It is a hopeful sign when the daily press begins to moralize on saloons
after the manner of the Sioux Falls _Press_ in the following
extract:
A saloon is a saloon, in whatever light you view it, and if
it all were scuttled and launched upon some limitless and
bottomless lake, not a tear would trickle down our cheeks. A
better saloon? You might as well talk of a better rotten egg,
a better highway robber, a better thief, a better yeggman,
a better bum, a better gambler, a better case of measles,
typhoid-fever, smallpox, erysipelas, a better Five Points, a
better place for the committing of murder, robbery, or any other
shameless crime.
(2824)
See DRINK; DRUNKENNESS; INTEMPERANCE; TEMPERANCE.