The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-06
"THERE'S MONEY IN ITv
Carry the News to Ruined homes.

MI. 1nOmann, VINO complies
Ito order" the pamphlets and books
desired by the Brewers Literary
Bureau, has made an attempt to
affect the recent reports published
by the Bureau of Statistics at
Washington. In doing SO he is
forced to credit to alcohol ten per
cent of the insane, ten per cent of
the idiots forty per cent of the
paupers. and forty per cent of the
criminals, and he then strikes a
balance, as follows:
To EXPENSE Deo Of maintain By Federal lii.
ing 1898 ,paupers, in censes, taxs,
ST., ,422, SEES, slS6 OOO, 900
This, he triumphantly declares,
shows a balance in favor of alcohol
of s118.5S0,570, and The Bre,pers'
Journal complacently reproduces
the figures, and cries out that sal
together, Mr.. Thomann has much
the best of the controversy" A
more cold-blooded calculation we
don't remember ever to have seen.
The superintendent of a street-car
line, in making up his ledger &C.
count, could not be more heartless
in considering the profit and loss
occurring from the number of hor-
ses that had been killed. Our
traffic has used up 1855 600 of these
animals called men, women and
children, says Mr.. Thomann in ef-
feet, but it has paid in more than
it cost to bury them. imprison
them, and confne them, in asy-
lums, and who can find fault? No
body, of course So long as there is
money in the business, who can
complain? That heart-broken
mother from whose life the light
has gone out; that father with
bowed head and trembling hand
don't they understand that there
is money in this traffic that has
sent their boy to felon's cell ?
Why don't they cheer up? Why
doesn't some one tell that widowed
wife and her orphaned children
that the ledger account shows
there is money in it, and thus
bring back the smiles that fled so
long ago? For the sake of human
ity, carry to them Mr.. Thomann's
figures and the comments of The
Breaoers' Journal. Spread the joy
GUS tidings around among the
novels of our great cities-the led.
ger account shows there's money
in it. Let wasted cheeks renew
their bloom, and the pinched lips
that have called for food for Heav-
en- knows how long, sing songs of
joy!
Mr.. Thomann says there's money
in it
O, Heaven what mockery! The
most heartless slave-driver that
ever corralled human beings into
a pen on the coast of Africa never
com mitted greater one. And
yet, let US be Just to Mr.. Thomann.
He but voices what millions of his
fellow-citizen; many of them, pro-
fessed members Of Christ's church,
are saying in their secret hearts
there's money in it.
1t helps to pay our taxes, cried
thousands of business men in Ohio
few years ago, land so we'll vote
for the saloon" There's money
in it," cries the advocate of High
License, and what more can be
said?
It is lie! There is not even
money in it-not cent nor mill.
For every dollar of the millions
that are counted up as profits in
the public treasurer comes from
whom +? From the people of the
common wealth. The traffic has
created not one cent OF wealth. 1t
has destroyed millions of bushels of
grain, and tens Of thousands of
human beings at the end of every
year. and all it has done has been
to transfer money from the pock-
cts of the people to the treasury,
keeping two dollars for every one
transferred. Where is there money