The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-02-16
1t Docs Not Pay.

1t does not pay to have the mother
and children of twenty families dressed
in rags, and starved into the semblance
of emaciated scare crows, and living in
novels, in order that the saloon-k keep
er's wife may dress in satin, and her
children grow fat and healthy, and live
in bay window parlor.
1t does not pay to have ten smart,
intelligent boys turned into hoodlums
and thieves to enable one man to lead
an easy life by selling them liquor.
1t does not pay to give one man, for a
tritle, license to sell liquor, and then
spend an enormous amount on a trial
of Tim Mclaughlin for buying that
liquor and then committing murder un-
der its influence
1t does not pay to have one thousand
homes blasted, ruined, detiled and
turned into bells OF disorder and misery
III order that one Wholesale liquor deal
er may amass 4 fortune
1t does not pay to keep six thousand
men in the pcnitentiaries and hospitals,
and one thousand in the lunatic asyl
ums, at the expense of the honest, in
dustrlOus taxpayer, in order that few
rich capitalists may grow richer by the
manufacture of whisky.
A saloon keeper sold a drinking man
one pint of new rum, making fifteen
| cents clear profit. The man, under the
influence OF that pint of rum, killed his
son-in-law; and his apprehension, con-
tinement in Jail, execution, etc, cost
tie county more than one thousand
doiIars-wh ich temperate men had to
earn by the sweat Of their brow. 1t
does not pay.
The loss sustained by society, moral
ly and financially, the sorrow and suf-
ferinc, misery and destitution, produced
and augmented, and what is infinitely
a greater consideration than all else the
! destruction of soul and body, the in
! evitable result using and tratficking in
Intoxicating liquors-these all attest the
truthfulness Of the verdict it does not
pay.
! Reader, it does pay to lead a temper
ate life; to be an honest and upright
citizen; TO exert pure and holly intlu-
ence upon mankind; and to honor G Tod
/ by a righteous use of all his gifts We
/ beseech you, then, for your own souls
sake, and for the sake of suffering hui
manity, ''touch not, taste not, handle
not, the unclean thing. "-Saratoga
/ Eagle,
-WANTED-Some bright boys full
of life and cheer to stand by my coun-
er as drinkers Of beer. To fill up the
rank without further delay, ofthe army
of drunkards passing away. Sixty
| thousand a year will only supply the
! loss of our trade from the drunkards
/ that die. Send those who can toll, or
have health to bestow; for profits are
small on old drunkards YOU know. Let
/ them come from the shops, the schools
! or the home Wen welcome them who
! ever may come. Let mothers surrcnd-
er their some to our cause, and fathers
| keep voting for good license laws, for if
you will vote to keep running the mill
you must furnish grists or the wheel
Will stand still.-Ex.
Mr.. T. J. Pickert, manager of the
Merchants Tea Company, 72l Tower
/ ovenue informs us that his store was
( entered by the rear door Tuesday night
o,,l covaroI L,-,lral l~Ilor, ,,,,r,l - 8
his prizes, to be given out with tea
/ purchases, stolen and two or three
] bushels of tea scattered about the floor
Mr.. Pickert says he Is willing to wait on
his customers for fifteen hours a day,
but he does not like to have people
help themselves in that way. But he
keeps right on selling tea packages con-
tanning beautiful presents, just as
though nothing had happened.
A bill before orr legislature en-
titled an Act TO regulate warehouses;
Is creating great commotion among
the grain men on the Minnesota side
of the fence We are hardly cOmpe-
tent to speak upon the merits Of the
bill, but il Is quite safe 10 say that
when the Duluth people all cry ont
against it, It must be a good thing ior
Superior.
Bert EeIial. late bartender for VI
Summertie.d at the West end. skipped
out one night TINS week taking with