South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

his chains over him. He first made
him a slave, and then a brute, AMI
then a drunkard far, far below the
brutes. When the wretcbed imbe-
eile had murdered his wife by his
brutality, he reeled to her grave in
the night, opened her coffin, and
plucked from her finger the last re-
lie of her blasted happiness, her
wedding ring, and then Pawned 1t
for rum. Poor fool | What can
your moral movement do for him
But let the ministers of the law
come and take the knavc's hands of
from hIm-let them break the hea-
w chains of fire which bind him,
pluck from his grasp the cup Of poi
son which has drowned his reason
in a flood of madness, and then per-
haps, the voice of reason and the
appeal of sympathy may reach his
sonl and rouse in him something of
his lost manhood. We read in my.
thology that when the enchantrcss,
Gree, had transformed tho compa-
MONS of Ulysses into swine, by her
poisoned cup, (having been saved
from their fate by an herb received
from Mercury demanded OF the
enchantress, sword in hand, that
she should restore them 10 the form
of men, and it vas done. So with
the sword of Prohibition, We de-
mand that the Clrcesu cup shall be
broken aud that these fallen and
brutalIZed victims of tine liquor traf-
fic shall be restored TO their huma-
nifty, and not until that is done and
the power Of temptation is destroy
ed, can we hope that moral and in
~tellectual teachings will save them.
Let us have moral suasIon for The
drunksrd, but first lie. us have mo-
raj action for drunkard-makers.
FURNISHING THE DRUNKARD.
There are some leader, of public
opinion IN our State who advocate
the policy of abolishing drunken>
ness by punIshing the drunbard /;
and in England the plan OF cumu-
lative punishment OF drunkards is
under experiment. How does that
comport with tho ole of our Leg
Islature and the enlightened verdi
let of the'sge, that drunkards ire
Imbeciles and drunkenness a phys
zeal ard mental disease? Does
christian civilization prescribe pun
ishmert for the sick and insane p
But there is one all-suficlent reas-
on why we should not punish the
drunkard-it is impossible. Look
at him as he stands before you, In
the hands Of the man-robber. See
him, robbed eff his money, his rspu-
tation, his family, his hopes, his
happlness-of all that can maze life
sweet ; his body q mass of corrupt
ion and pain, his crown Of intellect
dashed in ldiotic madness TO the
dust, and his soul struggling with
all the horrors of hell in the grasp
of deI,rium tremens. Look at him
and then tell me of a %punisbment
for the drunSard ! Go to the worlds
tyrants, search every prison house.
try every form Of torture, every
scheme vi human agony that ever
man or devil invented, and tell he,
if you can, of q punishment 70: the
drunkard, o awful than that
which he now endures
TIE MARCH OF DEATH.
From the one, lift your eyes TO
the million. See that immense ar
my of w~retched, insane, dying vic
TINS OF the liquor traffic, marching
10 swift and Inevitable death, und-
er the stars and stripes of the re.
publlc-the flag that faunts above
them Its lying promise of protect
ion, as if In moekery of their fate t!
A hundred thousand of them MUIR
dered every year, and there Is no
arm of power to protect them !
Vainly do millions OF wives, child
rem, friends, eBtreat and implore
them to stop. In vain the'loved
ones fall weeping along their path,
crying. Father, husband, brother,
soc, oh come back !" In vain are
all the collected agencies, the war
nrngs and appeals Of church, socle.
ty, christianity, and philanthropy,
10 save them. They bear not, they
heed not. On they go, as if some
Internal fate compelled them to ru>
In and des:h-more hopeless than
the historic six hundred of the
Light Brigade who charged at Bal
aklava-
Cannon to the right OF them
Cannon to the left of them
Cannon in front of them
Voileyed and Numbered I"
and yet many a gallant steed bro't
back its rider there. But oh, how
many of that fearful army of the
million mad mon will ever return
TO home and friends p
Dram-shops TO the right Of them |
Dram-shol to the LETT of them |
Dram-shops in front of them
Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth of hell,
March the mad million
THE RECRUITING SERVICE.
AND how is that army maintain
ed on shat vast footing and with
that immense sscrifcs of life p
Who take the places Of the hundred
thousand drunkards murdered eve.
~ year and keep that army full?-
The kidnaPpers o: the dram-shops
are the recruiting officers, legalIzed
by Government, and the youth Of
the land are the victims. 1t is sell
dom that any man in this enlight'
ened age and country, who has
passed his minority with sober ha.
bits, afterwards becomes n drunk
ard. Go into the temples of ruin
and you find but few grey hairs al
the entrance. 1t is the young, the
joyful, the gay, who are the votar'
les and the victims of that internal
sacrifice. Everywhere the kidnap'
pers are at work. Father, the rob
Der Arm is at your door-it is by