cease in our country? When our representatives in Congress, or
lawmakers, stand for the abolition of the American saloon, and vote
it out of existence; then, and not until then, will drunkenness cease.
When will we have representatives in Congress, lawmakers who will
stand for the abolition of the saloon, and who will vote it out of
existence? Not until you and I have select them, and place them there
with our vote. To expect Christian temperance in our country from
any other source is absolute folly.

The abolition of drunkenness by local option is selfish, unpractical,
and unscriptural. You vote the liquor-traffic out of your town; we
vote it in ours. Remember every saloon exists only by vote of the
people. Your young people come over to our town for drink. We have
the curse of God upon us. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink." (Hab. Ii, 15.) It is unpractical, for so long as intoxicants are
made they will be sold. It is selfish, for to vote against the saloon in
your town election, and to vote for it in your State or National election,
is to drive the mad-dog on past your door to the door of your neighbor,
when you might have killed him.

The abolition of drunkenness by regulating the traffic through license
is the most gigantic delusion that Satan ever worked upon an intelligent
people. It is a well-known truth that "limitation is the secret of power."
The best way to provoke an early marriage between devoted lovers is
bitterly to oppose them. The stream whose water spreads over its low
banks is without depth and current and power. But confine the waters
between high, narrow banks, the bed of the stream is deepened, and
its mighty current supports animal life and turns the wheels of mill
and factory. The regulation of the liquor-traffic by license makes it
a financial and political power second to none in America to-day. To