The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-07
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Inc 1CiuIllLu1S VI Lllc I-i1uOI D'"~i'l3
and Brewers Association Of Ohio. in
their address recently issued, uses the
following hypocritical language:
The mott fatal results 70 society and
domestic happiness from dram drinking
arises from the fact that under these
prOhibitOry laws men no longer resort TO
public houses for their drinks, but they
buy their liquor by the gallon, and take
il home TO their families end in their
presence drink, and drink till they get
drunk. Thus, by example. and often
by precept, whole families are ruined.
Wives and children are often III this way
led into habits Of inteIuperauce, and the
family circle broken up and destroyed,
which oIId never have occurred but tor
| the fact that these prohibitOry laws has
! brought the fatal jug within their reach.
| Keep the Jug a. far from the domestic
| hearth a. possible. Tempt not the lit
| tie ones ia this way.
Young men buy it and take it 10 their
rooms, and drink in secret, and often
| make the night hideOus with their
drunken brawls-
''He has more cheek than Il govern
ment mule" was favOrite and apt ex-
preston in vogue in the army. But a
government mule Is fairly put TO blush by
the check of these wolves i'll sleeps
clothing. who come together to perpetu-
ate and increase traffic by which their
pockets are lined at the expense of wo-
men and children, who drag out a misera-
bic existence in rags and hunger, and
poverty and ignorance
These Oppressors Of orphans instruct
society. which they prey upon, a. to the
cause of the ''fatal results to society and
domestic happiness from dram drink
ing"
Tempt not the little ones" As if
vour trade was not to ''tempt the little
ones," We have known men of your
kind to entice children not ten years of
age into your hell-hOles, and there ply
them with liquor.
''Whole families are ruined" And do
you pretend to say that ruined families
are not legitimate and inevitable result
of your traffic, even in its very best
phases. Dare you make a pretense to
care for the ruin of families, with the
damning records of the doings of rum
staring you in the face:
Your crocodile tears at the ruin of
families deceives no one, and God knows,
the ''littIe ones" have suffered enough
at your hands to convince them that
your sympathy for them does not weigh
the one fourth part of a quintal when
placed in the balance against the ten
cents for which you deal out death and
destruction to their natural protectors
''Whole families are ruinedr' Tempt
not the little onesr Forsooth.
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CORNER IN CORN.
The Chicago Times of recent date
gives an account of what it terms ''the
greatest corner in corn" that has ever
been known in that city. The confusion
fairly equaled that of Black Friday on
Wall Street, if the following account
may be regarded as accurate:
corner had contracted for the shipment
of 1,02l, 500 bushels, and this meant
business on the face of it. The CON
fusion and uprOar were bewildering.
Dealers were beside themselves with ex-
citement. From 81 the price went to &c,
then to 40, and then Jack Sturges sung
out he would pay so cents. The aston
lshment was so great deatll-like still
ness prevailed for few moments. II
took brokers square off their feet"
When the situation was finely taken in
confusion again ran riot. Amid frantic
yells and hoarse screaming, corn was
sold to the combination by the bears,
and was accepted in as large quantities
as offered. One firm alone sold 250, 600
bushels at 50 cents. When the board
closed and the gong sounded the signal
for retiring, transactions We're going on
with unabated fury. 1t was next to i'm
possible to stop trafiicking Sc infatu-
ated had dealers became, and so exciting
was the game they were playing, that
they held on as drowning men catching
at strawS. Five minutes to o'clock
came, and the dealers who had their re-
c4Ipts on hand for purchases made, We're
rapidly vending their way to Sturge's
OhiCC Al -AOlllOS SlTtcl. 1IdSSdlle street
and Washington street for two blocks
either way were filed with an excited
populace. Messengers ran here and
there. Dealers We're not less excited.
All were struggling to reach Sturge's
office. At this place the excitement was
not less intense. The office and vesti-
bule was filled with trembling brokers,
each anxious to make his delivery and
receive his check. Finally the bell struck
3 o'clock and the doors were closed. but
the crowd of dealers broke down the
door and insisted that the clock had
been tainpered with. Receipts were
brandished tiercely and threatening ges-
ticulations made, but all to no purpose.
The sho -ts stood around mopping pers-
piratiQn from their brows and easing
heir minds by good up-and-down oaths.
then dropped out one by one, and went
back to their offices to cool off