Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-02


the wants Of the necessaries of life? Why
this pinch of poverty at the close of year
of plenty? All over the land the store
houses are filled to OVERLOOKING, and our
banks are glutted with money! Why is it
that these institutions are SO full and yet
this pinch of poverty? Some say it is the
result of over production. This is poor
philosophy. For illustration, take q sick
individual surrounded by six physi-
clans, one at his head, another at his
heart and one at each of his extremi-
ties. The one at the head says there is
too much blood there, the one at
the heart finds the same at his post,
but those at the extremities find them cold,
an absence of blood, and they say we must
Immediately get up q circulation. The
stores and banks are the heart and head,
and the people are the eytremities. 1t is
an insult to God to say that this state of
affairs is the result of over production
How is it that so much is to be found in
the hilltop of capital and so little in the
valley of the laborer2
THE LABoRER MADE IT.
Others say that il is caused by the hoard
ings of rich men. The miser is a fool, but
the wise man of wealth keeps the latter
continually in motion; 100000, 900 is spent
annually for that which is not bread: is
paid out by the laborer over the bar
OF the liquor dealer Turn that money
loose against those bursting houses
and capital would melt away in few
months like the mist before the rising sun.
Let the labOrer say, for two weeks even, we
Will spend nothing for the soul-deStroying
liquor. but will spend like amount upon
the necessaries of life, and the result would
be that new life would be infused through
on a Of / ,,;o
and the white wings of commerce would
exhibit strength never before witnessed
in our nation. This liquor traffic is an in
cubus upon our country that business men
should join in solid phalanx to battle
Why does not the politician build a plat
form in whose structure the principle plank
shall be prohibition 1t must and will be
done, and a party with such a platform
must and will sweep the Union. A poll
tician and AN -prohibitionist predicts it,
and says that even now it would SWEEP
every State in the Union but three, and
that California is not one of the latter We
remember that
CHARLES SUMNER STOOD ALMOST ALONE
In his efforts for the abolition of slavery.
His contemporaries, the shreWedest men of
his time, demonstrated with him, asked
him why he agitated such a movement.
declaring that it was fixed fact. in
trenched behind commerce and recognized
by society. His reply was, 1T is not
settled until it is settled right" We re-
member the horrors of the civil war, the
devastation of the beautiful States of the
South, the lives laid down in blue and gray,
and that God wrote, Nothing is settled
until it is settled right" in letters of blood
in the days of the rebellion. This prohibi-
ton movement is coming forward with the
same certainty, the same strength and the
prophetic words of Sumner are as applica-
bic to this liquor traffic as they were TO
human slavery. 1t is coming with a GER
tainty and with a force that will be ire
sistible. You might as well undertake to
prevent Vesuvius from belching forth It's
streams of lava by covering its crater with
a mosquito bar as to try to oppose the on
ward progress of prohibition. And vet
they tell us that the hard times is the
result of over production and would advise
the closing of the workshop and less till
ing of the soil The devil would want
nothing better than to stop labor. We
have too much play and too little work
now; too many parasites living off the
labor of others. What we want is to open
all the factories, put every machine to
running to its utmost speed. shut up the
saloons and variety theaters, close the
skating Kinks and turn the tide of money
toward the necessaries of life. This LIQUOR
traffic is demoralizing in the extreme, de-
grades labor more than Chinese immigla-
ton and is greater land monopolist than
all the railroad corporations of the land
combined
WE SPEND MORE MONEY FOR LIQUOR
Than we do for food and clothing. If this
is allowed to go on unchecked it will not
be many years before the red flag of Com
munism will float over san Francisco, and
the black flag of Socialism raised in Chi
cago; yet if the money is placed in the
proper channels these calamities will be
averted, peace and plenty reign supreme.
and our country become what it should
the most prosperous of earth Some time
since party of Socialists had a picnic at
Chicago, and paraded that city with flags
upon which were written the words " Give
us bread or give us BLOOD They wanted
g bread or blood yet upon the dav in
question it is stated they consumed two
hundred barrels of beer. Our Legislatures
pass many laws relative to the diseases of
cattle, how to prevent, cure and quarantine
against them, also aid and insist in the
improvement of the various classes of
wines, but have nothing to say against this
great evil that is destroying 10000 of our
people annually. They say it uses Ilp a
large amount of grain, and in consequence
the residue is worth more. Better to haul
it to the bay and drop it therein, which
would give employment to labor and
place it beyond power to do further
harm. Who is it that patronizes
the bar at the country hotels &?
1t is not the rich man, the we'll
TODD business man, nor the mon
eyed wholesale liquor dealer.
No; it is the hard handed laborer. the man
ofmuscle, who wears blue overalls He looks
into the bottom of the glass, of the con-
tents of which the saloon keeper made 100
per cent. profit, and as he drains off the
last of the poisonous dregs, remarks, as he
sets down the empty glass upon the coun-
ter, that times are hard, and discusses at
length the hardships encountered by the
ovERwoRKED AND DowN-TRoDDEN LABoRING
MAN.
In Ireland the liquor bills of the tenants
would more than pay their rents and leave
them a handsome margin, and if the Irish
man would quit his liquor for ten years he
could buy and own his land, and the ap-
peals for help from the Emerald Isle would
no longer be heard. But our politicians,
backed by the liquor merchants, say this
IS a free country. and our lib
critics should not be interfered with
This liquor business is the worst kind of
slavery. African slavery was nothing in
comparison. 1t did not rob US of $4,000
human beings a year, did not cause so
many widows and orphans, murders, sui
cides, or so completely fill gu. prisons, hos
pltals and insane asylums. The slavery
whip in the palmiest days of that irstitu-
ton was never cracked over the heads of
political parties with more authority or
with more vigorous snap than that of the
| liquor dealers throughout our republic to-
day. 1t does not always take the rough
and weak-minded, but as a general thing
men of the finest organization, feelings and
intellect. Edgar A. Poe, the author of
The Raven" one of the finest specimens
of English literature died a drunkard, and
that brilliant production was inspired by
hopeless despair George ID. Prentice and
Thomas Marshall. two of the most brilliant
minds our country ever produced, fell vic
TINS to the same destroyer. Only a short
time since the grandson of Henry Clay was
killed in drunken broil in Louisville
Only two blocks away lay the nephew of
John J. Crittenden, another victim of the
fell destroyer, and two blocks beyond was
the grandson of Patrick Henry, lying in
jail, q common. drunkard. Whata degenera-
ton was presented in those three sad
specialization Patrick Henry to a
drunken fruit in three generations. 1t has
also