Evening journal., 1916-01-24

I'm protest against its infamy puts
his property and his life in jeopardy
The saloon will try to destroy your
business. smirch your reputation and
befonl the GOOD name Of yourself and
family with the most damnable lies
and SANDER II will use the dyna-
mite or pistol or dagger. Very
rarely win Il fight in the open, but
will. like the black hand assassin,
stab YOU I'm the dark. There is nothing
too low or contemplate for IL to un-
dertake.
A wife whose husband had Just
recently broken away from the drink
habit. bad accepted Christ. and was
getting a great victory told me that
one Monday night a bartender and a
hangerOn OF saloon came down to
their home, bringing some bottles Of
whisky and for an hour, by cOaxing
and persuading. tried TO induce him
TO take a drink. Said she. 81 was in
the next room. pacing up and down
the floor, weeping and praying. I
feared my reason would be de-
throned What would you have
doneg" said she TO me. What would
] have done?' ] replied II would
have picked mp a dining-room chair
and gone in there and hammered
those miserable devils over the head
until they cried for mercy"
You might have seen sight some
years ago in a Chicago hospital.
which would have made your blood
run cold. Little did young man
-. frt ~ n
sipation what the terrible results
would be. He became a confirmed
drunkard. lie married a beautiful
young woman and one after the other
three little girls came into the home,
but the husband and father went
from bad to worse. His wife died OF
broken heart The Oldest OF the
three, a child OF eleven. tried to take
her mothers place, keep house for
her father and care for her little
sisters. One morning the father re-
turned from a night Of drunken de-
bauch The daughter did not have
breakfast ready. and, in his insane
frenzy he grabbed the little girl by
her arms and thrust her hands into
+ the blazing fire of the cook stove,
/ holding them there amidst her
i shrieks and screams until her hands
we're burned off almost to the ell
bows.
If you could have seen that child
1 as she lay on a cot in west side
/ hospital. holding up the stumps OF
/ her two arms. with that face drawn
I hy that intense torture. no matter
what your past ideas had been. you
/ would have vowed then and there
! eternal enmity against the accursed
liuuOr traffic. which is the devils
best friend and Gods worst enemy. II
Is hell in this life. this accursed
drink. DO you say that you can
either drink or leave it alone2 Then
for Gods sake. leave II alone, for
soon its hold upon You will be 50
strong that II will not leave you
alone You cannot in your OWL
strength break the power. You neeC
the help OF Jesus Christ. Receive
Him today as your Saviour and YOU
Lord, and through Him you will gain
glorious victory.
The battle is ON in our land, fron
ocean TO ocean, and from the lake
} to the gulf Already eighteen state
have declared the saloon Outlawed
and forty-two millions OF our peopl
arc living on ground freed from tn
legalized liquor traffic. I'm the pas
two years. saloons have been drivel
out at the rate Of forty per day Blu
the battle is but begun. All the vas
! wealth and vested interests and po
litical power OF the saloon business
is being organized as never before Il
destroy all opposition. On the on
side is vice and avarico and shame
On the other side Is the home will
millions of praying mothers pleading
with God and man to save their chill
dren from the curse Of drink; there
is the church. the Christian workers
the Bible. and above all, the Son o
God. Himself. our Leader and on
Lord. who came and toiled, an'
served. and fought vice and gree'
and gave HIS life a ransom for sin
The call is sounded today who is o
the Lords side?"