The Saloon Worse Than the Bulldog
Nor long since a citizen of Chicago, while on his way home from business, was attacked by two savage bulldogs and severely injured. The neighbors were so incensed that they turned out and shot one of the dogs and hung the other, regardless of the opinions or rights of the owner. There are somewhere about six thousand men in Chicago who are the owners of an animal as much more savage and terrible than these bulldogs as imagination can paint, and they are sending him out to destroy men and women, boys and girls, all over the city. Yet they are protected by license, and the kind-hearted neighbors who would interfere and stop the destruction are denounced as fanatics and cranks. An equal number of bulldogs would not do one-half the damage done by the saloons, for the bulldog is honest and shows his teeth. People would avoid until they could destroy him. The saloon destroys under the guise of friendship. It is more hypocritical, more savage and meaner in every way than the bulldog.—The Lever.