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Show MAN'S MORALS JUMBLED. To listen to the balderdash of some of our wise (?) men, one would think that a system of vefns coursing rum through the body industrial was as necessary as blood to the human body Reasoning from their standpoint, how can you expect nature to continue her wonderful movements; wheat to grow, cattle to fatten, the woolley fleece to mnture, the mines to give up their treasures, or machinery to respond re-spond to the weight of water or the pressure of steam, unleBs the natural elements be nugmented by the influence influ-ence of tho magic liquid and the aL mosphere be laden with its attendant heart-burnings, crimes and misery? Public-spirited citizens! Do not. for the Bake of humanity do not try to convert your brother to temperance, for that would have even a greater effect than law, and there would be but little chance for the survival of the industry! Talk for more saloons; If ten is good, one hundred is better-the better-the city will get the revenue! Educate your children to patronize the saloons, that the world may have greater life; and then, as Baloons cannot can-not run without boys, one drunkard's grave muBt be filled by each fifth fami- "Consistency thou art a jewel." C. H. HUSSEY. |