The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13


its present. prosperous condition it will
cost America the sacrifice of sixty thou
sand men every year. The effect is in
separable from the cause. TIE cost to
the country of the liquor traffic is a sum
so stupendous that any figures we should
dare to give would convict us of tritiing.
The amount of life absolutely destroyed,
the amount of industry sacrificed, the
amount of bread transformed into poi
son, the shame, the poverty, the pauper-
ism, the brutality, the wild waste Of vi
tai and financial resources make an ag
gregate so vaSt--sO intellectually vast that
that The only wonder is that the Ameri-
can people do not rise as one man and
declare that this great curse shall exist
no longer. Dilettante conventions are
held on the subject of peace by men and
women who find it necessary to fiddle
to keep themselves awake. \ hue-and
cry is raised about woman suffrage, as
if any wrong which may be involved in
woman's lack Of the suffrage could be
compared to the wrongs attached to the
! LIQUOR interest.
/ Does any sane woman doubt that wo-
men are suffering thousand times
more from rum than from any political
disability?
The truth is that there is no question
before the American people to-day that
/ begins to match in Importance the tenn
perance question. The question of
/ American slavery was never anything
/ but baby by the side of this: and we
+ prophesy that within ten years, if not
/ within five, the country Will be awake
/ to it and divided upon it. The organ
/ izations Of the liquor interest the vast
/ funds at its command, the universal
/ feeling among those whose business is
pitted against the national prosperity
and the public morals-these are enough
/ to show that upon one side of this mat
+ ter. at least, the present condition of
/ things and the social and political ques-
/ tions that lie in the immediate future
I are aFpi@hendcd. The liquor interest
+ knows thers is to he = great struggle.
and is preparing TO meet it. People,
ooll III IhiS country 'll" "'e"' b'ie,'il'
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