Temperance Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 252, 6 September 1902, Page 4

Temperance Column.

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(Published by arm'e ae it;. THE EGONDdIOd OE DiUN v - IN A NUTSHELL. I Suppose four farmers came into town, jeach with thirty dollars in his pocket. !One goes to a dry goods store, one to a ihardware store, one to a boot and shoe |store, and the other to a saloon, and jeach spends his money in the place he I visits, ; After two weeks I come to you and isay:— “Let us go and tee those projducers ; see what they have received for money they gave those no:a- ---> producers.” , We drive to the home of the man who ; spent his money at the dry goods stoic. What did you gel ?” “Did you see that dress which Nellie is wearing, and the coat that Tom has on ? Well, I gave ; the merchant thiity dollars, and he gave !me in exchange these thing*. He is | better off ;we are better nil.” Exchange jof value ; both are benefited, jj We go to the man who trifled at the [hardware store and we say : What d d .!you receive ?” ‘‘Do you see the stove, and the axp, and those kettles ? ’ “ Yes.” “ Well I give him thirty dollars, he gave me these. We aie bett> r off ;he is [better ofl.” i We go to the man who pent his money {at the hoot and shoe store. “ Wlta cid 1 vou receive for the money you p.»id ?” j“ t ou tee these hoots wich lain wearing, |a"d those shoes Nelie ha* on, and the !oj Is Will, D ok and Harry, and the ie.-t iat e «earing?'’ 1 gave the merchant | hiriy dollars for them. We needed the i boots and .-hues, he needed the money, dan iwc ruled. 1 An exch uige of value ; j iiolh are hem fried. j Now we go to the man who spent the ‘thirty collars in the saloon, and say to him r‘ Sir, you paid that non-producer thiity dollars. What d:d you get hack?” “ Gome here and I will show you.” Will he say th,t ? No ;he will hang his head and say : “ I tot this flaming nose, the e bleared eyes, and have been sick ever since ” “My farmer friend, would you not have been bettor i ff if you had put the thirty dollars in the fiie and bu ned it, and never gone ui-ar the place at all ? Yes ; because you would have had a clear head, hard muscles, and cou'd have gone to work at ince and produced more wealth to t*ke the place of that destroyed. The liquor dealer took your money, aud unfitted your brain £md mu-cle for tire production of more wealth.”—National Advocite. A Melbourne syndicate has purchased the Metropolitan Hotel, Hobart, for the purpose of turning it into a biscuit factory. The Launceston Daily Telegraph says, apropos to this :—“ The pub business is going down at the capital. Twenty years ago there were 126 licensed houses in the city. To-day they do not number over 80, and three parts of these do nob furnish more than a bare living for the licensees.” A “ bare living ” for publicans means fewer bare feet for children.