Sunlight and shadow; (1880) (14589703810)

Identifier: sunlightshadow00goug (find matches)

Title: Sunlight and shadow;

Year: 1880 (1880s)

Authors: Gough, John Bartholomew, 1817-1886. (from old catalog)

Subjects: Temperance

Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington and company Chicago, A. G. Nettleton & co. (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

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nscience-stricken, and her neighbors are notshocked. The traffic in liquor, as it is commonly conducted, soon withers awomans soul within her. It has no rights to plead, and we must layrestraints on those who are engaged in it, and save them from them-selves. The liquor traffic is the same unrighteous tradeeverywhere; its hardening influence on the traffickersis as manifest here as in Great Britain. The trade isno worse there than here; indeed, I believe that, as ageneral thing, the liquor-sellers there are a betterclass than here. Years ago it was considered hi manysections of our country a very disreputable thing tosell liquor; and whether we are bravely gettingrid of that idea or not, the fact is, the business is asbad now as it ever was, and, I am inclined to think, alittle worse. Some years since, in a hotel not far from Boston,a poor fellow who had been gambling nearly all nightcut his throat in the room over the bar on the Sundaymorning. The group round the bar were startled by

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THE MEANEST MEI^. 253 a heavy drop of blood falling on the counter, and,looking up, discovered a large red stain on the ceil-ing, from the centre of which the drops of blood weregathering and falling on the counter, faster and faster,till they splashed on the floor. It was known thatbefore the blood was cleaned from the bar and floormen were drinking and the trade went on, though itwas the Sabbath-day. When poor McConnell cut himself to pieces in abar-room in Washington, it was stated, and neverdenied, that the saloon-keeper boasted he had clearedover one hundred dollars by the operation, as so manycame in to see the blood-stains where the poor fellowhad lain; and they could hardly come in without tak-ing a drink. The meanest men on the face of the earth areamong the liquor-sellers in this country. I knew ofa woman who had lost her husband by drink, and wasleft penniless, with four children. I do not say thedrink-seller swindled him; but he had got possessionof his little home, and al

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