. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . dent — Empty Jails — Terrible Scenes — Newgate Prison —A Pocket With a Hole in It — An Incident of London Life — SundayScene at the Seven Dials — Watching the Door of The Grapes —AWretched < !rowd — Disgraceful Scenes — A Terrible Threat Against MyLife — Amusing Incident — Recalling My Dark Days — A Faithful Wife —John, Dont be Soft —Incident of the Great Coal Strike —How toBlot Out the Curse. IGOROUS opposition of theliquor-dealers to the temper-ance movement is natural, andto be expected, for we waragainst their pecuniary inter-est
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . dent — Empty Jails — Terrible Scenes — Newgate Prison —A Pocket With a Hole in It — An Incident of London Life — SundayScene at the Seven Dials — Watching the Door of The Grapes —AWretched < !rowd — Disgraceful Scenes — A Terrible Threat Against MyLife — Amusing Incident — Recalling My Dark Days — A Faithful Wife —John, Dont be Soft —Incident of the Great Coal Strike —How toBlot Out the Curse. IGOROUS opposition of theliquor-dealers to the temper-ance movement is natural, andto be expected, for we waragainst their pecuniary inter-ests ; and if you touch somemen in the pocket, you touchthem where they live. Were thesemen to exhibit at their places of busi-ness a truthful signboard, it wouldread: Delirium tremens, fever, dis-ease, pauperism, crime, redness of eyes, wounds withoutcause, rags, wretchedness, despair, and death, for sale HERE. That would be a truthful sign, but it would injure theirbusiness more than all the temperance organizations in 597. ;,.!- AN HONEST ADVERTISEMENT. jtence. The liquor-seller will not even set up in his bar-room a specimen of his work ; he puts up blinds at the doorsand screens at the windows to hide his work from the ]by; but the shoemaker and the tailor exhibit their work intheir windows, andshow what they havemade out of the rawmaterial. The tailor, whenhe has finished a newcoat, places it whereit may he seen by thegreatest number of icustomers : when theshoemaker has fin-ished a first-class pairof boots, he placesthem in his window,because the exhibi-tion tends to increasehis trade. With theliquor-seller it is quitedifferent. lie isashamed of his fin-ished work ; with himthe raw material isalways worth more than the finished article. Were heto exhibit that, lie would lose his trade. No wonder he isashamed 1 exhibit his work. In the worlds great exhibitions you have seen finishedarticles of nearly every manufacture, from a tooth-pickto a lo
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