Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-06
NJ. G. T. u. NOTES.

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By hrs. Il. Eliadrs.
In reference to the en-
XS4T& NJ forcement of the Sunday
@VtAHES liquor law in New Jersey
XIV a New York daily reports
4NE that competent observ-
er says: cit will keep a
million of dollars out of Jersey City this
summer The reporter pities the city
In its prospective loss.
Poor Jersey City! forced to lose SO
much through the enforcement of a
"sumptuary law" which tells man
that he shall not sell beer or liquors on
the Lords Day.
A million of dollars! and pray who
would have received that grand sum?
Would it haye been divided among
the poor and needy? Would it have
made good to the families of men en-
gagged i'm recent strikes the loss OF
wages? Would it have bought bread
for the-hungry or clothes for the naked?
No! Not to one of these excellent ends
would it have been applied; none OF
these desirable aims would have been
aided even in small degree.
That entire million dollars would
have gone to swell the bank accounts
of the liquor-dealers of Jersey City, as
the authority who was inter viewed re-
ferred only to the amount which would
have been spent in drinking. not to the
ferriages; ear-fares, and the small
amount of food needed for the beer
filled stomach. AS the Jersey City IL
quor-dealers do not get that million lie!
US see who will get 1t, and how it will
be spread around.
Among those who will share in it are
butchers, and bakers, and grocers, and
gardeners, which means more plentiful
and better food for many; the shoe
makers, dressmakers, milliners, cloth
iers, and dry goods merchants, and
furniture dealers hich means better
clothes and neater homes; and then
there will be some to spare for the
daughters and wives and mothers to
use as they please.
1t means less police-court, and more
church; less dirt, and more soap; fewer
broken heads, and more broken loaves;
less shedding of tears, and more laugh
ter; less longing for death, and more
joying in life; less rags, and mere new
dresses; fewer toes out, and more new
shoes; fewer broken bottles, and more
good books, less number in Jail, a
greater number at work; less cruel
blows, more kind words.
The list of good things to be accom-
plished by that million dollars which If
barred out of the Jersey City liquor
dealers, strong boxes and stocking-legs
and scattered in the benefit of the fam
lilies of the earEers, is practically limit
less.
It means quiet Sundays with less vii
famous smoke fouling the air, with less
profanity. less forgetfulness of God and
His creatures. 1t means an addition to
the rainy-day fund of many wage-earn-
ers. 1t means trips to the seaside or
mountains, or possibly to the old home
stead. It means renewed health, clear
heads, clear conscience, a better man.
hood, a nobler womanhood, a happier
childhood. And i'm the clearer Aight
development by the enforced abStl-
nence from brain-fuddling beverages, it
means many unexl ected but heartily,
welcomed votes for prohibition. Per-
sonal experience is of more value as a
convincing and converting agent than
persuasive eloquence, logical lectures,
or the wishes and pleadings of friends.
And the man who is convinced that
prohibition is a measure of self-defence
which will not only defend him but his
children and his children's children af-
ter him, will be a practical Prohibition
ist and avail himself of the opportunity
to express his convictions by his vote.
And so, comforting ourselves with
the hope of many accessions to the
ranks of this army of humsnitarians
and disciples of New Testament Chris
tianity, we sing the old doxology with
anewly-awakened zeal because mill
lion of dollars is turned away from the
work of making out of Jersey beer a
thousand ills and sorrows, and is to be
largely turned into channels where it
will make joy and bring blessings.
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