The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-11-18
RUM SELLING BUSINESS.
A TRAFFIC THAT LIVES ON THE VICES
AND SHAME OF THE PEOPLE.
A Business That is Foe TO Every
Church, 10 Every School and TO
Every Home in the Land.

Lives, Blasts Thousands of Homes, de-
stroys Young Men, Produces Crime,
Poverty, Misery and Woe. 4 business
That should BE Hurled Out of Existence
by an Outraged People.
The brewers and distilers and
their lieutenants, The saloon keep
ers, stand in opposition to every
class that makes any pretehsions to
goodness or even decency. Their
business is opposed 20 everything in
the way of good morals or OF good
order.
1t is the one business which has
Generalization as its basis, which
lives and thrives only upon vice.
1t kills out of man every good i'm
pulse before that man is valuable to
it, and the customer becomes valu-
able exactly in proportion as he be-
comes bad.
1t is g business which is opposed
by every true clergyman in the
country.
1t is a business which the mer-
chant and business man hates and
detests.
1t is a business which is the
standing dread of every mother.
1t is a business which is a con
slant fear of every father.
1t is business which is the hor-
ror of every wife.
1t is a business which makes
ninety per cent. of the business of
the criminal courts.
1t is business which makes
ninety per cent. of the pauperism,
for which the tax payer has to pay.
1t is business which puts out
the fire on the hearth and condemns
wives and children TO hunger, cold
and rags.
1t is the business which fosters
vice for profit and educates in wick
edness for gain.
1t is the parent of drunkenness;
and drunkenness begets all other
vices and means pecu,ation, theft,
robbery, arson, forgery, murder
for it leads to all these crimes.
1t is business which is at the
bottom of all the political corruption
Of the country, the tool that has al
ways been used by unscrupulous
politicians.
1t is the business that is used for
everything that is bad and demoral-
z;ng, and which has never been as
;ociated in any way with any good
object or cause.
1t is business which is the drag
upon progress, the enemy of civil
,ation, and the bar to improvement.
1t is the business that is the right /,
hand of the gambler, the pugilist, I,
he prostitute, the thief and the va
yrant.
1t is the business that originated
hat peripatetic nuisance, the tramp, I
md is the father and mother of i
in the way of vagrancy G
md small crime. q
1t is the business that is answer
bile for vast majority of the specu-
atoms and embezzlements and
rauds by men in positions of trust.
1t is the business that sweeps
|own every year thousands Of young 9
nen, transforming them from the
lecent to the disreputable.
II is the one business in favor of
Thich the only thing that can be =
aid is that, inasmuch as a man q
WINS himself, he has the right to
ommit suicide, moral, mental and
'hysical.
1t is business based upon the :
owest instincts in human nature, ]
nd the only one Of which no one i
as ever spoken except apologeti- :
ally. {
II is a business which no one
ares assert that it does not harm,
he only dispute about which is as i
. the amount Of harm that it ac- O
And this business, this Pandora's