HONEST—ANYWAY.
Bishop Potter, working in Lower New York, made an honest attempt to establish and carry’ on a model saloon. After a year's trial, the Bishop gave the job up. and the saloon, “The Subway Tavern,” was sold to a worldly man, who put up the following notices on the walls: — "They sang the Doxology when they opened the place. We’ll sing: ’Here’s to good old wine.* ” "Rum and religion won’t mix any more than oil and water.” "You can’t follow the Ix>rd and chase the devil at the same time.” "A saloon is a place for drink; not W’orship.” "Religion follows rum; It does not go with it hand in hand. A man thinks of religion the morning after.” "You cannot boom drink and temperance too." "Running a saloon by telling people of the deadly effects of rum is like tolling a man to please buy poison be. ’cause the undertaker needs the money." "The best patron of a saloon is the man w’ith the biggest thirst, not the man with the most religion."
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White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 325, 18 July 1922, Page 9
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175HONEST—ANYWAY. White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 325, 18 July 1922, Page 9
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