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Show In his sermon Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Reese declared that tha awful tax which the sale and use of intoxicating liquors made necessary was all paid by poor men; that they paid the rents to the taxpayers tax-payers and that, wht the taxpayers paid was only what .they had received from' the poor men. The earr.estneM of Mr, Reese js unquestioned; the sincerity sin-cerity with which he proclaims his temperance convictions cannot be doubted; but the logic of his argument ia a little ahaky. He does not mean, does he, that if no more liquor waa sold or drank the poor men would atop paying rentf Is' that really what he means t If that ia true, then it ia a matter of more importance. But the Rev. Mr. Reese ahould not forget that, there was a time wheji there were no public saloons in the city i.f Jerusalem. No man could get a high ball or a gin fii.x or even a glass of Budweiser in all the holy city: but Jesus Christ "lived at that time and he made the remark that the poor are always with ua. Some -men le too late in life. Had the Rev. ilr. Retae liwd prior to the coming of the Savior, the Savior would doubtless have qualified hia remark and would have said: "The poor ye alwars have with ye. and always will until you atop drinking old Bourbou, rye or Budweiser.'' |