Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-04-20

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Have we any IDEA Of the loss TO the
country hy this Indulgence? Mr. Wells,
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue estl-
mates the first cost Of liquors, sold last
year, at 81, $50, OG0, Geo The materials
used up in the manufacture, the labor be-
slowed upon the business the interest on
machinery, warehouses, &c, with the
money paid, as profits, by the people
wond be of least another billion. So VIC
see the sum total sunk on useless and
pernicous commerce is two and half
b lions Of dollars, which is the present
amount of our national debt - And II IS a
tax upon the entire population OF over
twenty-seven dollars per year to every
man, woman and child. L. it any wonder
that there is SO much of poverty, and
complaint of hard times, and secret muir
maringS, fnot open complaints, by the
labH-ng class, against the bond-holders,
and Of the poor against the rich? We
have adopted the principle Of raising in-
ternal revenue on the lurmieS, and ex-
empting The necessities, Of life. And, FIR
convenience, have imposed the tax en-
spirits AMI tobacco. But the working
class, who feel most the burden of this
taxation; and, unless we show them to
be useless and pernicious, they may be
expected TO rebe! against this principle Of
taxation.
Bat worse stiIl is the danger from its
faacied oppression. OF the immense
amount paid by the people FOR alcoholic
drinks, but moicty goes to government.
The chief amount is expended for CORFU :
ton purposes, and to enrich those engaged
in the unlawful traffic. All who engage
in it roll in wealth, while their poor Gus
toners toot tie bills, and imagine the
Government is responsible for the cxorbit-
ance Can we save ourselves from serl-
Gus discomfort, and oren rebellion, unless
we enlighten the people on the question:
who are their real oppressors? And turn
them from their impoverishing AMI ruin
Gus ID idiganoIesf
1t has been settled that alcoholic drinks
contain no nouUshment or next TO none
that they do not promote, but retard d.
gestlon; that they do not give strength,
hut detract from IT; that they neither.
warm Us "leh cold, nor cool US whcn hot-
AM nave no proper place bat IN the SER
wee OF the arts or among the atutfs Of the
apothecary' THIS IS true OF alcohol pure
AMI simple what Shall we say OF the bev-
erageS 20" dealt out as spurious liquors
me haayy NIX imposed mas wonderfully
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pose" 'o' '''' arc '''o 'n'''"'io''9 u POI
'o''o'' q ''''o''''o"'' u 'u' 'f''oips "no'e
""'''oo my 'ea' '''' '''0 oos' JUICES
''"i'1' ''S''aa''si '3'"'o" '"7 spurious
a"i '.'' genuine ana ,''' 'i' on'o'S %
'''''' ''''o.' "'0 'o'''0'' "0's' ii''' '"'o
'"uSo' ~ mum ""o mas any '"0''oh
w "''o pun 70 n'o ilPS 4 cup u 50
'o'''iU' ny "a '''''s' De'''io'n 'ie'''e's
iS'u 10 io''o" 0" io'ig am 'fe" indulgence
NO" y comes sometimes ID 'ne 'lFSl Stages
u in'o'nPef'p'p' ana PS'orc anypooy sup
poses 'ne Flc'i" = ~ aanser' onco 'aiS
VeFf''io "'soasc y'cldea % 'roa''non'' now
tue doctors say tney cannot cure IT,
a socn Dc 'oe eN'eAt OF inc cV''' ana
SucA inc a55faFatioh Oh lts cliects, nave
We no ground of hope that there can be,
and must be grand rally for the suppress
sion of incompetence? Oar trust is in
The element Of Reform, that sense of right
aud interest for humanity, which God has
implanted in the human soul, and which
always manitests itself when popular evils
and giant sir. c'me TO their crises, and
require to be Put down. This power was
once divided between temperance and