The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
PORTER.HOUSE STEAK VS.. LIVER.

Two colOred BARRIERS, one an old
man and the other young one. The
young man took off his apron and
started out of the door.
"Yoo's a gwan to git drink, JimP"
asked the elder.
"Dat's wat Use gwan to dot'
go an git yo' drink. [ yoost ter
do de same ting wen 1 wuz young.
Wen / wus fust married, thar was gin
mill next do to de shop wha' l wicked,
and spent in it fifty an sebenty-fve
cents day outen &c dollah a half I
CANNED. Wall, one mawnin [ went
into de butchah shop and who shood
cum in, but de man wat KEEP de likker
shop.
s'Gib me ten or twelve pounds
DO ter-house steak" sed he.
He got it and went out L sneeked
up to de butchah and looked to see wat
money / had lef'
"What do you want?" sed de
butchah.
"Gib me ten cents wuf of Ibber,"
wuZ my remark.
cit wuz all Good pay fur. Now
700 go and git yo' drink, Yoo'll eat
libber, but de man wat sells you de
stuff will hev his po'terhouse steak.
| De man benin de bah eats po'terhouse
de man in front oh de bah eats lib
Der. amt touched de stuff fo' thirty
years, and l am eatin POI terhouse my
| SELF
The aged barber summed up the
whole matter in his little story. The
man who sells liquor at five hundred
per cent. profit can eat anything he
| chooses, for he has certain and sure
| income from those who drink it, The
man who sells may keep half drunk
and it makes no difference, for it takes
but little energy and no brains whatever
| to lift bottle and make change out of
a dollar bill.
In Europe it is a saying that the only
| fat horses are those of the Government
| and brewers. AS it is with horses, so it
is with men. Whoever becomes the
victim of the drink habit becomes at
once incapable of taking care of him
self. He becomes the bond-slave of the
liquor seller. Every dollar that he
earns above what is required for the
barest necessities of life goes as straight
| to the keeper of the bar as drunken legs
can carry it. And the necessities of
life that he has are long way short of
necessities. Rather than not have his
stimulant he accepts rags. So long as
he can procure rum he is willing to go
hungry. Even the natural affection
that prompts human being to care for
its young is drowned by this all-con-
Stunning appetite. He is not only will
| ing to 90 in rags and starye himself,
but he condemns his innocent children
not only to rags, but to ignorance and
| crime.
This is the exact size of it. That the
man behind the bar may have porter
house steak, without working for it, the
man before the bar accepts the liver
and refuse of life.
This might be endured without the
Intervention of law, if men were left to
themselves in the matter If men were
free to decide whether they would or
would not drink. the power of the law
might not be involved to suppress
drink. But men are not so left. The
manufacture of drunkards has become
business. 1t is prosecuted the same
as any other business. The gin-mill
and beer-shop are no longer established
to fill public demand, but they are es-
| tablished to create demand for the
death they deal in Tie brewer and
whisky-maker go out of their way to
establish them. They rot only estab-