BY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.] [Illustration] PROTECT THAT BOY. The controllers of the liquor traffic understand their business. They know that they are sending an army of drunkards each year to an untimely grave and to take the place of these fallen victims, they must gain recruits from the hosts of youth. But the Rum haunts are too hideous to beguile one of tender years. There must be less offensive sins offered to bridge that long leap from innocence to iniquity, from the home hearth to the dram shop. Therefore, the rum-seller goes in league with the vendor of cigarettes, and base literature, and evil pictures, and questionable games and entertainments. At last the youthful victims of these plotters find themselves on the threshold of ruin. Every avenue through crime and vice leads at last to the open saloon. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. _Psalms 89:45._ [Illustration: COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO. PROTECT THAT BOY.] [Illustration] DON’T SHOOT. It would be easy to destroy the liquor traffic were it not for its power in politics. This is so apparent to the men who manage it that they make it their first business to engage in politics and lay candidates for office under obligations by making generous contributions to the campaigns of each party. Therefore, whenever a cry of robbery or murder goes up from the licensed saloon and the government grabs bayonet and ballot and runs to the rescue, the political managers immediately step forth and intervene. Don’t Shoot, they both cry; Let him rob and ruin. He is a friend of mine and he has a license. And he said unto them; Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. _Gen. 24:56._ [Illustration: COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO. DON’T SHOOT.] [Illustration] THE PARTY COLLAR. The influence of the saloon in politics is not entirely due to the political boss who makes the gin-mill his headquarters. He would be powerless for harm were it not for the infinite multitude of so-called respectable voters who degrade their intelligence and dignity by working and voting shoulder to shoulder with social outlaws. Under a false notion of fealty these men subject their neck to the party collar and go to the polls yoked with ignorance and crime, and at the heels of some low-browed political dictator they sacrifice their country’s weal on the altar of partisan allegiance. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. _Isaiah 9:16._ [Illustration: COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO. WHY OUR CITIES ARE BADLY GOVERNED.] [Illustration] A NIGHT’S WORK.