The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

and whosOeyer IS deceTed thereby Is not
se."-Prov. TX, l.
The enemy is formidable. A de-
mon, with the world for his home,
the flesh for his mother, and the
devil for his father He has no
head, and cannot think. He has no
heart, and cannot feel; has no eyes,
and cannot see. He has no ears,
and cannot hear--brainless, heart
less, blind and deaf, he has only an
instinct by which to plan, passion
by which to allure, coil by which
to bind, fang by which to sting,
and an infinite NAV in which to con-
sumo his victims.
3 In the name of industry robbed
and beggared, of the public peace
disturbed and broken, of private
safety gagged and garroted, of fcom-
mon justice violated and trampled,
of popular conscience debauched
and prostituted, Of royal manhood
wrecked and ruined, and of help
less innocence waylaid and assassin
ated, we demand the protection Of
the Law!
We are all ready to pronounce
against intemperance, as a great
social evil and national curse. But
it is much easier to denounce an
evil than to correct or remove it.
You may very accurately determine
when you are sick; aye, child may
do this, while the most skillful prac-
titioner may utterly fail in his pre-
scription. It is easier to make the
discovery that your horse had been
stolen than it is to catch the thief
and recovery your property.
The public mind has only to glance
at the criminal to be certain of his
guilt; for he goes about with all
malignity, concealed behind all Graf
tiness, seeking with infinite cunning
to entrap the unwary and destroy
the feeble. Like blood hound, he
scents his victims from afar, track
ing them with patient and infallible
instinct across fiery sand fields, and
over the barren rock waste Once
on young mans track, nothing
seemingly but the living streams of
water from the crystal river of God
can check his pursuit, and give the
fugitive rest In dark rooms anil
dingy cellars, in secret conclave,
and behind screnes, he devises his
plans and mixes his drugs. By
night and by day he draws out the
catalogue of crime, with hands pol
luted with blood, with lips that hiss
defiance, and a purpose fixed for
| slaughter. With q heart Implying
and unrelenting, he presses his in
fernal work; with the gold his crimes
have brought him, he seeks to Sc
| cure friends in the halls of legisla-
tion, to put his Judges upon the
bench, his advocates at the bar, his
witnesses on the stand, and his
views into the public mind. He
would not only make our aims
houses and prisons a necessity, but
he would control legislation and the
press. He would not only fill our
grave yards and prison cells, but
our Judgment seats and our police
and commissioners courts. This is
our foe-cunning as fox, wise as q
serpent, strong as an OK, bold as q
lion, merciless as tiger, remorse
less as a hyena, fierce as the pesti-
lence, and deadly as the plague
To condemn and convict such 8
criminal is not the pastime of ar
hour. but the manly, hero-born
martyr bred work of o ife-time.-
How! is the question, aye, the great
est living question of the times.
The do-nothing policy has not 8
a few advocates, and great many
examples; but this is inadmissable
and not long possible, for you are
sitting on q volcano. It is only &
question of time. The fire that al
cohol is hndling viii bring the erup
ton, and the future grave of tn,
nation. The tiger is at your throat
be still and he will drain the las
drop from your veins. The assas-
sin is in your house, and your owl
dear children cry for help. Loci
your door and cover up your hea,
and ears; then get up in the morn
ing, and look upon the ghastly Wis
ages of your dead sons, and shak
their blood out of your skirts,
/ you can.
All the devil asks is to be let alone
and this outcry about the infringe
J ment of personal liberties is tn
same old protest. cart thou com
here to torment us before the time?
ACTION! ACTION! We must thunde
and lightning, or the atmospher
will kill Us to breathe it. Awake
ye sleeper! There is an inferno
machine under your bed, and you
boy is fooling with it NOW.
, Again we are told that the sui
. stitution of wine, ale and beer,
, the place of distilled liquors, wi
prevent drunkenness. Absurd !
, The old camelnosed doctrine
bear cubs-the serpent in your b,
, som.
: We are in possession of prepol
: derating testimony, given by j
rists, chemists, historians, traveller
and journalists, in proof of the ia,
! that France, Italy, California, cou
, tries that manufacture and drin
! most wine, use most distilled spi
its, and have the largest per cen
of beastly drnnkeness-
LICENSE legalizes crime, and max,
that which should be under the ba
of law ros1,ncfablo. Ionsdon &lo 4: