Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-13
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 IT's a wonder you wouldn't poke my eye out" snapped an irate woman to another, who was carelessly juggling an umbrella on the street during the down. pour the other day. And the reporter. re- membering how he himself had suffered through this fault could hardly blame the display of temper. There are occasions when the umbrella, an implement of de- fense, becomes a veritable weapon of of- fense. There are short men who hoist Il theirs in a shower, hold them we'll down to | protect their hats, and rush along regard less of those who are inconvenienced. | The only thing that makes an impression | on them is meeting with another like unto | themselves. when there is a collision and | the world laughs. There are women, too, | who love the feathers in their hats more | than they do their fellow creatures, to | judge from the selfish way in which they | rush along. occupying the whole sidewalk | absolutely indifferent as to whether the ] rest of us have to take to the gutter to es- \ cape or not. Nor is the umbrella always harmless when closed. Too many men carry it under the arm. to the danger of those who share the street with them. Are you one of the offendersP
 DEACON of one of the local churches
 
 representative of the DEMOCRAT to-day. It wasn't very long one. but there was more in it than there is in some of the | half hour harangues one often hears from some people who talk on the subject. He | said: ''I have been a total abstainer all
 my life and have never during my forty years residence in Waterbury put my foot
 inside the door of a saloon. but am free
 to state that am not in sympathy with | Al III
 stantly referring to men engaged in the
 liquor traffic as rumsellers,' 'ginslingers,' | etc. Such men are positive injury to
 the temperance cause. not only in Water | bury but all over the world. What man | of culture and education wants to make l himself the associate of such foul-mouthed
 fellows. As a rule most of them are men
 who hung around dram shops until the
 proprietor grew tired of their company
 and finding them an injury to his business
 hustled them out on the street. It was in
 the saloons and the lowest dives in the
 country, wkere they acquired the ready
 use of the slang We hear them use from
 the platform and through the press.
 There is not a man in this town who is
 more opposed to the indiscriminate sale of
 liquer than I am and I have always used
 my voice and my ballot against it. but
 have never yet so far forgot myself as to II
 hurling their spiteful epithets at the men
 who sell it. would stop every distillery
 in the land if possible and failing in this I would endeavor to educate the youth of the city up to a full realization of the dap-
 ger that turks in the wine cup. would do almost anything to save our young men from the influence of intoxicating drink, but I would not by any means stultify my . own manhood by making myself a CO., l l vrnrEnr xxith n n1ass of xrhn not, ated as much, if not more. by personal spite against the men engaged in the busi-
 ness than from any motive looking toward
 the betterment of society. Such people , have driven every good man Tn the coun- try out of the temperance meeting rooms 5 and the result can be seen in the rapid in- crease of saloons all over the country to meet the demands of the business. sue 2 cessful temperance reformer must, first of I all, be gentleman. Tke moment he de D scends to the level of the blackguard he
 loses his hold on the masses. Temper ance lectures have long since come to be E looked upon as a farce and people who at. 6 tend them do so for the purpose of hear
 ing some pun worked of at the expense oi . the liquor seller, who is home making Il money at the time and doesn't care a whit 2 for the ranting of these silly. brainless i fanatics, who might be all right as end . men in minstrels. but lack the force oI
 character and depth of thought and goo6 : | logical reasoning so essential in the mar who comes o1 the platform to champion the cause of temperance and combat the c source of most. if not all. the evils tc which so many of our young people fall ar
 easy prey. It is only spasmodic fit witf E some of those fellows To-day they art pronounced temperance reformers. To ' morrow they are fleeing from justice - The sober, well-balanced man who has q reputation to sustain cannot afford to re 5 sort to such tactics as hurling opprobriou' . names at the liquor men, much as hs . might desire to serve the cause of temper d anco. It is not the tactics of the gentle man, and reform rarely ever comes from any other kind of man.
 F.. SASITARY INSPECTOR MosEs is never e happy unless he is hustling to prevent tn,
 spread of disease and remove all nuisance,
 which may lead to sickness. For pigs he has T inht rent ho Tor and h never misse,
 an opportunity U banish these bristlinl ., animals from the precincts of the city
 When therefore, he was informed yester
 day that in the very heart of the city wal
 located pen of pigs. he immediately , buckled on his armor and started fol , the scere of this nest of grunters. Hi = informant led him to the designated spo z and pointed out to him in the distance '' carefully prepared pig pen. Harry wendeC l his way over loose timbers and broker :. stone. tearing his clothes and barking hi ! shins. but caring nota cent. as he wal T performing his duty. he reached the pen
 but failed to hear the familiar grunt of thu
 fat porker. Instead his eyes lighted on ;s group of small spotted rodents familiarl. |, called guinea-pigs. The laugh of tn = spectator who accompanied the pig thirst. ,ss inspector settled the question of pigs am n Harry is on a still hunt for his too anxiou Ys informant. He says there will not b
 enough left of him to make one of tn