Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-07

greatest enemy ; lndt
four times as much money Is spent
here each year for booze as it requires
to run the city government, and that
thousands of homes are robbed by the
internal luxury" DR., Smucker said,
in part:
Who are these enemies of the din
ner pail and traitors to humanity?
Are they all members of the shining
! ranks of capital? No; some of the
enemies of the dinner pail are the
men who carry il. The man, then,
| who carries dinner pail and throws
away or spends his wage in destructive
! luXuries is a traitor to labor. a barrier
in the way of an evolution of better
| public opinion, a creator of prejudice
against the ranks of toll and mon
ster to himself and family That
! these men are the worst enemy to the
noble cause of labor moments re-
! Election will show It was estimated
in 1913 that spirituous and malt
| liquors cost this nation $1,S00, 900, 600.
+! For this same year, 1913, the bread
and potato bill of this country was
| S640,000,000, and public education
| 100000. During the same year,
1913, this country spent for boots and
shoes S435, 100000, We can plainly
see that our people are spending an
nually $250.000.0 900 more for these
dangerous luXuries than for all their
bread and potatoes, churches and
public education, boots and shoes nut
together
Nov, that we may bring this thing
home and fasten 1t upon our minds
and hearts. let me give you some up
to-date figures. There was made in
the city of Harrisburg alone last year
62.6S1 barrels of beer The consump-
ton of lager by the peonle of our city
last year'was 65,6S2 barrels. This was
sold at . cents per glass and our
people paid for il over the bars of the
saloons of our municipality 81 sos, BIS.
Now, the estimate of liquor dealers is
that for every dollar paid for strong
drink 40 cents goes for beer and so
cents for distilled liquors. No other
estimate Of the consumption of dis
TILED spirits is to be had Upon this
one, which is conservative. the people
paid into the 90 saloons. retail and
wholesale, of Harrisburg last year for
that which steals away their brains
the fabulous sum of $4.513.037
Now, then, to get a full face view
of this subject. let us do this: Let us
take the $4,513.037 paid from the
pockets of our Harrisburg folk last
| year IOr strong drink ana DuI u on
one pan of the scales. and then let us
take the money paid by them last year
for the public schools, $529, 1877, and
and put 1t in the other.
Now. then, ] say this is one of the
worst enemies of the labor cause. It
stands in the way of creating public
opinion in favor of labor. 1t creates
prejudice against the wage man. II
creates a gulf between these men and
the intelligence of the community. We
find fault with the small wages we get
and cry for more and then waste
what we have. We cry out for con
sideration and respect and fail to CON
slider and respect ourselves. And the
fact is this discourages those noble
men and women of brain. heart and
influence who would try to make our
lot better and our wage higher.
Strong drink is the greatest enemy
of the workingman!'
Sunday School Lectures. Begin
ming tomorrow evening the Market
Street Baptist Church will hold even
ing meetings for the benefit of Sunday
school teachers of this city. Miss
! Name Brockway, q young Sunday
school worker. will arrive here to-mor-
row to give lectures and demonstrate
to tho teachers the problems of Sun
day school work. Miss Brockway,
however, will remain at least a week.
She will lecture daily at p. m. until
Sunday evening. The Sunday school
of the Market Street Baptist Church
held its annual picnic at Reservoir
| Park to-day.