Evening journal., 1916-01-24

saloon has no more right TO faunt
the American flag than a hog has to
wear a white shirt After befouling
the name saloon" now many booz-
cries wish to be known as cafes"
A booze joint has no more right or
reason to be called a cafe than a
skunk has to be called a kitten.
The liquor leagues are talking about
better saloons. You might as well
talk about better rattlesnakes, better
rotten eggs, better burglars and bet
ter murderers. A brewer said at the
last National Brewers convention,
I'VE must get respectable men to
run saloons" You could no more
get a respectable man to run a sa-
loon than you could expect a wax
dog to catch an asbestos cat running
through hell.
There has been a great change in
| public sentiment on the liquor busi-
ness In the last one hundred years.
In the first temperance society Of
| America, the only pledge they asked
them to sign was that they would not
| get drunk more than three times a
year Now business sentiment is
making the drinker an Outcast. All
respectable fraternal orders are bar
ring him from membership. Every
church in Christendom has de-
clared against the traffic. Said Mar
tin Luther, Whoever was the first
beer brewer brought plague into
Germany. I have been praying God
that He would destroy the whole
brewery business" Said Archbishop
ireland. of the Catholic church, THE
greatest cause OF crime is drink The
greatest cause of poverty Is drink.
When ] hear OF a family brokensup
! ask the cause. The answer Is
drink. Then | ask myself in per-
feet wondermont. Why do not men
put a stop TO this thing?
Said William J. Bryan. "Tho sa-
loon is "a nuisance. The evil can no
! more be confined TO the building in
which II exists than the odor OF n
slaughter house to tho block in
which it is located. / know. and you
know. that they are i'm league with
every other form of evil in society.
Tho saloon is the bureau OF informa-
iion for every sort OF crime II Is
the first place that policeman looks
for crime and the last place he would
go to look for virtue"
Said Abraham Lincoln in his great
Galena speech, "rhe union cannot
permanently exist. half slave and
half free" So can we well say our
, nation cannot permanently endure.
half drunk and half sober. Neither
can the church and the saloon both
permanently endure. One or tho
other must 60 down. On which side
, are YOU going to line up?
Liquor leaders have tried TO cx-
cuse their Internal business by cit
ing the miracle OF Jesus I'm turning
+ the water into wine. But the Christ
that went about healing the sick. car
ing for the unfortunate and giving
? His life a loving sacrifice for a lost
, world. would never have made ans
drink that would produce the deadly
, damning results that beer and whis.
q ky does. But someoue urges, "Dlt
not Paul advise Timothy to take {
, little wine for his stomachs sake? p
r Just as a physician now prescribel
a small amount OF strychnine OF il
= special cases for heart disease. so IL
4 the absence OF better remedy Pau
a prescribed a small portion OF win
r. I'm case OF acute indigestion. Blu
. does that medical prescription Civ
4 any one the license to MI up on
10 lot Of poisonous booze and max
n himself fighting drunk?
~ Said one travelling man TO anothe
is the other day, on a train coming OF
n from Chicago, when the other offel
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