Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-01-19

many days he hauled down his colors
and signed The pledge like man
by the superior power of a
childs love.
One of the most powerful enemies
we have to contend within fact he
enemy. is The social drinking customs
of the day Go where you will into
the comfortable homes of the rich, or
into the novels of the poorest aud most
degraded of those who have fallen from |
the High Image in which they were
created: to the scenes of mirth and
gaiety or to the solemn chamber of |
death, and yon meet the enemy face to
face, and happy is he who successfully |
resists the preferred glass and over.
comes the tempter in his own strong.
hold.
Our strongest and most persistent eff
forts should be put forth 60 break mp
this custom, for it is here in our own
homes that frequently is sown the seed,
which if not checked in its growth ma
lures to the harvest of death. I will
venture to assert, without fear of suc-
cessful contradiction. that in niue cases
ont of ten, the first glass of rum, be
it wine. brandy, whisky, gin or beer, or
even harmless ~ cider, was taken in
the house of ii friend. A friend God
save the mark Would a friend give
n child ignorant of its nature loaded
pistol, and show him how to place the
muzzle againsta vital spot, and pull the
trigger and launch himself into eterni-
ty And yet the man, Tor woman if
You please) that gives his brother man
the first drink of rum, not only places
in his hands II weapon that will surely
kill his body, but one that will Just SO
surely destroy his soul,
O, that men be imbued with the
spirit that moved Paul to say, If
meat make my brother to offend, will
eat no meat while the world standeth,
lest [ make my brother to offend
Yesterday II thrill of horror and pain
was felt all through the community
Every heart was shocked by the intel
ligence that two men, universally be-
loved and respected, good citizens,
exemplary men in every respect, We're
hurried by terrible accident and
without moments warning from life
into death
1t speaks we'll for our people that
they felt .he shock SO keenly aud that
their sympathies were so promptly
aroused in behalf of the friends of the
victims and yet strange, there are this
very day. all over this fair land of ours
twenty-eight persons, some one of
them may be in our midst, furnishing
by the power of a destroyer more ire
sistible than steam, without extracting
a single tear of sympathy, or expressios
of sorrow, or causing any hand to be
reached out to save them from the
grasp of this thirsty demon. Consider
the apathy with which people receive
the statements of facts like this.
Another eail Of great and alarming
magnitude 10 the careless habit in
obliged in by physicians of prescribing
alcoholic stimulants for the sick.
For the purpose of obtaining only an
apparent benefit, they are given in al
most every disease that can be named,
and fortunate is that patient who can
pass through q severe attack of disease
under the popular treatment, and es-
cape without shattered constitution,
or an appetite formed for drink, that
will inevitably carry him down to the
grave wonld that all doctors would say
as DIR. Benjamin Rush once said, in an
swer to the request of a patient to be
allowed the use Of 'little good old Ja-
maica,' ''No, sirl Not drop! / will
not have any man rise up in the day of
judgment and say that DIR. Rush made
him drunkard." That answer should
be engraved on plates of gold, and
placed where every eye could see it.
We must begin at the right end.
Educate our children in the knowledge
that rum is "evil and only evil and
that continually )" break up the social
drinking customs of society " destroy
the traffic in alcoholic beverages; teach
physicians better way to overcome
disease than by feeding it with alcohol