Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-03-03

Hoe rum-drinkfNg uorks IN nts cities. In
New York the city authorities have recently
been looking into the subject Of those pau
per manufactures, the dram shops, and have
Published police reports upon the subject
principally as elected from little children,
whose parents send them into the streets 10
beg and steal. Here follow few extracts
from these police reports. As in the city,
so in the country, rum selling and dram
drinking is the source of more evil and crime
and misery, than any, If not more than all
other sources Of evil. Please read thess
short and simple annals of the poor made
so by the use Of liquors as beverage, and
then vote. at March meeting, as your oath,
your duty, and the public good requires.
"E. b., a girl, l3d years of age--I can
not read; do not go to school my moth
er will not let the go my fn,her. who is a
good mechanic, is very Incorporate, and
drives me out in the street to beg, sweep the
street, steal, or anything, TO obtain money to
buy drink for him and mother; make from
so to 20 cents per day; mother will not let
me have my shoes and stockings, as she says
gentlemen and ladies will not feel so sorry
for me, and therefore will not give me so
much; if ] make good days work she
gives me s:xpence to spend, or a shilling to
go to the Bowery Theatre or The Circus if
! do not make so cents and give it to them
they will lick me and make me 90 TO bed on
a bundle OF rags, without my supper lido
not tcant 10 go out apd beg or siceep The streets
but they make me oh wish had nice
home, and parents who did not drink and
then lick me; why, sometimes when have
bad luck, ] 60 all day without eating so as
not to spend one cent, but take all home to
mother, aud then she will not beat me-"
sc. f., boy about years of sge--Can-
not read does not know his letters father
is a shoemaker; he gets drunk sends me
out to beg and sweep cross walks; and
sometimes when cannot get anything to
do, he sends TO the corner grocery TO
steal charcoal, and we sell it and then he
goes to the same store to buy rum, which he
and mother drinks mother goes out to
gather Goals and we sell them to the neigh.
bors, and then they get rum with the mon
ey they get drunk, and swear, and fight
she has black eye; they abuse me when
don't get money for them; have no shoes
or stockings; don't like to beg, and know
1t is wrong to steal, but they make me-"
p" A. NJ, asweet, pretty child of i2 years
Of age-l have no parents live with wom-
an who sends me out to beg have done il
for her for year past; make sometimes
80 cents, and sometimes more she drinks
very hard do not know my letters; do
not go to school do no, 60 to Sunday school
she lets me put on my shoes and stockings
when l go home, and gives me some beer
and cakes when make good deal of mon
ey | loyed my mother, but she is dead
she never sent me out 10 beg or steal; oh,
that my mother was alive an | had good
home
Freemen, Of Washington County, what
say you? Is it best to vote for judge Blod
gett, and have drunken mems made so, BY his
agents, killed upon the railroad track, or
vote for Judge Goodwin, and have the foun.
tains Of misery and death dried up |? Please
answer at the ballot-box. X