The Newtown bee., 1902-02-21

care and almost hopeless despair. Sob
bling and mourning for her children,
excruciating every nerve in her system
with the weight of her mind in it's pro-
duction of thoughts. How sad! How
sad! this is to look upon! Yet how
many instances of this kind have taken
place. Yes, this is sad indeed.
Note how many little children there
are that are thrown upon the mercies
of the world, or are left to starve and
go naked on account Of drink. How
many there are that are locked in
while the father and mother have gone
to the saloon to get drink; and per-
hapS while there celebrating them
selves with that damnable stuff, some
one in the street cries, fire! fire! So it
is! Where is it? Down on the Cross
Street. Father and mother come out
in drunken state and stagger along
toward home. But the home is no
more. Fire has burnt it to the
ground. But where! o where! are the
little children six in number? o, they
are all burned up. No one to save
them, father and mother are in the
saloon drinking. What a condition
they were in to meet their little chill
dren, even if they had been snatcned
from the burning embers of the home.
Old and middle aged men retiect
Young men take warning. Shun the
deadly poison. Ye men of intellect,
We men OF brains, hearken We to the
voice of conscience. One bucket OF
water taken from the great Atlantic
Ocean changes all the waters of that
vast ocean. So one drink Of that
damnable stuff changes your whole
nature. I pray you young men, alb
stain, never allow the first drop to
enter your mouth and you will never
be tormented or abased by succeeding
ones. The lowest and most degrading
thing on earth is to see young man
under the influence of liquor. Shun
the saloon as you would den of rattle
snakes, because the saloon disgrace is
an action of choice, formed in weak
minds and by those who lack stability
and self respect. I don't blame the
saloon proprietors, nor the wholesale
dealer, nor the manufacturer of
Liquors. blame the consumer. The
manufacturer makes it to sell to the
wholesale man. The wholesale man
buys it to sell to the retail man, and
the retail man buys it for the con-
SumerS.
The manufacturer receives a profit
from the wholesale man, and the whole
sale man receives profit from the
retail man, and the retail man receives
profit from the consumer. Now
neither one of these liquor men handle
this to make drunkards, but to make
money. The bartender don't Hike to
see a drunken man come into his
saloon, and even won't allow him if he
sees him. So you see very evidently
the con sumner is the one that sustains
and holds IN existence the liquor
saloon. Let the consumer stop, the
retail man stops. Let the retail man
stop and the wholesale man stops.
Let the wholesale man stop and the
manufacturer stops, and the license
and no license tickets are no longer
dropped into ballot boxes. But one
just and equitable opinion exists
throughout the length and breadth of
this land, and Christianity ,reigns
supreme. There is nothing which adds
so much tojthe beauty and power of
man as good moral characteA 1t is
his wealth, his influence, his happi-
ness, his religion and his life now and
eternally. 1t dignities him in every
station, exalts him in every condition,
and glorities him in every period of life.
1t makes a man free and indepen-
dent. O.. this liquor curse! the bane
Of moral slavery and the road to He'll
and eternal damnation. Why are
there SO many spending their lives iso-
lated from all friends in penitentiaries
and State prisons? Because they
allowed themselves, then while under
it's influence) they were ready to per-
petrate any kind of crime, even the
most shameful and atrocious. Who is
to blame for their conduct and their
prison life? They themselves. They
never get drunk on what the saloon