Not long ago there were found on one street in Chicago twenty kindergarten saloons. These places were fitted up with small furniture, toys, hobby horses, and picture books, and the children were enticed to come in and play. They were at first given sweetened wine to cultivate a taste for liquor, and were induced by the proprietors to coax other children into the trap. How many other such snares for little feet are running in Chicago is only a matter of conjecture; how many others are running in other parts of the world cannot be known. But it is certain that this is the carrying out of a concerted scheme of the great liquor interests to debauch the children of the rising generation, and make them its slaves practically from the cradle to the grave. Some time ago a warning was thrown out at a great convention of the liquor interests that unless something was done to create an appetite, a taste, for strong drink in the boys and girls that are now coming up to young manhood and young womanhood, the trade would lose heavily; it was pointed out that in schools and in the home many of the children were educated away from liquor, and something must be done to overcome this. Sprinkling refuse liquors on the sidewalks in front of saloons is an old device to fire the appetite of those who had already learned to drink. But that did not particularly reach the children. This new device of Satan is for the undoing of the children in particular. Thus for the sole purpose of increasing business, little girls and boys are lured into these antechambers of ruin. It is a cold-blooded and deliberate design to carry the contamination of the liquor evil down to the unsuspecting babe, so that the first pennies he earns may flow into the saloon keeper's till, gradually increasing in volume as his ability to earn becomes greater. It is hard to conceive of a more dreadful conspiracy against babyhood than the discovery of the kindergarten saloon has brought to light. This alone condemns the whole liquor business, from the vats in which the liquor is brewed to the bar and the dive where it is retailed to the victims of that slavery. Parents should make note of this new conspiracy against the bodies and souls of their children.—Signs of the Times.