The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-05-21
It Don't Pay.


1t don't pay to have fifty working
men poor and ragged in order to
have one saloon, keeper dressed in
broadcloth and flush Of money.
1t don't pay to have those City work.
ing men live ON bono soup aud half
raiions in order that one saloon keep.
81 may flourish on roast ,urkev and
champaG.
It dsoe pay TO have the mothers
and children Of wcnty fau,ilies dress
cd in rags, starved into the som.
blarco of cmaclated scareorows and
live in novels, In order that the saloon
keepers vito may dress in satin and
her children grow fat and hearty, and
live in bow window parlor.
! Itdoa's pay TO have one si,ixeuzsu
tho county Jail because another citizen
sells him liquor.
1t don't pay to hang one citizen be.
cause another citizen sold him liquor
1t don't pay to have ten smart,
active aud intelligent boys transform.
cd into hoodlooms and thieves to
enable one man to lead an easy life
by selling them liquor.
It don't pay to give one man, for
$l5 qaurter, a license to sell liquor,
and then spend 5000 on tile trial OF
Tip Mclaughlin for buying that Ii
quor and then committing murder
under Its influence.
1t don't pay to have one thousand
homes blasted, ruined, defled. and
turned into hells Of iiscord and mis-.
cry in order that one wholesale Liquor
dealer may amass large fortune.
1t don't pay to keep 5000 men in
tho psnitentiaries and prisons and
hospitals OF California, and 1000 III
the lunatie asylum. at tho expense
OF the honest. industrious tax payers,
in order that few capitalists may
grow richer by the manufacture OF
wLiakey, and by swlndllng the gov
ernment out Of three four,hs OF the
revenue tax on the liquor that they
mako.
1t don't pay to permit the exis
tence Of traffic which only results
in crime poverty, misery and death,
and which never did, never does,
never can and never vii! do any
~, i,eat breoa mare with one or md,. r.
--~ r.-- - WONG; SIN
will find you out; whether others
find it out or not, the sin knows
whore you are and will always keep
you posted of tins fact. 1t don't
pay.-Californla Rescue.
Tho patrons OF husbandry will be
glad to hear-what they are not
likely through their official organs,
immcdiately-how 1t was about the
expenses OF the National Grange for
the year 1873. The St. Louis Glo5.
presents tho following condensed
statement of tho accoants The re-
ceipts for the year were $1S2,151
%, OF which all but some SO, 900 came
from dispensatlons, over $500 oi
which wera issued. The balance was
made up from interest (only $780,
quarterly dues (paid only by W:s'
consin two quarters. and Iowa and
Illinois, one quarter each) and sales
OF manuals. The expenses were in
all e79,333.53, OF which $39, ,303.8O
were tor printing and regalia, tll,-
400 for salaries, 3,480.8l tor clerk
hire express charges, freight, Get. OF
the balance of $52,817.75 IN tn.
treasury &39,5l2.50 arc invested il
Government SKIES, ond $l3,l52.7O are
in the Washington Loan and Trus,
Company. Mr.. Kelley, the secretary
received, $500 salary and $3,341.
~ arrears, besides somo other
small perquisites, which altogether
make up nearly as much as he could
have earned by years hard work
! on tho farm. Exchange.