The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-11-16

POCKET BOOK SIDE OF TIE RUN
CURSE.
owing is an abstract of the address of
r. :. lhiibro0k: John Bright has de
agitation as the marShanng OF the
g ence of d nation for the execution of
Wn laws. When they demonstrated
!. br. John Richie because he went up
deWn the country reSOrting to agitation
ou>e the churches, he replied: "What
4 was ever done in the world without
-iun? We cannot even make butte.
mt it, But, if they can help them
IS, the saloon keeper and his crowd will
none OF it, They look with favor upon
minister Of the gospel and that public
al to whom they can say ''Ry thee We
IF great quietness, which we accept al
most noble sir, with all thankful
When some champion of law and or
nd righteousness does have the temer-
lift hand or voice against them, the
action cry out, as did certain parties
1. what have we to do with thee 90
add, ''are We not prominent citizens
peaceable men 90 One of these "promi-
citizens" now being housed and
led at public expense, said to Belfast
man, 81 am peaceable man; | was
IT known to harm anyone"
" hat have We do with thee?'' In other
Is, what is there between us and
'' Answer: one hundred thousand
in this fair land suspended yearly
. the hopper of death, who must be
nd to powder and die drunkards'
hs if the saloon is to be maintained at
present status. Line them up one in
L of another, allowing just twenty four
es to each man, and the column will
nd from Belfast to Thomaston-and a
.e proportion of them will reach Thom-
10 or a similar place. And this is the
Of a single year. Our civil war was a
1t economic curse, but more men have
, killed by liquor in this country during
asst four years than were killed by bull
during the four years of the civil war.
is productive industry is robbed of a
At army of laborers every year. But
Is not the chief grievance which pro-
lion has against rum. The labor of a
h larger number is either impaired or
.Toyed or diverted into reproductive
injurious channels. The traffic itself
Jlres the employment in the United
rs of over 10000 distllers and quarter
million dealers; and is responsible for
many more criminals, $4,000 tramps, and
many more pauperS, and a large percent
Of the 10000 insane in the United
Jes. 1t is we'll within the bounds of
h to say that this country is deprived
ually of the productive energy of 100000
b by the liquor traffic.
ur is this havoc which liquor plays
n labor the whole of the score which the
er and Industrious citizen has against
saloon. There must be added that i'm
lse amount of capital and material
oh is either perverted or worse than
troyed by this agency. The saloons of
country, if placed side by side, would
"a block 1900 miles in length. Accord
to internal revenue reports for the year
there were 1881 distilleries in the
uty with a capital of 1858. .477,466. The
iuct in spirituOus liquor for that year
nearly ninety million gallons, requr-
the consumption of about seventy-four
non bushels of grain. This grain if
md and baked would have produced
= 900 tons of bread, or enough to feed
million people during the entire year.
>umed in the form of Intoxicating
N, this vast store was not only lost but
>ed the expenditure of nearly one hun
d million dollars upon courts, jallS,
Shouse and asylums. The total loss in
ductive power caused by the rum
he has been estimated at from eight to
~ per cent. At eight per cent it would
UNI 10 sOl1etulIlS ike i've uulluIeu HILL
dollars. The New York Tribune is
hority for the statement that this
ntry pays more for liquor than for every
ction of government Official reports
led several years ago gave the nations
rly drink bill as S1,0SO, 100000. The
lristian Century" is probably correct in
ing that "Christian America spends
rly $1,20O,OO0,OOO for liquor, or $85 to
ry family" This money in the form of
ndard silver dollars would make pile
10 miles high. What monument to
ned hopes, darkened homes and wasted
IS. For this immense aggregate of Ia
{, capital and material is worse than a
d weight upon the nation; it is weight
ieath-death and putrefaction for grain
men!
,um mixes with business about the way
mixes with oil. Rum and business
ne together after the fashion of the meet
of the hawk and the chicken-rum
resenting the hawk. The ruinous result
mot escape the unprejudced eye. Rus
n disasters in Manchuria and on the sea
Japan point lesson as regards the SOL
RS business. The great railroad com.
lies are forbidding their employees not