Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-19

her lncapacItated TO 90 a SIrOnS WOin-
ans work The children are thin
} blooded, and gaunt. and pale, and
weak, standing around in cold rooms,
or pitching pennies on the street cor
ners. and munching slice Of unbut-
tered bread when they can get it,
sworn at by passers-by because they
do not get out of the way, kicked on
ward toward manhood or womanhood.
for which they have no preparation,
except a depraved appetite and
frail constitution, candidates for aims
house and penitentiary. Whatever
other causes of poverty may fail, the
saloon may be depended on to furnish
an everincreasing throng of paupers.
Oh. We grog shops of Brooklyn and
New York, and of all the cities, Ye
moathS Of hell. when Will We cease to-
craunch and dcvour? There is no dan
ger Of this liquor business failing. All
other styles Of business at times fail
Dry goods stores go under. Hardware
stores go under. Grocery stores go un-
der Harnessmakcrs fail. druggists
fail bankers fail, butchers fail,
bakers fail, confcctioners fail.
but the liquor dealers never.
It is the only secure business
| know Of Why the permanence of
the alcoholic trade? 1ecanse in the
first place the men in that business, If
tight mp for money. only have to put
into large quantities Of water more
strychnine and logwood and nux vomica
and vitrioI and other congenial con-
colHtant, for adulteratiOn. One quart
Of The real genuine pandemoniac elixir
will do 30 mix up with several gallons
of milder damnation. Beside that,
these dealers can depend on an increase
Of demand on the part Of their custom
crs. The more Of that stuff they
drink, the thirstier they are. Hard
times. which stop other business,
only increase that business, for men
90 there to drown their troubles
They take the spirits down to keep
their spirits mp. There is an inclined
plane down which alcoholism slides it's
victims Clarct. champagne. port.
co@nac. whisky, Tom and Jerry, sour
mash, on and down until it is sort of
mixture Of krrosne oil, turpcntine,
blankets and general nastiness. With
its sword of flame, that iiquor power
marshaIs its procession and they move
on III ranks long enough to girdle the
cart TIL and the procession is headed by
the hlotchcd. ncrve-Shattered.
rheum eyed, lip-bloated, soul-scorched
inebriatcS, followed by the wom-
en-. who, though brought mp in com
forta BILE homes, now 90 limping past
with aches and pains and pallor and
hunger and woe, followed by their
children, barefoot, unconbed, freeZ-
ing, and with wretchcdness of time
and eternity seemingly compressed into
their agonzed features. 'Eorward
march" cries the liquor business to
that army without banners, Keep
that influence moving on and You will
have the poor always with You. Re-
port comes from one of the cities,
where the majority of the inhabitants
are out of work and dependant on
charity, yet last year they spent more
in that city for rum than they did for
clothing and groceries.
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of i'm
providence. A vast number of people
have such small income that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
Surance one cent a year. 1t takes
every farthing they can earn to spread
the table and clothe the family and
educate the children, and if you blame
81,
act a cruelty. On such a salary as
many clerks and employees and many
ministers of religion live, and on such
wages as many worl1men receive, they
can not, in twenty years, lay up
twenty cents. But you know and
know many who have competent
income and could provide somewhat
for the future, who live up every
dollar, and when they die, their children
go to the poor house or on the street.
BY the time the wife gets the husband
buried, she is in debt to the under
taker and grave-digger for that which
she can never pay. While the man
lived he had his wine parties and fairly
stunk with tobacco, and then expired,
leaving his family upon the charities
Of the world Do not send for me to
come and conduct the obsequies and
read over such a carcass the beautiful
liturgy: Blessed are the dead who die
III the Lord" for, instead of that, will
turn over the leaves of the Bible to
FIRST Timothy. V, ls, where it says:
IF any provide not for his own. and
especially for those of his own house.
he hath denied the faith, and is worse
than an infdel," or will turn to Jere-
mlah. xxi, 10, where it says: He
shall be buried with the burial of an
ass drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem" can not imagine
any more unfair or meaner thing than
for man to get his sins pardoned at
the last minute, and then go to Heaven
and live in mansion. and go riding
about in a golden chariot over tina
golden streets, while his wife and chill.
dren. whom he might have provided
for, are begging for cold victuals at
the basement door of an earthly city.
1t seems TO me there ought to be a
poor house somewhere on the outskirts
OF Heaven where those guilty of such
lmprovidence should be kept for awhile
on thin soup and bristle, instead Of sit
ting down at the Kings banquet. 1t
Is said that the church is Divine in
sttution, and I believe it. Just as GER
tainly are the savings banks and the
life