The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-04-28

America. instead OF a subject Of Great
Britain because you have eOt TO be
rich or DE hungry here. and II you are
100 rich you have got no appetite.
You have heard Of the roast beef OF
old England. but nobody eats it but
the dukes and bankers The working
men never even saw a picture of a
roast beef ard yet We look upon all
Englishmen as beef-eaters, bur three
fourihs OF the people in this town look
hungry and discouraged, and they
never seem to know whether they are
COINS TO have any supper
went Gown TO a market this morn
ing where the middle class and the
very poor people buy their supplies.
and it would make you sick TO see
them. They buy small loayes OF bread
and a pennys worth OF tea and that is
breakfast. and If man is working he
takes some of the bread TO work for
lunch. and the wife or mother buys a
carrot or a quarter OF a cabbage, and
maybe bone with piece OF meat
about as big as a fish bait. and that
makes supper with a GROWER OF beer.
Say. the chunk OF meat with bone
that an American butcher would tarow
at dog that he had never been intro
duced TO would be a banquet for a
large family over here.
have been down into the White
Chapel district, which is the Five
Points OF London, and Of the thou
sands OF tough people | saw there was
not a man but looked as though he
would cut your liver out for a shilling.
and every woman was drunk on gin.
What there is about gin that makes II
the national beverage for bad people
beats me. for it looks like water,
tastes like medicine and smells like
sold storage eggs. At home when a
person takes drink of beer or whisky
he at least looks happy for a minute.
and maybe he laughs but here nobody
laughs unless somebody gets hurt, and
that seems TO tickle everybody in the
White Chapel district
The people look mad and savage
when they are not drinking. as though
they were only looking for an oppor-
tunity to commit murder. and then
when they take a drink Of gin. instead
of smiling and smacking their lips as
though II was good and braced them
up. they look as though they had been
stabbed with dirk and they put on q
look of revenge as though they would
like TO wiring chid's neck OF cut holes
in the people they meet
Two drinks o. gin makes a man OF
woman look as though they had swal
lowed a buzz saw | always though
drinking liquor made people thinl
they were enjoying themselves, or tina
they took 1t to drive away care ant
make them forget their sorrows. bu
when these people drink gin they seen
20 do IL the way an American drink
carbolic acid, 10 end the whole bust
ness quick
AT home the drinker drinks TO max
him feel like he was at picnic Her
every drinker acts like suicide, VIII,
only hopes that he may commit a muir
der before the gin ends his career
And there are hundreds OF thousand
OF people in this town who have n
ambition except to get a bit OF brc2y
To sustain them till they can get
drink of gin, and gradually they let Il
on bread entirely and feed on gin. an
look like mad dogs and snarl at every
body they see, as much as TO say
What are yoE going TO do about it,
good square American meal woul
give them fit, and they would go I
hospital and die II the meal coul
not be got out OF them.
Gosh. but : was glad to get out c