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Updated: June 18, 2025
I was introduced with proper solemnity to the saloon-keeper a very important personage, for this was before the days when saloon-keepers became merely the mortgaged chattels of the brewers and he began to cross-examine me, a little too much in the tone of one who was dealing with a suppliant for his favor.
I went to see Johnny Heinhold in the Last Chance, and I went to borrow money. And right here is another phase of John Barleycorn. Saloon-keepers are notoriously good fellows. On an average they perform vastly greater generosities than do business men. When I simply had to have ten dollars, desperate, with no place to turn, I went to Johnny Heinhold.
Feelings of friendliness for the incumbent of the office to give Lockwin a sufficient excuse for inaction. The incumbent dies suddenly a week later. "You must run to save the party," the committeemen announce. A day later the matter is settled. The great editors are seen; the boss of the machine is satisfied; the ward-workers and the saloon-keepers are infused with party allegiance.
They were paid by the saloon-keepers, paid by the bullies, paid by the women themselves. At last they were forced to move." "I read about it in the papers that came on board in Honolulu," said Dr Macphail. "Iwelei, with its sin and shame, ceased to exist on the very day we arrived. The whole population was brought before the justices.
Any proposed restriction on the license will not merely scare a lot of saloon-keepers, who will only understand that it sounds unfriendly, but it will alienate every brewer and distiller, for their interest is to see saloons multiplied. Then food and tenement legislation always stirs up bad feeling in the dealers and owners.
He reads the man accurately, he knows him better than he knows himself, and he effects a cure. "This astonishing condition is certainly a new light for those seeking to labor among men. Those who are successful gamblers, pugilists, pickpockets, saloon-keepers, book-makers, jockeys and the like are so by reason of their intelligence, their innate mental acumen and perception.
And it does not make a fellow appear any better even to himself to condemn a cause that condemns his faults. Saloon-keepers are engaged in an enterprise which in itself is lawful; the same can be said of those who buy and sell poisons and dynamite and fire-arms. The nature of his merchandise differentiates his business from all other kinds of business, and his responsibilities are of the heaviest.
All the workers in the mining-camps went to bed early, tired out with their hard day's work with pick and shovel, slept soundly, and arose early the next morning to begin another day of toil. Only the drones the gamblers, the saloon-keepers, and their foolish patrons burned the midnight oil, or, rather in this case, the midnight candle, for there was little oil to burn in these camps.
Go on girlie, pitch in, we-uns would like to hear from the likes of you, cause we know you," etc. The precious girl! How she enthused all of us as she told the wonderful story and implored them to seek the Savior! Always we finished with prayer. Even bar-tenders, saloon-keepers, and women overseers over the girls in the various dives were touched by Lucy's brief messages from God.
Kennedy had sneered a little at Peter's talk about the "best man," and about "helping the ward," and had only found that Peter's ideas had value after he had been visited by various of the saloon-keepers, seen the vast torchlight meeting, and heard the cheers at Peter's arguments.
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