Saloons as an Offset to Intemperance
At a late temperance convention in Boston it was suggested as an offset to intemperance that saloons might be opened where innocent games, smoking, and perhaps lager beer, might be tolerated. To this the Christian at Work aptly replies: " Well, that is turning the donkey round in the shafts, head to the cart, and then starting him up. We should make backward progress very fast. Many communities have tried this brilliant suggestion, and now would like to reverse their donkey. We can only explain such a suggestion on the supposition that the idea came to the speaker as a very weighty and profound idea, even 'a Boston notion,' and struck him so hard that it knocked the senses out of him."