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


and Pacific shores, the East and
the West. the North and the South,
OF this republic, IN q glorious union
] forever. From the West to that
placo'of meeting came a multitude
Of the Pagan prohIbitionists OF Chi
ms. They were the builders of the
Central line. From the East came
another multitude of men claiming
the name of Christian, but oh, how
they DETAINED aud disgraced 1t, for
they we're the slaves of the dram
shops. They built tho Union line,
and as they moved from Omaha to
the West there went with them n
food oflIqu:d fire, sweeping across
desert and mountain. Grog-shops
sprang up ut every roint along the
Union line and gambling bells and
brothels clustered tlIckIy about
them /; thieves, robbers, prostitutes
and criminals Of every grade, rush
ed from all the land and crowded
the way, aud that r track STREET
ched like q serpent fostering IN the
slime of every vice and crime
The travellers who took the first
cats which passed. over shat road,
found their only safety under the
guards of soldiers and police, and
were warned at ibis and that sta
ten not to leave the cars. for it was
unsafe to enter those places, in
their wretche6 state OF society,"
Worse than the dangers from sava-
ges and wild beasts were those with
which the dram-shops lined the
way. But from that meeting point
where the golden spike was driven,
to the settlements on the Pacific
slope, what q change was visible to
the travellers. The worshippers of
Boodh had brought with them their
total abstinence principles and
their laws of total prohibition a.
gainst intoxicating drinks. Not a
dram-shop WAS permitted to poison
their way. AS they did their work
and passed on, true christian men
came, following the men of Asia
and planted schools and churches
In the new smiling villages, and at
every station all was peace, order
and safety. There was seen, not
the contrast of PaganIsm with
christianity, but only the logical
and practical results of prohibition
on the one side and the liquor trafN
&c on the other. Whether the dram
shop army bore the standard of the
cross, or of Boodh, its path would
have been crowded with the same
curses ; and whether the flag of
prohibition was borne by Pagsns OF
Christians, it would have brought
with 1t only blessings.
MORAL ACTION.
There are many who seem to e
gard the evils of the liquor traffic
as of h supernatural kind, and they
talk OF them as the work ofthe de-
mon of Intemperance.' But the
truth is, those evils sre entirely the
work OF human heads and hearts.
All the fends in the lost world
could not make 3 drnnkard, If it
was not for the work of mon. 1t is
with flesh and Flood that we have
to contend. The great question is,
how can we destroy the power of
the tempter and thus save the
tempted. II is not q mere point of
comparison as TO which is worse,
the drunkard OF the drunkard-ma-
ker. We might as we'll debate the
theological query, which Is worse,
satan or the sinner? So long as
there is q satan in the world, there
will be sinners ; and as long as
there are makers and sellers Of in
toxIcating drink there will be
drunkards. The time will not come
for the promised millennium to open
on the world Until that day fore
told In the Scriptures, when an an
gel will descend from Heaven with
a great chain in his hand and Will
lay hold on the arch-tempter, sa-
tan, and bind him with that chain
and put him in the lower penltent-
iary, then there will be no more SIN
ners IN this world of ours ; and
when the angel of public opinion
descends upon the Grunkard- max
er and treats him n tho same way
We will have no more druDkards in
tho land. (Applause.) lsee an at
tempt on the part of some profess
ed friends of temperance 10 separate
moral from political agencies, and
to organize what they term the Mo-
raj Movement. They propose to
talk jown the crimes and miserIes
of The liquor traffic. L will not now
stop 20 inquire whether this is not
political movement in disguise, and
10 the interest of other political
parties, but have we not tried this
experiment long enough 1t is
not Uerds but ,c0rkS that are want
ed. It Is not moral suasion, mere
ly, but moral action. Prohibition is
moral action. 1t Is faith with its
works. 1t IS the only moral means
shat will reach the class of men en-
gagged IN this destroying traffic
The scourge of public sentiment
has driven out of the dram-shop
business all who have hearts to feel
and conscRnces TO receive the
truth, and it has sunk down INTO
the hands of thoss who are half
way between men and fends. No
power can stop them, but the iron
power of the law. But If the Mo
raj Movement" cannot prevent the
crime, q Its power o. words save
the poor victims of the traffic p
The rumsellers say that . man is a
fool to become a drunkard. Is mo-
raj suasion the remedy for foels?-
How can We appeal TO the drunk
ard, when his reason is in chains?-
The Ohio Legislature at its present
session, has passed a law in res
ponse TO the advancing light and
the volcc of the scientific world, de-
elariDg the drunkard an Imbecile,
and providing for the appointment
of q guardian by the court, TO take