The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-31
FOR PROHIBITION
SEyENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS VIC.
OROUSLY OPPOSING THE
LIQUOR TRAFFIC..

LlQtoh IhiFF1Ns
To the Editor: The thousands of
Seventh-day Adventists scattered
throughout this state are making a
systematic campaign against the liq-
uor traffic. Under the leadership OF
s. A. Ruskjer, OF Minneapolis. and
w. b. Payne. gospel workers OF the
denomination, these advocates of
prohibition. are visiting thousands of
homes and leaving copies of a special
temperance number of THE Signs OF
the Times" a church publication.
Hundreds OF dollars worth Of other
temperance literature is being dis
tributed free of charge in efforts to
make South Dakota go dry at the
coming election.
The Seventh-day Adventist denom-
nation has a temperance society on
sisting OF its entire membership, as
one of the requirements before being
taken into church fellowship is that
the candidate shall be a total alb
stainer.
l want to give YOU a few thoughts
concerning our position toward the
liquor traffic, which will also be APP
plicable to the prohibition question
now before the people of South Da-
kota:
8 The American saloon Is a parasite.
II produces suicides. homicides.
owcides and burnt out insides
} on" 1t Is the nations great
m. which has fastened itself
vitals of organized society.
a national disease. and
al remedy to effect a
nr traffic constitutes
1t Is made up of
[ has the saloon
[, the gamblers
Joint, the dance
t, the red light
AL joint. Like
to be crushed,
o IL Is to crush
strong drink Is
ever Is deceived
~" Prov. 20:1.
r. II makes you
m when you are
! believe you are
not. 1t makes the
lat he is strong
and unstable that
push him into the
rim think he Is the
the country. the
the keenest busi-
Jst engaging orator.
q, the finest citizen.
st politician. when he
l., dullest. poorest and
Zen On earth.
Jon lis a consumer n
ali that is good and grand,
a producer of only irreparable
1t has no economic value which
an possibly accrue to the individual
or the nation in final results. The
more Ii induces a man to spend Tor
booze, the less he will have for shoes;
the more he spends for hops. the less
he will have for crops; the more he
spends for wet goods, the less he
will have for dry goods. and the more
he gives the bartender, the less he
will have for the coal vendor The
great majority of people cannot sup
port both their families and the bar
tender, therefore they ought not to
impoverish their families for h ben
eft Of the bartender.
If you stick your finger In a mans
eye he will wink; ii you thrust 1t into
his pocket, he will shrink. The sa-
loon is a robber and an outlaw. and
when it thrusts it's hands into the
American pocket and takes out two
billion dollars annually and returns
no equivalent, ii Is enough to u
the American people to shrink. and
to try by pen, voice and vote to stamp
that traffic out forever.
The liquor men say they are op-
posed to drunkenness, n are In Ia
vor of using the pen and voice in ed
ucating the people, as the legitimate
means OF curing drunkenness. But
instead of cooperating with the tenn
perance forces in properly educating
these drunkards, they spend millions
of dollars in preventing their educa-
ton. They circulate literature and
use the billboards of the country to
carry false information and induce
drunkenness. The liquor men have
never yet issued a single pamphlet
for the benefit of the drunkard that
he might overcome his evil habits /
through education. Ii they do not J
believe in making drunkards, and :
education is the proper cure. why do
they not produce a pamphlet that
will cure drulkards, and spend a lit q
tie money In showing the terrible. :
~irreparable and irredeemable loss of !
manhood and womannood that fol- I
Ing drink? +