Four Lives for a Thousand Dollars
THE following is from a friend at Waukesha, Wis., and explains itself:— I heard a leading citizen of Waukesha say last night, in the presence of a multitude, that “the city had received $1000 this year for whisky or saloon license. “As one of the results, I have held four inquests on the bodies of four men, who were all citizens of this place, and all died from the effects of liquor bought on the authority of these licenses! Two committed suicide, and two, father and son, lay down on the railroad track and were crushed by the incoming train. Four men, soul and body, for $1000!” When will our people awake to the enormity of the sin they are committing in licensing people to sell rum?—Lever.