Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1903 — More Saloon Arguments Refuted. [ARTICLE]

More Saloon Arguments Refuted.

Another argument is that as long as whiskey is manufactured men will drink and it will be sold, therefore license it and receive a revenue from the sale of it. It is granted that as long as whiskey is made some men will drink it, but that it should be lioensed and a revenue received from it is cot granted. It is not beooming in a community or nation that oalls itself ohristian to reoeive revenue from that wbioh endangers public morals and blights the life of many of its oitizens. No one can deny that the use of intoxicating liquors brings about this condition. But while we grant that as long as liquor is manufactured some* people will have it at any coat, we fail to see that this is an argument for the open saloon. These tew inebriates searoh out the liquor. There are many others wbo would not tamper with it were it not for the fact that the open saloon is a constant invitation and temptation