Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — Destroyers of Trade. [ARTICLE]

Destroyers of Trade.

“Yep, I’ve decided to move away from this town. There’s no business here for an undertaker any more.” “What’s the cause? Do the people all go away to die?” “The trouble with ’epa Is that they’ve practically quit dyin’. • It was all right before the temperance cranks got so blamed fussy that the druggist had to give up runnin > a bind pig.” “You don’t mean to tell me that you think folks vwho don’t drink whisky never die? That would mean that all the women and children mußt have been addicted to the habit, along with the men.” “Oh, no, I don’t want to try to set up no argument of that kind. You see It sort of worked both ways. The men shortened their lives by drinkin’ whisky and the women dote the same thing for theirselyes and the children by takin’ drugs and dosin’ the young anes. So when the druggist was druv out of town I was the one that had to suffer. It beats all the way some folks keep forever interferin’ with other people’s business.”