The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-03-03

The children are thin.
kad e4nnt, and pale, and
around in cold rooms
6Ga1ies on the street cor
sf6hing q slice of unbut
wien they can get it
ksers-by because they
e way. kicked on
pod or womanhood
e no preparation,
Sd appetite and
hndidates for aims
6tiary Whatever
Verify may fail, the
ended on to furnish
throng of paupers.
ups of Brooklyn and
all the citiesl Ye
en- will We cease to
+? There is no dan
asiness failing. All
Biness at times fail.
&l2nder. Hardware
Aery stores go un-
defl 1fs fail, druggists
baker sfhfectioners fail,
but t64 1fl,sf. dealers never.
II is xT bnf4- $ssecufe business
know tbT. tiles peri anence of
the alcoB tQsdea because in the
first pEhce the man in tas business, if
tight.dp for mQAeT, only fhave to put
into large quad ixies swater more
strychnine and1o& 0sd aid nux vomica
and vitrio, q y esasis 9gsnial con.
comitants for tda{tfS tiOn One quart
of the real gem 10 HSh npniac elixir
will do to mix T. 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 it is sort of
mixture of kerosne oil, turpentine,
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. duplicated, 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
barefoot, uncombed, freez-
ing, and with wretchedness of time
and eternity seemingly compressed into |
their agonized features. Forward |
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
and groceries.
Another warranty that my text will |
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of inn
A vast number of people
have such small income that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
one cent year. 1t 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-
let cruelty. On such salary as
many clerks and employees and many
minister's of religion live, and on such
wages as many workmen receive, they
IAN not, in twenty years, lay up
wenty cents. But you know and
know many who have competent
income and could provide somewhat
or the future. who live up every
lollar. and when they die, their children
% to the poor house or on the street.
BY the time the wife gets the husband
'nried, she is in debt to the under
skier and grave-digger for that which
he can never pay. While the man
wed he had his wine parties and fairly
tunk with tobacco, and then expired, h
caving his family upon the charities
+ the world. Do not send for me to
ONE and conduct the obsequies and
cad over such carcass the beautiful ,
turgy: Blessed arc the dead who die ,
a the Lord, . for. instead of that, will
urn over the leaves of the Bible to ,
'irst Timothy, v, IS, where it saws:
1t any provide not for his own, and
specially for those of his own house.
e hath denied the faith, and is worse
han an infidel, or will turn to Jcre- {
liah, xxi, 10. where 1t says: "Hc ,
hall be buried with the burial of an | !
IS, drawn and cast forth beyond the !,
ates OF Jerusalem" can not imagine | /
ny more unfair or meaner thing than ,
'r man to get his sins pardoned at ,
ne last minute, and then go to Heaven i
nd live in mansion, and go riding t
bout in a golden chariot over the :
olden streets, while his wife and chill q
rem, whom he might have provided &
IT, are begging for cold victuals at
le basement door of an earthly city. i
1t seems to me there ought to be a a
,or house somewhere on the outskirts /;
Heaven where those guilty of such 4
providence should be kept for awhile h
! thin soup and bristle, instead of sit
ng down at the Kings banquet. 1t q
said that the church is a Divine in :
tuition. and believe it. just as GER :
inly are the savings banks and the :
fo-iDS uoo no,,,