The saloon is an infidel. It has no faith in God; has no
religion. It would close every church in the land. It would
hang its beer signs on the abandoned altars. It would close
every public school. It respects the thief and it esteems the
blasphemer; it fills the prisons and the penitentiaries.

It cocks the highwayman's pistol. It puts the rope in the
hands of the mob. It is the anarchist of the world, and its
red flag is dyed with the blood of women and children;
it sent the bullet through the body of Lincoln; it nerved
the arm that sent the bullets through Garfield and William
McKinley. Yes, it is a murderer.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

BILLY SUNDAY

Undoubtedly the church and the saloon originated in pre-
historic times -- probably simultaneously. And they have
been rivals ever since. Man first began to pray to his idols.
The priest gathered around him under his sacred tree or in
his sanctified cave those whom he could induce to believe
in the "gods" while the preparer of the real joys of life
required no argument to induce people to trade with him.
So the saloon man had the advantage from the start.

BREWER'S JOURNAL, 1910

Somehow or another, Hinnissy, it don't seem just right
that there shud be a union iv church an' saloon. These two
gr-teat institutions ar-re best kept apart. They kind iv
offset each other, like th' Supreem Coort an' Congress.
Dhrink is a nicissry evil, nicissry to th' clargy. If they iver
admit it's nicissry to th' consumers they might as well close
up th' churches.

FINLEY PETER DUNNE

My objection to the saloon-keeper is the same that I have
to the louse -- he makes his living off the head of a family.

SAM P. JONES

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