The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-29


Quick, turn your glass and set IL downi
IL in your t-ouble others say,
I'm sea OF drink your sorrow DROWN
Look out lest drowned the drinker bel
Quick, turn your glass and set il down.
Cold water, boys hurrah, hurrah,
VIII help to health, wealth and renown:
IL urged to give these treasures up,
Quick, turn your glass aud set II down.
-Rer EdtCdrd 4. Rand in Aduocdte.
GOOD RESULTS IN IOWA.
Prohibition is producing good results In
Des Moines, Iowa. The Chicago Adrdnce
thus sums up the present situation; Liquor
dealers and anti-prohibitionists, who are
constantly harping on the blighting effects
of prohibition upon the prosperity OF city,
will not be able TO draw much comfort from
the experience OF Des Moines la. Des
Moines is a city of sixty thousand people.
and has not an open saloon within ITS limits,
nor within the county in which it is situ-
ated, and yet it is just now enjoying an era
of the most remarkable prosperity. Such
thing as n house or store-room to rent can
scarcely be found at any price, while more
than n thousand new residences and more
than million dollars worth of new business
blocks some of them the finest in the West,
are in process of erection. Bank clearances
run from twenty-five TO fifty per cent.
higher than year ago, its manufactured
products for 1890 exceeded those of 1889 by
more than five million dollars. Every kind
of business is extremely prosperous, and the
actual statistics of the transfer companies
show that the population is increasing, by
new arrivals alone, at the rate of a thou
sand per month. A good many other cities
would like to be killed in the same way that
prohibition has killed Des Moines."
THE MOTIVE FORCE.
The strain at this moment is the remorse.
less pressure OF huge commerce in liquors
There is money in il and that is the motive
force. Money nerves every man, money
paihates every conscience. Say that the
commerce Is wrong, prove that il is harmful
yet you are at n loss to put your finger on
the line that divides the guiltless from the
guilty man. Would you condemn the
peasant who tills the vines under the suns of
ltalyS Yet that is the starting point of
wine. Is the farmer blamable who raises
hops, or his neighbor who sowes barIeyY
Yet beer comes therefrom. Is the culture
of corn culpable. Yet we remember the
humor OF the canny Scot upon his native
heath who dryly remarked: 1--WE do not
raise corn in our country, but we destroy a
mighty lot of it after it has been turned in
to whisky Is the workman to be chided
who accepts employment in brewery when,
perchance, he can obtain it nowhere elseS
The brewer king viii aver--"I manufacture
no one is Obliged to drink, much less. if he
drink, Obliged to undo himself by excessn
The retailer behind the bar will proclaim
his irresponsibility for any who patronize
him. Were we lighting the battle of tenn
perance with guns we would hardly know
where to shoot-at least where to shoot first
1t teaches us to drop the thought of indi-
viduals. 1t permits us to dispense with per-
sonalities, do away with hates and maledic-
tions and all that opprobrious defamation
and these damnatory epithets, that go so far
to aggravate persons. to embitter discussion,
and to disgust well disposed classes who
really want to see temperance succeed. No,
we can array ourselves against the liquor
commerce.. The term is sufficiently definite
Those i'll it are fast organizing for their own
defence. 1t needs no prophet to say-"1hou
art the man, By their own association
combination and concert of action, they say
plainly enough-"We are the men, 1t Is
sufficient for us to keep steady aim at the
business. regardless of persons. Let them
identify themselves. Be sure their sin will
find them out.
The liquor manufacture and commerce is
producing and offering a commodity which
it wants to sell. 1t is greedy of profits and
profits require trade. Profits are larger the
larger the sales The business believes in
pushing things, believes in putting goods up
on the people. 1t searches for markets as
eagerly as the weaver and merchant of
mand. 1t is going to leave no stone un-
turned to stimulate trade TO increase con-
sumption. to multiply buyers to swell the
volume of transactions and so pile up
wealth. This is the Goliath that confronts
us to-day, and defies the armies of the living
God. Against that giant lies the stress
of battle.-IemperGnce Reuiei0.
AN HONEST RUMsELLER's ADVERTISEMENT.
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBoRs - Grateful for
the liberal encouragement received from
you, and having supplied my shop
with new and ample stock of choice wines
spirits and malt liquors, Thankfully inform
you that l continue to make druukards
paupers and beggars, for the sober, indus
trlous community to support. My liquors
may excite you to riot, robbery and blood
shed and will certainly diminish your COM
torts, augment your expenses, and shorten
your lives. l confidentially recommend them
as sure to multiply fatal accidents and dis
tressing diseases and likely to render these
lncurable. They will agreeably deprive
some of life, some of reason, many of char
acter, and all of peace-will make fathers
dends, wives widows, mothers cruel, chill
dren orphans, and all poor | will train the
young to ignorance, dissipation, infidelity,
!ewdness, and every vice-corrupt the min
isters of religion-obstruct the Gospel
defile the church and cause as much temporal
and eternal death as 1 can.
VIII buuS accommodate the public" 1t
may be at the cost of my never dying soul
| have family to support-the trade pays
and the public encourages it. have a
character from my minister, and a license
from the magistrate, my traffic is lawful;
Christians countenance IL; and if do not
bring these evils upon you some one else
will. know the Bible says Thou shalt not
Kill" pronounces "a "woe unto him that Civ
eth his neighbor a drink and enioins me
not TO put stumbling block in a brothers
way" | also read that no drunkard shall
inherit the kingdom of God" and l cannot
expect the drunkard-maker, without repent
ance, to share a better fate. But | wish a
lazy living, and have deliberately resolve 1
70 gather the wages of iniquity, and fatten
on the ruins of my species. l shall therefore
carry on my trade with energy, and do my
best TO diminish the wealth of the people,
and endanger the safety of the State AS
my traffic fiourishes in proportion TO your
ignorance and sensuality, 1 will do my ut
most to pervert your intellectual elevation,
moral purity, social happiness, and eternal
welfare
Should you doubt my ability refer you
TO the pawn shop the poor house, the police
ottice, the hospital the Jail, and the gallows,
where so many of my customers have gone
The sight of them will justify you that l dc
what promse.-JUDAs HEARTLEss.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
'Perpendicular drinking is again lawful
in Boston.
DR. l. d. Mason saws that snrees usuaIIv