Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-19
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
A SALOON KEEPER.

To all whom 1t may concern, with
general invitation to the whole world:
Know ye, that having just opened
licensed shop for the sale of liquors
in this place embrace this opportu-
rity Of informing you that l have
commenced the business OF making
drunkards, paupers and beggars for
the industrious and respectable OF the
community to support. I will, for
small sum, undertake, on short notice
and with the greatest expedition, to
prepare victims for the poorhouse,
lunatic asylum, prisons and gallows.
shall deal in familiar spirits, which
invite men to riot, robbery, and
bloodshed, and by 80 doing diminish
the comforts, increase the expenses,
and endaDger the welfare of the
community. l will furnish an arti-
Gle suited to the taste, which will in
crease the number of fatal accidents,
multiply distressing diseases, and
render those comparatively harmless,
incurable. will deal in drugs which
will deprive some of life, many Of
reason, most of property, and all of
peace; which will cause fathers to
become fiends and wives to become
widows, and children to become
orphans, and all to become greater
sufferers. I will cause the rising
generation to grow up in ignorance
and prove nuisance to the nation.
will cause mothers to forget their
helpless children, and priceless virtue
no longer remember it's value.
will endsavor to corrupt the ministers
of the gospel, defile the purity of the
churches, cause spiritual, temporal,
and eternal death. If any person
should be so impertinent as to ask
why have the audacity to bring such
accumulated misery upon COM
paratively happy people, my honest
reply is: "Greenbacks, greenbacks,
greenbacks." I live in a land of
liberty. have purchased the right
to demolish the character, destroy
the health, shorten the lives, and
ruin the souls of all those who choose
to honor me with their patronage.
Come one! Come all! Come on! 1
pledge myself to do all 1 herein
promise. Those who wish all the
evils herein specified brought upon
themselves and their dearest friends
are requested to meet at my bar,
where l will for a few cents furnish
them with the certain means of doing
so. My sign informs one and all that
there will be empty pockets made
here, red noses made here, fighters,
gamblers, forgers, drunkards, and
murderers made here; widows and
orphans made here, Jail birds made
made here, drunkards' graves dug
here, victims for the gallows and
candidates for hell made here, by
virtue of my license to sell iutoxi-
eating drinks, for the law allows it.,
and the court awards my right to do
so, and 1 have paid my license, that
is a fact.
Furthermore, here is the manufac-
tory where men, upon whose face the
image of God is stamped, are changed
as if by magie, by drinking of whiskey
for ten cents dram, into the image
of devils. 1t will change good, sober
husbands into bad ones, produce
bloated faces, bloodshot eyes, and
lead them surely on the road to hell.
More than that, know We, one and
all, he who enters here is welcome to
stay and drink as long as he has
money, and when he has no more,
and the time comes to close up my
shanty for the night, he shall be
transported to his night lodgings
ree-gratis. by being kicked out into
the street, with the cold earth for a
bed to lie on, and the canopy of the
heavens above him for a covering,
unless I happen to be drunk myself,
in which case he can stay with me
where stay. So take notice, all ye
that see and hear this advertisement
of mine, for am an honest dealer in
whiskey and Intoxicating drinks
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