The Brookhaven leader., 1885-04-16
A plsuRAcEFvL BUSINESS.
An Honest Talk OF q Liquor Deaiel
with Himself.
tiETuNG STATED.


to go into this damning business! If we
liquor don't know that, nobody
docs. Now, bad first to choke out my
conscience, and il was . small bit compar-
ed TO some peoples. But had enough tn
give me sharp quake when | begun
thinking to go into this. had TO stuff
down my throat over and over, license
makes IL all right; which any fool knows is
just "A sham lie. Then had TO stiffen my
heart harl, as to all my Oil father aud
good mother had said a hundred times in
my hearing, about the shame and mean
guilt of the dirty business. What used
to hear in church and Sabbath-schoOl
(wbere went when boy), inst matched
with what they said. My wife, too, and
all our fulks-thO' some of them s,lrink
and vote for license-all disliked it.
knew, and wished I'd keep out of it. But
the devil in me held the bride, and !
went in.
OH, THE COMPANY
"And such cOmparyRs l had to come
down to-:heir talk ways, and character!
Bah, And worse STILL must have them
round me day in and day out, and really
entertain them, or seem to. Long days
ours are ; earliest open, last to shut, is the
rumhole's time-card. Then the bartend
crs We mast have are a tough set. Fellows
that can curse and fight, use knife or pis
tol, are the sort we have to have. No
matter IT they can't write their own
na mes, or read them aftir they are writ
ten, OF if Just out of States prison, if they
know "a nickel from "a dime, and are ready
for anything, they make the best fist, spec
tally i'll saloon fracas. l tell you man
that's had any decent bringing up, feels
mighty mean to he in business with
such stock to carry it OH for him. do
| for one!
KICKED OUT.
"Next, found liquor-sellers don't ex-
pect to ~ into much, if any decent COM
pany. Very seldom any Of us go into
church; (most churches make and keep
| it too hot TO: ns) and our back doors keep
us 'on the sly Sundays. We don't go to
the school meetings, lectures, readings
indeed, Pve found 10 really respectable
people ever ask me to II party, hardly to
any place. SO tins dirty business drives
us out of all decent company-as it ought
to-and we 80 skuiking behind screens
and daubed windows and there we have
to STAY, and hear the maudlin gable and
vile slang of customers. DON'T 1 hate it!)
THE MEAN, MEAN BUSINESS.
Don't kn0u, as an honest man, that
cicty' Do not know that not one grain
Of W heat, not kernel of corn, or so much
as IA fiat turnip is raised or added to the
common stock by me, from years end to
wears ends Not one stroke of work, adj
ding IA farthings value to anything!
do nothing but destroy! Destroyed bread
corn makes the liquor. Then l take it
and go about destroying hands, feet, eyes,
minds, bodies, and souls, and with them
90 farms, mills, banks; everything labor
gets of uses. The man or business can't
I've found, from pulpit and Senate, from
hod- IMAM and scavenSer, who can stand
it, once get my hand fairly OH them.
Give me chance, I'll upset any living
man. or work man can do. That's the bust
ness
so, of course, have to set myself like
a cross donkey, right against everything
men call good State, church, business,
life. have to hurt, and to hate, pull
down, destroy, kill, that's my business.
Licensed for that!
| "Never earn cent, never add mill to
anything that can feed or clotbe, or help
u fellow being mite; but rob, ruin, use
up erybody, and all kinds of property
can set my hands on-thafs my business
Next; it's mighty ertortion lire by'
Other businesses get ten or twenty pei
cent. profit, and can live and let live
Look at mine give $50. 90 for barrel OF
whisky, double it at once with water, re-
tail it at ten cents per glass, or at nine
hundred per cent adrance! We know that
IA drunkard, in his thirst-torturc, will
sell his blood for drink; and SO we put
the price on. There Is no other eXtOrtlou
like this known among men. Why, II Il
set of men were licensed to do all the flour
business, and should buy it at $1,000 per
barrel, and force the buyer to pay $50 90
(one-tenth our advance), it would wake
up a bread riot the land over, and ought
to. / wonder our robbery Don't do the
same.
Then it's all cash dorm pay me by the
glass, no matter who else isn't paid. I'm
licensed, and if it's blood-money, have it
Will. The grocer, the baker, the store,
everybody selling what the family needs,
may lose the last cent for what they sell
(the fools deserve it, for they'll 10 vote
to- morrow to license us liquor men, to
make these paupers for them to support),
but my pay for drinks, Pm sare to got
Licensed, ell
WE ARE OUTLAWS.
"Besides this, liquor-sellers as class
mnst, all the time, defy society. We
know as well as anybody what an infer
nal trade we are in. We know every
good man or woman and all little chill
dren abhor it; and we, in our bitter mo-
ments feel much rs they do as to il. We