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Show kits maintain 250,000 life-destroylug etatlons at a cost of $2,000,000,000? Does It pay to support the families of saloon-keepers and bartenders and pay their rent, taxes, insurance, an 1 buy luxuries for then), In order to gee a few pennies of our many dollars back in revenue and license? Does It pay to employ teachers to teach children the evil effects of al C(hol upon tbo human system, and license li-cense men to sell a thing which Inflames In-flames the stomach, hardens the brain tissues, softens and weakens the blood-vessels, Impoverishes tho blood, overworks the heart, dims the eye, dulls the bearing, diseases the throat, lungs, kidneys, liver, nervce. and muscles; mus-cles; the demand for which Is wholly artificial and when supplied serves no good purnose? Does It pay to call ministers to preach tho gospel of love, charity, honesty, purity, forgiveness, and redemption, re-demption, and license other men to engage in a traffic which fosters hate, ciidangera strife, breeds dishonesty. Impurity, and destruction? Does It ray to listen to the sophistries sophis-tries and falsehoods of passion, prejudice, preju-dice, ignorance, appetite, and greed, and clow our ears to the voice of coi Eclf-nce. reason, judgment, suffering, and God? CbarW Scanlon. DOES IT PAY2 Does It pay to license a traffic which lessens the demand for tho helpful things of life, which Increa-ses their cost and diminishes the ability to pay foi them? Does U pay to license a traffic which maJccs men less skilful, less steady, loss reliable; ;whlch lessens endurance, endur-ance, lessens confidence, lessens credit, cred-it, lessens tho demand for food, cloth-lng, cloth-lng, shelter, and tools with which to work? Dooh It pay to license a traffic w blch i breeds Idiots, paupers, criminals, lun-' atlcs, and epileptics, nnd casta them upon society to bi supported by decent, de-cent, honest, industrious people? Does it pay to license a traffic which increases taxes by creating a demand for J;ills, penitentiaries, asylums, hospitals, hos-pitals, almshouses, orphanages, reformatories, re-formatories, pollco and criminal courts? Does It pay to maintain a national quarantine against criminal and dependent de-pendent classes from abroad, and license li-cense two hundred fifty thousand saloon-keepers to manufacture such products pro-ducts at home Does It pty to maintain 273 life-sav-lng stations on our coasts at a cost of IL.IOO.OOO, and out of the same poc- |