The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-09-08
W. C. 7. U. COLUMN.
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Edited BY palatka Union.


Duull HOJ lit blIuESiGr llCS lJ' L 10
Gods gift. "
THE LIQUOR PROBLEM,
And there's the liquor problem.
The 5000, 100000 we spend for drink
every year would 90 u long way to-
ward patching up the fraz2led edges
of financial system that sends us
sprawling in the dust about once in
thirty years. If the money we use
to run our government and munich
palities were taken out of the bOun-
titul store of prosperous whole
people, instead of from the earnings
of the labOrer and the rightfnl sup
port of struggling women and help
less children, then Justice and Mercy
might wipe away their tears and
smile on us again. It's all for
money, of course, but the devils own
way of raising money it is. There
are six finesngar trees in my yard.
Suppose 1 should go out some dry
spring day and tap those trees in Or
der to get water to nourish the root.
| would expect the half-wittcd fell
low up the street to come by and call
me Il fool He'd say: "That sap is
all right where it is; let it stay there,
and get water some place else for the
roots" And he would be right
Slut when we get the revenue from
the saloon, which gets it from the
very people who are least able to
spare it and which keeps so per cent
OF all it collects, we have tapped the
trees to water the roots. But it's no
use to 90 on at that rate. Here's the
problem, and it's a sticker. For my
self | shall treat it like the square
root OF three-just indicate it,
Whenever there is lull in the con-
yersation, shall stand up and curse
the saloon. Wcnever election day
comes, | shall get up early i'll the
morning to boldly mark u ballot and
| thrust it into the face of the saloon
and all it represents. Don't expect
me to rant; shall not do it; but il
| can't work the problem, I'll mark
| it, SO that those who come next can
see that | knew what ought to be
dOne.-S. S. Lappin, in The Pilgrim
At their last convention the United
! Mine Workers of America voted tC
! exclude salOon-keepers from mem.
bership. John Mitchell attributes
the success of the great anthracite
strike to the fact that the "majority
of the strikers were total abstalners.
Drink and drinking have lost pres
tige with organized labor.
"Some of the pleasures of smoking
cigarets are. Nightmares, fits, cancer
of the stomach and lips, softeninl
"f the brain, spinal meningitis, fu
neral procession, and u family set
ting around in gloom. Prom {
school boys composition in Leomin
ster, Mass.
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WY tI''c irou,,ItS e hihits q" f WHY thoi
onnioveas nc to drink and whale
,aie GisrniesaIs have raenIted q,
l|' g eleven man wara dismiese,
nt (,Inssnort alone
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FIR CoFFEY's COMPLAINT.
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t I,is', cnonIaint in tha poet-nisnatol
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Tho " n omo ~ tbe ,V oo0 H" nnIoon
in ST Lonts. They own the kpeppr
nf these pIaces and the . OOO harteu
ders. And, MS each saloon-keepe
controls at least 20 bangers-on, the
have direct evil Influence over Al,
600 men"
Father Coffey could tell substan
tiallv the same story of any Ameri
can CITY of similar size.
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,iarn III lian, ' ,'o 800 o' "m ooo,,
and IisaoSo ~ biS d' i INV" thn
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What do Won tbi,k about 10 A,s
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~ IS TelreSlIIl% TO ma IN the Char
ioCJe News OF North carolina lead
ing ealtorai on pronlpltlon showing
now l! WORKS III CITY OF over 40
i III W I'd iE rrohlDltloh mas beel
IN H. eHecI Inere only since January !
100 put Is pronounced marvel
Gus success Inc editor says:
N sane man VIII attempt toargu
tnat as ihuch whisky Is consumed il
Charlotte tooay as was sold befor