St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-29

THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE.
What caused it7 The spending of
! the money by the husbands and fathers
i'll the low groggeries of the city for the
poison that, whilst it kills slowly, is
more deadly i'll its effects than strych-
nine.
| hope there is no drinking in this
beautiful village of yours trust there
is none; but | venture to state in the
city of st. Louis alone there are not
hundreds but -four OF five thousand men
who live 10y toll, whose hands are hard
ened by labor and whose brows are
burnt by the sun and exposure to the
weather i'll the discharge of their every
day duty, who spend i'll the grogshOps
from % to IS cents apiece per day.
Now take the lowest amount it pays
| for -four or five drinks of the deadliest
poison that ever passed down the throat
of Il man. Put the expense ut twenty
| five cents Il day upon that portion of
our laboring class that indulge in in
toXicating beverages, and it amounts
to seven dollars and Il half il month
that seven dollars and half might he
multiplied in ninety-iive cases out of
hundred of the drinking men by two or
'illtt. IL to lllttll Ol
twenty-five dollars and Il half a month.
Take the larger amount, it would pay
their rent, furnish them with coal buy
sugar and coffee and tea for the f;urily.
Take the fifteen dollars Il month. and
II would buy, as said i'll II speech
made i'll st. Louis.
A BARREL. OF FLOUR.
Il thing that has never entered one half
of the houses of the laholing men, who
drink in that city; and it would buy
| groceries or meats for he family for
| the whole month. But say now that
/ the lahoring man can afford to pay his
lcnt, buy his flour, buy his groceries,
and live, and yet spend this money in
drink. Now, tell You there are four
or five thousand children in the city
/ thai are not at school. Why? Because.
their drunken fathers don't provide
clothing fit for them to attend the pub
lie schools. Then take the - 30 and
invest it il clothing for the children of
| the drunkard. and il will dress all the
/ children i'll such way that they will
e able t" go to the public schools of
the city of st. Louis without being
made sport of 10y their better dressed
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are worthy of hciur saved. if will add
to their comfprt and their h,nni,ess
too. and give , hipher and nohlrr char
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we can banisb everything liz. ipt..,n-
perauce from that class fhnt toll and
labor for = living. There is -, class
and | see there are some of them,
thourh v,.,, few ,f tbam in tho L,us.
to vhom rou1J lilo Wills, I'm, b..,.o
ON this poiut to sneak , word moan
o'K C"LokED FRIENDS.
look on them with kindness and
sympathy. | WAS born and raised i'll
their midst. | have known them from
my earliest childhood. and venture
to assert that nowhere on the face of
N"d green earth' nowhere beneath the
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