. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . 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 ourselvesopposite a liquor-shop, and stayed there about three quartersof 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 saw little bundles of rags, standing on tiptoe to put themoney on the counter, and receiving liquor in little
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . 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 ourselvesopposite a liquor-shop, and stayed there about three quartersof 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 saw little bundles of rags, standing on tiptoe to put themoney on the counter, and receiving liquor in little girl had but one garment on her, but she had herbottle filled, and took it away. I saw everything, from ablacking-bottle to a tin pail, brought there to be filled withliquor. One man, in rags, had a bottle of it, and thenfound money enough for a glass, — half of this he drank him-self, and the rest he gave to a boy about eight years of I, What are they giving to the children besides?Oh, said my friend, they give them little bits of DEFENDERS OF THE LIQUOR-SELLERS. 625 or candy, to encourage them to come to their shop. Lookingin another direction, I saw the proprietor. There he was,with his coat off, dealing out the liquor, with three others, asbusy as they could be. That man, said the gentleman whowas with me, is a trustee and office-holder in one of theprominent churches in our city. Is there any trade on earthlike it? Moral suasion here ? Moral suasion is a very good thing,but I believe the devil must sometimes be rooted out by mainforce, and then you will have a vacuum in which you can turnround with your moral-suasion lever. Now we do not believein mob law, or any kind of persecution, and we are in favor ofprevention and protection by prohibition; and we find thatwe cannot be protected without prohibition. The law is anhonorable profession, and there are many men who are anhonor to it. I wish to say nothing against the law. Some ofthe greatest and bes
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