The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-16
WORK AHEAD.



A fair audience assembled in Simmons
Hall last Monday night to hear the lecture
of Rev DR.. Carh art on Temperance work
The Doctor was accompanied on the plat
form by Revs G. A. Smith, FL. G Hitchcock.
and Father Dougherty Mr.. Smith intro
duced the lecturer, who spoke for an hour
and half on the great Importance of tenn
perance work, referred to the inc rease of
intemperance throughout the land and
broug, the subject in q pract ical mann er
before his audience by submitting the maui.
ry. What is to be dom? This was answered
by presenting the advantages OF two depart
ments OF work, arst, the moral dep artment,
second, the enforcement OF law.
DR. Carhart Is ~ worker rs Well aS talber.
and as the closing remarks of his lecture.
ceived, we shall endeavor 10 keep up the In
terest by occasionally calling upon the PEG
Pile through these columns.
Every common-senss individual sees the
need Of more work in bringing ,nto disre
pute the business that is transacted at the
state.@l 1t isa business that brings daily and
hourly affection upon some family on every
ten acre lot within the boundaries of the
commonwealth Young men of ability and
boys OF promise are contracting an appetite
Tor strong drink, and in short lime thev
Will become dangernHs to- q community.
White there m 4y,riot be necessity tor less
talk, there is tor more direct, vigorous, and
determined action against he rum. eller
BEFORE nine O'Clock on the morning after the
sons. who, having the will to make it ieir
business to do something but who were not
so situated hat they could, began TO talk
about former temperance meetings, eutbusi-
assn ofthe people and-the alarming man
ner in which public enthusiasm vaporized
within 'w"nty.tnnr hours Can it be-" was
the common complaint, "that nothing will
follow he meeting OF last night 10 the line of
work ?" Yes can it be hat the people are
content wit quar- erlv meeting, while the
time is spent IN morsIizing and
laying up morsels of religious eloquencr ?
Do the PEOPLE thj.k upon til" matter: Is
there any evidence that the people kno "
anything OF its awful magnitude, Is it. not
a fact thar when a short me ago the people
became acquainted with The terrible nature
Of slavery in the South, they rose up to
abolish IT from our midst? And is it. not
prrsnmahle that if the people Informed
themselves as 10 the condition of these other
slavPs, and he craving efFfOntarY Of thrl
tash-mas'er, they would in like manner
ralse their voices s',d tlltir hands, and con
trihu'e heir MONEY TO suppress the liquor
'rtfn:, and ensurei o he generations to come
a steady hand. q JOY rs heart, and bright
How dil1lcuit i I would have been
If The II gusr army Got the United States had
been en- pIoyrd in Kidnapping it we may so
express 1.-THE slaves! When cou'd they
How many years OF toll, and how many
failures would have been experienced The
Slave could only be disenthrallrd by abolish
ing slavery. The slave to liquO~ can only be-
saved by removing the cause of his misery.
! There is work ahead Organization against
the liquor-seler, as the lecturer said is
necessary step, Should the citizens OF this
place be called upon 10 fall into line and
march upon the enemy's front, let every ono
be ready. Even as DIR. Carhart said the
time has passed for sport, and for mimitk-
ing the drunkard, so also has the time past
for treating the subject with owed hands
and respectable Righteousness.
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