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Title: Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew), 1817-1886 Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Temperance
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A.D. Worthington & co.
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ieces. It is the same in every country and in every clime. In acertain city in Great Britain, when making, with a friend, atour of observation on a Saturday night, we posted ourselves opposite a liquor-shop, and stayed there about three quarters of an hour. I saw women go in with babes in their arms, looking as if they had been born to suffer and gasp and die, —poor, pallid, rheum-eyed wretches, drinking their liquor. I saw little bundles of rags, standing on tiptoe to put the money on the counter, and receiving liquor in exchange. One little girl had but one garment on her, but she had herbottle filled, and took it away. I saw everything, from a blacking-bottle to a tin pail, brought there to be filled with liquor. One man, in rags, had a bottle of it, and then found money enough for a glass, — half of this he drank him-self, and the rest he gave to a boy about eight years of age. Said I, What are they giving to the children besides? Oh, said my friend, they give them little bits of sweety--

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DEFENDERS OF THE LIQUOR-SELLERS. --or candy, to encourage them to come to their shop. Looking in another direction, I saw the proprietor. There he was, with his coat off, dealing out the liquor, with three others, as busy as they could be. That man, said the gentleman who was with me, is a trustee and office-holder in one of the prominent churches in our city. Is there any trade on earth like it? Moral suasion here? Moral suasion is a very good thing, but I believe the devil must sometimes be rooted out by main force, and then you will have a vacuum in which you can turn round with your moral-suasion lever. Now we do not believe in mob law, or any kind of persecution, and we are in favor of prevention and protection by prohibition; and we find that we cannot be protected without prohibition. The law is an honorable profession, and there are many men who are an honor to it. I wish to say nothing against the law. Some of the greatest and best men that ever lived practised law, but there is a set of

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