The Red Cloud chief., 1880-03-25
DOES II PAy2
a Temperance Articie.)

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Docs it pay to have scores of working
men poor, ragged, and financially ruined,
10 order that one saloon keeper may be
dressed in broadclOth, and flush Of
money?
Docs it pay TO have fifty working men
live on bone soup and half r%ations, in
order hat one saloon keeper may flourish
on roast turkey and c%hampane?
Does it pay to have the mothers and
~ehildren-o twenty families dressed in
rags, starved into the semblance OF
emaciated scarecrows, and living in holes,
in order that the saloon keepers wife may
dress in satin, ani her children grow fat
and hearty. and live in a nice parlor?
Does it pay to have a citizen in Jail to
be supported at the public expense, be-
cause aaother Citizen sells him liquor?
Does i, pay to have one citizens sup
ported by the tax payers Of the county,
in the lunatic asylum, because another
citizen makes him crazy by selling him
liquor?
Does it pay to arrest, try, convict and
perish a man at a cost Of thousands of
dollars to the tax payers of the county.
because another man sold him liquor. IN
der the influence of which be committed
murder?
Does It pay TO have ten of our smart,
active and intelligent boys turned into
vagsbonds and criminals, to enable one
man TO lead an easy life by selling them
liquor?
Does it pay for a paltry license to allow
John Doe 10 sell Richard Roe whiskey,
and then spend thousand of dollars of the
taxpayers money in prosecuting Richard
Roe for a crime committed while crazy
by the whiskey2
Does it pay to have one thousand
homes blasted, ruined, defled, and
turned into hells of discord and misery,
in order that one Wholesale liquor dealer
may amass q large fortune?
Does it pay to keep 5000 men in the
penitentiaries and prisons, and hospitals,
1000 in the hnatic asylums, aud 10000
men, women and children in the poor
houses, at the expense Of the honest, in.
dustrious taxpayers, in order that q few
capitalists may grow richer by the manu-.
facture and sale of whiskey?
Doe. it pay to permit the existence Of
traffic which only results in crime,
poverty. misery, aud death, and which
never did, never does, never can. and
never will do any coed?
1t never pays to do wrong; your sir
will end you out, whether others End il
out or not, the sin knows where you are,
! and viii always keep you posted of thaI
D fact. 1t does not pay.
Does the honest rum sellers adv't pay
' HERE 1T is
: All hail friends and neighbars, ",
. opened q shop, at which l invite you 20
litely 10 stop; l keep liquid FIRE to sell t,
all, l therefore beseech you to give me
i call I've purchased indulgence from
e court. and begia, dealing out to M,
neiehbors rum, brandy and giu. / expec
to make paupers for you to support, an
to help on the business you custom
court; I'll also make drunkards and beg
gars likewise, but then | am honest, an
IT need no disguise. / shall deal 10 fol
spirits, and hope to excite, men to rot
and to murder BY day and by night,
shall drive away comfort, expenses aus
ment. | shall stir up connection. on tn
I'm intent; at q very short notice. an
for . small sum. by the wonderful mag
of brandy, aud rum. l viii eli yol
m asylums, and poor houses too, to 70,
prisons and scaFolds In send not q fev
| will sell you, kind neighbors. if you VI
but call, a drink that viii poison and rui
TT you all. The goods ! shall deal ir, "
. take away life, deprive some of reasol
~ ell the country with strife; and NAL
e! widows and orphans, Of fathers. mai
8, tends. the loud vail Of thousands n
1t business attend. Of natural objection Il
at parent In rob. I'll incite insurrectio
and stir up . mob; though spirits q
.e priceless III send them to hell. comr
nd them 10 torment forever to dwell. Shou
as any one ask me my reason to give, 4
ait answer is money, and money LII have.
10 Crown Jewell Patent -four. can alws
ed be had At the store Of Chas. Z. Put1al
bic The best -four in the valley.
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