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A. I. Root 



Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 

 reap.— UAL. 6 : 7. 



And Jesus answered and said unto them, I tell 

 you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones 

 would immediately cry out.— Luke 19:40. 



You may have noticed, friends, that we 

 are having quite a few lay sermons; and 

 some of these lay sermons are stirring the 

 world. I gave, a short time ago, one from 

 our Mr. Hallock; and this, it seems, has 

 helped to stir up a sermon I ani going to 

 giv^e you from an editor of a daily paper. I 

 am not surprised at these telling protests 

 from the people. It has seemed to me for 

 some time that, if politicians and men of 

 great wealth continue to hold their peace, 

 as we have it in the second of our texts 

 above, the result would be, in the language 

 of the Savior, that the very stones in the 

 pavements would begin to cry out. I have 

 a good friend who reads CIleanings away 

 off in Phoenix, Ariz., and he introduced the 

 speaker to our American i)eoi)le. And now 

 1 take great pleasure in giving to the world 

 a sermon that, for potency and pungency, 

 and especially cutting truths "right from 

 the shoulder," has seldom been excelled in 

 any of our temperance talks and crusades, 

 so far as I am acquainted with matters: 



Mr. A. I. Hoot .—The Anti-saloon people of Mari- 

 copa Co., Arizona, are in the midst of a campaign 

 against the saloons and liquor interests. What 

 their chances of success are I have not been a resi- 

 dent here long enough to say, but hope the saloons 

 will be put out of commission. Any way, it will be 

 decided on the 18th of this month— April. 



At the time this campaign started, there was in 

 course of construction the Adams Hotel, a 8300,000 

 building. Mr. J. C. Adams, the main stockholder, 

 is, I believe, the son of a minister; but as a threat 

 and protest against the Anti-saloon campaign he 

 stopped the work and turned all the men otf, say- 

 ing that a hotel would not pay if built in a dry 

 town. It is reported that his mother is heartbro- 

 ken over the stand he has taken. We suppose that 

 saloon money has paid him to do this. 



The leading daily paper (The Arizona Gazette, of 

 Phcenix, which claims to have the largest circula- 

 tion of any paper in Arizona) has come out straight 

 with the Anti-saloon League against the whisky 

 interests, although by so doing they are making 

 strong enemies of all those who side with the liquor 

 business, and have even been threatened with boy- 

 cott, etc. 



After reading your Home paper in Gleanings 

 for April 1st, where you mentioned the Adolphus 

 Busch incident, we copied said piece and sent it to 

 the Gazette, asking if they could use any extracts 

 from your piece in the Anti-saloon campaign now 

 in progress. I herewith send you a clipping from 

 the Gazette, showing how they used the same. They 

 also wrote us a letter, thanking us very much for 

 the article. 



Phamix, Ariz. J. I. & G. E. Morgan. 



The following is the extract referred to : 



THE SALOON MUST GO. 



Down in BInghamton, N. Y., lives a man named 

 .Tones. This man is a manufacturer. He is engag- 

 ed in making scales, which he ships all over the 

 country. Year's ago he adopted an advertising slo- 

 gan, and that slogan has become a by-word in eve- 

 ry part of this great country. Every newspaper 

 reader has read, "' .Jones, he pays the freight." 



Voters of Maricopa County, who pays the saloon 

 freight? 



For the past several days the saloon people have 

 been regaling us with stories of their beneficence. 

 The.v have told about the taxes they dump into the 

 city treasury; and they strongly intimate that, if it 



were not for the saloons, Phcenix would be a total 

 loss with no insurance. 



Of course this is all humbug, and the ranker sort 

 of humbug at that. The expense of the saloons, as 

 every intelligent man knows, is vastly greater than 

 the amount collected in taxes. To be explicit, it is 

 $42,000 a year greater for this city alone. 



But who pays this revenue? Do the saloons pay 

 it? They don't contribute a dollar of that sum. 



That money is the price of drunkenness. It is the 

 price of poverty and want. It is the price of wreck- 

 ed homes and hungry children. It is the price of 

 broken manhood and broken hearts. It is the price 

 of promises broken, of vows unfilled. It is the 

 price of degraded womanhood. It is the price of 

 crime, of misery, and of want. And the heart- 

 broken wives and mothers, and the poor underfed 

 children— they are the people who pay this tax. 



When .ludas Iscariot betrayed the Savior with a 

 kiss he performed an act of effrontery that has but 

 one parallel in the world's history; and that ijaral- 

 lel is furnished by the saloon man when he walks 

 over the broken hearts of his victims, dumps tJieir 

 money into the city treasury, and with a smirk 

 that would do credit to the arch hypocrite him- 

 self says, " See what I am doing for your town." 



Yes, Mr. Saloon Man, the people of Phoenix see 

 what you are doing for this town. They see it eve- 

 ry time they take a look at Whisky Row. They see 

 it every time you send another victim to the peni- 

 tentiary. They see it every time you furnish an- 

 other inmate for the insane-asylum. They see it at 

 the crowded poor-farm. They see It at the county 

 jail, where twenty-eight of your product were sent 

 in a single day. There is no doubt about it — the 

 people see what you are doing for this town. 



What is said to have been the most elaborate 

 golden-wedding anniversary ever celebrated any- 

 where in the world took place in Pasadena. Califor- 

 nia, March 7, with Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch as 

 the central figures. 



The most beautiful and costly of the presents was 

 a diadem presented to Mrs. Busch by her husband. 

 It is described as a crown of gold studded with dia- 

 monds and pearls, and valued at $200,000. It was 

 made in Frankfort, Germany. The reports state 

 that at the wedding feast at the Busch mansion 

 Mrs. Busch was crowned, and given a seat beside 

 her husband, on a miniature throne. 



The presents received by the couple were worth 

 S500.000. Who paid the freight? 



Adolphus Busch is one of the wealthiest brewers 

 in the United States; and, having made his mil- 

 lions in beer, he has gone to the prohibition town 

 of Pasadena to live. His beer is sold all over the 

 country. It is sold in Phoenix. The men and wo- 

 men and children of this city helped pay for the 

 diadem with which his wife was crowned. But you 

 don't notice the wives of any of Mr. Busch's Phoe- 

 nix customers wearing diamond-studded crowns, 

 do you? 



Here is the way T. P. Hallock sizes it up: 



" For the brewer's wife, a'crown of diamonds; for 

 Jesus Christ, a crown of thorns: and wliat of the 

 wives of the drunkards who have so generously 

 poured their pennies, dimes, and dollars into this 

 wife-crowning brewer's purse? Will they wear gold- 

 en crowns? " 



Rev. Charles F. Aked, one of the greatest preach- 

 ers in this country, who recently left New York to 

 go to San Francisco because he thovight he could 

 do more good in that city, says: 



" Gather together into one view all the people 

 ycu have ever known or seen or can think of who 

 love the church better than the .saloon: and all the 

 people you have ever known or seen or can think 

 of who love the saloon better than the church. If 

 it could be done, no living human being upon this 

 earth, who is capable of connecting two ideas, 

 would ever need to read one single printed page of 

 argument, either upon the ' Fruits of the Liquor- 

 trafflc ■ or the ' Evidences of Christianity." " 



Dr. Aked is a member of the board of trustees of 

 the Anti-saloon League of New York. 



But T. P. Hallock, who wrote the paragraph quot- 

 ed above, is not an Anti-saloon League man. He 

 has no connection with that organization. So far 

 as the Gazette knows, he is not connected with a 

 church. He is a business man; but he is a business 



