The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-24

two or three of the best farms in the
country and have plenty of money left.
Does it pay to crafty the appetite at
such enormous cost? There have
been those who have severely criticised
w. II. Vanderbilt for spending
hundred and Fifty thousand dollars fol
ball But he never began to be as
eXtravagant as the man who take;
three ten cent glasses Of liquor day.
Our beer soaked communists never tire
of finding fault with the rich man be.
cause he has plenty to eat and of the
best; and yet not one of our rich men
are as eXtravagant as the man who
throws away thirty cents day together
with the compound interest. They
would never have been rich if they had
made practice OF doing that, and
those who think more Of the indulgence
OF their appetite than they do of econ
omy ought not to complain of poverty.
If we should sec a man taking ten
cents out of his pocket three times
day and throwing it away, we should
call him profligate and crazy. But
what does he do when he takes ten
cents from his pocket three times a
day, and exchanges it for Intoxicating
liquor3 He gets no good from it, and
he will not honestly claim that he does.
The argument that it cools one in sum.
mer and warns one in winter is all
nonsense, and nobody is better aware
of it than the man who offers it; and
whenever liquor is honestly supposed
to be benefit. there are other things that
iffif" is place ffc 1910 but but lit
tie of the injury. During tne' first part OF
the haying season, a Michigan farmer
bought two gallons of liquor every day
or two, to produce perspiration in the
bayfield,. As might naturally be ex.
pected at night the men, however much
they might have perspired, had not per-
spired the rum out of them by a long
ways. The good wife severely objected
to this condition of things, and told heI
husband if he would Danish the liquor
from the field she would supply the
means of an exceedingly free Derspira-
ton. lie complied with her wishes,
and she furnished the men with
all the hot tea they could drink,
carrying it steadily from the
house to the field. The husband
and the men were delighted with the
change and never felt better according
to their own confessions. There was
only one man who felt badly over the
reform, and he was the man who sold
the liquor, and who in our hearing was
lamenting the fact that that good wife
had saved her husbands money, and
the health of himself and his men. II
would seem as if independent manhood
would be sufficient to break a weak.
foolish habit which the liquor seller en-.
courages for his own selfish purposes
and then laughs over the weakness
upon which he lives and thriyes. a
man usually feels pretty foolish afte1
he has spent his money in a revengeful
lawsuit In his sober moments he feels
ashamed of himself to think that he has
been so weak as to spend his money fol
the benefit of lawyers. And vet that
same man will ride up to the rumshop,
from which the keeper, who would cast
him from his premises if he were mon
eyless, ruShes out to hold his horse and
bid him welcome because he can say in
his heart: This poor fool is going to
spend his money at my bar for that
which satisheth not but will take away
his brains. Under such exasperatinS
circumstances the drinking man wastes
his substance, robs his children and oft.
en- depriYes his wife of many of the com.
forts that belong to her Western
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