The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-14
SIGNBOARDS.

which the Raw Material Is Always
Worth More Than the Finished Produc-
tion-How a Truthful Sign Would Read.
Vigorous opposition of the liquor
dealers to the Temperance movement
is natural, and to be expected, for we
war against their pecuniary interest;
and if you touch some men in the
pocket you touch where they live.
Were these men to exhibit at their
places of business a truthful signboard,
it would read: "Delirum tremens.
fever, disease, pauperism, crime, red
ness of eyes, wounds without cause,
rags, wretchedness, despair and death
for sale here.
That would be truthful sign, but it
would injnre their business more than
all the Temperance organizations in
existence. The liquor-seller will not
even set up in his bar-room specimen
of his work; he puts up blinds at the
doors and screens at the windows to hide
his work from the passer-by; but the
shoemaker and the tailor exhibit their
work in their windows. and show what
they have made out of the raw material.
The tailor, when he has finished a
new coat, places it where it may be
seen by the greatest number of cnsto-
mers; when the shoemaker has finished
first-class pair # boots he places
them in his window. because the exhi-
btion tends to increase his trade.
With the liquor-seller it is quite differ
ent. He is ashamed of his finished
work. With him the raw material is
always worth more than the finished
article. We're he to exhibit that he
would lose his trade. No wonder he
is ae' med to exhibit his work.
Ia tne worlds great exhibitions you
have seen finished articles of nearly
every manufacturer, from a toothpick
to locomotive, and the exhibitors were
anxious to explain the method of man.
ufacture, or the texture of the woven
fabrics. Almost every conc 'ivable spec
linen of mans ingenuity and skill WIS
there represented. from the raw mate
rial to the finished article. But there
was one specimen of manufacture abb
sent. remember, at the Mechanics
Fair in Boston, many years ago, being
struck with this fact. and, on mention
ing it to Deacon Moses Grant, he pro-
posed to apply to the managers for per-
mission to exhibit a specimen OF the
liquor-sellers' work. He knew man
who was once worth forty thousand
dollars, who was then debased and
ruined through drink. who agreed for
a dollar a day to stand in that fair with
a label in front Of him, which read rs
follows: II was once worth forty thou
sand dollars. 1 was once respect
and respectable. / once moved il
good society. Such things as
am now are made out of such men ~
once was. Please give us a premium
for one of the best specimens to be-
found in the CITY," But they would
not admit him. The liquor-sefer is
ashamed of the results of his infamous
trade. A boy was passing by liquor
shop, and, seeing a drunken man lying
in the gutter in front of the saloon.
knocked at the door. and said mister.
your signs fell down." and the angry
iiquor-seller chased him half round tn
square.
See the results of this traffic in Il
true colors, placed SO full and fair h
fore you that the very youngest can no.
err in their decision. A liquors-''.
had tavern undergoing repairs. ON
day boy cam, running to his mother.
crying out: "Mother, motherr' "Wh"'
is it, my boyp" "Mr. POOLS tavern :
finished. mother" 'How do you know
my dearP" inquired the mother. "Why
l saw a man come out drunkm Now.
that is the Legitimate fruit of the dram
shop.-Goagh's Platform Echoes.
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THE Chicago Lever says: There is
parish in Louisiana where prohibition
Is enforced, and they use the Jail for
storing corn. Better store the corn in
the Jail and let men be free than con-
vert it into whisky and store the whisky
in the men, and the men with the
whisky in the Jail. 1t is much more
economical to store only the one article
in the Jail at time"
SENATOR FRYE, of Maine, whose tee
total principles are well known. has, it
is said, exercised his authority as Chair
man of the Committee on Rules of the
United States Senate, and changed the
management of the Senate restaurant.
1t Il understood that the new restau-
rant-kespsr win not keep or dispense
any kind OF Intoxicating hquof.