. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . and condemnation of those who offend thelaw while in a state of insobriety. How any man or womanin favor of the great temperance reform can be so hood-winked as not to understand that this high license movementis the surrender of all the temperance reformation for whichgood men and women have been struggling for the last sixtyyears, is to me an amazement that eclipses everything. High License is the Monopoly of Abomination. Wemust realize as by mathematical demonstration, that theone result of this
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . and condemnation of those who offend thelaw while in a state of insobriety. How any man or womanin favor of the great temperance reform can be so hood-winked as not to understand that this high license movementis the surrender of all the temperance reformation for whichgood men and women have been struggling for the last sixtyyears, is to me an amazement that eclipses everything. High License is the Monopoly of Abomination. Wemust realize as by mathematical demonstration, that theone result of this high license movement, and the oneresult of the closing of small establishments—if that werethe result—and the opening of a few large establishments, 92 HIGH LICENSE, THE MONOPOLY OF ABOMINATION. will be to make rum-selling and rum-drinking highly respec-table. These drinkeries in our own cities are so disgustingthat a man will not risk his reputation by going in them;and if a young man should be found coming out from one ofthose low establishments he would lose his place in the A CONCERT SALOON BAND. Now, suppose all these small establishments are closed upand that then you open the palaces of inebriation down onthe avenues. It is not the ^rookeries of alcoholism that dothe woist work; they are only the last stopping-places on theroad to death. Where did that bloated, ulcerous, wJieezingwretch that staggers out of a rum-hole get his habits started?At glittering restaurant or bar-room of first-class hotel, whereit was fashionable to go. Ah! my friends, it seems to me HIGH LICENSE, THE MONOPOLY OF ABOMINATION. 93 the disposition is to stop these small establishments, whichare only the rash on the skin of the body politic, andthen to gather all the .poison and the pus and the niattera-tion into a few great carbuncles which mean death. I say,give us the rash rather than the carbuncles. Here you will have a splendid liquor of painting on the w
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