The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
WORTHLESS LOUNGERS.

A Glass of Lazy Son-Producers Who Find
a Natural Resort in the Bar-Room or
| Saloon.
We have too many lazy, worthless
non-producers among us, and are too
tolerant of such nuisanccs. IN other
countries a man without means who is
capable of performing any labor, mental
or muscular, must work or starve. Here
we are more indulgent to loaferism. Tho
bar-rooms of the hotels and saloons of
our large cities are constantly haunted
by shabby-gentecl do-nothings, on the
watch for good-natured individuals
| with more money than brains, of whom
they hope to obtain small loans.
Many of these professional Jeremy
Diddlcrs are persons of considerable tai
ent, extensive information and good
conversational powers. They UNDER
stand the arts of flattering and anus
ing, and upon these arts they trade.
Some of them are the prodigal sons Of
honorable and wealthy citizens; incor-
rlgibles who have worn out parental
generosity and forbearance, and who,
unable to obtain further supplies from
SI-S {spNSt 4lOIs lethO I1S Uthtil CItIll-
selves to that most contemplate of all
the shifts of dissipated laziness, saloon
loafing: just as the worthless
and ruined Scions of noble European
families were accustomed to take to tho
road for a livelihood in the olden time.
Upon the whole, however, we think
the noble highwaymen" of two hun
drrd years ago we're less despicable than
the tipping dollar-borrowers of the
present day. A good family name is
not bad capital to swindle on. Men who
would hesitate to give ten cents 10 a
ragged, rameless pauper, not infre-
quently open their purses to assist the
black sheep of a first family, who is too
lofty to beg, but not too proud to Dor
row under the false pretense of return
ing the loan he so!icits in the course of
day or two. The habitual saloon
loafer, when he has become too notori-
Gus to ply his game with success at one
place, moves off to another, and begins
to experiment upon new set of VIC
tins.
If the society in which plausible
drones pick up a living without labor
had sufficient moral courage to meet
their solicitations with a determined
No, it would be blessing to all con-
cerncd. Convince these pensioners up
on false generosity that they must de-
pend upon the legitimate exercise Of
their own talents for support, or famish,
and large proportion of them would
adopt the disagreeable alternative which
the able-bodied beggar said he must re-
sort to if the charitable denied him
aims. They would go to cork Who
ever lends to the lazy, dissipatcd and
dishonest what he could otherwise af,
ford to bestow in real charity, rolls the
meritorious poor.-N. Y. Ledger.
AMONG decisions the alcoholic is ono
of the most harmful. DR.. Norman
Kerr says: "All alcohols are poisonous.
The least poisonous are the alcohols of
wine. More poisonous are the alcohols
of beet root. Still more deadly are the
alcohols of corn (all kinds of grain: and
the most potent and pestiferous are
the alcohols from potatoes Cider in
ebriatcs are usually more heavy and
stupid than alert and offensive. Amylic
alcohol is nearly four times as poison
GUS as ethylic." 1t is better to let the
poison in either form alone.
"
REV. DIR. Dixie, a special student Of
the divorce question, found that of 90
6G5 divorces granted in forty-five coun-
ties of twelve States, little moro than
twenty per cent. were caused directly or
indirectly by drunkenness. This state
ment, appalling as it is, indicates but
part of the havoc made with the homo
by strong drink. Such an enemy of tho
social well-being of the Nation should
be abolished by enlightened public
opinion, crystallized into law.-National
Advocate.