Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-01-25

loaVes OF bread, there would not be
hungry man or woman or child on all
the planet. TO the end of time the
words of the text will be kept true By
the taritiic controversy: you have the
poor always with you
Another cause of perpetual poverty
IS the cause alcoholic. The victim does
not last long. lie soor crouches into
the drunkard grave. But what about
his wife and children? She taxes in
washing, when she can get it, or goes
out working on small wages because
sorrow and privation have left her IN
capacitated TO do a strong womans
work The children are thin blooded
and eaunt and pale and weak standing
around in cold rooms or pitching PEN
MES on the street corner and MUNICH
ing slice Of unbuttered bread when
| they can get it, sworn at by passers-by
because they do not get out of the way
kicked onward toward manhood or
womanhood, for which they have no
preparation. except a depraved appetite
aud frail constitution, candidates for
aimshouse or penitentiary. Whatever
other causes of poverty may fail the sa
loon may be depended on to furnish an
ever-increasing throng Of paupers. On
We grogshops of Brooklyn and New
York and Of all the cities We mouths
Of hell! when vvill We cease to craunch
and devour2 There is no danger of
this liqnor business failing. All other
styles of business at times fail Dry
goods stores go under Hardware
stores go under Grocery stores 60 un-
der Harness makers fail, druggists
fail, bankers fail butchers fail. bakers
fail, confectioners fail, but the liquor
dealers never. 1t is the only secure
business / know Of WY the perma
nence of the alcoholic trade? Because
in the first place. the men in that bust
ness, If tight up for money, only have
to put into it large quantities of water
more strychnine and logwood and nu2
vomiea ana vitriol and other congeniai
concomitants for adulteration. One
quart of the real genuine pandemoniac
elixir viii do to mix up with
several gallons of milder damna
ton. Besides that these dealers
can depend or an increase of d.
mand on the the part Of their customers.
The more Of that stuff they drink. the
thirstier they are. Hard times, which
stop other businesses, only increase
that business, for men 90 there 10
drown their troubles. They take the
spirits down to keep their spirits up.
There is an incline plane down which
alcoholism slides its victims. Cla-et
champagne, port, cognac, whisky. tom
and Jerry, sour mash on and down I'M
til it is sort of mixture of X irossle
oil turpentine, toadstools, swill es
sence of the horse blankets and gener
al nastiness With its red sword OF
flame, that liquor power marshals its
procession. and they move on in ranks
long enough to girdle the earth, and
the proc ession is headed by the nose
blotched, nerve-shattered, rheum-eyed,
duplicated, soul-scorched inebriatcs,
followed by the women. who, though
brought up in comforta BILE homes now
go limping past with aches and pains
and pallor and hunger and woe, fol-
lowed by their children, barefoot un-
combed, freezing and with a wretched
ness of time and eternity seemingly
compressed in their agonized features.
Forward, march, cries the liquor
business to that army without ban
ners. Keep that influence moving on
and you viii have the poor always with
Won. Report comes from one of the
cities, where the ma jority of the in
habitants are out of work and depend |
ent on charity, yet last year they spent
more in that city for rum than they die
for clothing and grocer les.
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty OF
the world is the wicked spirit of inn
providence. vast number of people
have such small income that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
surance one cent year. 1t takes every |
farthing they can earn to spread the
table and clio the the family and edu.
cate the children, and if you blame
such people for impro violence, you
enact cruelty. On such salary as
many clerks and employees and many
ministers of religion, live, and on such
wages as many worlmen receive, they
cannot in twenty years. lay up twenty
cents. But you huOW anu hhON
many who have competent income and
could provide somewhat for the future,
who live up every dollar, and when
they die, their children go to the poor
house or on the street. BY the time
the wife gets the husband buried, she
is in debt to the underta ker and grave
digger for that which she can never
nav. While the man lived he had his
wine parties and fairly stunk with to-
baccc. and then expired, leaving his
family upo the charities of the world.
Do not send for me to come and con-
duct the obsequies and read over such
carcass the. beautiful liturgy: blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord, for,
instead of that / will turn over the
leaves of the Bible to First Timothy,
9Th chapter, 18th verse, where it says:
IF any provide not for his own, and
for those of his own house,