The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-10-22

mF. i. ROBERTSON.

BY =. Il. ROBERTSON.
The Beer and Wine selling business
The man who engages in it may have Il
cense, and still am against it. And
why? because license does not make the |
business right; hence, am opposed to il
on moral principle.
Fifteen years ago men had license to
buy and sell, whip, and kill human beings,
but the fact Of license did not make it
right for those who practiced It. No
more is it right to-day for men to sell in
toxicating drinks as beverage, because
they have license. William Murphy adver-
tises thusly "All persons desiring me to
refrain from selling any of my wares to
their Husbands, Sons or Friends, will
confer favor by handing me their
names" &C., Now this is all a farce
He knows that Mr.. A. will not reflect
upon the mamie ol Of his Son by handing
his name to a saloon keeper. He knows
that Mrs. D. will not forbid his sell
ing to her husband, though, well she
knows there is need for interference Of
some kind And why will she not!
Because it touches her pride; she knows
that her husband drinks, that he. some
times gets more than half seas over
that he ought never again to touch the in
toxicating draft but to 60 to the saloon
keeper and tell him not to sell Wine or
Beer or Whiskey is equivalent to telling
said salo n keeper that her husband is no
longer man capable Of controlling his APP
petite; that she can not trust him out Of
sight, unless he 1.-THE saloon Keeper will
help her look after him. Exalted station
Of the saloon keeper! Euthoned, rs the
joint guardian Of husbands and sons.
with wives and mothers Heaven save
the mark. will any wife or mother con-
sent to that joint dictatorship? Never
unless it be the last resort. 1t touches
her pride too keenly. Any noble hearted
woman would suffer death almost rather
than make such humiliating confession
as this William Murphy knows this, he
knows well that onlv by the barest posi-
bility will his drinking list be diminish
ed single name BY this flourish Of trump
cts and show Of honor.
am sorry for it, but am compelled TO
pronounce saloon keeping rs it is com-
monty carried on mean business. Will
lam Murphy knows this, and bid him
remember Gods woe, pronounced upon
such as follow his business. Woe mite
lin that gioeth his neish5or drink, Mat
puttest thu bottle to him, and mahsst him
drunken also"
On the sidewalk the other day saw
sn,'t'' COW" ! Z what did nat
mean Ii meant cone in here and
drink-and loaf unti yoa are dry and
then drink again. I'll sell just as often as
you want to pay for it; ! want your
money; come in come in y And this man
knows that he has taken many dol ,.e
for drink that ought 10 have been sp' !,
in making home nos attractive. atl. a.' =
and children, more comfortable ans;
happy. He knows that Wine and Beer
drinking creates the habit that finally lays
its iron grasp on the unfortunate drank
| ard and hurs him down to drunkard' 5
| grave.
conducted the funeral services of an
unfortunate man who died OF dellrluni ire
mems, in Manchester, Iowa. AS | stood
at the grave and the sexton shoveled the
cartn upon that drunkard's coffin, on the
other side of the grave stood the widow
and fatherless bow; and as the clods rum
bled the drunkard's wife walled 20,
frankie! frankie. o, frankie! your IA
ther!" 1t was the nearest wall OF de-
spair ever heard. 1t was IN everlasting
farewell, for he died as he had lived-d
drunkard, and, nc, ording to Gods Word
.. NJ. .y,.,n Lo"y h-aL ~s4..s. 81 $40 y
Now who created the habit which final
" slew that man? The saloon-kceper
Who encouraged and stimulated it. The
saloon keeper Who sold him Vine and
Beer and made him drunken? The sa.
loon-keeper Who sold him the last drink
which brought on the dclirum trcmens.
The saloon-kceper. Who had the drunk
ards money in his pocket The saloon
keeper. Who blasted his character and
brought his life to an untimely cnds The
saloon-keeper. Who opened the drunkarls
grave. The saloon-kccper Who wrung
that piteous wal. from the widows lips?
The saloon-keeper, Who made tina, 1T
tie boy Il drunkard's orphan childg The
saloon keeper
And such is the saloon-keeper's business!
And unless William Murphy will give
bonds that his saloon is an absolute cX-
ception to the rule OF all Wine and Beer
saloons that have gone before Ill never
consent either by word or silence to uphold
or encourage him in the prosecution OF his
business, no matter how may licences Inc
may hold; no matter how honorabte( , the
manner of his business, the inevitable con-
sequences of Wine and Beer drinking
are sure to follow, viz: neglected bust
ness, neglected homes. neglected wives,
neglected children, broken hearts,
mournful funerals, intoxication, delirium
tremens, insanity and death. That such
awful calamaties may never again befall
this community; that no father may
groan over profiigate son; that no moth
er may weep over u heart broken daugh-
ter; that no wife may wall at the grave
OF a drunken husband, | call upon all
good citizens to unite their hearts, their
hands, their voices, their influence,
their prayers, against the resumption of
this traffic in our midat.
Several weeks since we noticed 1T
length Nos. three, ana five of the series
of Illustrated Select Poems now being
nuhfiShnl w Mr. X Tna,,.l;ns ~ Cs,,.