Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-07
From the Eaton Register.
Sunday Afternoon Lecture on
Temperance.

ford, of Eldorado, was well attended,
and was listened to with an attention
that showed that it did not need the
apology that the speaker made for it.
1fit was not a lecture, but only a talk
as he claimed, it was talk that com
PEELED close hearing.
After few remarks as to the WORTH
ness of the great cause, the speaker adj
dressed himself particularly TO the
youthful part of his audience. Boys
should be careful as to the habits they
form. A bad habit is easily formed
but most difficult to shake off. Keep
cut of bad company avoid bad habits !;
this is the only safe way. 1t is not
only the safest, but the easiest, the
happicst and the best. There may
seem to be pleasure in strong drink, or
the indulgence of improper appetite,
but it ends with a sting, it ends in dis
grace and, it may be, III the destruction
of all that is noble or worthy. The
right way is the best way, the safe way,
the happy way. The broad road may
look inviting, there may appear to be
bright flowers along the way, but ex-
perience will show them to be all
thorns and brambles. The narrow
way is the way of pleasantness; its
path are all paths of peace.
One of the most dangerous invita-
tions to wrong and to bad life is the
saloon, and of these 10000 are con
tinually inviting young and old to
enter the broad road that leads to ruin
and death. These are the DEVILS chief
agency in the destruction of both soul
and body.
It is for the roofing ont of these
pest-houses, these abodes of sin, that
we should labor. Dry them up and
you blot out large portion of the
crimes that are extant in the world
These whisky dens are worse than all
other evils that afflict society. They
do more harm, are more profile of
crime than all other agencies combined.
Our Object is to crush them out, to
utterly and entirely destroy them from
our midst.
1t is said we sometimes say hard
things of the traffic. Can it be mis-
represented Could VIC say Bit er
things of this business that would not
be less than the truth ? If these men
were here before me to day, i would
say, You are my brother man, would
do you all good and no harm, but you
are engaged in business that causes
more crime, more tears, more sorrow,
more misery, more of all that goes to
make up the cup of human woe than
all other men combined. And / would
say to them, If you desire the respt ct
and confidence of your neighbors, if
you want friends, if you want to hold
up your heads and be men among
men, quit your nefarious, your death
dealing work, for it is a violation of
the laws of both God and man. And,
further, would pledge them here, that
with others, / will fight the traffic, and
work against their business, so long
as shall live, or until it is destroy
ed.
And have we not reason for our hat
red of this traffic? AS l have already
said, it is the fruitful source of all our
crimes. But who are the criminals ?
Look around you. Are they not your
own friends, neighbors and sons p
Are they not frequently from your best
talent; from those who promise most
All! who cSn describe, who can paint
the untold woe of that father and
mother who follow their son of whom
they expected so much, down through
all the grades of shame and crime, to
drunkard's grave? Who can picture
the grief of that parent who is glad
when the grave closes the career of the
drunken son?
And yet these men are not punished,
The poor person who is bereft of
reason by them, suffers the punishment
that ought to fall upon their heads.
They are the real criminals, because
they procure the crime, they furnish
the means for its cOmmittal.
Now it is for the destruction of this
evil, that we ought to work. Churches
are not half enough awake Some OF
their members, even, may be found to
sustain the traffic not only by saving
nothing against it, but by actual sup.
port of it. The young should be
warned. The middle aged and the old
should be walked up to the enormities
OF the liquor traffic, and all men and
women in and out of church should
work by all means within their reach
to do away forever with this crime OF
crimes.
So, also, we should vote against it.
We should support no man with our
ballots who is not actively opposed
10 IL. we want no tipping officers
We want no man to serve the people
who has not higher sense of citizen
ship, and of his duty to himself and to
society, than to support it; no man
who has not the courage to speak and
act against it. If we vote for men
who favor this traffic, all our talk is
mere chafr 1t is lighter than the air
We talk against it, we spend our breath
in invoking its downfall and then turn
round and vote in its support, vote il
strength and encouragement We
fellow citizens, are to blame We sup.
port and carry on all these doggeries
1twere Otfor our encourag cement they
could not subsist for month. Let us
then talk and vote and act in every way
for their speedy and total overthrow W
We can prohibit them. Prohibition i.
far easier than regulation. No license
death to the abominable traffic skoulC
be our watchword
The usual excellent singing, and
little more of it, gave virtue to tn
exercises. We speak for all when W
say that the songs were very sweet an,
that there ought to be more singers t.
give little more volume so that eh
room would be filled with the delight
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