The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-05
w. c. T u. COLUMN.
EDITED BY THE LADIES OF THE KE-
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merchants and other business men
who had an interest in learning the
financial and moral standing of their
customers, especially those farmers
who were trying hard, in many in
stances, to pay for their land, stock,
etc., they had only to look over to
the opposite side of the street in or
der to judge pretty accurately how
far it would be safe in the future to
trust certain men who had obtained
credit with them. Not wishing to
Injure the reputation of those per-
sons whose character was being thus
read, they had simply to remark to
each other: "He bitches his horse on
the wrong side of the street"
Many poor man has been refused
credit on this sole account, and new
er knew the reason. Now, however,
when saloons line both sides of the
street, matters are complicated, and
our merchants are in a quandary.
More saloons mean less safety to
business Apropos of this, not few
women are wondering who will be
the far-seeing, enterprising mer-
chant who will be the first to open a
frst-class dry goods store on some
other than Main street, as they are
growing dissatisfied at having to pass
through files of thirsty beings who
loiter near the doors of those nox-
iC S places called frst-class, high
liC> sc saloons.
The nonsense that "beer is better
than milk" has received a stab this
time, not from prohibition paper,
but from the Wine and Spirit Gazette.
1t says: "The less said about the
salutary effect of our modern beer
with its various chemical ingredients,
the better it will be for the interests
of our big brewers, many of whom
are but too anxious to draw out of
the business by accepting the offers
of the English syndicates. * $
It is notorious that our brewers sell
dom drink their own beer or the
product of any other brewery. At
the places which they frequent, and
at which they take their meals, or at
public picnics and summer nights
festivals which are attended by
brewers, it is generally noticed that
these men drink anything but beer.
If beer is healthy, why do our brew
ers refuse to drink beer?" When we
have such testimony from liquor
paper. what shall be said of the
practice still adhered to by some
temperance physicians, of prescrib-
ing beer as a remedy in disease?
This same paper says: "Modern beer
taken in excess tends to develop liv-
er and kidney Diseases" and yet we
knew case lately where a physician
recommended the free use of beer to
a poor sufferer by rheumatism, a
disease where, above all things. the
liver ought to be kept free from such
filthy intruder in the system.
The "poor drunkard" is a subject
Of natural and general commisera-
tion-bNt does anybody ever realize
that he suffers far less than any 9TH
er criminal, for his own misdeeds.
He loses fortune, to be sure, but the
possession of a dime, and the drink
it will buy, makes him a rich man
again He loses caste and friends,
but the glass handed him by any
common bartender has for him a
geniality and glow that all the
worlds friendship does not offer
him. He knows no joys of home,
but what are these when he confess
es that he would walk over the dead
bodies of wife and child if only so
he might get the precious dram.
And when he begins to feel remorse,
he has only to drink down his misery
in larger draught, and again he is
king among men. He is absolutely
untouched by consequences-these
are borne in rags and tears by his
mother, his wife and his children.
The rumsellers have an article in
their creed which we want in ours
They belie0e prohibition is going to
succeed. The president of power
full branch of the Liquor Dealers
Association in South Dakota recent.
ly said, despairingly: "Prohibition
may carry, because its friends have
secured the favor and aid of every
flve-year-old boy and girl, of every
Sunday school teacher, and of every
pastor, all of whom are yelling their
heads off for prohibition. Mean.
time, because of this state of public
opinion, we cannot get anybody to
speak in our behalf" In that same
state an organ of the whisky ring
has suspended its services in that be-
half because the editor saws he is
sure the question will be carried
against the ring, and he is not will
ing to waste any more money to aid
falling cause. One of the ''bes