The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-02
" Must Support my Family"
81 HBNNY WARD REECHsR.

"llow faro you, Aeck 7 lt's au aes
since saw you What are you doing
Tor living, old folio 2"
"Well, Il little Of pretty much every.
thing. I've been marker 10 a billiard
saloon, then | went up to Snake u Wolf.
as sort OF clerk, and noa I've settled
down 10 business for myself Call ia aud
see NE"
What businessf Where do soa
pitch your tent2 What kind Of business
is it?'
"Oh. if's the universal sarpIy basi-
ness"
whats that T.
"WelI-it's selling liquor"
"A grog,hop7 That's prei, Lusi.
ness ior your fathers sou Snake &
W off keep gambling den, don't they 2"
Yes though they call it Saloon ct
Fortune"
Why, Aleck. what's got into YOU?
ion used to be above such ihiog,i Yoa
ara going straight to the dyii."
Fact. think 60 sometimes myself
Should ike a better business; but it pays
4 man must take care Of famay."
We suppose that this excuse for wick.
ed practices is as old as tho food Iii
probable that there never vas yilsin.
Gus course that had any money ia it, tha,
men have not justified themselves ib
practising it ca the ground of sxpDortiay
their families.
But what kind ofsupport is that 7 Has
father the right to prostitute his integ.
rity for the sake Of his children? What
sort of bringing up will ohildreo get,
whose bread Is earued at the expense of
their parents good name2 If the child
ren turn out ill,then the parent vii! have
corrupted himself for the sake Of destroy
iug his children. But if, from sou kina
overruliDg providence, the cLillsro g,os
up to honest manhood. what sh.rpeirI
legacy is their fathers nsme
Food and clothes are ycr, i..l,s,.u,.
doubtless, but they may be bau a' a. ,va
dear price. Man shall 10, i.ye u,
bread alone No man has D,rveni 40
his children kindly who has cared o.iy
for their animal W nts. Children ue,d
fathers instruction in morals, bis exau
pie in following all goodness and bis NC
Ger when they are tempted. Youus
people will have enough to tempt them,
without hasiag father as an example
Of evil doi1g.
No. Ne maR slpporta his fsni J well
who earns his chilaren's bresd by wicked
practices. II n mau msy keep drlw.
shop Gu the plea that his family must te
eopported, he may Nith cQua! proprieiy
keep gambling den. or psnder to PAS
sioIate immorsli,ie'. o. cvcu steal and
rob. There is 30 mora evil which MAJ
not bo committed. if this plea is sound
1t is disgrace to make it, aud sti'l more
to follow courses which re
quirc che 10 make it. M nsa weald
like 10 eat tho tread that Judas would
have bought with his tbirty pieces Of 81
veT. But to betray morally, T. apiei
ui'e the virtue Of society, to Luesues
course that degrsdes oues self or oas's
fellow. men, IS 10 betray Christ IN The
person of the poor and weak. No man
can afford to take home the wages e cor.
ruPtion. Men will perjure themselves.
will de6le their consciences; will commit
petty frauds without number; wdl con.
sort with the men that are pesls to socie.
ty, and then carry home the wages OF
their iniquity to ieed a tender wife OF
sweet little children thereon. iIe would
be monster who should feed his child
rem on carrion. Hs does worse who
earns their bread by his own corrup.iou