The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-08

doors. We have no moral reasons for
his existence; nobOdy has. 1t IL only that
he may be city collector, that we es-
tabIIsh him. @-s - e..
Here then are the two classes, one ex-
clusiVeIy property owners. The other
composed principally Of poor people, rag
ged farmers, bankrupt mechanics, dissl
pated husbands and sons. And the mon
ey earned and saved and suffered for in
these families 10 very largely the property
Of helpless women and children. What
defender Of the liquor business dares to
count the dollars spent for alcoholic
drinks that do not fall upon the head Of
woman, and are not wrung from q wo-
man's right and happiness.
so men, with 81 Sters dear,
u men with mothers and wives"
which class shall pay this deficit Of o., 500.
No project has sent the bill anywhere
else. One Of these are asked to pay it.
For three hard years It has been demand
ed Of the poor. We tried q lottery ticket
In = coal hole and lost. SO we employed
men to ensnare these country people and
bleed their wives 70 make IL up. We
paid $1,000 for two maleriAI bath houses
to sit astrlde our sewers. Therefore we
must have factories to send . worse ma
laria everywhere IS . money making pat
emit medicine scheme. We have . high
born fire engine. Then sell greek fire and
pay for 1t. We have . $4,000 mud PIE,
let the women wash and husk corn and
go destitute and weep and ache and fade.
4 oh 70 L..
and debasement, until out of this gol-
gotha Of blood shall be coined the bilious
bills Of this building. Is not the whole
business . cruel steal? Better license q
tramp to insult and abuse every defense
less family and rob them to pay his fees,
than to systematically degrade husbands
and aons to the same brutality.
But, gentle financier, II your soul OF
honor does induce you to wiring finds
for bloated debts that you have made,
from poor women, or even your unFortu
nate fellows, to scrape the scanty wage
OF deepest suffering into your deficits
still I do protest against unnecessary tor
ture and unnecessary waste. Do, for
sweet humanitiy's sake, let them have a
fair chance. I mean by this that now
they are made to pay at least six time:
the amount that ever reaches our treasu
~.
These five saloons must have received
for sales, at least "a, 600 each, per annum
Some experienced business men double
this estimate. Then this community, and
principally the poor. and the women, pay
every year SIS, 10000 out OF their poverty
and pain for the sake of our revenue.
These agents keep $12.600 Of It and re-
gretfully yield the remaining one-sixth
to the economizIng city.
L. this the way you use your sAcrIfisI ng
workers? Why not, like Shylock, take
your pound Of flesh and go? Is not re-
pudiAtion better than this colossal fraud
upon the suffering pOOrS
Let as suggest . scheme Of revenue for
this gap In our resources, that shall be
| free, first from ruin to character; secon d,
from family bitterness; third from wasted
time and energy; 4, from this stupendous
sxtcrticn; ifth, from all indirect expense
Let the best men in the city be given full
power 70 lsyy $4,000 npon7the namiIies Of
tiplers ana inebriates, and collect. theu
keep $500 themselves and turn over to
the treasury the nsedf1l %, 500. Surely
our cOuncil ought to do this rather than
let the worst men collect i've times that,
keep S12, 500 and give US no more, and
poison the donors besides.
The plan Of revenue license Is legally
morally, inhumanly wrong. We have
only stopped . cruel and dIshonOrabIG
business. 1t should have been stopped
before, or never begun.
Our excuses for It spring largely from
our ignorance Of its magnitude ana
anImus
How many drinkers are On the "blacl
valley" road from this vicinityI $500
will make = man drunken every week IN
the year. Divide our sales Of at least
els OOO. By 80 aud the surprising tut stub
bora quotient shows 300 such drunkards
or 600 moderate drinkers. This business
Orsits equivalent We know will follow
when we open these saloons. This arm
Is enlIsting the young men Of the country
with fearful rapIdity. They have gone
from cur markets with yells Hike beast
and the contortions OF idiots. There arr
few professions or trades in town the
had not their besOtted inebrIates. Many
Of the best families were represented II
drunkenness. In about three years We
should have . harvest OF crime and bru
tal1ty and death, thirty fold what ",
have seen. What IL say that all about
these men spend SIS each in .saloonl
yearly. Look at the figures and you viii
see that > thousand must average that,
and I know OF no peculiarly in our PEG
Il pie that will save them from the sad sta
tlsties Of the same habits In other places
It Is crime. Let the pastors Of this cit,
unite in inducing one innocent boy int
drinking habits and All parties wOui,
condemn them. No money profits would
save them. They would be as Judas.
4 But to the great question, deficieacles
We tsel It, yes, We should have felt /
, lOng ago. Oshers have known all abou
these deficiencies multiplied ten fold
leather the great multitude Of Iquo
cursed families and ask them. We shoul,
End Deficiencies In money, IN business, Il
, fuel, in ralmenk N respect, In privilsg.
in happiness, In hope. $4,000 deEesen
} cy in the earnings gathered, and million.
: IN life liberty and she pursuit 81 happ
: ness, and we with deficiency Of s. 80,
feel we are not strong enough 20 bear
YET but must turn zt back 70 them.
But our lees In revsnus has early CON
psnsations. and this to many Is the In
porsant thing.
y LIST. It takss 800 druakards spendin
ESQ each % make these saloons 3 pawn
Il Investment. Now 81 Il tce much 60 "a
thar IN sae everage $50 spent FOR Whfsk
s1RoFa a0d prevents I'VE times IS uuc