Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-01

a faucet IN II. and a cement floor, and
they give the patient q mop and tell him
TO mop up the floor. And II he has sense
enough TO turn on the faucet and NOR
up the floor they will parole him. but
should he let the faucet run they know
that he is 'bughouse.'
well, that Is what you are trying to
do. You are trying to mop It up with
taxes, and insane asylums, and jalls, and
Kelley cures. aud reformatories. The
only thing to do Is to shut off the source
OF supply.
"a fellow was delivering q temperance
address at a fair grounds and a fellow
came up to him and said, Are you the
fellow that gave a talk on Temperament
Yes
"'Weil, I think that the managers did
a dirty piece OF business TO let you give
a lecture on temperance. You have hurt
my business, and my business is a legal
one
lyon are right there said the lee
turer, they did do n mean trick. l would
complain to the officers And he took up
a premium list and said, by the way, I
see there is a premium Of 30 much Of
fered for the best horse. and COW. and
butter. What business are you ln?'
I'm in the liquor business
We'll, 7 don't sec that they offer any
~ y AbuI DIElneEA. n OIL OllKnI 10
20 down and compel them to offer a pre-
MUM for your business. and tbev ought
to offer on the list s25 for the host
wrecked home, Sl5 for the hest bloated
bum that YOU can show. and $40 for the
hnest specimen of broken-hearted wife.
and they ought to give So for the finest
looking criminals. n vou have soms.
thing MAT is good. trot if ont you omeb,
to come IN competition with the farmer
with his stock. and tho rancy VOL GA
the canned fruit
SALOON is a COWARD.
Doctor Howard said: 4 tell YOU
that the saloon Ia a coward :, btd,s g.
cole h.tt.s -. '
- "e"'' s'a'neu glass DOORS and
opaque windows. and sueaks its custom
ers IN at a blind door, and ii keeps a
sentinel to guard the door from the OFF,
GERS oil the law, and 1t marks it's wares
WIN raise bills OF lading, and offers TO
SNIP raise green goods to you and marks
mem with the name or wholesome artl-
CIes oil FOOD so people won't know what
is being sent to you. And so vile did
IEat business get that the Legislature Of
lhdiaha passed n law f%orbidding a saloon
10 snip goods without being properly la
pe'eu' ana the United tSates Congress
passed a law torbiddtng them to send
"m'TNE ~ihroush the mails.
'eil you IL strikes in the night. 1t
"7ntS uhuer cover or darkness and as
sasslhates the characters that it cannot
ganIl, ana II hes about YOU. 1t attacks
r I'e'se'eSs "oinahhood and childhood.
H. 'I ''uo u "a coward II Is a thief, 1t
~ q" "i"'"hIE court defender that
,sa ~" money Dut II RODS YOU OF
toIom u. ewes YOU ~ rars and
20 NIL """S SouI LIIehus' ana 1t robs your
and if brirss 'PUH'ni,res your Ghlldren
,rI, ~ ",ns" INSANITY ana suicide. II
will steal the Off from n dead child
SanH tHe iast crust OF bread out OF
take the last bmcpo, lug Iunu' !. win
cellar. and the last cent OUT Of yomr
pocket. and will send you home blearv-
eyed and staggering to YOUR wife and
children. 1t will steal the milk from the
breast OF the mother and leave her with
nothing with which to feed her infant. |
u VIII take tho virtue from your daugh-
ter It Is the d%irtIest, most lowdown.
damnable business that ever crawIed ont
OF the pit Of hell. 1t is a sneak. and a
lhlGt and a coward.
IL ~ an infdel, 1t has no faith i'm
has no religion. 1t would close
every church in the land. 1t would hang
us peer signs on the abandoned affairs.
IL would close every public school. 1t
respects the thief and 1t esteems the
'.p''Su'cl II ms inc prisons and the
pehltehtiaries. 1t despiscs heaven, hates
loFe' scorns virtue. 1t tempts the pas
slons. Its music is the SONG of a siren.
It's sermons are a collection o. lewd, vile
stories. 1t wraps a mantle about the
nope or this world and that to come. |
lls tables are fun of the vilest litera-
ture, II is the moral clearing house for
rot and damnation, and poverty, and
insanity, and 1t wrecks homes and
oushts lives today.
sAToO re rr,p
LIAM
Inc saloon Is Il llar. IL promises good
cheer and sends sorrow. 1t promises
AMI causes disoaoo u -
prosperitv and sends odyorsity - $50
ises hanninoes ana sords ,rt w
it sends the husband homo viii on
his lin, IN his wife. and ~ " 'e ~
with . lie On bis 1ins a. bis 4pS "or's
If causes Tho nmDIova 10 Io 49, ~ ~
pIover II decrados ~ 60 Coz " enn
enemy and t6a doyiI,s has+ sri VI"
snares neitber ,,oTth no. "a nte""I
.vaitIng Win = Gdirt,, hI ,UI ~ %
r. cr,T ., no u papA
far tho ,,nhnrr '7 '0 " "' !" val
"lt .octs ,ho inr,a
INNS The rona in ,ho "" : I.st''.
n is rho 40 rhis, =, ~ i"oo,
dirty rod par 10 dyad LEI ~ :
women ana cbildror " t"e ~ W
bulIet throreb tba bodu SomJ uie