Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-17

snce men, those who, ike Ephraim, are
cakes not turned, and says to them: 'sYou
are the best kind of temperance men you
believe in prohibition even, and l like to
hear you talk that way the rest Of the year;
it's kind of blind for my business to grow
behind but to-day you're going to act with
me. l belong to your party, and Pm going
to help you save 1t; take your ticket
straight Prohibitions all right; but you're
no fool to 60 and throw away your vote
while the ideas so small. When it gets
big enough to win, why then it may be best
for you to think about voting with 1t. Here
this is our ticket" In go nineteen ballots
for license, and it turns and chuckles
"Nineteen more fools o, save the par
ty !"
1t stands in the lobby of the Legislature
buttonholing the sober members with
SHOW, honorable sirs, you are here to rep
resent your party. not to promote pubic
peace, virtue, and economy. I'm the bal
ance of power; license me, so as TO make
me respectable and recognized as state in
stiiution, or III withdraw my woes from
your party So license becomes law.
1t sits in the PASTORS study and the sane
tum of the pious editor (many of them),
like the toad at the ear OF Eve,
and whispers: "Please follow, don't lead.
Principles all right in its place, but some
times it's too much of luxury for poor men,
People are divided bout mei so preach and
pettifog for high license as half loaf |!
That will suit me, and keep you sweet with
most folks. Your tipplers won't get mad
at it, nor your pews and subscription list
run dry. Fine scheme, compromise is the
key to salvation - and the thrones of the
church sing the praises of license to send
men TO hell.
1t slaps the secular editor on the sh0ul-
der and bribes him with CHASTITY truth: '.lf
don't get brisk trade, your sheet'll be out
OF crime and other sensations. So you can
take personal pride in putting me as civ
ilizer and active friend of the press - and
the editor says, ssYes, give us news if you
have to murder somebody, or starve a whole
familA.
This remorseless 1t rides with the haber-
dasher of physic to tell him: "You know
that liquors. good to drive out both heat
and cold. That is, if fellow is hot all oy-
er, let my fre-water cool his stomach ITO a
oharcnal and h.. uon,f mind tho hat In
other spots or, if he's cold, let it warm
him so inside that he won't know when he's
frozen outside. And keg o. beer in the
house with a nursing babe is very health
ful-adds muscle to me and sometimes
makes the mother an angel. And you, men
of science and the Lord, only know what
didn't drink hearty" So incipient delir,
ium tremens is prescribed for the sick.
| 1t whistles to the farmer and SAYS
'.JohR, Pm your market for corn; Pm the
great wizard of the grain field turning mil
lions OF your fat acres into dead men ana
deselsted homes, all tor you; though the
| faratics tell YOU that, il | didn't kill of an
s-sny of men every year and keep a dozen
ermes drunk, getting ready, to die they
would work and buy your corn foc bread.
John, vote to keep my distileries Rashing
I You may be a church member and have a
| boy who knows saloon but bosh muzzle
conscience, and teach your yOaDg fellow
| tirmness by leading HIM into temptation =
And yet you may find as many as two Chris
tian farmers steadily voting with parties
whose recurd is hieroglyphed by tine tracks
| OF druukards and on the taVern-posts oi
damnation.
Again this almost omnipotent 1t makes
mayors and alderm en- its astraps, bribes pO-
licemen into over i Indulgence 10 broaGclotL
vagaboRds, holds a mortgage upon half the
courts OF Justice, ard drives innocent you'll
in tiocks from the prime ely paths of clean
ness and competence. And 1t swagger:
through coward society, the bully of tht
club roon, the dinning room, the dining
hall and the dress parade, -patronized by
weak ner and tolerated by weaker wo.
men.
Of course, this little Indie tnent of Ok
Traffic, the criminal on whose career vol
umes close without covering halt, is nothing
new; but though it be old do not let 4
turn rusty Keep it bright, that,the indii
ferent mag measure the only great sham,