Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-07-28


the business at once, s.!s ie .reisl
/ Yes but my buildings. you know,
which l have, been fitting up for the
business, have cost me good deal OF
money;allthis will be lost.
+ Very we'll; let il be lost. | had
rather have the consciousness Of doing
fright. than allthe money we have ey.
er made in the business
And there are my liquors. They
cost me about a hundred dollars
What am 10 with them? l know ol
no one 10 take them off my hands.
| | hope you won't think Of selling
them 10 any one.
There has been misery and wretch
edness enough caused by liquor from
our sellar.
Well, what in the name Of sense
would you have me do with them?
/ i would have you pour them on the
ground, or burn them.
Burn my property Throw on the
ground and waste that which cost, me
one hundred dollarsl Woman you
must be getting crazyl
II il is something which does no one
any good butinjury. why not destroy
it. II it did cost you, money? Sup.
pose some one should buy a dozen
rattle snakes, and throw them into oul
yard. and they should bite our chill.
ldren; would you hesitate TO kill them
because he paid money for them?
hink you would not regard his plea,
for a moment. You would tell him.
il he. was fool enough to pay out his
money for snakes, he ought to lose il.
And that is just what 1 think in this
case.
Wife, you are getting eloquent; you
would at make a bad Temperance lee
turer. You had better start out
with the radicals as parsou Holyday
calls them.
And besides all this, Mr.. Doty, you
know you arc far advanced in life,
which Is another very weighty reason
why you should change your course
Of conduct The bar room. with It's
evil associations, is not u very good
place TO prepare for another world.
/ guess you'd better wait until l
talk Of leaving this before you get on
such a pious strain. said Doty, with
much impatience.
You know, Mr.. Doly, that you are
aged and inGrm, and have spent your
life in this business And ii you ever
think ofreforming. il is time you turn
cd your attention TO the things Of eter-
nifty.
| tell you. wife. | have heard enough
OF your moralizing.
Mrs. Doty, seeing it was useless TO
talk longer with him withdrew from
the room, and left him to his own re-
Elections. His mind carefully ran
over the cases which she had mention
ed. He thought OF the evils of his
traffic in liquor since he commenced;
the untold injuries he had inflicted on
many families; the sin of wholesaling
as well as Of retailing; that he was On
old man, ana il he ever reformed. he
must begin soon; the loss Of the hun
dred dollars, aud many other things
which his aw akcned conscience
brought to memory.
When his wife returned. he said,
Wife, l have been thinking this mat
ter over since you have beon out, and
have come to tho conclusion TO destroy
my liquor
| rejoice at that. replied Mrs. Doty;
l think you will never regret IL. ~
But il looks like great sacrifice TO
make.
Well, Abijah, one ought 10 be will
ing TO make sacrifices for the good OF
others. And besides, you know you
have no license. and no right to sell
II; and | think you never will have
again. Temperance principles are
prevailing, and | presume we shall
soon have the Maine law.
O iiddlesticksl Who cares FOR your
Maine law That is what you never
will get; it's all moon shine.
10 is strange you can think SO. Mr..
Doty, when petitions are going into
the Legislature from all parts OF the
state, and nearly every paper in the
land advocates the principle.
Well, don't care for all that; there
IS 50 much capital invested in the man
ufacturc and sale OF liquors in the
city OF New York, that the people of
this state can never get such alaw.
Well, be that as IL may; one thing
is certain-the towns can prohibit Ii
cense, rs they have donein this, which
is the same thing TO you.
So far as that is concerned, could
that. could sell two crack.
ers for sixpense. and throw in the
liquor.
But do you think that would be
right? | thought you was a great ad-
vocate for the observance Of law. |
have heard you argue for hours in fa-
vor Of the fugitive slave law. have
heard you say, repeatedly, that all who
refuse to obey it are enemies to their
country, and, in effect guilty of trca-
son. ..
Yes-bht then-heml Well, | do
20 for law; but never thought the
license law was worth much any way.
Why then do you want license?
Well, because there is so many. like
Scribner and Donaldson, who called
US murdcrers and robbers, that'we feel
the need Of legal sanction to give us
authority and the traffic an mir OF res
pectability.
Well, really, said Mrs. Do,y, | am
glad your are honest enough to own il.
L have been convinced that this is the
reason why men wish to have license.
They hate to do it on their individual
responsibility, and therefore wish the