The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-01-12

settled because of the fact-which
have never heard any one recognize.
but nevertheless the fact-that high
tariff is best for some people and free
trade is best for others. This tariffic
controversy keeps business struck
through with uncertainty, and that I'M
certainty results in poverty and wretch
edness for vast multitude of people.
If the eternal CAB on this subject could
have been fashioned into loaves of
bread, there would not be a hungry
man or woman or child on all the plan
ct. To the end OF time, the words of
the text will be kept true by the tariffic
controversy-"Y e have the poor always
with you"
ALCOHOL AS A SOURCE OF DISTRESS.
Another cause of perpetual poverty is
the cause alcoholic. The victim does
not last long He soon crouches into
the drunkard'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 and privation have left her in
capacitated to do strong woman s
work. The children are thin blooded
and gaunt and pale and weak, standing
around in cold rooms, or pitching pen
! MES on the street corner, and munching
slice of unbuttered bread when they
can get it, sworn at by passersby be-
cause they do not get out of the way,
kicked onward toward manhood or
womanhood, for which they have no
preparation, except depraved appetite
and fra1l constitution, candidates for
almhouse and penitentiary. Whatever
other cause of poverty may fail, the sa-
loon may be depended on to furnish an
ever increasing throng of paupers. Oh,
ye grogshops of Brooklyn and New
York and of all the cities; ye mouths
of hell, when will ye 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. Hardware stores
go under. Grocery stores go under.
Harness makers fail, druggists fail,
bankers fail, butchers fall bakers fail,
confectioners fail, but the liquor deal
ers never. 1t is the only secure business
know of. Why the permanence of
the alcoholic trade? 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 congenial concom.
infants for adulteration. One quart of
the real genuine pandemoniac elixir
will do to mix up with several gallons
of milder damnation. Besides 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 I'M
til it is a sort of mixture of kerosene
oil, turpentine, toadstools, swill, es-
sence of the horse blankets and general
nastiness. With its red sword of flame,
sion, and they move on in ranks long
enough to girdle the earth, and the pro-
cession is headed by the nose blotched,
nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloat-
ed, soul scorched lnebriates, followed
by the women, who, though brought up
in comfortable homes, now go limping
past with aches and pains and pallor
nd hT1f 1xyf ri |
barefoot, uncombed, freezing,
and with wretchedness of time and
eternity seemingly compressed in their
lgonized features Forward. marchn'
,ries the liquor business to that army
without banners. Keep that influence {
moving on. and you will have the poor {
always with you. Report comes from
me of the cities, where the majority of s
he inhabitants are out of work and de- I
'endent on charity, yet last year they .
pent more in that city for rum than
hey did for clothing and groceries.
THE IMPRovIDENCE OF wORKMEN.
Another warranty that my text will t
prove true in the perpetual poverty of S
he world Is the wicked spirit of i'm {
providence. A vast number of people ]
ave such small incomes that they can
lot lay by in savings bank or life in I
one cent year. 1t takes every q
arthing they can earn to spread the '
able and clothe the family and educate f
he children, and if you blame such t
'eople for improvidence you enact a T
ruelty. On such a salary as many I
Jerks and employees and many minis i
ers of RELIGION live, and on such wages L
IS many w,dkmen receive, they cannot, Il
n 20 years, lay up 90 cents. But you v
now and know many who have COM i
'etent incomes, and could provide some Il
What for the future. who live up to every "
'ollar, and when they die their chill
rem go to the poorhouse or on the
treet. By the time the wife gets the h
husband buried, she is in debt to tbe {,
Undertaken and gravedigger for th,.t /
Which she can never pay. While t1o 2
nan lived he had his wine parties aud Il
airly stunk with tobacco, and then ux- h
ired LEAVING his family ,,Do,, fba ,..,,r m