Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-10-28


every loom and spindle from Lowell
to New Orleans will be running to
their utmost capacity.
On woolen goods we spend ST.
557 900 per week. Now winter is
coming, is nearly here. Let us take
q generous amount from our liqnor
bill and so provide for the comfort of
every man, woman and child, under
the flag against the rigors of our cli-
mate. Let US add three millions or
nearly Is per cent. and then the
farmers will not care whether the
duty on foreign wool is taken off or
not; market will be found for all
they can produce. And then we
spend for boots and shoes $780,
1000. Let us increase it by $2,000,-
600 from the drink bull that all may
be warm and comfortably shod.
have not the figures showing the
amount we spend for furniture but
this do know, that we do not spend
enough, when there are so many
bare floors. bare and blackened walls,
broken chairs, and utterly uncomfort-
able homes. Let us take $4,000, 900
a week from the drink bill and in a
little while every home throughout
the land will be comfortably furnish
ed, and dealers and manufacturers
will be prosperous and happy.
We have now appropriated thir-
teen of our eighteen million dollars
and so have five million left. Now
let US put every carpenter, mason,
plaster and painter at work building
and repairing our houses. You need
not fear, we have plenty of money
to pay the bill, if it is only given the
right direction, and we shall be the
best housed, fed and clothed people
ever dreamed of, the wonder and adj
mlration of the world, and we shall
still have ten million to be spent by
rich old guzzlers whose drinking does
not detract from the legitimate bus
mess of the country.
| Do you ask for remedy for hard
times9 Then dry up this fountain
of iniquity, this source of poverty,
shame, idleness and waste, and every
Legitimate business in the country
will take on a life and energy never
known before. The abettors of the
, rum traffic tell us to let it.alone and
that it will let US alone. 1t is false
, hood. 1t will not let you alone in
/ tyour business or in your family.
/ There is not an honest worker in the
, land to-day whose business is not
} being unfavorably affected by it and
, who is not being more'or less impov.
| erished by it. One of the delegates
, to the Southern Methodist General
Convention said in reference to the
liquor business; "No man has right
to 60 into the liquor business so long
as he can make good living by
, stealing"
Whisky men would doubtless cal
that man a temperance crank, but
. submit to you if it would not be vast
ly preferable, even on the low grounds
: of dollars and cents, to license these
men to steal than to license them te
> sell liquor. For solid prosperity car
never come to any people a largt
: proportion of whose men are iilers
E and whose worse than waste hund
: reds of millions of dollars yearly il
s whisky drinking. The political econ
{ omist who does not see this is blinc
as a bat.
: We have considered the husines.
: in its relations to material prosperity
0 Now, what are the losses to manli
e ness, morals, and 10 the aggregate o
}, human happiness, Alas, figure
3 will not represent them, though yo,
+ employ the arithmetic of heaven; the,
J. are simply incalculable. In recen
j, review of this subject by a prominen
r civilian, occurs this statement
: "During the last year it has staine,
t 100000 of our citizens; is ha
s wounded 100000 more. who neve
n will recover; it has imprisoned 100,
# 900 more; it has reduced 10000
r children to beggary; it causes three
d fourths of the crimes and pauperisn
It in all the land"
Il Do you know what that all means
g Can you measure the tears, the anguis
d poverty, disgrace aud despair whic
e that statement represents? And the
e think for a moment that a natio
!. called Christian has authorized b
n law and sanction of the state, thi
it frightful pest-gang that it has pre-
n vided for its creation that it is her,
e not in opposition to, but Of her will
o that by formal and deliberate legisls
e ton, brought about by Christia
d votes, she has opened in all her town
a. and cities, slaughter houses of mer
K women and children, ,and of all virtue
% and employs 100000 minions to d
e this dreadful work; that she has don
y this and continues to do it with be
II eyes open, and with full knowledg
'r and purpose that she has prepares
* and planned and deliberated in gov
m erDment chambers for the produt
t, ton of these desperate cases; tbs
ar her employed commissioned represel
ID tatives do this for pay.
,e For wears the Christian world hf