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they should be taxed. They are party cares what harm i s wrought* «flays : <1 More than hal|’ tjie counties
Miss Brown, who is no longer
both pernicious, poisonous luxuries, by free whist .ky and tobacco. There of Georgia already have local young, was chiding Miss Moire for
and the former costs the country never was a tax levied more wisely, option, and, under the lead of her her foolishness in carrying a parasol,
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week for the pauperism and crime by Congress than to yepeal it.—
it creates than it pays into the The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Treasury in a year. Whisky is the
Prohibition in Iowa.
worst ami most demoralizing factor
in the whole social and enconomic
The brilliant victory recently
sum, and it should be taxed to the
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Tobacco is only a ‘less vicious
agent than whisky, and is most
appropriately taxed. Tho general
use of it is injuring or destroying
the health and vigor of the young
and old, and if the tax were in
creased, instead of reduced or 're
moved, the country would be all
4he better fur it. There are plenty
of other taxes which can be reduced
before any necessity will arise fur
repealing the tax on whisky and
tobacco. There are plenty of taxes,
which if removed, will help the
poor man,
.. of
the demagogue in Congress, instead
of injuring him. Let those taxes
be first repealed; and, to begin
with, let Congress make the poor
man's breakfast table entirely free
by repealing the taxes on salt and
sugar.^ The tax on tea and coffee
has been removed; now let the
taxes on those-other two articles be
removed.
It is folly to say that the tax on
whisky and tobacco is hot needed ;
that the surplus of income over ex
penditure is too great, and should
be reduced. It need not be re
duced. It can be used to extinguish
the national indebtedness.
The
sooner the debt shall be paid the
better, for then the enormous in-
terest charges can be got rid of. If,
however, there were no other uses
to which the tax on whisky could
be applied let it still be levied and
collected, and divide«! among the
States for the maintenance of the
paupers, thieves and ruffians *it
makes, and for hanging the mur
derers it inspires to nnrrdffr.
The tax on whisky and tobacco
should be large ami perpetual ; ex
cept for mechanical and medicinal
purposes, whisky should, if it could,
be taxel out of existence. Its
power to ttbstroy the health and
vigor and morals of men should be
destroyed if possible.
But a
demagogic Congress insists on in
creasing its power of destruction
merely to please the wealthy dis
tillers and manufacturers of.the
South and West. < Both parties
wish to stand well with them, to
win their gratitude, and neither
Iowa, in the great struggle to pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating drinks within its
borders, is a catrse-for rejoicing to
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the triumph
of temperance principles. We have
greater reason to be glad from (he
fact that this temperance move
ment was one which had its origin
with the people, was carried on by
the people, and won by the people,'
rather than the- leaders of the
political parties of the State. It
shows what can be dene in a good
cause, by good people with per^
Distent, well organized effort. The
hard fought battle has resulted in
the adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment, by a majority of from
25,000 to 30,000—a majority so
large, that th<* <-pp<(mn(s to the
amendment will hardly dare make
any great opposition to the laws
which shall be enacted to carry out
the purpose of the amendment.
This victory will greatly strengthen
the temperance cause throughout
the whole country, and give a hope
that will stimulate to greater en
deavor in other. States.
With
Maine, Kansas, and Iowa in the
ranks of prohibition, may we not
hope to see other States soon take
their places in the same line, and
march on to the conquering of the
whole nation ?— The Outlook.
Temperance Notes.
—Virginia drinks up her entire
wheat crop annually, and it is stated
that the liquor drank in Louisiana
costs 1517,000,()()(), .52,000,000 more
than its combined cotton, sugar and
rice crop.
A prohibition bill has been in
troduced into the Hawaiian Les is-
lature.
—There will be presented to the
Colorado Legislature, next Decem
ber, a petition asking for a popular
vote on the question of giving to
woman the right of “ voting on all
questions pertaining to tho sale or
giving away of intoxicating liquor.”
—Noting the fact that Guv. Col
quitt, of Georgia, has come out
boldly as a champion of prohibi
tion, the New Orleans Advocate
the next Legislature to pass a pro
hibitory law for the entire State.
When Georgia sits beside Maine,
Kansas and Iowa—the common
wealths of reform—we shall look
less, and a piece of affectation. “ I
never carry a parastl,” she said.
“ No,” replied Miss Moire; “people
on the shady side life have no use
for them.”
Speaking of Governors suggests the
mention of an item we received from Mr.
KTTt^ht. FoTSman
Waters & Co.’s Governor and Valve
Works, Boston, Mass.: I have used St.
Jacobs Oil among our employees and
find that it never fads to cure. Tho
men are delighted with the wonderful
effects of the Oil, M it has cured them
of bruises, burns, etc.—-A
Ledger-Standard.
Alabama and other States soon to
follow.
—Gov. Foster is thoroughly
awake to the situation, ami in a re
cent speech said: “ I have never
known so much feeling on any pub
lic question since I have been in
Religion is that nobler half of
politics.
The attitude of the
life without which nothing stands
brewers and liquor-dealers is such ; in a true balance. It wants the
their determination to throw vast same kind of practical training as
sums of money into the campaign, the other side, and will marvelously
in the interest of free rum against, help and steady that.— Dr. Bush
nell.
law and order ; their open defiance
***“ Facts speak plainer than words.”
of law; their indifference to the
rapid
increase of drunkenness, Proof :—° The doctor told me to take a
blue pill, but! dida'tr4er I had already
n h >e ry and“ crtiiie—all coinLlne~to been poisoned twioe by mercury. The
show that the people of the State druggist told me to try Kidney-Wort,
will be corfipelled to encounter a and I did. It was just the thing for
liquor-dealers’ rebellion. According my billiousness and constipation, and
to their own statement, $30,000,000 now I am as well as ever.”—A. P. San
ford. Sold in botirdry and liquid form.
arc invested In the brewing interest
*It is impossible for a woman to suf
in Ohio, with an annual retail sale
fer
from weakness after taking Lydia E.
of $35,000,000. Add1 to this the
sale of other kinds of liquor, and Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
we have a total of sales at retail in
An Extraordinary Offer.
a single year of $70,000,000. Of There are a number of persons out of em
ployment in every county,—yet energetic men
this sum one-half is net profit. willing
to work do not need to lie. Those will
Here is the animus of this rebellion. ing to work can make from $100 to $50« a month
clear, working for us in a pleasant and perma
We have in Ohio 15,000 saloons, nent business- The amount our agents make
<' varies,—some making as high as $500 a month,
one for every 225 of our population-, while others as low as $100, all depending on
the energy of the agent. We have an article
and one for every forty-eight of our of
great merit. It should bo sold to every
House-owner, and pays over 100 per cent profit.
voters. The fact about tho whole Each
sale is from $3.50 to $10.00. One agent
in Pennsylvania sold 32 in two days, and cleared
business is that this is a liquor $64.00.
An agent in New York made $45.00 in
one day. Any man with energy enough to work
dealers’-rebellion against law.”
a full day, and will do this during the year can
— (feinon Wilberforce, an English make from $2,000 to $6,000 a year. We only
want one man in each county, and to him will
Church teetotal leader, has created give the exclusive sale as long as' he continues
work faithfully for us. There is no competi
quite a ripple in ecclesiastical cir to
tion, and nothing like our invention made.
Parties having from $200 toll,000 to invest, can
cles, by calling the attention of the obtain
a General Agency for ten counties or a
Any one can make an investment of
Arch bisop of Canterbury to the state.
from $25 to $1,000 without the least risk of loss,
large number of public houses built as our Circulars will show that those inverting
$25 can offer a 30 days trial return the goods
in London and elsewhere upon unsold to us and get their money back, if they
do not clear at least $100. They show that a
“ Church ” land, This is an adroit General Agent who will take ten conntios and
invest $216.00 can after a trial of 'JO days re
blow at the drink traffic. It is as turn
all good* unsold tp ns, and have money
returned
them if they fail to clear at least
serted that the ‘‘Church” is the $750.00 in to that
time. We are not paying salar
ies, but want men willing to work and obtain
largest owner of drinking-house as
their pay the profits ol their tttiergy. Men
property in the country. The Can not willing to work on our terms wili not work
on any. Those meaning business will reeeivo
non himself has refused to sign any our large descriptive circular, and extraordina
ry offer by enclosing a three cent stamp, with
lease on the Church land over which tnoir address. The first to comply with our
terms will secure the county or counties they
he bus control which docs not con may
wish to work.
K en nek M anufactu S ino C o .,
tain a clause forbidding the sale of Address.
118 Smithfield Strout, Pittsburg, Pa.
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intoxicants of any description.
—Iowa has adopted bv 30,000
1). Langeli’s Asthma and Catarrh
Remedy.
majority, an amendment to the
I Mrs. W. T. Brown, Monroe, Texas,
State constitution providing that
writes : “ I suffered with Asthma 30
; years. Your Great Hemedy com-
"No person shall manufacture for
[Y'pletely cured me. I wish all Asth
matic sufferers to send their address
sale, sell, or keep for sale as a bev
and get a trial package Free of
Charge. It relieves instantly so the
erage, any intoxicating liquors
l>atient can rest and sleep com for t-
whatever, including ale, wine and ably. Full nize box by mail $1. Bold by drug
gist* generally. Address D. LangeU, Wooster,
beer.”
0., Proprietor.
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