Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-11

or womanhood, for which they have no
preparation except a depraved appetite and
frail constitution, candidates for almshouse
aud penitentary.
Whatever other causes Of poverty may
fail the saloon may be depended on to fur
nish an ever increasing throng of paupers.
oh, We grogshops of Brooklyn and New
York and of all the cities! Ie mouths
of hell when will ye cease to craunch and
dcvour2 There is no danger of this liquor
business failing An other styles of bust
ness at times fail. Dry goods stores go
under. Hardware stores 90 under. Gro
Gerry stores 90 under. Harness makers fail,
druggists fail bankers fail, butchers fail,
bakers fail, confcctioners fail, but the
luuor dealers never. 1t is the only secure
business know Of. Why the permaneucc
Of the alcoholic trade? Because, in the
first place, the men in that business il
tight up for money, only have to put into
large quantities of water more StrvChnne
and logwoOd and nuX vomica and vitriol
and other congenal concomitants tol
adulteration
One quart of the real genuine pande.
moniac elixir will do to mix up with sew
eral gallons of milder damnation. Besides
that. these dealers can depend on an in.
crease of demand on the part OF their Gus.
toners. The more of that stuff they drink
the thirstier they are. Hard times. which
stop other businesses only increase that
business. for men 20 there to drown then
troubles. They take the spirits down I,
keep their spirits up. There is an inclined
plane down which alcoholism slides its vic
| Tins. Claret. champagne. port cognac
whisky, Tom and Jerry, sour mash, on and
down until it is a sort of mixture of kcro
! all l.tn
sencr of the horse blankets and general
! nastiness
With its red swCrd of fame that liquor
! power marehals its procession, and They
/ move on in ranks long enough to girdle the
! earth and the procession is headed by tho
nose blOtched. nerve shattered, rhcum eyed
! lip blOated, soul scOrched inebriateS, fol.
| lowed by the women, who. though brought
up i'll comfortable homes. now 20 limpint
past with aches and pains and pallOr ana
| hunger and voc, followed by their chill
dren, barefoot, unCombed, freezing, ana
with n wrctchednes5 of time and eternity
seemingly compressed in their agonized fen
lures "Forward march" cries the Liquor
business to that army without banners
Keep that influence moving on, and yur
will have the poor always with you. Re
| port comes from one Of the cities where tn,
Majority of the inhabitants are ont Of work
and dependent on charity, yet last veal
they spent more in that city for rum thar
they did for clothing and groceries.
THE SPIRIT OF lMPROVIDENCE.
Another warranty that my text viii
prove true in the perpetual poverty of thu
world is the wicked spirit of improvidence
\ vast number of people have such small
incomes that they cannot lay by in saving
hon, | ~
takes every falthing they can earn to spreat
the table. and clothe the family, and edu
cate the children. and if YOU blame sucl
people for improvdence you enact cruelty
On such a salary as many clerks and EN-
ployecs and many ministers of religion live
and ON such wages AS many workmen It
Ceive, they cannot in 20 years lay up 20 cents
But you know and know many who hay
: competent incomes and could provide some
: what for the future who live up to ever
dollar, and when they die their children Z
: to the poorhouso or ON the street.
BY the time the wife gets the husban
buried she is in debt TO the undertaken an
gravedigger for that which she can nevo
pay. While the man lived he had his win
parties and fairly stunk with tobacco an
then expired, leaving his family upon In
: charities of the world. DO not send for III
| TO come ana conduct the ODSequles ana rea
over such carcass the beautiful liturg,
blessed are the dead whodic inthe Lord,
for instead of that | will turn over I'll
, leaves of the Bible to First Timothy, iift
chapter, eighteenth verse, where it say
: "If any provide not for his own, and esp
cially for those of his own house, he hat
denied the faith, and is worse than an IL
iidel. " or | will turn to jeremiah, invent,
t second chapter nineteenth verse, where
4 say,, He shall be buried with the buri
: of an ass drawn and cast forth beyond ii
0 gates of Jerusalem "
t ! cannot imagine any more unfair
= meauer thing than FOR 1t man to get his sil
X pardoned at the last minute, and then 20
: heaven and live in "A mansion and 20 ridr
p. about in golden chariot over the gold,
Il streets. while his wife and children, who
e. he might have provided fol are begging f
$ cold victuals ut the basement door of /
Il earthly city. it seems to me there ought
Il be poorhouse somewhere on the out,kir
:. of heaven. where those guilty of such il