The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-03-13
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LIQUOR AND LABOR

LIQUUk Anu LAbUk
What does the booze business you, MIR Working
You're getting wise the con game of the four flushing
rummies They talk like angels and act like the devil They
, cuss The next day
And the booze business is against you first and last
AS before since the taken sick and since
Moses led the strike the brick ns Egypt you need clear
head and steady hand for your tremendous conflict
And booze muddle your head pases your hand and
unsteadie your and gives you your belfry and
floating gbets and Inflammation of gzzard and docaton
of the congestion of the beadona and ncrowng
coffin nails makes you think bughouse and act acass and
when you re in that shape you in condition
conquest of a better future
There knights of the Dinner Pail in the Unit
ed States and eighth of them counting railroad
ties hunting job Like the lily he tolls not neither does he
spn All you have to sell your labor and competition is
keen that you haven't gilt edge goods you
job and into the street The efficiency the sober worker
that will put you on the bum quicker than booze
Booze gives you red beak and black eye and white
liver and yellow streak and green brain dark
breath and blue Monday
Booze is against your job Even drinking bartender
drner Industry generally says to you No Job for you if you
rush the grower You heard OF employer advers
ing for who pull off schooner three times day.
And the booze business employs less per in
vested than any other business the map keeps $4,000
out of job in the United States In other words if the
invested in the booze business in this country
invested in legitimate business would give work to
$4,000 men instead Of only 81 900 men.
And the woringman share in the manufacture OF booze
is less than in any other commodity manufactured
nobody heard of union made whskey The booze
business hates the trade union it loves the devil
than per of all money invested in manufacture
ing the United States is in the booze business it
stopped this capital would have to be invested in the making Of
pants and petcoa and sons bread and books
which market can handle when for booze Ii
you spend dollar goods you spend dry goods
And nickel in the hand worth two In Anheuser Busch
And booze lowers your wages by increasing taxes
has of rplets Dependency Crime and Insanity
These oney kids eat and must be fed on taxes You
pay any poll because all the real estate
you carry around under your fingernalls
But your hand out the long to the tax col
ector big factory Thus booze raises the taxes of the
boss to support saloon ps and he has to add those extra
the cost production and there just so much less for
labor and down go your wages your pay envelope looks
like ten cents worth of hepus And you're poor you
couldn't buy bird seed for cuckoo clock
And booze plays the devil with your family sends you
with and when you enter the house the cat sticks
up back and kids crawl under the bed For evepn of
booze you drink wife sheds pint OF tears Booze steals
her cheek and leaves white its place
All JOY bridal day and she is the most pitiabe
creature that walks the streets
And the Riddles fair show Your boozng takes
them from school and sends them the mill They become the
shame factory instead of the sunshine of the home And
YOU curse them alcoholic heredy which results in epilepsy
consumption COMMISSIONS meanchona and dlocy ana runs
through generations
And that no fair game for the wife and Riddles
And my bottom dollar whchis ten cent piece that
not mother son of you heard of brewer disler
saloon keeper providing for family after ne had
put the bughouse the bull pen or the boneyard
Mr. Workingman this whole booze business is only a
smooth game the part of big grating capitalists to
bleed you Systematically the making and selling and then line
their nests with your hides
In 1908 local option bill was introduced the British
House of Commons which would have closed booze joints
in fourteen years Every member OF the LABOR party voted or
lust days One hundred and thirty OF these nabobs were
either brewers distlers stockholders In them They are
the bunch that ride the back OF labor all over Great B
n from the poor rishman farm owned by of those
absentee boodsuce the poor toes OF Manchester who
face hee furnace all day long Tor Just wages enough TO
Mr. Worlngman that's what the booze business to
We r, or s,ox that Won e vour head to carry vour