Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1895-07-17

as there is no competition Tor MN, ne
has monopoly, privilege, and both
are unamerican and disgrace to free
country.
Ifyou allow more saloons the result
will not be that more people will fire.
quent it, but that the people will go
where they are served best, but the main
Importance should be to consider to
what persons you allow the license. |
do not mean here to select the most
prominent, the biggest church light or
the biggest hypocrite, but selecta broad
minded, sensible, generous and honest
man; leave him to decide when man
is drunk, and depend upon his influence
to induce those who are inclined to fill
themselves up habitually with liquor, to
stop drinking, he will do it surely in a
kind way, bully nobody, but master
still. To get the right innkeeper for a
little town is valuable as to get the
right preacher, if not more so, for the
first forces the people to be moderate,
the latter only tries it.
have sold many lot in the neighbOr-
hood of Pleasantville, and in regard to
the loss town sustains by denying the
wants of people who do not hold the
opinion of e. W. Lake, let me tell her it
is very great. have never seen so much
drunkenness as in such countries where
the free use of beer, wine and liquors was
prohibited by a small percentage OF alb
stanence fanatics who wrongly call
themselves temperance people. Let the
Americans get used to beer and wine and
the appetite for the whiskey, gin and
rum will sink rapidly. This will be an
Improvement.
Unnatural appetites! My God! what
an avalanche of questions arise here?
Who can tell me to-day what is unnat-
ural? We have been so before history
commenced. Since this space of time we
have been it all together. What IN our
lives are natural? l do not know. Do
YOU? Do you drink coffee? Why? Be
cause you think it stimulates your
nerves. This is unnatural. Tea? I'm
natural. Spices? Unnatural. Have
any respect for your parents who bid
you marry a man because he can provide
for you? Away with it, it is prostitu-
ton, unnatural! Do you wear a corset?
Disband with it, it's unnatural. Are
you faithful to your husband, although
you love him not? Stop, it's prostltu-
ton; you belong to this individual you
love, and only for the time you do love
him and vice versa. To be natural to-
day is terrible! Can you tell me OF any
nation on this earth who does not use
some stimulant, be it in form of liquor or
narcotic? Can you tell an instance in
history that a tribe or nation could be
stopped from the use oft?
1t you live leisurely i'll your home and
you would not give up the use of coffee,
tea or chocolate, because it stimulates
your nerves, how can you demand OF
people who for instance are working day
and night in front of fires which wo1ld
scorch your faint, as on steam engines,
blasts, etc? Do they not need strong
er stimulant than coffee?
What fools these mOrtals bel Every
little head, capsled up in little box, in
tent nowadays to command the nations
to shape themselves according to their
narrowminded views. Each wants to
be tyrant to force other people to live
according to their shallow views. When
will liberty arise for the world? Fools
and scoundrels frame laws, and create
fashions and morals by which the whole
human race is bound to live! It's un-
natural!
DO away with all your mock philan-
tropics; let us become human beings
again and not remain mere dolls of petty
tyrants and the liquor question will be
solved, but not before. AS long as the
whole society is chained down to thOus-
ands of unnatural things, we have and
will have to put up with the result-of
being a civilized people. Who laughs
here? JOSEPH FRANK.