The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-04-22
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ard, with d bottle IN bis hand.
Dmakard. ~ say, Mister; | say,
here; (hoZdin0 ouihis bottle.
r Grocer. Whatd do you want, Joel
| have got nothing for you to day
You had enough yesterday 70 last you
ten days. 6a
Minister.---I hope you don't fill
Joe's bottle. every day. I was down
at his house a few days ago; and such
4 scene Of wretchedness | never wit
messed before. No fuel, but some
poor green wood; nothing to eat; chill
dren 6alf.starved and cryingfor bread,
and 10 drunk and asleep. 10, you
ought to be ashamed Of yourself to
treat your wife and children as you
do, and make such a beast Of yourself.
D,un.-I say, MisterI (hOlding out
his bottle.)
GrO.-Go home, Joe; | shan't sell
you any to-day.
LGwyer.-And I guess not, to-mor-
row. You may as well roll out your
barrels, and knock their heads in; for
if you do not, we shall do it for you.
We are determined to have the Maine
Law.
Gro-Not in your day, nor mine;
and ifyou should get it, ! would shoot
the first man that should come into
my store and sieze my property. ]
should view it as downright robbery,
and would treat man who would
do it, as | would a pirate on the ocean.
Min.-Hold, neighbor; you don't
viewit right. Consider, in the first
place, you are not bound to keep this
species of property. In the second
place, if you keepit and offer to sell
It, you do it contrary to law; and
thirdly, you do it, knowing it will be
seized and destroyed.
Gro.-I care nothing about your
firstly, secondly, and thirdly-keep
them for your sermons. I tell you
this property is mine, and / ha'e e
right I'd do with itas fpleases 4may
give or sell it to whom | please, and
touch il you dare.
Law-( laughing III should love
to see you carry out your principles.
You have a mad dog, and your neigh
bors, fearing their children may be
bitten, combine together and shoot it;
and, as they shoot, you shoot, because
it is your property. Or you sell liceu7
tious books and pictures, and the sher-
iff comes and siezes and burns them,
and you up with your gun to shoot
him down. | think as he went down,
you would be apt to go up ~ on a
gallows.
GrO.-I don't care about your rea.
soning; noman has right to take
another's property without fair remu-
neration. If he does, he is a thief
and arobber, and should have place
for ten years in a State prison.
Drua.- a.-(grinning mister, I say;
you speak my mind x-actly. You've
got fathers farm. hav'nt you? What
did you give for it? Your cursed rum.
say give me back what was mine.
You came and took it and said it was
yours, and turned me off. You know
you did.
Min.-Surely .neighbor, out ofyour
own mouth you are condemned. You
have been the greatest destroyer Of
property in all this neighborhood.-
You have taken away all this poor
fellows land, and he had very pret.
ty place which his father left him,
when | came here. You have seized
it all, and destroyed it for him, and
what have you given him in return?
You sold Dick Williams rum, and he
went drunk, with a cigar in his mouth,
into barn, and set FIRE to that barn,
and burnt it up, full Of hay, horses