The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-02-14
W. T.U. COLUM N
CONDUCTED BY MRS NJ. 1. HOBBS.
IN NATIONS METROPOLIS.
Crime and Poverty Flow from ,he L.
censed 0iu Mills.

ScuSSU usU Wnse.
Editor Patriot Phalanx:
Enclosed send three years sub
scrlpiion to th- Phalanx | have
been taking your sggressive paper
Tor a good many year., and r. d
Il each week with inter- II aud profit
| have been working tor anu voting
Prohibition nearly twenty YEAR
Have never voted ior any her sorI
of party; and from the r'gu ar Vi.
its of YOUR paper | feel quite we'll
acquainted with the good brethren
and w. G.. I. U. workers II lndl
ana. | send best greetings TO you
and to them.
| feel just as aggressive as ever.
But for the past iew years ] have
been very closely confined to bust
ness.
In company with a younger
brother | entered the restaurant
,usiness in New York City, over
two years ago, in the hope that !
might make sufficient means to en-
able me to push gospel and reform
work more vigorously than ever
But after most faithful effort COW
ering the above time | found that
II could not fully carry out my
plans, though mu.h good work was
done. We d d as well as other res
OF the same class, but the
rent, light, fuel, ice and meat mo
nopolies kept us working for them
mostly.
The man in the same business
enterprise in the cities OF to-day IS
under a fearful grind, and many OF
them can scarcely find time to
spend a day with their families.
Sunday, church, or reform work are
out of the question.
| found the restaurant business
doubly disagreeable because OF the
constant and disgusting drunken
ness Of nearly all the help we had
Ito hire. And it was nearly the
same with patrons, young and old,
men and women-drunk, drunk,
drunk! II was simply frightful.
lin the two years | was connected
with the business l cannot recall
more than two men who could stay
sober more than two weeks, and we
had to employ scores OF men be-
cause Of many changes on account
lof drunkenness. | also learned
that the same is true in all the res
,aurants, large and small, and in
many other lines Of business.
\ Poverty? Yes; awful and abject
Every day we had applicants. Old
women, old men, young men
young women, boys-some drunk
Some sober. In year and a bal
I've furnished assistance to 1,6f'
needy or starving persons; and dlo
. not respond to all calls either,
We have Just experienced anothe
great republican redemption il
New York City by way OF a inunic
lipal election. Never was there sucl
q shameful scramble for saloon sup
port in any city in the world.
Shepard and Low, both shininl
brot hers in the Episcopal church
and both flat on their faces befor
the Qin-mills and swill-tubs OF Ne'
York; offering to gladly divide eve
Sunday with these saloons and thel
.|churches. And q we'll known Pro
! hibitionist preacher talked in hi
y pulpit and voted for one OF thes
Imen-Low, the successful cand'
|date,-on the very highest mora
grounds, a. he claimed!
The first frnits Of this republica
"yictory" is most vigorous cam
lpaipn on the part Of these same sue
|cessful pious politicians for "libel
al" legalized Sunday liquor seiiln
and drunkenness. :,
}. | could continue in this strain fc
MA week recording facts as relate
q above, but my time and your spac
III will not permit. a.
But the widespread curse OF tn
|lswless liquor traffic, sanctioned .
false church traffic, is somethlr
|friehtful in New York, and the nee
lar prohibition now and forever
a. great as ever. J.
| am planning to enter an IND
pendent pulpit in one Of the iarl
Cities 10 the near future, and nol
to let you hear from me occas'on'
liz. Cordially,
y j. c. HOGAN.