Title:  Danger; or Wounded in the House of a Friend

Author:  T. S. Arthur

Release Date:  October, 2003 [Etext #4586] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 12, 2002]

Edition:  10

Language:  English

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Danger;

Or, wounded in the house of A friend.

By T. S. Arthur,

Author of “Three years in A man-Trap,” “Cast adrift,” “Ten nights in
A bar-room,” Etc., Etc.

Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis and San Francisco.

1875

PREFACE.

All efforts at eradicating evil must, to be successful, begin as near the beginning as possible.  It is easier to destroy a weed when but an inch above the ground than after it has attained a rank growth and set its hundred rootlets in the soil.  Better if the evil seed were not sown at all; better if the ground received only good seed into its fertile bosom.  How much richer and sweeter the harvest!

Bars and drinking-saloons are, in reality, not so much the causes as the effects of intemperance.  The chief causes lie back of these, and are to be found in our homes.  Bars and drinking-saloons minister to, stimulate and increase the appetite already formed, and give accelerated speed to those whose feet have begun to move along the road to ruin.

In “Three years in A man-Trap” the author of this volume uncovered the terrible evils of the liquor traffic; in this, he goes deeper, and unveils the more hidden sources of that widespread ruin which is cursing our land.  From the public licensed saloon, where liquor is sold to men—­not to boys, except in violation of law—­he turns to the private home saloon, where it is given away in unstinted measure to guests of both sexes and of all ages, and seeks to show in a series of swiftly-moving panoramic scenes the dreadful consequences that flow therefrom.