Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-04


head and life will end Another will cry.
"Motheri" and his ufe will SO out like
burned match,
stand Ia front Of the jails and count
the whisky criminals. They say, Yes,
Bin. | fired the bullet" Yes, backed
my wife into corner and beat her life
out. am waiting for the scaffoid;
am waiting" Il am waiting says an
other. to slip into hell" on, on II goes.
hold silver dollar In my hand. Come
on. we are going to a saloon. We will
90 into saloon and spend that dollar
Tor quart Il takes % cents 60 make
gallon " whisky and a dollar to buy a
quart. You say 70 the sRloonkeeper:
GIVE me quart"
I will show YOU. n you walt a minute,
how she Ia burned up. Here l am John.
an old drunken bum with a wife and six
kids. tThank God. It's all n lie)
Come on | will 20 down to the saloon
and throw down my dollar. IL costs 20
cents 20 make "a gallon OF whisky. A
nickel will make a quart. My dollar will
buy quart Of booze. Who gets the
nic.lelY The farmer, Tor corn or apples.
Who gets the rs cents? The United
states government, the big distillers, the
big corporations.
am John. drunken bum. and I will
spend my dollar. have worked a week
and got my pay. go into a grog shop
and throw down my dollar. The saloon
keeper gets my dollar and I get a quart
OF booze Come home with me, l stag
ger. and reel and spew into my wire's
presence, and she says:
/ Hello. John; what did you bring
homer"
~ quart"
/ What will a quart do7 II will burn up
my happiness and my home, and fill my
home with squalor and want So there
IL the dollar. The saloonkeeper has Il.
Here Is my quart. have that There
you get the whisky end " C. Here YOU
yet the worllnRmans home end OF tho
saloon.
what Dollar PRir of shoes win DO
But come on; I will so 60 a store and
spend the dollar for pair OF shoes.
want them for my son. and he puts them
on his feet, and with the shoes to protect
his feet he goes out and earns another
dollar. and my dollar becomes silver
thread In tho wool and warp OF happi-
ness and Joy. and the man that owns
the building gets some, and the clerk
/ Anhl HRtu Atlt tiiOtm ktAN HOlNtt anu INV
merchant and the travelling man and
tho wholesale house gets some. and the
factory, and the man that made the
SHOES. and the man that tanned the hide
and the butcher that boughs the calf, and
the farmer that raised the calf, and
the little colored fellow that shined the
shoes, and my dollar spread itself and
nobody il made worse for spending th,
money.
join the Booster club for business and
prosperity. A man said;
~ will tell you what IL the matter Will
the country; it's overproduc;ion."
you lie; II is INSTRUMENTATION"
Say. wife. the bread that ought 60 b,
In your stomach to satisfy the craving
of hunger. Is down yonder IN the grocery
store. and your husband hasn't money
enovgh to carry Il home. The meat tina
ought to satisfy your hunger hangs II
the butcher shop. Your husband hash
money 20 buy Il. The cloth for n dress Il
husband hasn't the money 30 buy II.
The whisky gang has tho money,
What is the matter with our country
would like to do this: would like I,
see every booze fighter get on the waite
drunkards in America and say;
''Boys let's cut her out and spend tn
money for flour. meat and calico; wins
, do you say7"
Say, S5O0.OO0.O 900 VIII buy all the fiou
in the United States: $500, OO0oO 900 wi
buy all the beef cattle. and $500. 900 o.
will buy all the cotton at $50 a bali
But we dumped moro money than tina
, 1 -. sI,a xnsktp AnIa La nd Adm
fill IT, Come on; I'm going to line u
the drunkards. Everybody fall IL
Come on, ready. forward. march, Tigh
left. there / come with all the drunk
ards. We will line up in front Of
butcher shop. The butcher says "whs
do you want, piece OF neckT'
mo; how much do owe your s
Here's your dough. Now give me pol
, terhouse steak and sirloin roast
where did you get all that money!
went to hear Bill and climbed on tn
, water wagon"
, ''Helloi What do you wSntr'
"Beefsteak"
, What do you wantf
, 'Beefsteak."
, We empty the shop and the butch'
= runs 20 the telephone. Hey. centra
klN6 AHt NitAbkhN1A hNNoN' -
, got any beef, any pork. and muttonT
,, They strip the slaughter houses M
then telephone TO Swift. and Armour. NJ
Nelson Morris and Cudahy, to send dow
train loads OF beefsteais,
3 Getting ON Water Wagon Means.
|. whats the matter2'
[ THE whole bunch has gotten on q
{ water wagon"
And Swift and the other big packers
Chicago say TO their sa1esmen: "Bt
Q beef pork and mutton.
{ The farmer see the price OF cattle ar
y sheep Jump three times their value. l.
D me take the money you dump into Il
| whisky hole and buy beefsteaks vii
1 IT, / will show you what is the matte
= with America think the liquor bus
r ness IL the dirtiest. rottenest busine
I this side OF hell
1 Come on, are you ready7 Fall In! v
line up in front OF a grocery store.
What do you want?"
why. / want flour"
> "What do you want?'
'E1our."
What do you want?
Flour"
, 'Piilsbury, Minneapolis, Sleepy Eyer
4 yes: ship In train loads OF flour; ser