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The Saloon

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 26, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 39.

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The Saloon

By Bishop Luther B. Wilson

It takes two centuries to transform the savage into a citizen. Let the saloon do its work, and it takes but a single hour to transform the citizen into the savage.
No moral issue is ever a local issue. If you have not the saloon here (in Leicestershire), you are not freed from this responsibility.
It costs one hundred, five hundred dollars, and in some places one thousand dollars or more to get a license to sell liquor. Young manhood and young womanhood really must be of great value in this country of ours, where it costs these sums of money to sell intoxicating drink. It seems to me like putting humanity on the bargain counter, and selling the boys and girls dirt cheap.
So long as in this land the saloon is “legalized,” every hand that keeps the license there is stained with the blood of all those who are victims of its iniquity.
We speak of wifehood and motherhood—motherhood, next to Jesus, the sweetest word of all the language; but never sing the praises of motherhood until you are ready to go out and grapple with that monster of iniquity that is draping all the windows of her heart in mourning.—Bishop Luther B. Wilson.