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is a power external and hostile to man. He proposes to whip the chair instead of telling baby to use its eyes. He wants to kill the devil, to do away with the monster that threatens him and his hearers. He coddles the criminal who tells him it was drink that ruined him. Will he tell the thieving bank cashier it was the gold that seduced him? Many men have fallen on ac- count of it. It must be a demon. The man is not to be blamed. Views of a Liberal Churchman on the Anti-Saloon Fight. As against this barbaric view of the drink question it is refreshing to find utterances from clergymen who take the modern, civilized, truly moral, and, to my mind, religious view of the matter, as did Selden P. Delaney, dean of All Saints Cathedral in Milwaukee, in a recent editorial sermon in the Evening Wisconsin. In answer to the question, "What attitude ought the Christian to take toward this war on the saloon?" he says, among other very sensible things, that some saloons are not dangerous, and some are, but "the latter are dangerous, not because they sell alcoholic drinks, but because they are run by unscrupulous men, and supported by the vicious classes, who use them as 137 The Rule of "Not Too Much."

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