The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-25
ITS DRAWBACKS.

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ITS DRAWBACKS.
Dascom on the "Troublss" Connected
with the Liquor Trsnic-Still He Thinks
He Has "Dun Well Enun'' In Spite of
Them.
Petroleum V. Nasby," of "Confed-
rit X Roads," recently proposed to
Bascom that he take him into partner
ship in his "grosery" at that place. To
his surprise the proposition was re-
jected, on the ground that Bascom
tiidn't think the trade would stand two
such industrious drinkers. In the
course Of the conversation Bascom re-
marked as follows, as reported by
"Nasby" to the Toledo Blade:
"Likker sellin looks like a nifty
profitable biznis, but it amt alluz. II
hez its drorbax. 700 see yer custom
ers don't live long enuff to make the
biznis ez profitable ez it shood be. Jest
ez 700 git man fairly fixed so that he
hez to hev his likker regler. he gifts so
that he won't work, and consistently
don't hev money to satisfy his appe-
tite. That's the trubble. Wat good to
me is man with healthy longin for
stimulant, and no money to pay for
it? Eff Good find lkker witch wood
make man drink without destrOyin
his capassity for laber, it wood do,
for then he Good earn money every
day, and spend it every mite in my
bar and it wood be pleasant. But
it don't work that way. IF q
man gifts drunk Saturday mite and stays
drunk all day Sunday he isn't with a
straw for labor Monday, and eff he gifts
down to biznis by Thursday he is doing
perty well. So you see half his time is
lost, and his capassity fur payin fur
likker is curtaled by the very likker he
drinks. This Dustin mans sistem by
stimulants cuts me out a good fifty per
cent. NV wat there shood be in the biz.
mis-.
"And then another trouble 10 tina,
every now and then regler customer
gifts . foolish spasm. and goes and
squanders part Of his earnings on his
wife and children. see only yester.
day the little girl NV one Nv my best
customers 20 by in moo calico
dress and moo pair NV shoes,
wlch l know he he'd paid for, for he
hasn't bin in my place for four days.
And the money wlch he paid for them
shoes and that caliker dress wood hev
bin in my till by this time ef he hedn't
squandered it in tibet onjestifable way
Wat rite he'd he to do it? Ell his little
gal wanted moo shoes and dress why
didn't his wife git the money, BY
washin and sichp l hate to see noe
shoes and moo caliker dresses on the
little gals NV my customers. 1t is jist
so much robbed from me.
"And then the trouble we hev with
likker don't end with this sort NV
thing. When q man hez drunk too
much he won't work. The appetite
for likker ought to end with a mans
capassity for payin fur it, but 1t don't.
He must hev 1t whether he works OF
not. And SO he Gums in and demands
credit, and wat are you going to dol
Eff you refuse him likker the poor devil
mite git his stumick heeled, and mite
possibly, come to aaint wher he wood
emit want it at all. wich wood be room
Gus. So 700 hev to give it to him OF
tick, to keep his stumick properly in
famed, 80 that when he does git tt
work he will cOntinner to contribbit
lnezmuch es wat he earns when he i!
at work comes to me anyhow, he never
hez any surplus to pay off old scores
and the result is loss NV wat 700 he,
advanced. A skOre wunst run up al
luz stays run up.
"An0ther trouble with us is the fite.
witch is inseperable from likker. TIL,
breakin NV chares, and glasses, ant
SIGH, don't count. but when one IL,
yOor best customers gifts his het
broken so he hez to stay in bed q weel
and can't git to yoor bar at all, that il
hart rendin'. And when they git t.
shootin'! ! shell never forgit how l fel
when saw 'Lish Pogram, the Deekin'
Oldest son, curled up on this floor
with a hole thro his forehead, will
Pete Gavitt, Issacker's oldest brother
q standin over him with his pisto
smokin. 'Lish Pogram wuz ded ez
door male, and he wuz with to me a
leest three hundred dollars a yeer
And to finish up the disaster. they sen
Pete to the penitenshary for life. TO
q KILN NV him, and thcr went anOthe
three hundred dollars a ycer. Pet
committed sooicide before he he'd BIZ
Their yeer, for he and 'Lish he'd allu
Din good trends and KILN NV him W hel
he wuz drunk kinder preyed onto hi
mind.
"However, I hev dun we'll enuff an
don't kick. l hev a mortgage ont
most NV the farms hereabouts, which
while they don't pay any interest O
their notes, it amounts to the sam
thing. as they spend all the none
they make at my bar anyhow. hev
mortgage on their laber, that is tn
laber NV their wives and children.
"The reglers die too soon, but the
Is the children comm up. and that is
shoor resource. They claim the rit
to go wher Their dads go, and they cum
They come shoor. And ez Their ston
icks is fresh, for few yeers they ii
Stand a great deel NV likker, and sti
do tollable days work. 1t is a sa
Sact that ,er old customers die off mi,