outside, upside, downside. It is so bad, the liquor dealers
are the only business men who are ashamed to put on exhibition their
finished products. In great expositions other trades present finished
wares. They do not display the tools used in making what they present
for exhibition but the finished goods. Not so with the liquor dealers;
they put on exhibition the tools with which they work, but not a
single specimen of the finished product of their trade do they present
for inspection.

"That's a fine fit of clothes you have, sir." "Yes," says the tailor,
"I put up that job; glad you like my work."

"That's a fine building across the way." "Yes," says the architect,
"that's my job and I am quite proud of it."

"That's a handsome bonnet you wear, madam." "Yes," says the milliner,
"that's my creation of style and I am rather proud of my work."

Yonder is a man intoxicated. He staggers and falls; his head strikes
the curb-stone; the blood besmears his face; the police lift him up
and start with him to the station house. Did you hear a saloon keeper
say: "That's my creation; I put up that job and I'm proud of my work."

Some one said recently in defense of the business: "The saloon keeper
deserves more consideration." This writer should know that
consideration has been the source of its undoing. Lord Chesterfield
considered it and said: "Drink sellers are artists in human
slaughter." Senator Morrill, of Maine, considered and pronounced it
"the gigantic crime of all crimes." Senator Long, of Massachusetts
considered it and called it "the dynamite of modern civilization."
Henry W. Grady, our brilliant southerner, considered it and said: "It
is the destroyer of men, the terror of women and the shadow on the
face of childhood. It has dug more graves and sent more souls to
judgment than all the pestilences since Egypt's plague, or all the
wars since Joshua stood before the walls of Jericho." The New York
Tribune considered it and said: "It's the clog upon the wheels of
American progress." The Bible considered it and compares its influence
to the bite of serpents, the sting of adders, the poison of asps, and
heaps the woes of God's will upon it.

Sam Jones said: "When the Bible says _woe_, you better stop," and as
certain as seed time brings harvest it will stop, not because of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or the Anti-Saloon League, or the
Prohibition Party, but because afar back in the blue haze of the past
t