The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-04

AN tNaL tAfNr.h MANNHi 'AA A't-' /
wages 90 pa, into o bag with holes
what has become Of the billions .
and h.llols u dollars 90 this country F..
paid 90 the working classes? Some OF .
these moneys have gone FOR house .
rent. GO the purchase OF homcsteads,
or wardrobe. or family expenses. or the
necessities o. lie. or to provide COM
forts In old age. What has become OF
other billions? Wasted In foolish OUT
lay Wasted 20 the gaming table
Wasted IN into2lcauts. Put into bag
with a hundred holes
Gather up the money that the work
fms classes have spent Tor drink dur
irg the last thirty years and viii
build Tor every working man a house,
ard lay out for him n garden. and
clotho bis sons In broadcloth and his
daughters In SILK. and place at his
front door a pranclng span OF sorreh
or bays. and secure him a policy Of
life insurance. so that the prescn; home
may De well maintained after he is
dead. The most persistent. most over
poworlng enemy Of tho working classes
Is intoxicating liquor. II is the anar-
chlsi OF the centuries. and has boy
co,ted and Is now boycotilng. the body
and miad and soul Of American labor
II ia TO Il worse Zoe than monopoly
and worse than associated capital
Il annually swlndles industry out ~
n large percentage % its earnings. L
holds out lts blasting solicitations 20
the mechanic or operative on his way
90 work. and at the noon spell. and on
bis way home 90 eyentido. on satur-
day. when the wages are paid. u
fnatches a large par, q the money
tina; might come into the family, and
sacrifices q among the saloonkeeper8
Stand the saloons o. this country side
BY side. aad q Is carefully estimated
that they would reach from New York
20 Chicago Forward. march, says
the drink power. "aud take possession
Of the American nation"
The drink business Is pouring rs
vltrlol.c aud damnablo liquids down
the threats % hundreds Of thousands
OF l~borcrs ard while the ordinary
strikes are rulnous both 10 employers
and employees. proclaim a strike uni
versal againrt strong drink. which n
kept up will be the relief Of the work
Ing Glasses and the salvation OF the
nation. viii undertake 20 say that
there Is not a healthy laborer IA the
United States who. within the next
ten yCars. n he will refuse an iutox.
icatlng beverage and be- saving. nay
nof become capitalist on small
scale Our country 10 year spends
oac clifton Eve hundred million and
fly thousand dollars Tor drink. Oi
course the working classes DO a great
deal OF this expenditure Careful sta
ustlca show that the wage-earnlng
classcs q Great Britain cXpcnd In
liquors one hundred million pounds. ar
i've hundred million dollars a year
Sit down and calculate. o working
man, how much you have expended
IN these directions Add q all up
Add up what your nelghhors have ex.
pended. and realize that instead OF an.
swcr.ug the beck OF other people yoJ
might have been your own capitalist
When you dcplote a working mans
physical energy you deplete his CAPT
tai Tho stimulated workman give.
ont before the unstlmula,cd workman
My father said. Il became a temper
ance man IN carly llfc because I mo-
tlccl iu The harvest Geld that. thousi
was physically weaker than othg
vorkm5g. ] could hold ont longer thar
they. They took r,Imul1nts. ! tool
nose" s maker in Euelaud Give
Dis experience in regard Co this matte
among mDr lu DIS employ De says
after iuyostlgatiou. "Tho hepr-drlnke
who made the lowest bricks made sd,
hundred and diiy-ninc thousand: az.
the ahsialncr who made the fcwes
bricks seven hundred and forty-sl,
thousand. The difference Ia behalf %
the ahstalner over the indulgcr. eighty
seven thousand
When an army goes oui 90 the bat
Gle the soldier who has water or COTE
IN DIS cautccn marches easier and nght
better than the soldier who has whis
Ry ln bis cantcen Drink helps a mar
% frbt when be has only one con
tcsaut. aud that at the street corner
But when De- goes forth Oh maiutal
sCmc frJai battle Tor God and Dol.
country. lo wants uo drink about him
When the Russians go 90 war a cor
T0ul pass. along ihc line and smell
che breath 90 cyorg soldier 10 Their
d. Boz Dbl. breath o. faint Of intoxicating
LIQUOR ODE ulu De- sent back t1 tA
barracks Why7 Hc cannot ouduu
fatigue Au uw Young mon know ,hIs
whoa Ihoy aH urHlrug 'ur reat
On. og irr haIl clu Hr irr aa a.s
Lotto WHg.f|u-. fbu abstain uU
vH.Iue ....r $500 UU visor a.,.
aEf.... .uI 'he u'l. ih,E fUs away
or huun. HlI. U. h0y win p1
Onto cr..sH.NU .f1D. and
become Cd. n...a NJ frr vHrn.
ual nu. down N. N.... ard chen CATS.
DIS expenses ard spread lh.u oui s.
they v.u iust CCni ha De- not wise
] know working wer who are 'n per-.
feet ndFst until they 500 r.l % chefs
last dollar.
The following circumstance came
undcr our observation, A young man
worked hard Co earn h7 sX 0r seven
hundred dollars yearly Marriage Gas
came. The bride had inherited Eve
hundred dollars from her grandfather
She spent every dollar oi % on ihO
wedding dress. Then they rented two
rooms IN the third story Then The
young man took extra evening em-
ploymeut u almost extlnguished his