Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-08-14
let her know I vas so goot man as
vot she vas or some unner vons also.
Whisky und pier teaches n man not tn

Whisky und pier teaches q man not to
pc broud NIT himself. Ven q man vas
sober, he wants CLEAN CLOSE und goot
ped und blenty nv unner dings. But
ven he vas trunk he vas not so stuck
oop. He don't care vot kind of CLOSE he
wares, und ven it comes to schleeping
he would yust so soon schleep in der
gudder as some unner blaces, und he
dinks der gurbstone vas a pillar, don't
1t?
Liquor vas healthy doc. know me
dot Yust you watch emmy man dot
keeps a saloon und vas not doc stingy
to trink his own pier und whisky. Yust
you watch him und see vat pig pay
vinder he vas got. You don't want some
peter broof as dot, don't it? Ven me
pegins der saloon peezness, l vas so
skinny as never vas, und now / pc so
fat like der dime museum vomans, und
der poys gall me "old ploat" "
Dot pier und whisky vas healthy an
onder way. Wv you makes no some more
whisky, vat would you do NIT all dot
grain dot goes der to dishtillery efery
year to make dot whisky? Ply schiminy,
der pakers would haf to make more
pread, den beeples would haf to cat too
much, den efery pody would got dot dis
bepsee, amt it?
Efry town likes to haf rich men, und
here vas no peezness in vich man
gould got rich so quick as in der saloon
peezness. Und der high license vot pc
der law now make der saloon keeper
dirty dhree dimes more wcllthy ash be-
fore. Dere pc pig brofits i'll all kind fon
thinks. Un ven der lyyers und der Dem
ograt und Republican politicians would
not pleed dem so many dimes der brofits
would pc ninedy- -dhree dimes peter,
amt it?
Yust look vot rich mems We vas half
In Philadelphia Yust see how rich der
high license makes der peir prowers und
der whisky makers. One fon dem pc so
rich dot he puilds him pudding high
er oop to der sky ash der buplic puild-
ings. Ish der emmy peezness dot makes
mems look yust like dey pc peter ash
der goferment? tink me not so.
Den yust look at some boor yung vel
Ter vot vas tending der bar. He starts
NIT nodtings, und dwo, dhree years he
wears schirts NIT frills ON, und one pig
dimont pin, und gold watch NIT a
chain dot Weighs twenty bounds, und
blenty monish to pegin der saloon peez-
ness NIT hims own self.
Yust looks ON me. pegins der saloon
peezness after try me hart, so help me
gracious, init odder kinds Of peezness,
der pc SO lettle brofts dot 1 never got
der stocking full oop NIT monish no
matter ven l works so hart as der pum-
pie bees, but now der pc no droubles
un no work, only to tap fresh kag ven
der unner Won vas dry und rake in der
stamps.
Ipe a freund do der vorkin men Pc
cause dey pc freund to me und help
to support me. Yust look agross der
sthreet fon my blace, dot pig building
vot stands dere. More ash dhree hun
dred and dhirtydhree works i'll dot fac
tory fur me. Dey gets one dollar und
sixty cents, und some gets so much ash
dwo dollars and dhirty cents der tay,
und ven der vissel ploos dey comes in
my blace und pays me der monish fur
mein pier. Dot ish Wy pc freund do
der vorkin man, don't it? Ven der work.
in man vas mat NIT ter posses dey meets
in mein saloon und trink pier und make
speeches und say: "Town init ter panks
Town NIT ter rich peeplesW und tings
like dot. say der same yust like dem,
amt it?
Some dimes pc mat like never vas.
1t vas ven vimmens und schildren COON
to my blace to peg monish to buy pread,
und ven say, "No!" den they say der
husbands und waters spend all der mon
ish here. Vot vas dot der peeness? All
dot vimmens thinks NV vas spending
monish on tresses, ponnets and poorly
CLOSES, und her olt mans must yerk.
verk, verk und hat 10 enshoyment.
Yust send mein love to dem dhree
barties, dot Rebupligan, dot Demogratio
und dot Bopulist barties dot sthood so
fasht und sthrong fur dot license peez-
ness. Dot vas der right kind of love,
too, dem dhree barties low der license
peezness, und der license peezness loves
der dhree barties. Und Shakespeare, dot
stage driver, said, dot no knife can
cut dot love in too" Amt it?
Yust bleas excuse me. Igoes down der
cellar to tap anonder kag. Dot onder
one he yust runs dhry.
HANs sAUEEMLcH.
The Prohibitionists are forcing to the
front an issue that appeals for support
TO the noblest elements in mans char