. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . v duty to perform th ; executioner, and I Qg a man. I offered two hundred dollars to anv man who would d . _• dy. It has broken me ;i. and I believe death has struck me. It was a horrible - . A man had gone into the shop of the man who 3 -elling under the license g r a n 1 through the bet with the judg< . The man went into the - it got drunk,and went out andmurdered that veryjudge, and hiswhile they were infor which themurderer was .Thus the man wasthe handmother who ob-tained the her ydraught that nervedhis arm to murder at the very
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . v duty to perform th ; executioner, and I Qg a man. I offered two hundred dollars to anv man who would d . _• dy. It has broken me ;i. and I believe death has struck me. It was a horrible - . A man had gone into the shop of the man who 3 -elling under the license g r a n 1 through the bet with the judg< . The man went into the - it got drunk,and went out andmurdered that veryjudge, and hiswhile they were infor which themurderer was .Thus the man wasthe handmother who ob-tained the her ydraught that nervedhis arm to murder at the very house which he had licensedfor a bribe. - le tell us that prohibition will be hard on the liquor-seller. Is not the liquor traffic hard upon thousands of poorwomen and children to-day? Is it not hard upon manywho are sent out into the streets I rse pur- V i may suppose they lie: I do not believe that allhem do. I do not believe that the poor, pale-faced,• _:.i] did, that hung with both her hands upon myarm after I had looked at ree of sympathy,. OH. BUY ME A BIT OF I AM HUNGRY. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC A CRIME. 635 and she begged me for something. Oh, said she, I dontwant money; buy me a bit of bread, a bit of bread, please,fori am hungry. Where do you live? Oh, said she,my father is a drunkard, and he beat me cruelly, and I amhungry. She was a young girl, about sixteen years of may tell me they lie; but I believed her, and helped her,and I will help such as she again. Oh, there is suffering pro-duced by the drink, — more than if all those engaged* in thebusiness should be turned out of that business to-day. We are against property for the sake of humanity, for thesake of the miserable, and the wretched, and the oppressed,and the down-trodden. We seek to remove temptations thatare in the way of the weak, and we know of no other way todo it than by classing the liquor traffic among crimes, andnever can get a prohibitory law unless you make liquorselling a crim
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