The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-02
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90 Bag With Holes" - Drn2kard.s 5
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The sermon Of Dr.. Taim&ge ia, Sl,s'stl
was the arraignment Of improviGeuce !" al
classes, and of alcoholism rs the greatest
enemy OF the worE!ag pte?ie The teNt :
Heggai !, 6. "Ee that earneta WAGES, ehThe.A
wages to put them II 4 bag %];a 4o.ss.
In Persia, under the re,5n OF l'srii;s 4 ys-
taspes. the people dii nc! prosper t4ey
made money, bUt did not keep i. Ihey
were like people who have Q sack N which
they put money, no; knowing that the Sack
is torn or eaten 0; moths, or IN some way
made incapable OF holding yalua5les As
fast as the coin was put in one end O: the sack
it dropped out Of The other. II made no
Giferesce now much wages they got. Tor
they lost them. He that earneth wages. earn
eth wages 10 put it into bag with holes.
What has become Of the billions ana bi,-
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 eN-
penses, or the necessities ofGfe, or 10 pro-
vide comforts in old age. Wha; has become
of other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay.
Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted in in-
toxicapts. Put into bag with hundred
holes.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for drink during the past
SO years, and will bui.G for every working
man house and lay out for him q garden
and clothe his sons in broadcl0:h and his
daughters in silks. and place at his front
door prancing span OF scrrels or bays and
secure him q policy of life insurance, 50 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 an
archist of the centuries and has boycotted,
and is now boycottins, the BODY and mind
and soul Of American labor. IL IS r" 1t -"
worse foe than monopoly and worse than as
sociated capital.
It annually swindles industry out Of q
large percentage Of its earnings. 1t holds
out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic
or operative on his way 10 work, and at the
noon spell, and on his way home at eventide:
on Saturday, when the wages are paid, II
snatcbes large part Of the money that might
come into the family aud sacrifices il among
the saloon keepers Stand the saloons OF
this country side by side. and II IS carefully
estimated that they would reach from New
York to Chicago. Forward narcn, says
me drink power, ''and take Possession OF
the American nation
TIE drink business is pouring its vitri0hc
and dannable liquids down the shroats Of
hundreds of thousands OF laborers. and while
the ordinary strikes are ruinous both 10 en-
ployers and employees, proclaim strike
universal against strong drink. which, II
kept, will be the relief OF the working classes
and the salvation Of the nation. viii IN
dertake to say that there IS not healthy Ia
borer in the Jnited States who, within the
next ten years, if he will refuse al lntoxlcat-
ing beverage and be saving, may not become
capitalist on small scale. Our country
in year spends $500, ,050, 900 for drink.
Ofcourse the working classes do q great deal
of this expenditure. Careful statistics show
that the wage earning classes Of Great Brit
ain expend in liquors ssl0Q,C00,OOO, or
$500, 900 year. Sit down and calcu-
late, workingman, how much you have
expended in these directions Add II al
up. Add up what your neighbors have ez-
pended, and realize that instead ofanswer-
ing the beck of other people you might have
been your own capitalist. When you deplete
workingman's physical energy you deplete
his capital. The stimulated workman gives
out before the unstimulated workman. My
father said: Il became temperance man
early in life because noticed in the harvest
field that, though was physically weaker
than other workmer, I could hold out longer
than they. They took stimulants, took
none" 4 brickmaker il England gives ms
experience in regard to this matter among
men in his employ. He says, after lnvestl-
CATION: '.The beer driuker who made the
fewest bricks made 659,000, and the abstain
er who made the fewest bricks 140,OO0.
The difference in behalf Of the abstainer over
the indulger $1,000"
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 hes wniSkey IN his canteen.
Drink helps man TO fight when he has only
one contestant, and that al the street corner
But when he goes forth to maintain some
great battle for God and his country, he
wants no drink about him. When the
Russians go to war q corporal passes
along the line and smells the breath OF
every soldier. If there be ip his breath
taint of intoxicating liquor, the man IS
sent back TO the barracks. Why? He can
not endure fatigue. All our young men
know this. When they are preparing for a
regatta or for a ball club or for an athletic
wrestling, they abstain. Our working peo-
pie will be wiser after awhile, and the money
they fling away on hurtful indulgences they
will put into cooperative association and SO
become capitalists. 1.-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. l know working ren who
arein perfect fdget until they get rid Of
their last dollar.
The following circumstances came under
our observation. A young man worked
hard to earn his $500 or $500 yearly. Mar
rage day came The bride had inherited
$500 from her grandfather. She spent ev-
cry dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then
they rented two rooms N third story. The2
the young man took extra evening employ
ment; almost exhausted with the days work,
yet took evening employment. 1t almost ex-
tinguished his eyesight. Why did he add
evening employment to the day employment?
To get money. Why did he want TO get
money? To lay up something for rainy
day? No. To get his life insured, so that
in case of mis- death his wife would not be .
beggar? No He put the extra evening
work to the day work that he might get $3.50
to get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister Of
the bride heard OF this achievement, and
was not to be eclipsed She was very poor,
and she sat up working nearly al night Tor
a great while until she bought sealSkin
coat. hsve not heard Of the result on that
street. The street was full ofthose who are
on small incomes, but suppose the con,a
gion spread, and that everybody had a seal
skin coat and that the people came out and
cried, practically, not literally, Though the
heavens fall, we must have sea2skin coat
l was out west and minister Of the gos-
pei told me in Iowa that his church and the