Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-15
A PLEASANT HINT FOR SOMEBODY.

Not long since one, as we thought, and still be-
lieve, OF our warmest supporters, came up into our
Office, and in a serious and rather austere manner
said to us, II want to quit taking your paper
We looked at him imploringly and the thought at
first struck us to beg Of him TO hold on, to learn
the cause Of his dissatisfaction and to reason the
cause with him. But this course we concluded
might result in humiliation TO us and exultation 10
him. So with good deal of "sang .froid' as if,
pshawl we didn't to lose him as a subscriber,
we turned to his name, took up our pen, and were
in the act Of dragging il across when the fatal
stroke was warded of by his saying, "Stop!
StopS want pay for the paper, and then it will
be mypaper, and not yours" This was putting an
entirely new and pleasing construction upon words
which, when LITERAL are as bitter as wormwood to
the of an editor. The idea seemed to us at the
time decidedly rich.
Reader! DO YOU who have never paid cent
towards your subscription ever reflect that il is not
yotr paper but oUs, that you are readingY We
would be glad to know how many would quittakng
our paper in the in which il was used by the
subscriber above alluded to. We cannot augur
what would be our feelings should the words be
spoken seriously and with determination to stop
the paper, from the act that experience in this
regard has been so limited Exchange Paper.
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Reasons why we should demand ofour Legislators
the Maine Law for this State.
]. We should demand the Maine Law because
the traffic in intoxicating drinks has cost the United
States in the last ten years, direct tax of 5000,
0OOOOO. and an indirect tax of an equal sum making
81, 200, 100000.
.. We should labor to obtain a Law pruhibitin.
the sale Of sprituous liquors because this business
has sent 100000 children TO the poor house.
3. We should seek protection from this traffic
because it has consigned 100000 persons to Jail,
and prisons.
4. We should urge the necessity of the Main
Lar in Pennsylvania because drunkenness ha,
destroyed 10000 precious lives
5. We should demand prohibitory law agains
the sale Of Intoxicating drinks because it has made
more than l,000 maniacs.
q. We should demand this law because liquor
has caused 1000 persons to commit suicide.
I. We should demand the Maine Law because
drunkenness has destroyed by fires and other cal
antilles, property to the amount Of SlO,0OO,OOO.
s. We should demand protection from the rum
traffic, bcbause il has made 100000 widows.
Q. We should demand the Maine Law because
drunkenness has instigated 1900 murders.
10. We should demand this law, because the
Of spirituous liquors has made 100000 orphans
All the above are marks of the Liquor traffic in
the United States in the last ten years which is
expense, and loss, that we cannot well afford ia
suffer 10 continue, for the benefit Of few sell
lers.
We propose, ns our iails, prisons and poor houses
will soon be vacated, if we can stop this trade OF
death, that if these dealers in this liquid fire can
not get living at any other business will assign
to them these vacated teuemeuts, and support them
at public expense, which will cost us far less than
the traffic now does.