The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-12-02

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rising generations. When he saw the
innocent face of beautiful child, he
could but reflect in Sadness upon the
dangers to which he would be exposed
by this accursed traffic, in his journey
through life. He recollected an an
ecdote Of an artist, who saw a beau
tiIul boy, who was a perfect picture
of innocence, and excited his admi-
ration so much that he painted his
likeness, and hung the picture in his
room. This picture interested him so
much, that he often spent hours in
gazing upon it, and as it was such
perfect emblem of purity and inno-
cence, he always left its presence a
better and happier man.
He was anxious to find a contrast
to this picture, but years passed away
before he did SO. Although, many
years after, he found man in prison,
whose features formed a perfect con-
trast to his picture of the angelic boy;
they we're horrid leautures--those of
perfect demon. He painted por-
trait of this man, and took it to his
room and hung it on the wall, opposite
to the portrait of the boy and then
he had the contrast he had SO long
desired. There was the perfect pic
ture of innocense, and opposite the
horrid costly features of man Of
vice and crime. There they were,-
the child and the man-the angel and
the demon. But how could we i'm
agine what we're the sensations Of
horror experienced by the artist, when
he found that he had painted a portrait
of the same person twiCe-that the
ionocent and beautiful child, whose
face had excited his admiration, more
than anything he had ever seen, had
become so changed by bee oming a
victim to the vice of drunkenness, that
in manhood his face formed the only
contrast to the angelic features of his
childhood that could be found.
H This was a terrible illustration Of
the evils Of the liquor traffic, and the
necessity for Prohibitary law. He
would appeal to fathers and mothers,
/ and ask them if they would not use
\ their influence in favor of prohibit
ary law, in order to shield their
children from the dangers that would
beset them, if their eath-dealing traf-
\ fc continued. Was there father or
mother that was not afraid that
\ their sons might not become victims
to the vice OF intemperance, or that
their daughters would be married to
Incorporate men, if this traffic was
not checked. lie appealed to parents
to come the rescue, and shield the
rising generation from the blasting
and Infamous influence of the liquor
dealers; it was for their children he
plead.
All friends of the human race, all
who have the happiness and improve
ment of mankind at heart, should
urge forward this great cause. They
should not hesitate to do their duty to
their fellow men, and especially to
the rising generation, by enacting
prohibitory law. 1t was very easy
to answer all the arguments against
it. We sometimes heard simple-mind-
ed young men say to us--you know
f! it is interfering to deprive us Of the
! privilege of drinking-you know we
have right to drink it if we choose.
These young men, whose upper lips
were in mourning for their want of
brains, who were fenced in with enor-
nous shirt collars, where they could
not get view Of the outside world,
who loafed about our streets, and
stood up against brick walls like burnt
up stove pipes, were very tenacious
about liberty. Their idea Of liberty
and human rights, were not much -
Again, they said that it could not be
enforced-they had been down, in the
State Of Maine, and there, they said,
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