River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-10
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"For God and Home and NatiUe Land. /"
Good For Grown Folks Also.


The new anti-tobacco law of New
York which went into effect Sept. l..
1890, declares that a person who sells.
pays for or furnishes any cigar, clgqi
cite or tobacco in any of its forms 20
any child actually or apparently under
sixteen years is guilty of misdemean.
or, also that no child actually or APP
| parently under sixteen years of age
shall smoke or in any way use any
cigars, cigarette tobacco in any form
whatever in any public street, place
or resort. A violation of this subdi-
vision of section POI shall be a mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding $40 nor less than
| 80 for each offense.
| When presidents and generals and
senators and emperors smoke them
selves to death, bring on cancers
which eat their Threats out, and heart
diseases which cut them off in an
hour, it seems pity that men cannot
be protected from the tobacco snare
as well as boys.
| And when it is remembered that
every tobacco user makes himself an
offense and nuisance to every clean
| ly, decent person, it would seem time
that rum and tobacco were outlawed,
that the lives of men and boys might
be saved.
Where the Drunkafds Money Goes.
| Temperance Advocates: Every rag
stuck in window TO keep out the
cold from the drunkards home de-
notes contribution toward buying
new suits for the publican and bis
family. The more elegance and ease
in the publican's family, the more
| poverty degradation aud despair in
| the families of those who patToniZe
| him. The corner gIog SHOP. with its
large plateglass windows and marble
| floors, is paid for by the tenants Of
| other landlords.
The more plate glass and marble
| slabs there are i'm The saloon, the more
| old hats and WORKOUT garments must
be stuck in the windows of their pa
| irons to keep out the cold air. The
more silk l0unces upon the dress of a
| saloon-keeper' wife, the cheaper the
calico upon the wife and children of
his patrons. The more spacious the
parlor and brighter the fire of the
| publican, the more scautily furnished,
cheerless and cold are tie bodies of
those who patrOnz re him. While the
publican drives his expensive span,
his customer cannot afford a 5-cent
street car.
From the bunghole of every barrel
of liquor that is sold by the dTamsel-
Ter there flows constant stream of
drunkards, criminals, lunatics and
imbtciles, TO fill poor-houses, houses
of correction, jails and prisons, while
blasted hopes, ruined homes and pau
pers' graves are the relics of the
| trade.
Every shilling that the owner of the
dram shop and the dram selling tenant
put in their pockets comes out of the
pockets of the poor, and is dead loss
so far as the public good is concerned.
Worse than that, the more drink sold,
the more burden there is imposed
upon the honest citizen and tax-pay-
ers. The richer the landlord and his
rum-selling tenants grow, the poorer
becomes the landlord who let's his
buildings for tenements and legiti-
mate business. 1t is an undisputed
fact that the laboring man who has a
family cannot indulge in liquor-drink-
ing and pay his landlord and grocer.