The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-15
Ia eft Every Man Mind His Own
Business.

This is a good maxim, but its ap-
plicatIon has been sometimes ques-
toned. We have seen it applied 10
the friends of Temperance, who
have labored hard to stop others
from drinking. "Let every nan
drink who chooses; it is nobody1s
business but his own" Well, let
us see Ii was 10 o'clock in the
evening; we had n mile to 20 TO
reach our home. On the way, we
passed, on q short si~de-Street, a We
ry small dirty-looking house, and
from 1T came the shrill cry of muir
der. We went in, the door beng
open, and found a brute of a fellow,
with blood-shut eyes and bloated
countcnance, mauling his wife and
children with an old chair. We
wrenched it from him, and thmbled
him into a corner, from which he
was too drunk to speedily extrlcate
himself. We asked HIM what he
meant by such conduct. "What Is
that to your" said he; "let every
man mind his OWE business!" We
left the house, (no police, as usual,
within CALI continued our way,
soon arrived at home, and went to
bed.
About two O'Clock in the morning.
we we're awakened by a great noise
in the street. There was loud swear
ing aud cries of distress. We went
out, and found three young men, all
very much intoxicated. They had
been playing billiards, or some oth>
err game, at a gambling louise, till
that hour; and, having been strip
! ped of their money by blacklegs,
and all of them intoxicated, feeling
In a savage humor, fell cut and
quarreled by the way. We remark
/ ed that such place. where they had
come from ought, by ordcT of our
municipal authorities, to be shut
up; but very Indignantly they re-
piled, let every man mind his
own business" So we returned to
the house, and again went TO bed.
1t is time to pay u taxes; we,
therefore, went to the t~reasurer's
Office in the Court House for that
purpose. The amount was larger
than usual. How is this? We new
! er paid so much before for the sHps
port of paupers. The attentive Of
fetal said the increasing use of IN
toxicating liquors has induced this
state of things. We asked an old
citizen standing by If nothing could
be done by striking at the root of
this matter. "Perhaps there might"
said be; "0ut then people generally
think 1t best to let every man mind
his own business and it is so un.
popular to NEEDLE with the aues-
ton.
While we were at dinner, q poor,
dirty, cadaverous looking woman
came to the door, having two chil-
dren with her as haggard as herself.
She begged for cold vietuals, old
clothes, anything. She told her
story it was not unlike the situa-
ton of numerous others in oar city.
Her husband was a poor, drunken
scamp, who spent all the money he
could get iOr whisky, while his wife
and children had to be supplied by
the generosity Of strangers. Went
to his house; found HIM there; ask
ed him why he did not leave off his
drinking, and go to work, and pro
vide for his family; and what was
his answer? "Let every man at
tend to his own bWsihessFf
We found, on returning to the of
fee, that we had a note to pay IN.
bank, and examined a large num-
Der of accounts with reference TO
collecting sufficient to take it up
We found mauy cases like the fol-
flowing on our ledger