The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-01-01

Christmas, and Union City-O,
hush In an adjoining neighbor
hood, be sent a fellow a three.dol
lar jug of whiskey which made
him feel so unnatural that he diyid-
ed it with his neighbor-by loaning
him black eye. 1t then caused
him to curse his poor old mother,
threw him into a muddy gully,
wallowed him in the mud until be
ruined a 800 suit of clothes for
which his poor old heart broken.
widowed mother had denied her
self the comforts of life. Then.
in the same vicinity, a man got
nothing, a man who was an indus
trious, christian gentleman, whose
heart was the temple of the living
God and in whom dwelt the spirit
of the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost. But the clouds of adver
sity had made darkness of his day;
they had gathered from the four
corners of the earth and had oblit-
Grated the light of prosperity; the
financial relations of a once fatter
ing future had been swallowed up
in adversely; the tickle society he
once enjoyed had been Withdrawn,
its fattering caresses were no longer
offered him, one by one his friends
he once so fondly cherished had
departed and the cold shoulder of
the world was turned to him; pow
erty was pinching him on every
hand; wealth, health and the com
forts of life were denied; he lay on
an invalid bed, without the loving
hand and fond caresses of a once
devoted wife and family to admin
lister unto him; sick, away from
home, passed by by friends that
once were proud to help him,
without the consollng and encour-
aging words of friends he once en-
joyed, yet this man got nothing.
Oh, we are down on you Santa
Claus; you have fallen from grace;
you have become two-faced
hypocrite; you are selfish, partial
and have become a despisable, I'M
worthy skunk. You have sighted
and neglected the very cream of
the earth and choicest of Gods
creation. We have seen you heap
the lap full and run it over, of one
child, and hard by its side, give
another but little candy, or a few
nuts, and sometimes even nothing,
and the poor orphan go home
heartbroken. We have seen you
load the unworthy to the guard,
while hard by their side tn e
worthy go unnoticed. We have
seen you load the wealthy with
arms full of costly presents and
the poor, forsaken widow go home
sad and unnoticed. Woe unto you,
Santa Claus, we are down on you;
you have wallowed in all the filth
and slime of city sewer. You
have departed from your first love.
Z on are a drunkard, deceiver,
lypocrite, liar, villain, debaucher
If virtue, morality, honor and .
christianity. Oh we are down on
you, Santa Claus, for you have
aiken the devil for your compan- .
on and have Rugged in your fond ,
embrace the very imps of hell. !
We will never love you again I'M
il you repent of your sins and are |
with the spirit of equal {
lights to all and special privileges |
o none. Oh, Lordl can there be
done to stay the hand Of
ntemperance sweeping over our j
and in the name of Doth century {
Santa Claus. MAN." Mrs.
3arleycorn called us and we must I
70. |
Guess what Santa Claus brought
is. A little jersey calf. Whoopee.
won't we have milk and butter. (
We went up to Union City last {
veek-a little dirty, for we had
,een delivering potatoes at Troy [
md Rives and did not have time to /