The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

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| and New York and of all the citiesi Ye
| mouths of helli when will We cease TO
craunch and devour? There is no danger
OF this liquor business failing. All other
| styles of business at times fail. Dry
| goods stores go under. Grocery stores go
| under. Hardware stores 60 under Har-
ness makers fail, druggists fail. bankers
| fail, butchers fail. bakers fall confec-
! TONERS fail, but the liquor dealers never.
IL is the only secure business / know OF.
| Why the permanence Of the alcoholic
| trader Because in the first place. the
! men in that business, if tight UP for
money. only have TO put into large
| quantities CT water more Strychnine and
logwood and nux vomica and vitriol and
! other congenial concomitants for adul-
| teration
One quart of the real genuine pande-
moniac elixir will do to mix up with
several gallons of milder damnation. Be
| sides that. these dealers can depend on
an increase Of demand on the part Of
| their customers. 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
| 10 drown their troubles. They take the
| spirits down to keep their spirits up.
! There is inclined plane down which
alcoholism slides its victims. Claret,
champagne, port. cognac, whisky, Tom
| and Jerry, sour mash. ON and down I'M
! til it is a sort of mixture of kerosene
| oil, turpentine, toadstOOls, swill essence
| of the horse blankets and general nasu-
| ness.
With its red sword Of flame that liquor
| power naTshals its procession, and they
| move on in ranks long enogh 10 g1rdle
| the earth, and the procession is headed
by the nose olotched, nerve shattered,
Iheum eyed. lip bloated. soul scCrched
inebriates. folio we'd by the women. who,
| thosgh brought up in comfortable
| homes now go limping past with aches
and pains and paIlor and hunger and
! woe, followed by their children, bare
| foot, uncOmbed, freezing, and with =
| wrechedness Of time and eternity SEEM
ingly compressed in their agonized fea-
| lures. Forward. march, cries the
| liquor business 70 that army without
J banners. Keep that influence moving on.
| and you will have the poor always with
| You. Report comes from one of the
cities, where the majority of the in
/ habitants are out of work and dependent
on charity. yet last year they spent more
| in that city for rum than they did for
clothing and groceries.
| The Spirit of ImprOvidence.
Another warranty that my text viii
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of I'M
providence. a vast number Of people
| have such small incomes that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
! surance l cent a year. 1t takes every
farthing they can earn TO spread the
table, and clothe the family. and edu-
cate the children, and if You blame such
people for improvideEce you enact 4
| cruelty. On such a salary as many
clerks and empl Jyes and many ministers
| of religion live. and on such wages as
| many worKmen receive, they cannot in
| twenty years lay up 20 cents But YOU
| know and I know many who have com
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| what for the future who live up to every
/ dollar and when they die their children
| go 10 the poor-nouse OF on the street
BY the time the wife gets the hus-
band buried she is in debt to the under
| taker and gravedigger for that which
| she can never pay. While the man
J 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 10 come
| and conduct the ObSequies and read over
| such a carcass the beautiful 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, fifth chapter, eighteenth verse,
| where 1t 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 / will
| turn to jeremiah. twenty-secOnd chan
| ter, nineteenth verse where il saws. lie
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
| gates Of Jerusalem.
| / cannot imagine any more unfair or
| meaner thing than for a man TO get his
| sins pardOned at he last minute and
| then go TO heaven and live in a man
| sion, and go riding about in a golden
| chariot. over the golden streets while
| his wife and children, whom ne might
| have provided for, are begging for cold
| victuals at the basement door of an
1 to me Z l7r.r. -
/ 10 be a poorhOuse somewhere on the
| outskirts Of heaven. where those guilty
| Of such improvidence should be kept for
| awhile on thin soup and gristle. instead
] Of sitting down 10 a kings banquet Il
| is said that the church is a divine insti-
| tuition and believe it
| just as certainly are the savings banks
| and the life insurance companies divine
! institutions. As out Of evil good often
| comes. so out Of the doctrine Of proba-
| bilities. calculated by FroT. Hugens and
| Prof Pascal for games Of chance. came
/ the calculation of the proba bilities of
/ human life as used by life insurance
! companies. and no business on earth is
! more stable or honorable and no might
/ Ter mercy for the human race has been
/ born since Christ was born. Bored be
/ yond endurance for my signature Of pa
/ pers Of all sorts. there is one stvIe of
/ paper that 1 always sign with a feeling
/ OF gladneSS and triumph. and that is a
/ paper which the life insurance company
! requires from the clergyman after a de-
/ cease in his congregation, in order to
/ the payment Of the policy to the bereft
! household.
| / always write my name then so they
| can read 1t. | cannot help but to say
| to myself: Good for that man to have
/ looked after his wife and children after
I earthly departure. May he have one Cf
! the best seats in heaven Young man!
! The day before or the day after YOU get
married. go TO life insurance company
/ of established reputation and get the
/ medical examiner to put de stethoscope
! TO your lungs and his ear close up TO
/ your heart, with your vest off, and have
| signed. sealed and delivered to you a
! document that will, in the case Of your
sudden departure, make for that lovely
! girl the difference between a queen and
/ a pauper
| / have known men who have had an
| income of $1,000, 81 900. s. 600 a year who
| cid not leave one farthing to the surviv-
| ing household. Now. that mans death
/ is a defalcatiOn. an outrage. a swindle
| He did not die; he absconded. There
/ are 100000 people in America today
| a-hungered through the sin of improvi-
! dence. But" as some, my income is
\ so small / cannot afford 10 pay The
| premium on a life Insurance. Are Won
/ sure about that? If you are sure. then
! you have right to depend on the prom
| Use in jeremiah xix, Il: Leave thy
| fatherless children. / will preserve them
| alive, and let thy widows trust in me-"
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