Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-01-06
TO JEHU JONES.
COneerni..s Ihe Character and Teaden-
eIes OF Iase sat Life which He ~ LIv-
lnH.
81 FiHoraY Iir,ous.


nave been watching you ~Ish pziniu
sollcItuus Tor Tie last nSe Years. IoI
We're Originally ~naI people call = vale
boy, attn no pArticuIAr vices, O1t viii
strong passIonz snd grv4t overflow o
ANIMAL sidrlss- You eane Iuto Inanhoot
WIN a c1sar IN yOsf in0ath anu . reput,s
ton for .'spreein2," IN bota OF which yoU
dFparsnu. IUOA proud delight. YOI
abused es err nS.sse that Ou nAd the op
porIuuItf vi dINtng, anu particularly al
IecIed a d.i,nins LuTn ouI. Ou liked The
society oi sporting men, aud look natu'
rally To tiIe.s ~ aud their morals. You
cut / .o>e Irom Ine influence oi the CurIs
tIaIr friends around you, anu broke the
Sabbath, aII'i IreYuented The hAunts Of
vice, ami oIGs~ss-,t In sc~lis-sUl dissipation,
ana iaukncu tII.a.S n Iio Ieldeu them.
selN Ss Io tte cUn1rOl vi cOnsc.vnce. You
are d good naIutea person enough, but
you are MICA Ell, ami Whale You MAINTAIN
place III frspectabie soclet! ,ou are re-
garded with lear BY The good and with
suspicion Oy all ltIs dnderstOOd among
the women that you are hol a pure man,
ana II Is known, by some OF them, that
you have abused the confidence OF more
Ihsn one. Ali of our friends have heard
sad repofts vi your sins Wi.n hey uEu
then sight aud all regard you as aruIned
man.
wish ~ call our attention. part t.cuiar-
u tO this pOIuI, VIZ: that The commGnIty
regard ou as a Iulued uAn aheady.-
You do not IuIaglne TINS TO De the case,
Al aii. You nave no Idea That you are ru-
insd. You are nvt aware Ibat yoa nave
the rvPutauonOt beng ruined. NOw per
mII me to set ,Uu ,, re ,ourseli.
H0u arc uut under the coHtrul oil prin-
cIple, III the sIlgnI.sl degrev. fou have
some notions " honor. bat they are en-
IIreiy couyenti"nal. Ih-y sUuld uol
keep you irom breaking your pledge 10 a
woman, or breaking her heart and say,
th+rvtore, that you have no principle
not even The principle oi pe'sOnsl honor
which yVa doubtless SUPPOSE y Ou have
There Is, thu, nothing 10 restrain you
from the most unscrupulous means tyr Sc
curing your personal ends, anu noIhing 10
stanu between you and the qualification
OF your sensual desires, excepG the law
Now will you not decide for yourself how
far h man in THIS position Is rom ruin?-
Do you Imagine that you are, 10 any ex-
I, tue COntlOl VI
Does principle restrain you from Indul-
gence in strong drink Does principle
forbid your use Of the proiane oath or the
obscene Jest! You know it does none of
these things. Then why do you fancy
that You are controlled by prineiple?-
Why do you fancy that there Is anything
within you 10 keep you from moral ruins
Ii you are not ruined to-day, you are pret-
ty certain to be very soon, because saliva
ton involves reformation, al which you
scoff.
Let me ask you TO look around you,
and see what those have come to who be-
gan where you have begun. There goes
your neighbor with blotched and burn
ing face and stuffed skin, whose drink
will lust as certainly kill him as it were
arsenic. He stood once where you stand
to-day. lie did not dream, ten years
ago, that he was ruined; but he has taken
no new step TO bring him where he now
stands. He only continued TO do what
he was already dong. There was no pFin-
ciple to stand between him aud destruc-
ton. He drank with his trends occa-
then he drank with them habit
ually, then he drank alone to crafty q
thirst which drink had created, and
which will never die while his vitiated
body lives. Look at that other neighbor
Of yours, with 3 dark red skin and q
eye, who knows where he is go
ing. IL is aot ten years since he was not
even suspected of drinking, but il came
put that he had learned in secret to love
hot liquors, and that he had set his heart
against reform. That man IS in the
straight road to hell aad he knows it, and
Tou, on the same road, stop at the way
tide resorts and drink with hin. DeliFi-
nm tremens waits for that man and is
'ure of him. Look at that little circle of
aeighbors younger than those to whom
nave called your attention. Do you see
how they are changing Do you not see
hat they are srowing preternaturaliy |
leavy, and that they are becoming more
labitual in their visits to the dram-shop
md in the indulgence in drink at homef
Have you any doubt as to where they viii
oe in the course of ten yearss
Having looked 9. these. suppose Jon 60 |