News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-26
HOWTHE MONEY GOES
REV. DR.. TALMkGE ARRAlGNS ALL
CLASSES OF SPENDTHRlFTS.

"a Bag With Holes" - A Drunkard's
Grave.
WASHINGTON, May 23.--This sermon of
DR.. Talmage is an arraignment of i'm
providence in all classes, and of alcohol
ism as the greatest enemy of the working
people. The text is Haggai i, 6, ''He that
earneth wages, earneth wages to put it in
TO a bag with holes. "
In Persia, under the reign of Darius
HystasICs, the people did notprospcr. They
made money, but did not keep it, They
were like people who have a sack in which
they put money, not knowing that the
sack is torn or eaten of moths, or in some
way made incapable of holding valuables.
AS fast as the coin was put in one end of
the sack it dropped out of the other. 1t
made no difference how much wages they
got, for they lost them. "He that earn
eth wages, earneth wages to put it into
bag with holes. "
What has become of the billions and bill
lions of dollars in this country paid to the
working classes? Some of these moneys
have gone for house rent, or the purchase
of hOmesteads, or wardrobe, or family ex-
penses, or the necessities of life, or to pro-
vide comforts in old age. What has be-
come of other billions? Wasted in foolish
outlay Wasted at the gaming table,
Wasted in intOXicants. Put into bag
with hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for drink during the
last 80 years, and 1 will build for every
workingman house and lay out for him
q garden and clothe his sons in broadcloth
and his daughters in silks, and place at
his front door prancing span of sorrels
or bays and secure him policy of life in
suranCe, so that the present home may be
well maintained after he is dead. The
most persistent, most overpowering enemy
of the working classes is Intoxicating
liquor. 1t is the anarchist of the centuries
and has boycotted, and is now boycotting
the body and mind and soul of American
labor 1t is to it worse foe than mo-
nopoly and worse than associated capital
1t annually swindles industry out of a
large percentage of it's earnings. 1t holds
out its blasting solicitations to the me-
chanio or operative on his way to work,
and at the noon spell, and on his way
home at eventide; on Saturday, when the
wages are paid, it snatChes a large part of
the money that might come into the fam
lily and sacrifices it among the saloon
keepers Stand the saloons of this country
side by side, and it is carefully estimated
that they would reach from New York to
Chicago Forward, march," says the
drink power, "and take possession of the
American nationA'
All For Drink.
The drink business is pouring it's vitriol-
&c and damnable liquids down the Threats
of hundreds Of thousands of laborers, and
while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both
to employers and employees, | proclaim a
strike universal against strong drink,
which, if kept up, will be the relief of the
working classes and the salvation of the
nation. l will undertake to say that there
is not a healthy laborer in the United
States who, within the next ten years, if
he will refuse all Intoxicating beverage
and be saving, may not become capital
list on u small scale. Our country in a
year spends 81 500, ESQ, 600 for drink OF
course the working classes do a great deal
of this expenditure. Careful statistics
show that the wage earning classes of
Great Britain eXpCnd in liquors 4l00, 000,-
600, or $500, 600, 900 a year. Sit down
and calculate, 0 workingman, how much
you have expended in these directions!
Add it all up Add up what your neigh
bOrs have expended, and realize that in
stead Of answering the beck of other peo-
pie you might have been your own CAPT
talist. When you dCElCte Il workingman' S
physical energy you dcplete his capital.
The stimulated workman gives out before
the unstimulated workman. My father
said: II became a temperance man in
early life because / noticed in the harvest
field that, though l was physically weaker
than other workmen, ! could hold out
longer than they. They took stimulants,
/ took none" A brickmaker in England
gives his experience in regard to this mat
Ter among men in his employ. He says,
after investigation: 1.-The beer drinker
who made the fewest bricks made 659, 600
and the abstainCr who made the fewest
bricks $4,000. The difference in behalf
of the abstainer over the indulger 81, 600. !"
When an army goes out to the battle, the
soldier who has water or coffee in his can
teen marches easier and fights better than
the soldier who has whisky in his canteen.
DllIlh bGilJE a. man W lSHU NllCI llb IlttS
only one contestant, and that at the street
corner. But when he goes forth to main
tain some great battle for God and his
country, he wants no drink about him.
When the Russians go to war "a corporal
passes along the line and smells the breath
of every soldier. If there be in his breath
a faint of Intoxicating liquor, the man is
sent back to the barracks. WhyY He can.
not endure fatigue. All our young men
know this, When they are preparing fol-
regatta or for ball club or for an ath
letic wrestling, they abstain. Our work
ing people will be wiser after awhile, and
the money they fling away ON hurtful in
dulgonccs they will put into cooperative
association and so become capitalists. II
the working man put down his wages and
then take his expenses and spread them
out so they will just equal, he is not wise.
! know working men who are in perfect
fdget until they get rid of their last dollar.
A Sealskin Coat.
The following circumstances came under
our observation: A young man worked
hard to earn his 5000 or $700 yearly Mar
rage day came. The bride had inherited
$500 from her grandfather She spent ev
cry dollar Of it on the wedding dress. Their
they rented two rooms in third story
Then the young man took extra evening
employment; almost exhausted with the
days work, yet took evening employment
1t almost extinguished his eyesight. Why
did he add evening employment to the day
employment? To get money. Why die
he want to get money? TO lay up some
thing for a rainy day? No. 70 get his life
insured, so that in case of his death hi