Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-12-13
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be general apprehension among business
men that we are on the verge of an era of
financial ruin. With large stocks of goods
on hands, their sales have greatly decreas-
cd, and merchants are cutting down their
expenses accordingly. This condition of
affairs is further aggravated in this locality
by the scarcity and high price of proyis-
ions, caused by total failure of the wheat
crop and other calamisies. The great cost
of living throughout the war did not allow
mechanics tolay 10y much, and should tight
times come great distress among the poorer
classes will accompany them. Notwith-
standing these gloomy foreb0dings, there
is yet enc branch of business that seems to
be in flourishing condition and yielding
enormous profits. But TO engage in it one
must have "a good moral character" and
present petition signed by number of
freeholders setting forth this and other facts
Our jealous lawmakers, anxious to pre-
serve the purity of the profession to which
we allude, would not permit the introduce
ton of any such dcmora,izing elements as
women and ncrroes, and cautiously limit
ed The granting of licences TO white male
inhabitants of good moral CHI racier, as
aforesaid. We refer to the traffic in the
peace of families, the JOY of households,
the reputation of men and the Innocence
of Youth For the sake OfOur credit abroad
we will not give the number OF these en-
frances to the internal regions in this place
but will say that if the man in the moon
does not hold his offended nose when pass
ing over Plymouth, he shows lack of
taste Common sinners whose business
do not require moral characters, engaged
in mechanical pursuits har-
ness makers, blacksmitlhs, ta;iors, painters,
carpenters, printers and othcrS--are driven
By high rents up stairs or 10 out-of the
way places, but these saints who sanctimo-
niously poison men, rob them of their mo-
ney, their reason, their health and their
strength, occupy the best stands and can af
ford to pay the most enormous rents. Al
earliest dawn their establishments are open.
and long after the tired laborer and weary
mechanic have retired to rest from the tolls
of the day, when merchants find it no lon
ger profitable to burn lights and have ceas-
ed TO expect the most beiated customer.
these trafiicers in the here and hercaf-
ter of mankind are reaping their harvest
With windows partly painted, TO screen
from public gaze those not yet grown old
in sin and shameless in iniquity, yet suffi-
ficiently unobstructed to- allow their allur-
Ing lights to shire out and attract the silly
moths. they stand behind their counters
dealing out Iiqaiiied damnation to their Gus
toners.
Reader, did you ever think of the hnrriI
traffic carried ON in these hot-bcds OF sin
and death? 1t is not simply his money that
that young man lays down on the counter
in exchange f1r the inebriating draught.-
Those clinkins glasses and clicking balls
tell another and a sadder siory. They
strike the death knell of wiic's peace.
they tell of a father and mothers grey hairs
brought in sorrow to the grave: of children
growing up in ignorance and rags, curse
TO themselves and the world; of the cow
artl's arm nervel to commit the assassin's
deed: of moral scnsibiIiiics swept away and
the inner CHAMBER of the heart defiled: of
the temple of reason invaded and intellect
deihroned; of arson; of rape; of strife AMI
OF wounds without cause: Of babblings and
contentious. All. the heart sickens As we
contemplate the dreadful tide of ruin that
submerges our land. In agony VIC cry,
how long. oh Lord. how long,
Is not this the time for all good men and
women 10 unite in one determined effort to
drive intemperance from our State and ma
ton?