The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-09-17
rHE LIoUor INTEREST.

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Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are march,
ing ; how many of them Sixty thousand !
Sixty full regiments, every man Of which will
before twelve months have eompleted their
course, lie down in the grave of drunkard
Every year during the past decade has wit
messed the same sacrifice !; and sixty regi-
ments stand behind this army ready to take
its place. II Is 70 be recruited from orr chill
dren and our childre,,'s children. :. Tramp,
tramp, tramp. the sound comes 70 Pc IL
the echoes Of the footsteps p the army just
expired; tramp, tramp, tramp The earth
shakes with the tread Of the host now pass
ing tramp, tramp, tramp, comes to rs from
the camp of the recruits. A great tide Of
life flows resistessly to its death. What in
Gods name are they fighting for The priv
ilege of pleasing an appetite, Of conforming
to a social usage, Of filling sixty Thousand
homes with shame and sorrow, with loading
the public with the burden Of pauperism, Of
crowdiag our prison-houses with felons, Of
det,acting from the productive industries Of
the country, of running fortunes and breaking
hopes, Of breeding disease and wretchedness,
Of destroying body and soul in hell before
theis time. M s.
The prosperity Of the liquor interest," cover;
ing every department of it, depends entirely
on the maintenance Of this army. 1t cannot
live without it. 1t never did live without it.
So long as the liquor interest maintains its
present prosperous condition, 1t will cost
Anserica the sacrilice Of 10000 men every
year. The effect is inseparable from the
cause. The cost to the country Of the liquor
traffic is a sum SO stupendous that any figures
(which we should dare 10 give would convict
us Of tritiing, The amount of life absolutely
destroyed, the amount of industry sacrificed,
the amount of bread transformed into poison,
the shame, the unavailable sorrow, the crime,
the poverty, the pauperissa, the brutality, the
wild waste Of vital and financial resources,
make an aggregate SO vast--so incidentally
vast, that the only wondey is that the Ameri-
can people do not rise rs ene man and declare
that this great curse shall exist no longer
Dilettante conventions are held ON the subject
| of peace, by men and wonaen who find it me-
eessary to fiddle to keep themselves awake
A hue-and-cry is raised about women suffer-
age, as il any wrong which may be involved
in womans lack of sufferage cosid be COM
pared to the wrongs attached to the liquor I'M
tcrests
Docs any sane woman doubt that women
are suffering Thousand times more from rum
than from any other political disability "a
The truth is that there is NO question before
the American people to-day that begias to
match in importancethe temperance question.
The question OF American slavery was never
anything but baby BY the side Of this and
we prophesy that within ten years, If not
within i've, the whole country viii be awake
oit, and divided upon it. The organization
Of the liquor interest, the vast funds at it's
command, the universal feeling among those
whose business II pittcd against the national
prosperity and the pablo inorals--these are
enough to show that, upon one side Of this
matter, at least, the present condition Of
things and tbs social and political questions
that Ito In tho hnnediate future are apprehen-
ded. The liquor interest knows that there is
70 be = great struggle and Is prepared to meet
It. People both in this country and in Great
Britain are beginning to sec the cnoruity Of
this business--are beginning to see that
Christian civilization Is actually poisoned at
It's fountain, and thxt there can b. no puria-
cation Of it until the source OF the poison is
dried up.--stribnsr's Monthly.
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has been fonnd that mpplos contain larger
amount Of phosphorus Or brain food, than