How They Allure by Temperance Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 43.

How They Allure.

By Temperance Advocate

The New York Sun recently gave a description of some of the leading bar-rooms of New York City, showing some of them to contain from $60,000 to $100,000 each in paintings, statuary, etc., to make the path to perdition attractive and fascinating. These saloons are the product and legitimate outgrowth of the license system. The plea that license "restricts" is utterly false and fallacious. The young men who frequent these gilded pathways to hell are first assured that these places are licensed, legalized, and protected by the strong right arm of the law, and hence are legitimate and necessary to the public good and welfare.

One of these gilded saloons will do more to lure souls down to eternal ruin than a hundred "low dives," that only take the cast-off victims when so debauched of character as not to be fit to associate with the new "customers" which these more "respectable" saloons are constantly receiving. The gilded "saloon must go" in order that the young men may be saved. God and truth and right are stronger than all the world combined.