The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-22
WORTHLESS LOUNGERS.

A Glass of Lazy NOn-PrOducers Who Find
Natural Resort In the Bar-ROom or
Saloon.
We have too many lazy, worthless
non-producers among US, and are too
tolerant of such nuisances. In other
countries a man without means who is
capable Of performing any labor, mental
or muscular, must work or starve. Here
VIC are more indulgent TO loaferism. The
bar-rooms of the hotels and saloons Of
our large cities are constantly haunted
by shabby-genteel 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
bidders are persons of considerable tai
ent, extensive information and good
conversational powers. They under.
stand the arts of fattering and anus
ing, and upon these arts they trade.
Some of them are the prodigal sons Of
honorable and wealthy citizens; incor.
rigibles who have worn out parental
generosity and forbearance, and who,
unable to obtain further supplies from
'the governor" have betaken them
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 'the
road" for livelihood in the olden time.
| Upon the whole, however, we think
the noble highwaymen" of two hun
dred years ago were less despicable than
the tippling 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 to a
ragged, nameless pauper, not infre.
quently open their purses to assist the
black sheep of 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 solicits 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 determined
No, it would be blessing to all con
cerned Convince these pensioners up
on false generosity that they must de
pend upon the legitimate exercise O
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 hin
aims, They would go to cork, Who
ever lends to the lazy, dissipated anC
dishonest what he could otherwise af
ford to bestow in real charity, roJs thu
meritorious poor.-N. Y. Ledger.
AMONG delusions the alcoholic is ont
of the most harmful. DR.. Norman
Kerr says: "All alcohols are poisonous
The beast poisonous are the alcohols o
wine. More poisonous are the alcohol:
of beet root. Still more deadly are the
alcohols of corn (all kinds of grain); and
the most potent and pestifarous arr
the alcohols from potatoes. Cider in
ebriates are usually more heavy ant
stupid than alert and offensive. Amyli,
alcohol is nearly four times as poison
Gus as ethylic." 1t is better to let tn,
poison in either form alone.
REV. DR.. dixie, special student o
the divorce question, found that of 90,
Cos divorces granted in forty-ive coun
ties of twelve States, little more thar
twenty per cent. were caused directly OF
indirectly by drunkenness. This state
ment, appalling as it is, indicates but ;
part of. the havoc made with the HON,
, by strong drink. Such an enemy of tn,
social well-being OF the Nation should
be abolished by enlightened publ,
opinion. crystallized into law.-Nationa
Temperance Advocate.