Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08

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hour, 300 per day.
One man will throw his hands to
his head and life will go out like
burnt match.
| Another will cry:
Mother! mother" and stagger into
hell.
Another will leap in front of a train;
another will leap from bridge; an
| other man will turn the pistol on him.
self; and stab his own heart with
| dagger; and the body will lie in the
snow and in the spring the bulzards
will find the body.
On goes the damnable trail of in
fanny and iniquity,
A Funeral.
What is that music that l near: "A
funeral procession.
1t is 5000 miles long. One hundred
and ten thousand hearses in It, and in
each hearse the body Of a man that
died in America last-a drunkard
I To license such a dirty incarnation
of rot is the dirtiest thing this side OF
| hell. You can't make me believe that
| the manhood of Ottumwa and TINS
| township are such fellows that they
won't rise up in the name of the
| church and manhood and womanhood
| You can't make me believe it.
| In the Name of Decency. es.
| Come on, whisky gang, | defy You!
| | stand in the name of wife and. child
! rem and in the name of my country S
| fa~ and with the blood of as good a
| soldier going through my veins as
ever lived and l defy your cussed
gang to come into the clear and fight
| me,
| Come on | am going to show you
| something; how she is burned up.
The Cost.
| Do YOU know what it costs to make
| a gallon of whisky? 1t costs 20 cents to
make Il gallon. Sold at 10 cents a
glass it will bring "a. A barkeeper
said:
why the way they dilute the dam
nable stuff it will bring S.
| ! believe that one cause for the in
crease of crime in this country Is the
| damnabl poisons that they put in the
! whisky, which makes a man want to
| murder and to kill. II costs 90 cents
| to make a i gallon of awhislSN-1no
counting the licorice and tobaccu9 and
| cochineal. and potash and strychinne,
nor the logwood and the absinthe and
| fusal oil and tho dirty, stiking stuff.
| 1t costs % cents to make a gallon OF
whisky and that gallon sold at 10
cents q glass will bring "a.
Who gets the 20 cents The farm
| er for his apples, corn and rye.
| Who gets the rest of"it" The United
! koLdt-S SDNtt l.illSiil loi lew tiu' anu LIZ
big corporations to pave the streets
Blood in the Streets,
Did YOU ever think how much OF
your blood is down in those stones
that pave the streets?
You say: we paved them with
| the revenue from the saloons"
Who pays the revenue, to the sar
looms? You did you poor cuss. r.
was not their p,oness-. They took it
from you. YOU fool. They pave the
/ streets. You are fool to do that,
The Biggest Trust.
You fight the trusts. I tell you the
biggest trust in the United States to-
/ day is the whisky trust. They have
their clutches on everything, and they
| are the worst enemy of the working
men and the labor union on the face
! of the earth.
| Now sir, the cry is money! money
I am going to show how we burn il
! up. You won't need half sense tc
understand and if YOU don't, just keep
| still and nobody will know the differ
Colonel Politics on House.
Now l go and say Colonel Politics
| what is the matter with the country?
Mr.. Sunday. it is the free silver
bug bear. We have slipped an eccen
trio. We have gone off on a tangent
We are not at the right basis of equil-
briun1.
Listen. The gold and silver coined
in 1904 was s80.000,000 and we dump
ed seventeen times that amounts ir
the whisky hole.
In 1904 the gold mined in America
was sSO,753.000 and We dumped six
teen times that amount in the whisky
! hole for one year
Still More Needed.
What is tta,. with oo,,r,
try? l will tell you.
A man says it is over production
You are liar. 1t is under-consump
ton. and will show You. '.f :5i:
Another man says ss;:..+
1T is the tariff; let us have free
trade"
Another man says:
50 Let us have standpatters."
You come with me to every port OF
entry, and in 1907 the imports were
81, 434 900, 900. We dumped more thar
that in the whisky hole in one year.
The exports We're 900,000,000 anC
we dumped that in the whisky hole
in one year and three months.
The he internal revenue was $780,
| 100000 and we dumped seven times
| that much in the whisky hole
Money and Business.
l want to show you how we burr
| up money. The cry is Money anG
| Business
The postoffice expenses are s27s.
| 100000 a year. and we dump si2
times that amount in the whisky hole
Let's Blow Dollar. y.7
| / hold a silver dollar Come on with
me. l will go down and blow her Il
takes 20 cents to make gallon so my
dollar will buy quart. The saloor
| gets my dollar and l have a quart.
Here I ana drunkard with wife
and six children. (Thank God it is al
lieo All right 1t takes cents tc
| make quart.
The Division.
Who gets the 5 cents? The far.
| mer.
Who gets the 95 cents? The United
States government the big corpora
! tons, the breweries. the distillers, ant
| the gamblers.
| 1t costs ) cents to make a quart
and. sold at 10 cents a glass. 1t will
bring $500 Now. where does it go?r
John, the .,Drunkard.
The saloon end has my dollar. Hero
is my end l am John the drunken
working man. Here is my end of it.
what will it do?
It Will burn up my happiness ant
the peace of my wife and children.
/ Coma and 7 will or., q, .o,,,t