The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-06-24
w. U.COLUM N.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
How We Suffer st the Hands OF Our
Friends.
A STORY THAT OUGHT TO BE TRUE.


Once upon q time there was a
quiet little town that had q school
house and church, but no saloon.
One of those men who is willing to
prey upon his kind, and to live by
making others die, looked upon the
town and decided that ii would be a
good place to start a saloon. With
out divulging his purpose he bought
. business room and residence.
He then ordered his stuff and moved
his family in.
The place was settled mostly by
Friends. They we're not the kind
that vote for political parties that Ii
cense and protect and perpetuate
the saloon, as the sequel shows.
(See if you think so
When the salson keeper arrived
with his family, after seeing his wife
and children in the house, be went
out to lay in a stock Of provisions.
His first call was upon the miller.
He said to the miller, "Send one
hundred pounds Of -four to my
house"
"Thee will excuse me-, said the
honest, Christian miller.
81 have have the money to pay
for it,"
"But do not like thy business
and thee cannot get flour here"
He went next to the grocery and
handed the grocer an order for a
bill Of groceries.
"Thee will excuse me, said the
grocer.
"But | have the money to pay
cash for what / buy"
"Thee has 9 bad business and
thee cannot buy provisions here"
He then called on the butcher
and said, II wish a roast OF beef" "
81 will not sell thee meat, for thy
business is bad and thy money is
not good"
All said his business was bad, and
that they would have no part in i
by selling him provisions to live on
while in such q business, nor would
they associate with him. That fel'
low had TO leave that town.
This ought to be 9 true story.
Such as this wonld break up the
business.
How are we guilty Of helping the
saloon businessP We prohibitionists
hold him guilty and particeps Grim
inis who rents a house for saloon
purposes, and il he is a Christian
men We say he is inconsistent. We
say he ought to turn that ealoon out
of his house, or ask to have his
name taken off Of the church roll.
We prohibitionists hold him guilty
who votes with q political party that
licenses the saloon, and we are get
ting the rest OF the world to see il
and many conscienceS are exceed
ingly troubled.
But how the cause is stabbed by
friends sometimes; and how the
cause of prohibition suffers from the
hands OF its friends.
Here isa prohibitionist who is
carpenter. A saloon keeper wants
his shelves changed, or his counter
turned another way, and this car.
penter-who is q prohibitionist, and
votes the ticket and attends prohib
Iitiou meetings and talks prohibition
and takes . prohibition paper-as
carpenter goes into that saloon and
does that work. Speak to him ab
| out it, and he says, "Oh, well ii !
had not done it some other would =
Same answer the saloon keeper
makes: IF / did not sell it some
other would" Then he says, "Oh,
| I did that as carpenter" Did youi
Well you did it as a prohibltlonis'
ltoo. for it was . prohlbitionist who
Iput in those shelves and changed
that counter in the saloon, and ths'
ltime it WAS a prohibitionist aiding
and abetting the saloon. Inaword
liz is q prohibitionist in the saloon
business. Others see this and i
hurts the cause Of prohibition.
Another prohibitionist has two
houses. One is a business house
the other residence. He would no
rent the business house to saloon
keeper for a saloon. No, sir no
he; that house should stand idle ant
: rot down empty. But he rents tn
residence property to a man In To-
saloon business to live in, and all th
I people look on and say, "ls he no
-nt this thu ~ al