You will cut your head off sure if you come out against them in public.

Why, there's Mr .-- --, and so on (he named half a dozen men) in your church who are up for office in the coming election.

They can't be elected without the votes of the rummies, and they know it.

Better steer clear of it, Mr.Strong.The saloon has been a regular thing in Milton for over fifty years; it is as much a part of the town as the churches or schools; and I tell you it is a power!" "What!" cried Philip, in unbounded astonishment, "do you tell me, you, a leading citizen of this town of 50,000 infinite souls, that the saloon power has its grip to this extent on the civic and social life of the place, and you are willing to sit down and let this devil of crime and ruin throttle you, and not raise a finger to expel the monster?
Is it possible! It is not Christian America that such a state of affairs in our political life should be endured!" "Nevertheless," replied the business man, "these are the facts.

And you will simply dash your own life out against a wall of solid rock if you try to fight this evil.