Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-01-26

26. IL never promotes temperance,
morality and religion, but opposes them.
81. 1t never produces healthy race
Of children, but armies of idiots.
2S. 1t never diminishes taxes with
all its revenue), but increases them.
30. 1t never renders the Sabbath
quiet, but desecrates it.
30. 1t never prevent profanity, vul-
garity and obscenity, but multiplies
them.
81. 1t never protects a man, but robs
him of his money, his family happiness,
his good name, his hopes and all en-
dearments of life.
80. l. never prepares men for respon-
sible positions, but units them.
80. 1t never helps one to get good
insurance policy on his life, but initiates
against 1t.
a. 1t never creates love in the drink
er for his home, but makes the saloon
his lounging loafing retreat and place
of permanent deposit for his earnings.
No saloon ever existed without pro.
ducng all these evil results in proper
ton to the business it did. The larger
are these results in the individual, the
family, the community, politics and the
state. No one can deny this, except on
the strength of his Imagination. These
| thirtv-four statements are so many in
dctments against the saloon which are
supported by the proof of hundreds of
years of experience. Even the brewing
| business is dangerous. Here is state
ment made by DR.. Rogers of the New
York Life Insurance company:
"Up to forty or Whereabouts brewers
seem to be about as good risks as any
body else. After forty the mortality
rises very high, and should say that at
fifty-five or sixty years of age about
three brewers may be expected to die
where one average person dies"
The brewing business is equally as
dangerous in England. Rev. Charles
Carrot, in an address at an annual meet
ing of the United Kingdom Alliance,
held at Manchester, spoke as follows:
~ met with brewer, a good man in
his way, who had been a member and
olce-bearer in our church for years.
He was man kindly. generous, ready
to help anybody in distress, and with a
kindly word for anybody in trouble. He
met me- we had hearty shake of the
hand. He said well, Mr.. Garrett,
suppose you are as earnest In teetotalism
as ever Yes | said, rather more.
WELL he said, it's all right, you know
it peases you and 1t doesn't hurt me.
The fact is, | was never doing better
than am doing now Not long after
ward | saw his second son coming out of
the yard in delirlum tremens with three
men struggling with him, fine young
fellow, and brOad-chested. | saw them
as they wrestled with him; his veins
standing out like ropes on his forehead,
and his eyes flashing. | saw him fall 4;
they carried him in. Half an hour after
ward heard a whisper, He is dead,
and | went In to try and comfort the
family; and when | entered the room
there WAS the body, and on that side
was the mother drunk, and on the Other
side the brother drunk. AS stood ant
looked on the horrible scene heard tina,
fathers words again, 1T never paid me
better"
The man who sells alcoholic liquors
for beverages, |. e., keeps saloon, is |
public desecrater, and should be made t.
feel it. He is helping men, young ant
old, to do that which only seriously
harms them. L. j. BARTON.
Salisbury, VT.