New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-07
TIE LIQUOR INTEREST.
Fro.. sorbn1r, Monthlr.

Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are march
ing how many Of themi sixty thousand! sixty fun
months shall have completed their course, lie down in
the grave OF dIonSatet livery year curing tne past
regiments stand behind thus army ready 70 take it's
place. IL is be recruited from children and
chidreu's children. Tramp tramp, tramp the
sounds the echoes OF the footsteps Of the
army just expired; tramp, tramp. tramp-the earth
shakes with The tread OF the host now passing tramp
tramp, tramp, comes TO US from the camp OF the re-
cTuits great tide OF e flows resistessy 70 lt death
What IN Gods they fighting fort The priv
iege OF pleasing an appetite, OF conforming 70 social
usage OF filing sixty thousand homes with shame and
sorrow loading the public with the burden OF pauper
OF crowding our prsonhouses with felons, OF de-
tracing from the productive industries OF the country
OF running fortunes and breaking hopes, Of breeding
disease and wrechedness Of destroying both body and
The prosperity OF the liquor interest covering every
department OF IT, depends entirely the maintenance
OF TINS 10 cannot live without IT, 10 never did
live without il. long the liquor interest maintains
3ts present prosperous condition. II win cOst America
tae sacrifice Of 60OOo men every year The elect Is IN
separabe from the The TO the country Of the
liquor traffic H. sum stupendOus that any hgures
fling The amount Of life absolutely destroyed, the
amount OF industry sacrificed the amount OF bread
Hrdpsi9rmed INTO poison the shame the unayallng soI
row the crime, the poverty the pauperism the brutal
iy wild waste OF vital ana financial resources make
On aggregate 40 yassO intellectually vast that the only
wonder that the American people do not rise as one
ana declare that tins great curse shall exist no
longer Dcttabte cOhYehuOns are heid on the SUBJECT
OF peace by and women who md Il necessary 20
nddie 70 keep themselves s@Ske. hue-ano-cry Is
raised woman suffrage as II any wrong which may
De involved wOman's lack Of the suffrage could be
ATTACHED 10 INC uquOr INTEREST,"
Dees anv sane woman doubt that women suffering
a Ilousaud times more nom than from any pOlti-
"a disability
Tle truth Is that there IS DO question before the
American people today that DegDs to match IN i'm
poTtance the temperance question:. Ihe QUESTION OF
American slavery was never anything but DaDy Dy
the side OF tins and prOphesy that WITHIN Ten
YEAR, II not within iye the whole country VIII De
awake " IT, and divided upon IT, The ORGANIZATIONS OF
the LIQUOR interest the vast funds at It's oOmmanc he
universal feeling among those whose business Is latleu
against the national prosperity and the public
tbese enough 70 show that, upon one sue oI LIE
matter, at least the present condition or Things anu e
social and political questions that lie IN the III
futufs apprehended. The liquor interest AnOns
there Is 20 DO great struggle, and is pre- paTing 70 ees
IL People both Ia this country aud In Great Bfian ae
beginning the euorrnty Of this business-are De-
ginning realize that Christian civilization IL actua!
poisoned al 10 fountain and that there can be DO puh
cation VI until u the poison IS dried up