Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-15
iWritsen for the Perrysburg Journal.l
THE TIMES WE LIVE I'M.
ny RLAoKnAMr.
"The Age is dull and mean. - Wai,e,r.


1.-THE age is dull and mesb.".- HaiGer.
VI all our country's sins the name Of which
OF our many curses, national,
Ioucning every home, and blighHng every re-
Most causeess, aud most irrational.
Incentive to every foul crime and disease,
sworn 100 to integrity, honor and peace
making man powerless to act right or think,
IL Tue making, and sale, and use OF Strong Drink
The best blood of this country, like water has
flowed,
An atonement for national guilt;
AnI again has the fire Of the patriot gloWed
m, On Tue Ttar our forefathers built;
w ne are proud Of our past and justly may be;
We shout with delight when our banner we see-.
But fos to mar our rejoicing has cnme-
The making, and selling, and drinking of Rum.
The lile-blood and soul Of our psOPl. is tainted
BY The poison that comes from the Sill,
And the cause ofour moral decensinu is saipted,
And lis mission IN earth Is to kill
no longer we stand on a doubt Of the truth,
Nor stay in our course for the yeArnings Of
ruth,
We sell as nation what our fathers ne'sr
sold.
There's well circumstauced sin, Ihe Book OF
And the sin of rum. selling IA auch.
For, 10 high church or low, The same man m Al
breaches,
UT repentance and faith, will not touch
The sin Of the dram-sel sitting 40 meek.
In his pew, with his wife and children so
sleek,
While his victims by scores to aims house
60,
Or, in madness close lives OF unreleved woe.
And SO, the smart politician, taking his cue
| From the unctuOHs teacher Of merals,
Bows his soul to the claims Of tue vile, drunken
crew,
And hopes to escape with his laurels,
| BY paying his fees TO tho smooth man Of God
On whose soul lies the guilt Of innocent blood
And by running muck, for the rich iinanciur
Whose houses and lands are the product d
Beer.
Society's church, the cured infection ha'
caught,
And its gaily dressed members ns'sr fail
To stand smilingly by while the ruin is wrought
And pretend not to hear the sad wall
or the uumberless victims Of RUNS dread SWAY
Going to their death. in the broad light nf da y
Amid churches, aud missions, and lectures
and laws
All joining in spirit the Rumssller's canss.
The Ernine in our courts, Is not free from ID,
| taint,
or leaning towards the Congress of Beer
| While the widow and orphan, who urge the
complaint
| Having just cause and making proof clear
Are coldly and learnedly told by the Court
| That the selling Of gin, rum, whisky and por.
IL the drinkor should die Oh | doctrine sub
lime
Uuless he dies on the spot, dis not a crime
And so. of all ag-s, and classes, and sexes,
In this land Of the free and the bravsI
Our boast OF our freedom, the very air vexes-
OF our great Constitution we rave;
| w hlle the poor victims Of rum, whisky aud gin
| Aud the widow and child of him that has been
| Have, under our laws and the church's pandect
No rights against Rum ire are bound to respect
And mei is our freedom let us all shout aloud
| Make our boast to the world far and wide -
or our birth in this land, we should surely b,
proud
Where Virtue is scoaed and Crime dcificd
Aud the worst passions of the Vlsst men,
| And the poisonous ilth Of their sin rsekIug den
And their murderous forms Of increasing the
gain,
| We ARE FREE save the mark--ws are free I,
| maintain.
We are free to maintain, ,-and the cost is no
great
| Only half Of our fortune we give,
| To keep up and maintain, for the good OF III,
State,
The trade by which the Rumselers live.
We are free to do wrong, free 10 be craven /!
| Free to crowd sail to the Drunkard's sad navsn
| Free tn eclipse the golden sunshine Of youth;
Free to mock and scof at Temperance aud Truth
BOWLING GREsN, o., Dec. l, 1871.