articles of ordinary food or to determine their hours of sleeping and waking; that, if the government can prohibit the use of intoxicating beverages, it can also prohibit the drinking of cold water. If any one is the least skeptical as to the court having said these things, he is referred to the 6th Indiana report, pages 519 and 520 and the 8th Indiana report, pages 558 and 564.

In the exercise of its general knowledge and judicial capability, in 1893, the court declared that the saloon is dangerous to public and private morals and dangerous to the public peace and good order of society, but yet, with Damonic faithfulness, it declared that, in spite of these dangers, the saloon has the same legal basis as the drygoods store, the hardware store and the grocery store.

In 1907, the same court, still possessing its general knowledge and judicial capability, declared that evil and danger to the peace and good order of society attend and inhere in the saloon, and that it everywhere tends to pernicious and evil results, but yet, notwithstanding all this, it is still right and legitimate.

In fifty-two years, the temperance army has gained one battle in the Supreme Court of Indiana, the court has changed its estimate of the saloon. If another battle were won, and the court would apply to the saloon, as it now estimates it, the logical legal principle, the conquest would be completely won. To win this battle, there must be a conquest of public sentiment. In this conquest the most helpful ally is an honest faithful public press, and the most deadly enemy is a corrupt, purchasable press.

There has been no more certain progress upon any phase of the saloon problem than in the improved tone of the press. Recently practically all of the Indiana newspapers received from the Anheuser-Busch brewery of St. Louis, a proposition to run a thousand-inch advertisement of Budweiser beer and a defense of the saloon. To the credit of the press of the state, the proposition was almost universally declined. It was published in ful by the two leading Indianapolis papers, and this pretty accuratey discloses the state of this battle for the elevation of public sentiment. The country press, as a rule, is on the side of the home as against the saloon, but, with few exceptions, the metropolitan press is as subject to purchase, as the opinion of a medical expert. But, the battle for the application to the saloon, of the principle of law, merited by pursuits of its character, will be won just as certainly as was the engagement that changed it from the cold water catalog to the catalog of contagious perils.

If there were a proposition to foist upon any community a new pursuit, of which it could be clearly demonstrated that it would naturally inflict a tithe of as much misery, anguish, pauperism, moral degredation and crime, upon society, as does the saloon, there is not a respectable court in the land that would not enjoin its establishment on the ground that it is within itself a nuisance. The fact that the saloon is hoary with age, is Sampsonian in political power and has the support of centuries of blind judicial precedents will not forever secure to it judicial protection. An anaesthetized public con

science is fast wakening from its unnatural slumbers. The time is rapidly approaching, when, in the face of an aroused public sentiment, no court can be found that will have the brazen hardihood to hold that a pursuit, which, like the wolf, crouches by the cradle, waiting for an opportunity to attack the purity of babyhood; a pursuit that necessitates a police force in any community, where it exists, to maintain order; a pursuit that robs homes of their rightful tranquility and makes heart rending partings; a pursuit that is the prolific mother of disease, of gambling dens and of the social evil; a pursuit that makes little, innocent children hungry, cold and sad; a pursuit that seduces the innocence of youth and despoils the purity of woman, that causes murder and all the nameless crimes of depravity, that fills poorhouses, orphanages, insane asylums, jails and penitentiaries, that has caused so much misery, woe and anguish among the people that the heavens are almost draped in mourning, is right and legitimate.

And, then the courts that have placed the institution upon the same legal footing with the coldwater fountain, the lemonade stand, the ice-cream parlor, the drygoods store and the bakery, will be remembered with the same derision as are the courts that have regarded slavery, dueling, gambling and prostitution as right and legitimate.

CHAPTER XXIV

SALOON PROVERBS AND TRUISMS

State Senator Mattingly, the high license champion of Indiana

"Fully ninety per cent. of all crime can be justly traced to the use of intoxicating liquor."

Father Doyle, of New York

"Of all the evils that have cursed mankind, crushed woman's heart, sent youth to destruction, driven virtue to the haunts of shame and paved the pathway to hell there is nothing that can compare with the evil of intoxicating drink."

General Booth

"Nine-tenths of our poverty, squalor, vice and crime spring from this poisonous tap root. Society, by its habits, customs, and laws, has greased the slope down which these poor creatures slide to perdition."

Cardinal Manning

"For thirty years I have been priest and bishop in London, and now I approach my eightieth year. I have learned some lessons, and the first thing is this: the chief bar to the working of the Holy Spirit of God in the souls of men and women is intoxicating drink. I know no antagonist to that Holy Spirit more direct, more subtle, more stealthy, more ubiquitous than intoxicating drink."

Richard Cobden

"The temperance cause is the foundation of all social and political reform."

Neal Dow

"The liquor traffic exists in this country only by the sufferance of the Christian Churches. They are masters of the situation so far as the abolition of the traffic is concerned. When they say 'Go,' and vote 'Go,' it will go. The saloon would destroy the church, if it could; the church could destroy the saloon, if it would."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Every year I live increases my conviction that the use of intoxicating drinks is a greater destroying force to life and virtue than all other physical evils combined."

Senator Cammack, of Tennessee

"I am weary of saloon domination. I am weary of the saloon's open alliance with vice, its open contempt of law. I am weary of a condition of things where the man whose business it is to make the laws must hold his office by consent of the man whose business it is to break the laws."

Henry Watterson

"Every office, from the President's down, is handed out over the saloon counter."

London Times

"The use of strong drink produces more idleness, crime, disease, want, misery, than all other causes put together."

Bishop Foss

"As a Christian minister I oppose drink, because it opposes me. The work I try to do, it undoes. It is an obstacle to the spread of the Gospel; nay, it is an enemy which assails the Gospel, and whose