic houses Ale houses
are ever an occasion of debauchcry
oil Iasal
or religious light, it would be our
highest interest to have them sup