The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-19


edness for a vast multitude of people.
If the eternal CAB on this subject could
have been fashioned into loaves of
man or woman or child on all the
planet. To the end of time the words
of the text will be be kept true by the
tariffic controversy: "Ye have the
poor always with YOU"
Another cause Of perpetual poverty
is the cause alcoholic. The victim
does not last long. He soon ercuches S
into the drunkafd's grave. But what
about his wife and children? She
takes in washing when she can get it,
or goes out working on small wages,
because sorrow aud privation have left
1 her incapacitated to do a strong wom-
ans work. The children are thin
| olooded, 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
fraii constitution, candidates for aims
| house and peAitentiary. Whatever
other causes of poverty may fail, the
salccn may be depended on to furnish
an ever-increasing throng of panperss
Oh, We grog shops OF Brooklyn and
New York, and of all the citiesl Ye
mouths of hell, when will We cease to
craunch and devour? There is no dan
ger of this liquor business failing. All
other styles of business at times fail
Dry goods stores 60 under. Hardware
stores go under. Grocery stores 70 un-
der. Haruessmakers faib druggists
fail, bankers fail. butchers fail.
bakers fail. confectioners fail.
but the liquor dealers never,
1t Is the only secure business
7 know of. Why the permanence OF
the alcoholic tradee Because in che
first place the men In that business, if
tight up for money. only have to put
into large quantities Of water more
Btrychnine and logwood and max vonica
and vitriol and ether eongenial con-
comitants for adhlteration One quart
of the real genuine pandemoniac elixir
| viii do to 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
ers. The more of that stuff they
drink, the thirstier they are. Hard
times, which stop other business,
only increase that business. for men
go there to drown their troubles.
They take the spirits down to keep
their spirits up. There is an inclined
plane down which alcoholism slides its
victims. Claret, champagne, port,
cognac, whisky, Tom and Jerry, sour
mash, on and down until IL il sort of
mixture of kerosne oil, tirpentine,
toadstools, swill, essence of the horse
blankets and general nastiness. With
It's sword of flame, that liquor power
marshals its procession and they move
on in ranks long enough to girdle the
earth, and the procession is headed by
the noSe-blotched, nerve-shattered.
rheum-eyed. lip bloated, soul-scorched
inebriates, followed by the wom-
en-, who, though brought up in com
Portable homes, now go limping past
with aches and pains and pallor and
hunger and woe, followed by their
children, barefoot, uncombed, freez-
ing, and with wretchedness of time
and eternity seemingly compressed into
their agonized features Forward
march," cries the liquor business to
that army without banners. Keen
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 inn
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. It takes
every farthing they can earn to spread
the table and clothe the family and
educate the children, and if you blame
such people for improvidence, you en-
act a cruelty. On such a salary as
many clerks and employees and many
ministers of religion live, and on such
wages as many workmen receive, they
can not, in twenty years, lay up
twenty cents But you know and
IL know many who have competent
income and could provide somewhat
for the future. who live up every
dollar. and when they die, their children
20 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 beau tiful
liturgy: Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord for, instead of that, I will
turn over the leaves of the Bible to
First Timothy, V, Is, 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 infidel, or I will turn to Jere-
miah, 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 the
golden streets, while his wife and chill
dren, whom he might have provided
for, are begging for cold victuals at