Whisky Saloons and Race Trouble by Nashville Christian Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 16.

Whisky Saloons and Race Trouble

By Nashville Christian Advocate

The nucleus of a race trouble in the South is in almost every case a whisky saloon. The parties to it are usually the most vicious elements of both races. A drunken white man and a drunken negro have in them the conditions of combustion wherever they come in contact. When drunkenness does not exhibit its effects in low fun and obscenity, it is apt to take the form of brutality. The whisky bottle and the pistol are the devil's twin agents. We know of no case in which a race difficulty has originated among the sober, respectable element of either race. The respectable, industrious element of both races could live together to the end of time without serious trouble.—Nashville Christian Advocate.