The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-12-01
ALL HOT DRINKS AT our FOUNTAIN 10 CTS
MARTINI ALLEN
DRUG COMPANY
ALL HOT DRINKS AT OUR TOvNTAN 10 CTs

/ nOuflSnlng properties Claimed lot Gl-
c0h0l if there were no pleasure in
drinking. The people must be
taught TO see that the old pretense
that alcohol nourishes, warns,
strengthens, aids digestion, cures
amounts to nothing. Only re-
Gently has correct knowledge Of the
effects of alcohol been gained, and it
has not yet become the possession of
all physicians. In our day, however,
every physician ought to be ashamed
to recommend a medicinal wine flor
there is no medicinal wine) or to pre-
scribe wine for the strengthening of
children. Those who advise that in
case OF influenza, etc, liquor be
taken, know not what they do,
1t is a deception and "a fraud in
that it proposes to relieve the peo-
pie Of financial burdens by the
revenue which it yields.
The liquor traffic is the Sober
Mans Burden, for the increased
expense of maintaining government
caused by the liquor traffic is ten
fold greater than the revenue de-
rived from it. Suppose man has
a pig given him AID after feeding
it twenty dollars worth of corn he
sells the pig for four dollars, has
he gained or lost in the transaction?
/ have in mind a city of about
ne-half million inhabitants, and
the police records of that city in
1900 show that 90 per cent. of the
arrests in that city we're caused by
liquor.
As rule the persons who are
arrested have no property upon
which to pay taxes, and the ex-
pense of their arrest, trial and
imprisonment must be paid by
sober people,
In the United States there are
about sixty penitentiaries an d
seventeen thousand jails. The
original cost of these prisons was
more than $500, 100000, and the
annual expense in their manage
ment is 100000, 900. Now the
most conservative Investigators
trace at least so per cent. of this
great expense to the dreadful crime
and Generalization, caused directly
or indirectly, to the drink habits
Of the people.
While ! was living in Morgan
County, Indiana, a man in a
drunken quarrel in a little village
grog shop that paid license Of
300, $50 to the United States and
300 to the public school fund of
Indiana, shot and killed friend
md neighbor. The arrest and re-
Deated trials of that man cost his
family all they had and Morgan
$4,000. The sober, in
iustrious business and laboring
people paid the $4,000 for $1OO
'evenue.
Speaking of the matter in a
general way, for every one hun
lred dollars of revenue derived
rom the liquor traffic the people
must pay one thousand dollars in
Iirect tax for the prosecution and
of criminals made by
he traffic, to say nothing of the
insanity, imbecility and pauperism
by it.
But the boldest and most auda-
ious deceitfulness of the traffic is
is claim that its vendors are good
aw.abiding citizens. Suppo se
hat a company of men should
tart out through our country and
lay one hundred thousand boys a ,
ear, would a single man among
nem be regarded BY you as a good |
itizen2 | think not.
The liquor traffic can no more !
lcceed without boys than can {
NV mill without logs or a slaugh- :
II house without hogs and cattle.
'ne hundred thousand men go to
runkards graves every year and !
he traffic must lay its hand, black '
ith the slime Of shame, upon one ,
andred thousand boys TO fiIl up