WHY I AM AGAINST THE SALOON.
1 am against the saloon because it I all I have and ghrai me no equivalent. I step into a shoe store and purc-huM-nr of shoes; result, my feet are kept warm I step into a elothinp ■too* an<l pureha.se ■ suit of clothes; result, my bod) is protOl-t•■€l from heat or cold. I sf.p into a frtOtn store and purchase bread, meat, potatoes §| ■ result my body is Nd and made strong. I st.-p into a t>ook store and pun t »od hook; result, my mind is fed and eariobOO! 1 >t»-p into a saloon and take a drink. A I wish to be regarded ; ,s a fOOd fallow, I takf another. Soon my brain i.lesvv clear, my hand less steady, and my walk iess firm. Soon my value as a doctor, a lawyer, a merchant, or a w chanic is lessened. By and by I cease to have any economic or social value. Finally I am an outcast anu a wanderer. My opposition to the ■aJOOa and till liquor inJDc is simply a matter of de- \ and manhood. It is .simply saying that I proffer prosperity to poverty, sobriety to drunkenness, and honest dishonesty. It is but an expression of a preference to remain clean and strong and manly, rather than to become a brutish, blear-eyed, stappennß outcast and wreck. -Rev. Wm. C. Burns, in "The Amethyst."
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White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 414, 18 January 1930, Page 14
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