Taking away the saloon does not take away any man’s personal privilege, so far as using anything he pleases is concerned. It takes away the privilege of keeping haunts of vice to allure the weak and unwary, places where all manner of criminality is inspired and concocted. In this item we call attention to the compelling of men to drink. At first thought you may conclude that this is all imagination, but it is not. “Come and take a drink with me;” “Aren’t you going to treat? I treated last;” “Well, boys, let us go and have something.” These, and others of like import, are expressions that lure many to drink when they really do not want to drink. But it is the fashion. How often men say, “No, I do not want a drink now,” but are nevertheless cajoled into it by their “friends”! If one refuses, the saloon man says, “You are taking a shingle off my house; I’ll remember that.” Many, many times, men who do not want to drink, who have vowed they would not drink that day, are tempted by the treating custom to take a drink. Then the obligation to treat again urges on to further indulgence till the desire arises, and is past resistance. How many times the victim begins a protracted “spree” by the urgency of companions to drink, against his will and better judgment! Were it not for the treating custom there would not be a tithe of the drinking that there is, and many a poor victim would be the better able to break away. And this custom is an outgrowth of the saloon. Take away the saloon, and the inclination of men to drink will be greatly reduced. Many often drink in company, if a saloon is convenient, when otherwise they would not think of it, would not want it. Why not do away with these temptations to throw away money, waste time, and destroy reason? “Wo unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also,” Hab. 2:15.