The Washingtonian., 1845-09-20
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moral and intellectual powers of those who
engage in it. It damns its own agent. Of464
convicts in Ohio State prison, $50 had been
licensed dealers, and had proved good moral
character in order to obtain license! The
license law is an outrage to all decency, and a
disgrace to all Legislation. No man licensed
to sell liquor will ever put out sign indica.
tive of his business. Every device in the world
will be resorted to, to conceal the real busi-
ness, and hold up something else the public
gaze. Sometimes coffee sign is hung out,
though there is not a. particle in the house.,
The liquor seller is the only business man on
earth who is ashamed Of his calling. Often
he puts out the portrait Of Washington over
his cage Of unclean birds, as though young
Washingtons were made there. -
".In Cincinnati, one house has the sign of
David playing on the harp; one place is called
the Sitting on the Rail- house; another the
William Tell honse, though there they shoot
people in the neck with bottle. He called
on the dealers present to get such signs made
as would truly represent the business they
pursued. Give the world specimen of your
manufactured article-a dirty, ragged, mise
rable drunkard-a beggared family-a Jail
or gallows. These are your proper signs to
hang out. a.s" IA.
"A Judge in Ohio said, that Of sixty cases
Of murder which had come before him, every
one resulted from rum. But rumsellers are
also in favor Of temperance. But they don't
like this signing Of the pledge themselves.
Oh, no. They are like the man down east.
A Yankee, in the State Of Maine, one day saw
huge bear running towards his cabin. His
children were in the doorway, and his wife to
protect them seized an axe, met bruin, and
began to beat him over the head. In the
meantime the man had run up into his garret,
but looking out of the window and seeing the
woman belaboring the brute, cried out lay on
Betsey, lay on f3. te 81. .
! :" The noblest specimen of humanity on
earth, is the man who has come up from the
gutter, thrown off the evils that beset him,
and ,he. .manaclss mat bound him. Il is the
man Of whole soul and generous Feelings who
| is always most liable to become drunkard.
1t has become common remark, if parent
has an amiable and accomplished son, that
| he will do well if he don't take to drinking
"Who that has a soul would not be a
Washingtonian. A little girl used TO go around
begging cold victuals; at length she stopped
her calls of this kind all at once, and being
asked why she did SO, replied Father has
'oined the temperance society, and we have
warm victuals now
"Moral suasion is the means to reclaim the
drinking man, but there are some liquor deal
ers that you can't reach in this way any more
than you can learn hyena to sing Metho-
dist hymn. Liquor dealers almost always be.
come eventually poor, and q majority of them
drunkards. A rumseller perhaps would not
take in exchange for dram the drunkard's
little girls shoes, or his young childs only
blanket, but if the drunkard offers him his last
sixpence, and the rumseller knows his little
girl is shoeless, and his child needs that very
money to buy it blanket to keep it from
freezing, will he refuse to take it. MOL Now
any theologian is de6ed to show the difference
in moral obliquity. The dealer does not in
tend to kill, yet he knows that death will re-
suit as the probable consequence of his act.
A rumseller sold man jug Of rum, of which
he drank excessively and was found dead.
The coroner's inquest returned verdict of
died by the visitation of God The verdict
should have been killed by Christian rum
seller, who was legally authorized to do so.'
A Baptist minister in Kentucky once declared,
that any member Of his church who signed
the temperance pledge should be excommu-
nicated; but now the principles of the pledge
are working their way in that State.
"Some persons are continually imputing
bad motives to the temperance advocates.
They accuse them of wishing to raise up a
political hobby, or something else Such per-
sons are always dishonest themselves, and
would join our ranks in moment if they
could straddle it as a hobby to ride into power
They are like the man who was arrested for
stealing His wife declared that he was in
nocent and being asked how she knew it, re-
Piled because he has told me so hundred
times Now honest men do not tell their
wives every night, MY dear, don't steal
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