The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-08

I other STYLES of business at times fail Dry
goods stores go under. Hardware stores
90 under. Grocery stores go under. Har-
| ness-makers fail. druggists fail bankers
fail, butchers fail. bakers fail, confection-
ers fail, but the liquor dealers never. 1t
Z 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 of
water, more strychnine and lOgwood and
nux vOmica and vitriol and other cOngen-
ial cOncomitants for adulteration- One
| quart Of the real genuine paLdemoniac
| elixir will do to mix up with several gal
Ions Of milder damnation. Beside that,
these dealers can depend on an increase
of demand on the part of their customers.
The more of that stuff they drink. the
thirsuier 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 an inclined
plane down which alcoholism slides its
victims. Claret, champagne port, cognac
whisky, Tom and jerry sour mash, on
and down until il is a sort of mixture of
kerosene oil, turpentine, toadstools. swill,
| essence Of the horse blankets and general
| nastiness. With its red sword of fame
| 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-shat-
| tered, rheum-eyed duplicated, soul
scorched inebriates, followed by the
women, who, though brought up in COM
forta BILE homes, now go limping past with
aches and pains and pallor and hunger
and woe followed by their children, bare
! foot, uncombed, freezing, and with a
wretchedness Of time and eternity seem
| ingly compressed in their agonized feat
ures. Forward, march ~ 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 dependent 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 INF rovi-
| dence. A vast number Of people have
such small income that they cannot lay
by in savings bank or life insurance 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 IMPROVE
dence, you enact 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 cannot, in twenty years, lay up
twenty cents. But you know and l know
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
undertaken and grave digger for that
which she can never pay. While
the man lived he had his wine parties
and fairly skunk 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 carcass the beauti-
full liturgy: "Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord, for. instead of that, l
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 especially for those
of his own house. he hath denied the
faith, and is worse than an infidel" or
will turn to jeremiah, 22d chapter. 10Th
verse, where it says: HE shall be
buried with the burial of an ass, drawn
and cast forth beyond the gates of Jeru-
salem" l cannot imagine any more
unfair or meaner thing than for a man
to get his sins pardoned at the last min
ute, 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 children, whom
he might have provided for, are begging
for cold victuals at the basement
door of an earthly city. 1t seems
10 me there ought to be poorhouse some
where on the outskirts of heaven, where
those guilty of such improvidence should
be kept for while on thin soup and
gristle, instead of sitting down at the
Kings banquet. 1t is said that the
church is a divine institution, and be-
heve 1t. Just as certainly are the saving
banks and the life insurance companies
divine institutions. AS out of evil good
often comes, so out of the doctrine,of
probabilities, calculated by Prof. Hugens
and Prof. Pascal for games Of chance,
came the calculation of the probabilities
of human life, as used by life insurance
companies, and no business on earth is
more stable or honorable, and no mightier
mercy for the human race has been born
since Christ was born. Bored beyond en-
durance for my signature to papers
of all sorts, there Is one style
of paper that l always sign with
feeling of gladness and triumph,
and that is a paper which the life insur-
ance company requires from the clergy
man after a decease in his congregation,
in order to the payment Of the policy to
inc DeIelb nOuSeDOlu. L always write
my name then so they can read it, l can
not help but say to myself: Good for
that man to have looked after his wife
and children after earthly departure.
May he have one of the best seats in
heaven!n Young man! The day before
or the day after you get married, go to a
life insurance company of established
reputation and get the medical examiner
TO put the stethoscope to your lungs and
his ear close up TO your heart, with your
vest OFF, and have signed, sealed and de-
livered TO you a document that will,
in the case of your sudden depart
ure, make for that lovely girl
the difference between a queen and a
pauper | have known men who have
had an income of S., 900, 81 600, &, 200 a
| year, who did not leave one farthing to
the surviving household Now that
mans death is defalcation, an outrage,
a swindle. He did not die; he absconded
There are hundred thousand people in
America. to-day a-huugered through the
! sin of improvidence But" say some.
my income is so small cannot AFFORD to
| pay the premium on a life insurance"
| Are you sure about thatl II you are
sure, then you have right to depend on
| the promise in jeremiah, 10th chapter,
18th verse: Leave thy fatherless chill
dren, will preserve them alive, and let
| thy widows trust in me-" But if YOU
are able to, remember you have no right
| TO ask God to do for your household