Several rounds of drinks are expensive, but the people can sit through as many repetitions of this programme as they desire, for one entrance fee.

The dominant genius of the moving picture place is not a gentleman with a red nose and an eye like a dead fish, but some producer who, with all his faults, has given every person in the audience a seven-leagued angel-and-demon telescope.
Since I have announced myself a farmer and a puritan, let me here list the saloon evils not yet recorded in this chapter.

They are separate from the catalogue of the individualistic woes of the drunkard that are given in the Scripture.

The shame of the American drinking place is the bar-tender who dominates its thinking.

His cynical and hardened soul wipes out a portion of the influence of the public school, the library, the self-respecting newspaper.