The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-24
MISERABLE WASTE OF MONEY.
AN ARRANGEMENT OF IMPROVE
DENCE BY TALMACE.

1sh OuGaf- AT Ahf PaHiih= Aa'At
and IN TntoHicants-Eiod Alone
knows What the Drunkard suffers
Wa-Hirrtcn. May This sermon o.
Dr.. TalmaEe is an ar-aig nment o. improF-
fserce g. all classes. and Of a.coholis r.
a. the greatest enemy of tle working 0co-
pi. Tae taxa is. Iagssi Is 8. lie 'ha'
ear1ath wages. earlar1 wages 10 pug =
INTO Has Ylt1 holes.
Iu Persia. 81ser the reign q Darius
Hylasees. me people did not prosper.
Taey made money. bat did not keep Il.
They uere ike people who have aack
H. winch they put money. not kHoWiHs
trat tae sack IS torn or eaten Of moths.
OF b. some way made Incapable OF hold
ing va-uaaics. As fast as the coin was
pue ~ one end OF the sack it dropped
out Of me other. Il made no difference
h0w much wages they got. for they lose
t<en "He that earneth wages, earneta
wages a. put it into bag Win holes"
what has become Of the billions ana
billions Of dollars 10 this country pail
To inc w0rking classes? Some Of these
moneys have gone for house rent. or the
family expenses. o. the necessities Of life.
or TO PROVIDE comforts IN Old age. WHAT
has become Of other billions? Wasted in
foolish outlay Wasted az the gaming
table. wasted in intoxicants. Put into
o bag with a hundred holes.
Gather Up the money that the working
classes have spent for drink during he
last thirty years. and viii build for every
working man house. and lay out for
him garden. and ciothe his sons in
broadcloth and his daughters in silks. and
place at his front door a prancing span
OF sorreis Or bays, and secure him policy
Of life Insurance. so that the present homo
may be well maintained after he is dead.
The most persistent. most overpowering
enemy Of the working classes Is intoxi-
eating liquor il is the anarchist Of The
centuries. and mas boycotted. and is now
boycotting. the body and mind and soul
OF American labor Il is 70 it a worse
foe than monopoly and worse than assoc
ciated capital
It annually swindles industry out Of a
large percentage Of its earnings. II holds
out its blasting solicitations to the me-
chanic or operative on his way TO work.
and at the noon spell. and on his way
home az eventide: on Saturday, when the
wages are paid. it snatches a large part
OF che money that might come into the
family. ana sacrifices ID among the sas
loon-keepers. Stand the saloons Of this
country side by side. and IL is carefully
estimated that they would reach from
New York TO Chicago. Forward.
march" says the drink power land take
possession Of the American nation"
The drink business is pouring It's vitri-
ole and damnaDle liquids down the
threats Of hundreds OF thousands Of la
borers and while the ordinary strikes are
ruinOus both 70 employers and employees ]
proclaim q strike universal against strong
drink, which, # kept up, will be the relief
Of the working classes and the sal
walton Of the nation. / win undertake 70
say that there D. not healthy laborer in
the United States who, within the next
ten years, II he VIII refuse all intoxicating
beverage and be saving. may not become a
capitalist on a small scale. Our country
in year spends one billion five hundred
million and fifty thousand dollars for
drink. or course the working classes do a
great deal Of this expenditure. Careful
statistics show that the wage-eaming
classes Of Great Britain eXpend In liquors
one hundred million pounds, or FIVE hun
dred million dollars a year Sit down and
calculate. . working man. now much you
have expended IN these directions. Add
81 all up. Add up what your neighbors
have expended, and realize that instead
o. answering the beck OF other people
you might have been your own capitalist.
When YOU deplete . working mans pnysi-
cal energy you deplete his capital The
stimulated workman gives out before the
unstimulated workman. Ny father said:
- became a temperance man N early life,
because noticed in the harvest-feld that,
tso1gh I was physically weaker than
other w0rkmen. / could mold out longer
than they. They took stimulants, 1 took
none" a brick-naker In England gives
his experience n regard TO this matter
among men ~ his employ. lie says, after
investigation; The beer-drnker who
made the fewest bricks made six hundred
and nfty-nlne thousand: and the abstainer
who made the fewest bricks, seven hun
dred and forty-six thousand. The differ
ence ln behalf Of the abstainer over the
ludulger eighty-seyen thousand"
When an army goes ont 20 the battle
thc soldier who has water or coffee In his
canteen marches easier and fights better
than the soldier who has whisky In his
canfeen. Drink helps "a man TO fight
when he has only one contestant, and that
~ The street corner But when he goes
forth 70 maintain some great battle for
God and his country, he wants no drink
about MIN When the Russians 70 10
war corporal passes along the line and
smells the breath OF every soldier. II
there be IN his breath faint Of intoxicat-
ing LIQUOR, the man Is sent back 10 the
barracks Why Re cannot endure ia
tigue. All our young men know this.
When they are preparing for regatta, OF
for "a bail club, or for an athletic wrestling
they abstain. our working people Will be
wiser after awhile and the money they
fling away on hurtful indulgences they
will PIT into cooperative association, and
90 become capitalists. IN the working man
put down his wages and then take his eX-
peuscs and spread them out 80 they viii
Just equal, he b. not wise. J know work
ms men who are in a perfect hdget until
they get rid OF their last dollar.
The following circumstances came under
our observation. A young man worked
hard TO earn bis six or seven hundred dol
lars yearly Marriage day came. The
bride hRd inherited Ave hundred dollars
from her grandfather. She spent every
dollar of 10 on the wedding dress. Then
they rented TWO rooms ln a third story.
Then enc young man took extra evening
employment: Utmost exhausted with the
days work yet took evening employment.