The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-15
Chr 9aiIg Argas.
Wednesday, January Is, 1878.
PECKsNIFFIAN,

The Geneseo Republic of last week got
on It's high-horse in regard 20 the intoxl-
eating bowl as follows i
Indulgence in the Intoxicating bowl
Id 90 min The end is inevitable
S, aNI men may crafty their taste for the
,o;soD cnp and for time succeed in keep
lna their heads above board but sooner
or later, poverty, sorrow and ruin over
take them, aud they so down. Such is
history. No man can escape the conse
quences Of his SHINING in this respect
None expect 10 come TO an end so sad, but
all fetch up there ut last unless prematurely
cut of. They 60 by smooth, easy grades
Men do not become tipplerS and sots in a
dav or year. Herein lies the danger
Their down-hill progress is marked by no
warning milestones their path is pleas
ant one. and the end is hidden from their
view. From their view, but not from the
sight Of others
We make no objection to the above
there is good deal of truth in it, though
il is rather over-drawn But what can we
think of a newspaper which INDUCES in
such strong temperance talk, and the very
next week urges the election of man to
represent the great State of Illinois in the
United States Senate who holds the very
opposite ideas, and who, ms own party
friends say, is on the fast road to the same
degrading position now occupied by poor
Dick Yates? Here it is, from the same
newspaper
Nothing at the present time affords the
Rcptiblie more real pleasure than the assur-
ancc that the Hon. Richard j. Oglesby-
Our Dick lis as certain rs certain can
be of an unopposed election TO the United
States Senate by the Legislature of thi,
State Onopposcd we mean by any per.
sons or parties inside the Republican
ranks. OF all the men in the STATE
General Oglesby is most deserving OF the
honors which the Legislature is about t.
confer on him.
Everybody who knows anything at al
about the personal habits of Oglesby know
that he Is a hard habitual drinker, anC
that he sometimes gets very drunk. Tn
Republic says this leads 10 ruin TIL
end is inevitable, Sooner or later the
60 down, etc, and yet of all men in tn
State this man is most deserving q
being our representative. Is there, then
no man Of moral and temperance princi
Piles in Illinois so deserving as this drunke
blatherskite? The Republic says, no.
The Rev, II. G.. Macarthur, of GeneseC
writes letter to the Republic TO say hoy
much he likes the temperance principles O
that paper He quotes the foregoing ex
tract from the temperance article in tn,
RCpHb5ic and says
These are words Of truth and soberness
rs clear as crystal as full of meaning as
cherry is OF pulp They ought to be rea
from our pulpits, talked over in our home,
in social circles, in places Of business. \
truer, more timely words could be spoken
Then abiding to the temperance artic'
in full, in the Republic, he says
SO well do like it that since reading
/ have thought Of it many times, an
talked with others about it, So niue
practical wisdom in it SO direct in i
logic so truthful in it, premises and col
illusions so friendly and earnest in i
alarm, that | would desire 10 have it rea
and re-read by every person in the con
muuity, old and young. have not tin
now 10 write further on this allimportai
subject. But would in these few Wort
raise my voice with yours Tn sound Il
alarm in this community
All right; Mr. Macarthur. And will Y,
raise your voice, too, with the Republic, I
whiskey-drinking Dick Oglesby for yo
representative in the United States Sc
ate? II Is a nice thing to be consister
you know, and have your practice agr
with your preaching a, it gives you a gre
deal more influence with your hearers.