Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-06-27
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The following, from the Newark
Daily d veFtiser has some wholesome
truths Whi6hitWould be well for all
cksses of citizehs to ponder:
II DON'T pay to have fifty working
men poor and ragged in order to have
one saloon keeper dressed in broad
cloth, and flush of money.
cit don't pay to have FfheseT fifty
werkhgmena live on bone soup and
alalf rationsIiI order that the saloon
Reeper may flourish ON roast turkey
ana. chanipagle. hisf
It don't pay 70 havethe mothers and
children of twenty families dressed in
rags and starved into the sem blance of
emaciated scGrcecroWS and living in
novels in order that the saloon keepers s
wife may dress in satin, and her chill
dren grow fat and hearty, and live in a
bay window parIor.
1t don't pay to have one citizen in
the county Jail because another citizen
seld him bquor. 4H f--5f EyIsf
1t don't pay 10 have ten smart, ac-
tive andiinteiHgentb boys transformed
into hoodlums and thieves, to enable
one man TO lead an easy life by selling
them liquor.
1t don'tpay 10 give one man, sfor SIS
|8qnarter,.a IA license to sell liquor, amt
EtheRsspsl8d- S29,0O0 on thRstriai Of Tim.
Mclaughlin for buying that liquor and
then committing murder under its in
iuence.
Ii don't pay to have one thousand
homes blasted, ruined, def ed and
turned into hells of disorder and mis-
ery in erder that one " h0Iesale liquor
dealer may amasS a large fortune. -
u don't pay-to keep six thousand
imeHinthe penitentiariesa and< hOspit-
ais, and one thousand in the lunatic
asylum at the expense OF the honest,
industrious taxpayers, in order that
few rich capitalists may grow. richer
by the manufacture of whisky. !
1t never pays to dowrong; your sin.
will find you out; whether Others find it
out or not. the sin knows where you
are and will always keep you posted
of the fact-itsdQn't pay.
"A saloon Keeper sold drinking man
one pint of new rum, making fifteen
cents, clear profit. The man under the
Influence ofthat pint OF rum killed his
sOn-in-ldw; and his apprehension, con-
hnementinjail, execution, etc, cost
the coufty<mOre thana thousand dot.
laTs-Which temperate men had to earn
by,tii6 sweat Of their brows. 1t don't
dag.AA S4sAzsusast.A
The loss sustained by society, NOR
ally and financially, the sorrow and
suffering, the misery and destitution
produced and augmented, and What is
infinitely greater consideration than
all else, the destruction Of soul and
body, the inevitable result OF using or
tratficking in Intoxicating liquors
these all attest. the trHthfuiness. OF the1
Verdict dent ply: X n
Valley Forge Celebrate n,
'NAbIEY FORGE, PA, June l9.-The !
centennial anniyersary celebration OF |
the evacuation of this place by the
Continental ssrDy was celebrated to |
day Under Circumstances of Unusual
display, and in presence of 30, 0,0O0I
people. & = Er
At noon a salute of thirtyeight guns
was fired, and. at one O'Clock the
services os-the day began in large
tent, holding 10, 900 persons. Governor
Hartranlt, the presiding officer, was
and received with tremend-
QUO cheers, and made an eloquent ad
dress.
A poem was then reed by Rev. F. I
G. Walker, Of Phllsdelphi1, aud after
the siHging o4-the "a Aalerican u lIylnnp !
Colonel L. w. Bean, OF Norristown,
read extracts from a historical paper
which he had prepared for the &c /
cssion.i a poem By Mrs. NJ. ThappI
Gone was also read.r The lora ter 0f las
day, Henry Armitt Brown, of Phlla-
delphia, was next introduced, au,i de
livered an oratiOn. The exercises
closed with the benediction.