took a drink with me and we kept on
drinkin' till we thought we were back in auld Ireland at Donnybrook
Fair. Whenever we saw a head we struck it and I suppose this
gintlemin's head came my way. Now here's the case, judge. If I hadn't
taken the whiskey, I wouldn't a been in the row, for I'm always
paceable whin sober; if the saloon hadn't been there I wouldn't have
taken the whiskey; and if the Court hadn't licensed the saloon it
wouldn't have been there. Ye can take the case, sir."

What makes the drunkard? The drink. What supplies the drink? The
saloon. What makes the saloon? The law. Who makes the law? The
legislator. Who makes the legislator? The voter. It's the "House that
Jack built," only I will change the verbage a little. Intemperance is
the fire the devil built. Strong drink is the fuel that feeds the fire
the devil built. Distilleries, breweries and saloons are the axes that
cut the fuel that feeds the fire the devil built. License laws are
molds that cast the axes, that cut the fuel that feeds the fire the
devil built. License voters and legislators are the patentees who
invented the molds that cast the axes that cut the fuel that feeds the
fire the devil built. Prohibition ballots are the sledge hammers
destined to destroy the molds that cast the axes that cut the fuel
that feeds the fire the devil built.

There is a chain of responsibility running through the drink question
which many good men fail to recognize. You know a chain is made up of
links welded together. The drunkard is only one link; he is not a
chain. When you link him to the drink then you begin the chain; the
drunkard comes from the drink. That is not all of the chain however;
the drink is linked to the saloon. If you have the saloon, you have
the drink, you have the drunkard. This is not all of the chain; you
have the license law. If you have the license law, you have the
saloon, you have the drink, you have the drunkard. There is yet
another link; the license law is linked to the license voter. The
drunkard comes from the drink, the drink comes from the saloon, the
saloon from the law, and law from the license voter. Who are the
license voters? Many of them are Christian men on their way to heaven;
but the trouble with them is the other end of the chain is going
another road. "No drunkard can enter the kingdom of heaven."

I know it is a common remark that this is a free country, and if a man
chooses to drink, let him do so and take the