Revoking of a Saloon License. For several weeks the city council has been considering the question: "Shall a certain saloon license be revoked?" We, the undersigned pastors in this city, ask an unprejudiced hearing of the reason why we raised the question, and why we insist on a right and legal answer to it. No men in the community study the problem of the sale and use of intoxicating liquor, as do those engaged in the active ministry. Some men may count up the sum total paid into the city treasury by those who take licenses, and vainly think that the city is making a good bargain: some men may look at the buildings saloon-keepers erect and draw the illogical conclusion that the city is thus being improved; some may even dream that the saloon makes all business better: but pastors, visiting the sick, the poor, the sorrowing, the fallen, burying the dead, some of whom died in dishonor, see results of the saloon business that compel them to be forever antagonistic it, and determine them to decrease the evil following out of it, as far as they can.
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Revoking of a Saloon License. For several weeks the city council has been considering the question: "Shall a certain saloon license be revoked?" We, the undersigned pastors in this city, ask an unprejudiced hearing of the reason why we raised the question, and why we insist on a right and legal answer to it. No men in the community study the problem of the sale and use of intoxicating liquor, as do those engaged in the active ministry. Some men may count up the sum total paid into the city treasury by those who take licenses, and vainly think that the city is making a good bargain: some men may look at the buildings saloon-keepers erect and draw the illogical conclusion that the city is thus being improved; some may even dream that the saloon makes all business better: but pastors, visiting the sick, the poor, the sorrowing, the fallen, burying the dead, some of whom died in dishonor, see results of the saloon business that compel them to be forever antagonistic it, and determine them to decrease the evil following out of it, as far as they can.