Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-19
COMMUNICATION.
NARRows. March l5. 1873.


EDITOR SENTINEL 81 hear it stated
in Mifflin and Patterson that all the
miners will vote for the continuance of
license. Let me tell you, Mr.. Editor,
this is a lie. and only gotten up by a
bought party, in order 20 strengthen their
doubtful course in the breast of some
poor deluded weak narrow minded
men. who are afraid, like the Democrat
and Register, that there will be no sale
for rye and wheat-that it will go down
in price-that the farmer will s,arve try
ing to raise it unless allowed to convert
it into still and swill for feed, suppose.
Shame on such paper or any man that
would support it, or the men vino run it.
men uAO hare been bought by Me wh,s-
key men Of the country, question, can a
man be christian and blasphemer
Could he insinuate or allow any man to
say through his medium that in order to
make things lively and more festive.
Christ turned water into wine. No sir
d. and Il. l am not a protesting chris
ton, and if this is the standard to be
expected from men in your position, why
l am as g0od as you are.
But Democrat and Register you are
dead letter henceforth in this corner-
Miners know too we'll the curse, of the
liquor system for no class of people have
suffered more from it than we have, and
where are the men more ready to accuse
us Of ignorance and iowdyism than the
very men who have been the cause of
our misfortune.
The majority of us can neither read or
write for the simple reason that as soon
as the children are able to go to school
they are compelled to go to work in order
to help support themselves. When these
boys grow up to manhood they can neith-
er read nor write and go can derive no
pleasure from books or home, and as the
mind Graves something to feed upon, no
place gives so much enticemont as the
saloon, or the jolly bar of Tom or Dick,
and here their evenings and money are
spent, away from their families, their
wives and children many times lacking
the very necessaries of life On pay day
there is very little left after paying off
the score sc the butcher and the store
keeper are kept out of their money un-
til the next pay day, and little Tommy
anu Johnney are sent to work and kept
thereto help pay for the drinking car
rousels of the father and make ends meet,
which with all that in most cases it does
not do-instead of going to school
These boys grow up i'll the same old
trodden path.
And now, miners, let me entreat you,
one and all, do not be changed from the
right by the soft words they call frce,'ona.
for, let me tell you, that the men who are
slaves to this habit are the worse of
slaves They are now giving free drinks
and free bottles, Don't take them; it is
only bait Be men in this as You are
in all things else, stout and strong. Let
your vote ring loud and clear. Let us
theow temptation out of the path of our
children, and spend part of the money
we now spent in supporting lot of tel
lows too lazy to work, for books and lit
erature and for the adornment of cur
houses, and We can be the happiest of
men. When away from the dangers of
the niiues we can spend oar leisure hours
with our families Our children viii grow
up to be intelligent AID respectable.
A word 10 the farmers and business
men of Juniata county. Your County
is rich in iron and the openings row
made are a. drop in the bucket to what
they will be in a few years. There is
not man among you, that will regret
the day or the vote you cast against the
selling of liquor. Your county will be
overrun with miners. Two thirds of the
population will be miners. Keep liquor
from them.
From one who knows.