The Gavelyte, December 1908

CEDARVILLE OLLEGE. 171 - -·- -----·--------------·--- The liquor dealers claim they pay the licen e fee. This is a lie; they never have and never will pay a dollar of it. Pour-fifths of the millions of dollar paid for license fees is paid by the laboring clcisses. Not because they drink more of them. The difference between the cost of production and the retail price more than covers the federal license tax and the re– tailer's license fee: The e fee are said to reduce the taxes of the rich but ' not so. It is not the appetite for trong drink that is keeping the aloon in this count}, but the avarice of the rich who blindly suppose their taxes are reduced. 'om day they will realize this and the money, that now pays the"e fet-s, will he $pent for the comfort of wives and children at home, where hunger ancl flqualor are now rampant on every side. ln a parade of liquor men at a recent convention, the United States flag was trailed in the dui:it by a color-bearer too drunk to hold it erect. The shame of it! And yet i not our flag trailed in the dust of dishonor by the liquor traffie. Liquor men de ecrate and profane the American flag by making that banner for which men have fought, sufferect and died, the flag of the noble and patriotic freemen, to become the sign and symbol of di . iµation and riot of Gambrinus and Bacchu.::. It is the duty of every voter to re cue this trailing flag and to keep it floating high for universal libPrty. Our nation is crying out for more religion, more education. These always have and always will go hand in hand. The flood of immigrants, who come annually to our shores, are often illiterate and morally jegraded. Within a few yQars they will receive all the rights of a free-born American citizen. Educated and Christianized they become a bulwark of strength, illiterate and del:!raded they are a menace in our midst. To educate without chang– fog the moral ideas is but to put weapons in their hands for evil. And yet it i a ad fact that our churches are being removed from the lum districts, instead of being placed there. Therefore it behooves our govern– ment to use every mean in her power to bring this element of our poµu- 1~tion up to our high standard of citizenship, that our national life may be Recore. The employment of children of many of our factories robs our schools. These verv childr n ~hould be placed where their minds and hand would be trained for future life work. The children of to-day become th citizens of to-morrow. Do we want a nation dwarfed in childhood becan. e reqnired