The Red Cloud chief., 1894-01-19

lives. The tariff question will never BE-
settled because oi the fact-which |
have never heard any one rccogi iae
but nevertheless tho tact-that higa
tariff is test for some people and tree
trade IL best for others. This tarii.ic
controversy keeps business struck
through with uncertainty, ana that uu-
certainty results in poverty and wretch
edness for "A vast multitude of people.
II 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 tho end of time, the words Of
the text will be kept true by the ttiffic
controversy-"Ye have the poor always
with YOU"
ALCOHOL AS A SOURCE OF DISTRESS.
Another cause Of perpetual poverty IL
tho alcoholic. Tho 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 II, or goes
out working on small wages, because
sorrow and %privation have left her in
capacitated to do a 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
a slice Of unbuttered bread when they
can get 1t, sworn at by passersby be-
cause they do not get out of tho way,
kicked onward toward manhood or
womanhood, for which they have no
preparation, except a depraved appetite
and frail constitution, candidates for
almhouse and p~enitentiary. 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 20 cease to craunch
and devourp There is no danger of
this liquor business failing. All other
styles Of business ut times fail. Dry
goods stores go under. Hardware stores
60 under. Grocery stores go under.
Harness makers fail, druggists fail,
bankers fail, butchers fail, bakers fail,
confectioners fail, but the liquor deal
ers never. 1t is the only ecure business
l know Of. Why the permanenco OF
the alcoholic trader Because, in the
first place, the men in that business, II
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 a depend on an increase
of demand Oh 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 20 there to
drown their troubles. They take the
spirits down to keep their spirits up.
There il IN inclined plane down which
alcoholism slides its victims-claret,
champagne, port, cognac, whisky. tom
and jerry, sol mash, OH and down un-
/ til it Is a sort Of mixture of kerosene
oil, turpentinc, t~oadstools, swill, es-
sence of the horse blankets and general
nastiness. With its red sword of flame,
that liquor power marshals its process
| 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 scorehed inebriates, followed
by the women, who, though brought up
in comfortable homes, now go limping
past with aches and pains and pallor
and hunger and woe, followed by their
children, barefoot, uncombed, freezing,
and with a wretchedness Of time and
eternity seemingly compressed in their
agonized features. Forward, march,"
cries tho liquor business to that army
without banners. Keep that influence
moving on. and you will have the poor
always with you. Report comes from
ono of the cities, where the majority Of
the inhabitants are out OF work and de-
pendent on charity, yet last year they
spent more in that city for rum than
they did for clothing and groceries.
THE MPRovIDENCE OF woRKMEN.
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world IL 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.
suIance ono cent a year. It takes every
farthing they a earn to spread the
table and clothe the family and educate
the children, and il you blame such
people for improvidenco you enact a
cruelty. On such u salary as many
clerks and employees and many minis
tiers of religion live, and on such wages
as many workmen receive, they cannot,
in 90 years, lay up 90 cents. But you
know and l know many who have COM
petent incomes, and could provide somc-
what for the future, who live up to every
dollar, and when they die their chill
dren 60 to the poorhouse or IN the
street. BY tho time tho wife gets the
husband buried, she is in debt to the
undertaken and gravedigger for that
which she can never pay. While the
man lived he had his wine parties and
fairly stunk with tobacco, and then c
pired, leaving his family upon the char.