Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-02
AVOID INTOXICANTS.
Save Your Money Carefully and Be-
come a Capitalist.
Billions of Dollars Wasted Wages Hardly
Earned Thrown CsrelcssIy Into n
Bag with Holes-Dr Tall
IMAGES Timely sermon
TO Workingmsn

1t into bag with holes"
In Persia, under the reign of Darius
Hystospes, the people did not prosper.
They made money, but did not keen
IL They were like people who have a
sack in which they put money. not
knowing that the sack is torn or eaten
by moths or IN some way made in.
capable OF holding valua bles. As fast
as the coin was put in one end of the
sack II dropped out of tine other. 1t
made no difference how much wages
they got, for they lost them. lie that
earncth wages, earneth wages TO put
into a bag with holes"
What has become of the billions and
billions o! dollars in this country paid
TO the working classes? Some of these
moneys have gone for house rent, or
the purchase of homesteads, or ward
robes, or family expenses, or the nee
essaries of life, or to provide comforts
in old age. What has become Of other
billions? Wasted in foolish outlay
Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted
in intoXicants- Put into bag with a
hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for drink dur
for every worl,ingmau "A house. and lay
out for him 4 garden, and clothe his
sons in broadcloth, and his daughters
IN silks, and place At his front door a
prancing span OF sorrels or BAYS. and
secure him policy of life insurance.
so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead The most
persistent, most overpowcrinr enemy
rs Fn.n al. II.
liquor. 1t is the anarchist OF the CEN
turies, and has boycotted, and i now
boycotting, the body and mind and
soul of American labor II is to it a
worse foe than monopoly and worse
than associated capital.
1t annually swindles industry out of
a large percentage of its earnings. 1t
holds out its blasting solicitations to
the mechanic or op .rative on his way
to WORK, and At the noon spell, and on
his way home a. eventide; on Satur-
Day, when the wages are paid. il
snatches large part of money that
might come into the family, and sacri-
ices 1t among the saloon keepers.
Stand the saloon keepers of this coun-
try side by side, and it is carefully es-
timated they would reach from New
York 10 Chicago. Forward march. s"
says the drink power land take pos
session of the American nationw
The drink business is pouring its
yitriolic and damnable LIQUIDS down
the throats of hundreds of thousands
Of laborers, and while the ordinary
strikes are ruinous both to EMPLOYERS
and employees, | proclaim a strike uni
Versal against strong drink, which, if
Kept up, will be the relief of the work
ing classes and the salvation of the
nation. will undertake to say that
there IS not healthy labOrer in the
United States who, within the next
ten years, If he will refuse all intoxi-
eating beverage and be saving. may
not become capitalist on "A small
scale. Our country in year spends
$1,000 600, 900 for drink OF course
che working classes do a great deal
Of this expenditure. Careful sta
tistics show that the wage-earning
classes of Great Britain expend in
liquors 100000. 900 or 500 900 600
A year Sit down and calculate. o
workingmen! how much you have ex-
pended, and realize that instead OF an
swering the beck of other people You
might have been your own capitalist
When you deplete a worllingmau's
physical energy you depIcte his CAPT
tai. The stimulated workman gives
out before the unstimulatcd workman.
My father said: u became a temper
ince man in early life, because / no.
Iced in the harvest field that. though
was physically weaker than
other workmen. / could hold out
ants; / took none" A b-iclxmaI,e- in
England gives his experience in regard
20 this matter among men in his en-
p.oy. He says. after investigation:
The beer driukcr who made the few.
est bricks made go. 900. and the alb
stainer who made the fewest bricks
40, 600. The difference in behalf Of
the abstainer over the indulger, Sc. O.
900
When an army goes out 10 the battle
the soldier who has water or coffee i'm
MS canteen marches easier and fights
better than the soldier who has whisky
~ his cartcen. Drink helps man to
hght when he has only one contestant.
sud that at the street corner. But
when he goes forth 90 maintain some
great battle for God and his country
he wants no drink about him When
the Russians go % var corporal
oasses along the line and smells the
breath Of every soldier
II there be iu his breath faint OF
.ntoE.cat NJ liquor the man is sent
back 90 the barracIt, Whvp lie can
not endure fatigue All our Young
men know this When they are ore.
caring for regatta. or "a bal. club. or
for an athletic wrestling they abstain.
Dur working people wl.. boo wiser after
awhile. and the money they fling away
IN lHrtful iudulgences ,Hev will nut
into cooperative association. and So
become capitalist, II the WORKING
man PAT do" bis wages. and then talk.
MS expenses AMI spread them out $50
they Ti just equal, be IS not wise
xuow workIngmen who arc in % per.
fect fcgct until they get rid OF their
last dollar
Doe following circuu stances came
under ou- observation: a young man
worked hard 90 earn his $500 or s7Jl
yearly Marriage dag came THE
bride had inherited 500 from her
yraudfather She spent every dollar
~ 10 ou the we3dsuydress. Then tncy
rented two rooms boo 3 taird -tor.
J hen The young man tools extra even.
ng employment; almost exhausted
with the days wors yet tg1r oVs1f1,
employment u almost cvtInvulsaed