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for it There is no ' striking / or ' turning out' against prison discipline ! There indeed they have got u » quite under their thumb- But our wife and children ! We think of them runt ^ hat it is too late ! What is to become of them ? They will be starved . We are in an agony , and remonstrate with the magistrate . But the magistrate sober man / cares no more about our starving wife and children ., than we did when we were drunk !
Oh , Mr . Place 1-T- ^ ood , kind , dear Mr . Place , if you are really a friend to . the working classes , teach them one practical application of sobriety . You cannot get me out of this scrape ; but you can do one thing for the people . If it be true , as you say , that there are not so many tens of thousands who are regular dram-drinkers ; you will not deny that there are hundred * of
thousands who drink beer , and chew or smoke tobacco ? One great cause of the continued slavery of the working people , is becatise they do not reward and support those who fight their battles ; beingrobbedin order to pay those who fight against them ! But only teach them that the sacrifice , for one week , of one glass of gin , or one pint of beer , or a few quids and pipes , being made by half the working men in the kingdom , would give them an immediate
capital to act from , for nothing can be done without capital , and you will open their eyes to the best consequences of a little fortitude against liquor ! If they once did it , they would ever after know where to find a just weapon against tyranny and oppression . If every workhouse belonged to the poor , instead of
being a government affair , they ought also to contribute to the levy ; and for every tvm of soup , should subscribe , at the general call , an equivalent twopence instead . But , O Mr . Place !—the scrape I was recently in !—not in reality , for it all occurred while I was lying on my back ,
overcome with liquor and the night-mare . What have we not escaped ? What would have become of our poor wife and children , left to the mercy of the blessed magistrate ? This thought brings us to our steady senses in an instant . It carries off all the fumes of the poisonous draught , and we rush away to our work , as though close pursued by the Bottle Imp , flourishing afire-brand and threatening , not only to thrust it
into our entrails , but to scorch up our brains—which latter we modestly think of more consequence than a thousand pampered bellies . Hampdkn
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On , ike Pleamrt of getting Drunk . § 01
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/55/
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