Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN ntE DARK. 141 .
"In case an anti-liquor law should be enacted, it
seemsyou would be ready to feel the dint of pity for,
and lavish your warmest sympathies upon, the dealers
in alcoholic drinks - a class of men who are only an
injury to community, and who cause many a broken
heart, as well as broken limb! Like the weeping
:Frenchman, who bewailed the fate of the little bull,
while he overlooked the sad disaster which had befallen
his fellow-passengers, you look not at the widespread
and melancholy desolation cans d by the flowing
out of this distilled poison over the land, but
would bestow all your pity on the authors of tho evil
in case they were to lose money by the operation of a
prohibitory law. Yes, your bottles of tears are ready -
to be poured out for the men who are instrumental in
sending abroad and perpetually augmenting this dire
cnrse-this sweeping, fiery tide of devastation! You
would weep, not that thousands are crushed in heart
and hope by the demon of intemperance; weep, not
that the lofty pillar of human dignity is oft broken
down, and the grand superstructure of the immortal
mind laid in melancholy ruins, but that the traffickers
in strong drink should experience pecuniary 10s8by
the drying up of the most prolific source of crime and
human wretchedness! For one, I should be in for
taking care of the passengers, and leaving the unlucky
bull' unwept, unhonored and unsung.'''
"Now you imagine the subject fully illustrated,
and made enough clearer than sunshine I Who can
tail to be convinced i But say what you please, rum