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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1882)
« • • CKÈI9TIAK HEfiAtb. 8 $30,000—-all due* to the saving of go to the uhseen wqiitl to get out the first $100. The merchant, no | Commission to slay'whomsoever we Saving Against Starving., doubt, is now daily made happy by will ; we have four hundred places the delightful refleetion of having in Syracuse armed and equipped A young ct.Eitk M ade R i UH Sr follo M n << tèe saved this mail as w ell as his family. as the jaw directs, to make jmt the ÀbVICE OF AN OLD MERCHANT—THE WAY YOUNG PERSONS RlIlE TO POVERTY » There are now hundreds of fami amount of drunkenness necessary lies in this city who are highly cul- to nerve a man for slaughter. -------- A young man. a, clerk ip.... one of Tivated tliat do 'not know^vfierr When^roWiiTffWHhidd^ouw y emu the Wall Street moneyed institu ago, committed murder, he could not tions, applied to one of our distin their next meal is coming from. Could they have had the advice of do it until he had taken several guished merchants, who is a direc this old merchant; and followed it, diink3 and in a measure paralyzed tor, and asked him for his influ« nc they would now be in affluence,, his human sympathies ; yet neither to get his salary raised. drinks nor Deity saved him from The merchant said to him: “How not beggary. Only yesterday a the gallows. But the times are much isv your salary now ?” highly respectable lady, with three young daughters, applied" for imme Changing now. Our drunkard “ Twelve hundred dollars,” was the diate assistance to buy bread. Iler makers can show lawful authorities answer. Question.—How much do you husband had recently died after en from the excise commissioners to joying a salary for some twenty sell intoxicating drinks to whom save a year ? ' AniWer.—Wbl òtte dòltarwith” years of from $2,500 to$3000, with they will, Aiinors excepted, and a wife and two children I can ouly out having saved anything. The Governor Cornell has just com practical result of this is that this muted the sentence of Martin just inakejjoth ends meet. Q—What! don’t save any thing? lady for twenty«years, had secured Flanagan because he was drunk every luxury within her reach, when he killed John Jarius; no A.—No, sir;. I can but exist. Q — 1 make it a rule to assist no while 1 am indebted for all 1 now ' question of his. guilt remaining in one who does not save something have to the denial of luxuries for the mind of court ur goveimo- Now I ask you, What safety every year. No matter how small’ myself and- family, and am now his salary, something should be asked to help support her, out o1 , have we, the peopl'd, from such saved. How many cigars do you my savings such as she Would not rulings ? J ustice seems going back make forherself. With her present ward. If it is true that thexlrunk- smoke—and their cost ? A.—Well, some threea Jay; vrjws of ccouumy she Hee.M h<fW She costing, together about twenty could have lived on half his salary. | men . who make him insane—the Had she done so, it would now seller of liquor and the comrnis- cents. Q—Do you go to the theatre, amount to some $50,000, the inter i sioner who affixes the seal of the and how often ; and how many,per est of which would have made her paw to every.drink the murderer : ■ ... and her children independent for I takes?” • * \ sons with you ? A—1 go some half a dozen times life. Such cases do not warmly Ohio. during the winter with my wife commend themselves to my charity; “ The Smith Sunday Law has and sister,bhosting, including rail such people must be taught, by natural laws, that they must save road fare, say $30. now been in force a month, and has or be liable to starve. been the subject of discussion in Q.—Do you drink ardent spirits, • Another cas«j occurs to me.* A the entire press of the State and in wine, beer, etc. ? A.—I generally take two glasses young man, recently married, has a majority of the pulpits. It is re of whisky daily^and sometimes a put up bis carriage with livery on spected now in nearly all portions glass of ale with my wife at the a salary of $4,000 a year. One of of the State. In Cincinnati nearly three things will soon .possibly fol oiie thousand saloons openly viola gardens in the evening. Q.—Do you say you cannot save low, The carriage will be laid ted the law, arrests were made, and anything, while your unnecessary down, or defalcation will come next, one notorious offender, Mr. Schu expenses yearly for cigars, drinks and ruin and beggary follow. All mann, tried, convicted, and sen and amusements, by your showing, this reminds me of the old maxim tenced to pay one hundred dollars cannot cost less than $200 ? Until that nineteen persons out of every fine and to be confined in the city you begin to save, raising your sal twenty, who are now respectable, workhouse for the period of thirty ary would do you no good. Begin would not be so if they could get ; days, the severest penalty of the to day to save, if only five cents a the means to make themselves law. In sentencing him the judge day. Try saving six months and otherwise. This man, with his said : carriage on $4,000 is one of the report to me the result. “‘I think,, Mr. Schumann, you At the end of the time the young nineteen.— N. Y. Eveni/nq Post. have had a fair and impaitial trial. man brought the incrchant his ex i The testimony discloses that your Drunkenness and Murder. pense book, showing a clear saving offense was one in open violation of of $104.20. This induced the “Justice” writes thus to the the law. There was no excuse for incrchant to take him cordially by Syracuse Herald". .“The time I your ignorance. It was committed the hand down to the institution have long been wondering about, by you openly, deliberately, defi and urge the President to increase and expecting to come has evidently antly. Il is the business of this his salary from $1,200 to $1,500. arrived—the time when man may court to uphold the dignity of the In another six months his savings kill his neighbor and may get ex law. A judge has nothing to do amounted to $300; the merchant cused from being hanged because with the making of a law.’ on this showing said to him: he was 'drunk. Some murderers i, “ On the last Sunday all saloons : 1 1 hanging ----- - 1 ..... ....... -* ’» were closed save a few back doors. “ Young man, you are now on the hope to f" avoid because • • .................... r..... has 1........ also 1. . road to wealth and position.” This backed and persuaded by the Deity > . « “ ri.n The Pond Tax Law young man is now worth some to commit crime, but we r.eed not I gone into effect, and a large number Temperance Department. * • • 7 - V - ---- -------- —--------------- — uAj ~ ' S, J. • Of Saloons have cloeed their doors because they Cotild hot fi&f the tax. The State is agitated frottl ohe ehd to the othfef ; law-and-order meet- IHgs Are hfeld alt o^ër the State-? ministerial conventions ail'd pf-eac’h- ers’ meetings declare in thunder- The brewers of Cincinnati applied t<? the Secretary of State for an act of incorporation to resist the- en- forcetnent of the Poftd Act; Attor ney -General Nash replied in sub stance : “* The laws of Ohio certainly do ' not authorize the formation of cor porations for the purpose of pro- motingorcariyingonlawsuits. Such laws would be against all correct views of public policy. 1 advise you to refuse to file the articles of incorporation of the General Pro tective Association.” “ In Cleveland they have n t known su xpriet a Sunday before in thirty years. ‘Law and. order'is the motto all over the State, and .. the battle rages fiercely all along the line.”:— Teinparanç/^zAdeocates Ma-v, -------- —- — : * T832. Sunday-Closing. > “ The liquor-sellers ate very reluctant to surrender their »Sunday traffic. Sunday is their * harvest day ’ where their traffic is un restricted. Ohio has recently put in operation a stringent Sunday- closing law. It produced a u arked effect upon the liquor- sellers throughout the State, and was heeded by many at or.cx In Cin- cinnati the law is defied by some and respected by others. Follow- ing the first Sunday after The law took effect a Columbus telegram said : ‘ The Sunday-closing law w s strictly observed by saloon mtn, and it was the' most quiet day of the year. The average arrests <.f twyity-five for drunkenness was cut down to three cases.' This ttlls why liquor-men oppose Sunday- closing. In this particular, as in most others, what the liquor-imn do not want it will be well for the friends of temperance to endeavor to attain.”— Tern iterance Advocate. Mr. Moody’s Temperance Meet ings in Glascow. Some excellent ministers,superin tendents and teachers say there is no need cf specific temperance in struction in the church, or Sundaj - school. They claim that drunken- / ness is a sin, and the Gospel is the sovereign remedy fur every evil un der the sun. This is true, but Mr