Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-24

/ Hos NV N"hoS3S INV AhNh, NAthONt
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A PgoUDBoAsT. "A gentleman whom we
recently solicited to sign a petition request
ing the Legislature to pass a law prohibit
ing the manufacture or sale of intoxicating
liquors as beverage in the State, while
complying with our request, informed us
that never, in all his life, had he been in
side of saloon. Though surrounded by
the usual temptations of life, and possess
ing like desires and weaknesses with his
fellowmen, he had kept himself spotless,
SD far at least as giving aid and comfort to
the liquor traffic in any form or m amer is
concerned. Doubtless he was contenied
with what he saw upon the street of the
work of misery and death of these pest
holes, and did not desire any further
knowledge Of the criminal and unholy prac-
tees that hide themselves behind painted
windows and impervious screens. The
gentleman, to whom VIC have alluded, was
a stranger 10 us, but he spoke with an air
of sincerity and truth, and though we know
nothing further of his past life, we have as
sociated him in our mind with many shin
ing virtues. He was no doubt an cbedi
ent son, and his refusal to enter those pla-
ces where men are ruined and reputation
is lost, was due, probably, to promise he
eaIly gave his parents. He is an honest
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and possesses not only the desire but also
the determination to meet his contracts
His labor stained hands show that he new
er tried TO shirk his duty in any capacity,
and we venture the remark that he does
not whip his wife and that his children
never go to bed hungry.
We cannot amend the past. but is in the
power of all who are not such slaves to the
bowl as TO have lost voliton, to abstain in
future from lending the least aid or en-
couragement to traffic that is the parent
in which an idle hour can be more profit
ably and agreeably spent. What words Of
wisdom fall from the lips of the drunkarG?
what flower of virtue blooms in the atmos-
phere ola grog shop: No sober man can en-
JOY such associations, No rejecting man of
probiiy will allow himself 10 even appear
To countenance these Satanic breathing
holes. There virtue is denounced and vice
is declared worthy Of imitation, brutality
is applauded, and RIGHTEOUSNESS ploughs
deep burrows in TIE coCnienanccs of the
ccngregaied wrecks of humanity.
\ great many, we know, Pharasaically
hold up their garments and turn up Il cir
noses at low doggeries," and are never
found except in respectable saloons y
in this frame ofmind they are really in tic
most danger There is not really as much
difference between the two as may BE- i'm
agined. and the step from one TO the other
is not so precipitous or so far distant as
some fondly suppose. 1t is the 'respecta-
bic saloon that furnishes the Glow dogger-
Ties" with customers and the stream that
flows through one To ;hc other, and thcace
to perdiiion, is about of the same breadth
from is source to its mouth. Ii j. amidst
the il,sliins lights AMI gay company of
these gilled hcll-hOles that the seeds of a
fatal appetite are planted; the gaudily
dressed bar-keeper deals in the same fiery
liquid that the degraded drunkard robs his
family of food and ramcnt to obtain.
We feel that we Cannot too often speak
of the dangers that beset the young and in
experienced who too frequen.li are found
in these lairs of vice. We know that some
of them object to being talked to as If they
were in immediate danger. But our duty
VIII have been accomplished when we
warn them of the pcrils around then. The
fact that they do not keenly appreciate their
situation is sufficient evidence ofthe dread
ful infatuaiion that has seized them. The
occasional glass in which they now in
dulge, before the year 1867 shall close, will
have grown more frequcn-, and soon their
barque viii lie launched upon the sea of
LIE with Uncomfortable Appetite at the
helm. Then their fair prospects will fade,
the friends that now wink approval at their
transgrcssions cannot help them, for then,
ala, they win be beyond human help.
All have heard The question so frequent
ly addressed to temperance men, where
are the drunkarls you have reformcd?' To
the superficial mind, especially to y brain
more or less whisky soaked, the fact that
it Las been found impossible to revive the
dying spark of manhood in the breast of
the wallOwcr in the ditch, is sufficient
reason for abandoning all temperance cf-
fort, but really il is most potent weapon
in the hands of The friends of reform. Ii
demonstrates that drunkenness is an incu
rabie disease whose terrible consequences
cannot be avoided, against which the only
safety is in total abstinence. The symp-
toms of this malady are sooner discovered
b. others than the victim himself He So
laces himself even to the latest hour with
the Elusive belief that he could quit if he
wanted to. That he does not see fit to en-
ercise his will and abstain from the use of
that which he knows is injuring him NOR
ally, mentally and physically, shows that
he is captive slave bound with the chains
of the most cruel tyrant that ever reigned
over the des;inies of man.
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Nor SESsATIoSAL---keiley, Kendall &
Co. 60 not desire to create a sensation by
offering groceries so low as to cause men
TO run into the river in their haste to tell
their wives, but they viii say that they
keep a large and extensive assortment of
family groceries which they are offering
as low as any other house can sell and
make an honest living, and that every
article they sell is warranted to be what