Paeroa Railway Fatality.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4450, 17 August 1909, Page 3

Paeroa Railway Fatality.

(To the Editor) JSiR, —The evidence given in connection with this case makes sad reading for those whose sympathy goes out towards the poor victims of the liquor traffic. This incident is only another of the long list daily added to throughout the Dominion. The substance of

the jury’s verdict is “ nobody blameable ” for the death of poor Fireman Angus; and the same decision is usually arrived at in all such cases. These poor victims do not die a Natural death, from honest causes, they are murdiered, but nobody is to be punished for Buch murders, and is .palled upon to support the As your journal I should pleased if you would insert hereto the following remarkable extract from other literature, and entitled "An Honest Saloon, Keeper.”—l am, etc.,

Subscribes, •‘AN HONEST SALOON KEEPER. “ Tombstone, Arizona, claims credit for. the frankest saloon keeper in the United States. He keeps the Temple Bar saloon, and advertises his business with most enterprising frankness : * Allow me to inform you that you are fools,’ he fliys, -yet his place is usually filled. He maintains that he is an honest saloon keeper, and that it will not hurt his business to tell the truth about it. He has had printed an advertising card which would make an excellent manuscript for a. temperance lecture. Copies are 'being circulated through the western states and are attracting attention The card reads as follows:

*' Friends and Neighbours ; I am grateful for past favours, and having supplied my store with a fine lot of choice wines and liquors, allow me to inform you that I shall continue to make drunkards, paupers and beggars for the sober, industrious, lespectable, part of the community to support. My liquors rru e *°ite robbery and bloodshed. They will diminish your comforts, increase your expenses, and shorten your f ' shall confidentlv recommend them as sure to multiply fatal accidents and incurable diseases. They will deprive some of life, others of reason, ® n “ °f peace. They will make lathers fiends, wives widows, children orphans, and all poor, X will' train your sons in infidelity, dissipation, ignorance, lewdness and other vice. I will corrupt the ministers of religion, obstruct the gospel, defile the church, and cause as much temporal and eternal death as I «“• * thus accommodate the public. It may be at the loss of my never-dying soul, but I have a family to support—the business pays, the public encourages it. I have paid my license, and the traffic is lawful; and if 1 don t sell it somebody else will. [lf we don t go to hell somebody else will.l I know the Bible says ; Thou shalt not j drunkard shall enter the Iringdoin of Heaven, and I do not expect the drunkard-maker to fare any better, but I want an easy living, and I have resolved to gather the wages of iniquity and fatten on the ruin of my species. I shall, therefore, carry on my business with every energy, and do my best to aizHinißh the wealth of the nation and and endanger the safety of the state. As my business flourishes in proportion to your sensuality and ignorance, I will do my best to prevent purify and intellectual growth. Should you doubt my ability, I refer you to the pawnshops, the poor-house, the police court, the hospital, the penitentiary and the gallows, where you will find ffiany of my best customers have gone, A sight of them will popvince you that I do what l say. Allow me to inform you that you are fools, and that lam hyonest saloon keeper.” 1 I