The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-02-16

ages Is coNHleQ aII1Ost eutlTcI. W Wv
men but few women can be found. ex-
ccpt in the very highest and the yer!
lowest circles, that ever use them. Not
withstanding their almost universal alb
stincnce, they suffer more from this vice
'Ithan from all other evils combined. .ss
In reviewing the evils OF intemper-
ance, it will not do to confinc our atten-
ton to those who drink, and TO those
who lneekly pay The taxes Occasioned
by TIE poverty and crime which are
caused by the use Of alcohol as bever-
age. ro uaaas.
No! the principal sufferers are the
> women and children Of the country,
lwho never touch the debasing stuff !;
though the greatest suierings are en-
Idured by the mothers, wives, sisters and
and daughters of the wretched sOts with
which our country abounds. Much of
this is concealed from the public gaze,
as long as conccalment is possible. Back
'lof this visible ravage Of inttmperance
there lies field Of devastation which
has never been fully explored, and can
never be more than partially reported.
Ut is here that the life of women is mar
lred and tortured, her most sacred and
led. There are private sorrows that her
most intimate confident must not know.
SO anxious ia she to sustain the good
slcharacter of her husband, brother, or
son. If the bursting hearts Of mothers
Tor their ruined sons of wives whose
life, JOY and hopes have been blasted,
Iof daughters shame c-crushcd and DOOM
ed to disgrace Il say, could we look on
all these grief-stricken females doomed
10 brutality and want, we should ask no
:lul ther witness against the rum traffic,
lthe destroyer Of all these.
Look for moment at the magnitude
of this evil. As before remarked, We
,ave i'm the United States one million of
drunkards, two millions of children OF
lrunkards, with not less than three mil
ions Of females who are SO closely rcla-
ted to these drunkards rs to be the vic.
.ins OF their vices: of this million Of
'incbriates ii is calculated that sixty thou
sand die annually. Now. 'thou shalt
not kill" is All imperative injunction Of
the moral and divine law. How easy
lit would be TO remedy all this. Let ev-
Irry man, woman and child Except the
hopeless sot) Join this temperance assoc
Iiation and continue faithful TO its primci-
pies for the short period of one genera.
i Lion. and the thing is accomplished
Can that man be true friend TO tire &C.
male sex who will not do this much 10
dry up their tears; surely not. and should
not be so considered. lie is not II friend
but an enemy, aud should be SO regard
led Ir such is the character OF tllc mar
who keeps himself aloof from the order
" In, must be said of ilc women who
are equally hostile to such m associa
dion. Perhaps lhcy do not know thai
they can in this way confer bcneti
cupon their Suffering sisters. and upol
1.-the living and unborn millions of boil
II sexes. II they could be once brough
J. 10 consider the subject. there could b'
l. sno difference of opinion among them
siThis thing is too plain, too evident fo
lecOntroversy. let all who would re
mmove this mountain of sorrow lose M
IS time in joining the order. ] say le
!. v.,hose who would be looked upon as til,
o generous friends of injured innocence
J. manifest their friendship by giving thci
i-namcs and influence to the cause U
Temperance.
't The length Of my essay warns me Il
= close. But let me say in conclusion,
l. great work is before and around us
d We are warning against the combine,
influences Of vice. The battle is ragin:
lllin all directions. and the leaders of tl
$ rum traffic are marshaling their force
10 ;or tho winter campaign. Then lct u
stand by our colors. Let us rally arount
lr our glorious Flag. Let us ever be foun'
C It the post of duty. fighting on until TN
c. shout of victory shall be borne from Iii
ID to lip all along the ranks. while our M
lcItion, redeemed from the bondage O
T. rum, shall echo back the glad note, "Ou
nation is fee from the bondage of rum
$ and is become in fact what 1t has Ion:
il|been in song" the land of the free am
esIthe home OF the brave.
l. S. WHITE Oh APPELL.
w. G. L. Algiers Lodge, No. 7Si
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