The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-05

hiocnps. Vengeance, hatred, blasphemy, and
bostial obecenity, are ON his serpent, slimy
ears are stunned. His hair Is bundie Of hiss.
ing seSpents. his teeth chatter and rattle like
ivory in . dice.boz, his hands are palsied q
mephitic stomach, his knees totter, and his
legs refuse to support his bloated carcass. The
drunksrd trampfes on all the laws Of nature,
be steals, he cheats he breaks bis word, be-
violates his promise, he betrays tho secret
which was confded to him. Ho has no honor,
no principle. no spirit of independence, no re:
and sacrilege, adultery and murder he commits
without remorse. He Is o wicked husband, an
upgratefnl child, cruel father, q false friend,
home he is q roaring lion; when no appears in
public, o midday devil, vomiting fire and
fame. He is always in excitement, his nerves
his memory is weak, his will is vaeillating, his
Judgment Is o6scured, bis understanding 10
impaired. The drunkard is exposed to thous-
cure Every time he drinks to excess, he is in
peril of his life, his property, his liberty, or
his reputation. He may be seen by hundreds,
NIT many crimes for which he is amensble to
justice. He becomes an easy prey to the rob-
Der. the villain, and the cheat. He makes
ruinous pnrehase, his pockets are rifled, his
stripped of his clothes. Then he falls from
his horse and breaks his neck, or fractures his
skull he tumbles into q river and is drowned,
he falls into . dyke and 10 suffocated. His
eyes swim, the earth reels, surrounding objects
are in motion, he staggers from one side to
| the other, he describes all manner of geome-
serpent. and grasps the earth for support he
advances like q crab, and continues to walk
backwards whilst he is making. the most VIC
| lent efforts to 60 forward. No arabesque is
more intricate, no Cretan labyrinth more tor
| tuous than his zig gag path. He falls upon
his skull and his brains are dashed out, or upon
and he perishes from the inclemency of the
| weather. And if he escapes death after hav-
ing wooed him in SO many forms, who can de-
scribe the agony Of his returning conscious:
Hideous spectres surround him, frightful ap-
| partitions appal him. terrific and mysterious
whispers curdle his blood the demon of in
temperance, to whom he has sold his body and
soul, exults over his dospairing victim, and
all the imps of hell are, as it were, summoned
to his bedside to laugh at bis destruction, to
guage of the damned, that the reign of mercy
Is passed away aud that hope is no more! The
sequence is natural. He cuts his throat, he
pierces his heart. he hangs himself, or blows
out his brains. But, before he executes this
! vengeance of Heaven upon himself, he will
frequently murder his wife, dispatch his child
turelycut off by sudden accident, OF a blow
or wound, he is sure to hasten his end by the
insidious poison which he daily imbibes. That
spongy throat of his cries out like the horse
|
scorched palate has lost all SAVIOR, and more
powerful stimulants must be mingled with the
hellish liquid in order to arouse for moment
the jaded sense. No foul shaft in coal mine
is more explosive than that bottomless pit
} the drunkard's stomach. The heated blood
is propelled through the swelling veins with
in his bones. He exposes himself to a long
catalogue of excruciating and fatal diseases
He leads dying life, he endures lingering
OF nna hshs5 BY s &
to clutch his wretched victim. So true is tn
old proverb, that the throat has Killed more tha
tho s'rord. So true would be the epitaph upol
almost each of the accursed race of drunkards
:. Here lies q self. murderer -
The Rev. T. N. Burke, speaking on intern
perance, says:
: 1.-THE Temperance man means the man VIII
wishes to preserve the grace of God and t.
save his. soul. Tho Temperance man mean
} the man who wishes to be happy in this worl'
come The drunkard loses his happiness here
and gains eternal misery hereafter. The Tenn
perance man means the man that surround
himself with all tho blessings of home and al
himself a position in this world, saves hi
health, saves his reputation and, whilst h
! makes himself happy in this world, in tn
by his religion the happiness of eternity. -"
The temperance man means the man who is al
honor to his country, an honor to his family
!
him. No man ought to be so temper
! ate as the Catholic Irishman, because the Ca
tholic Irishman, in confession and communion
has his God to help him, and to help him il
the right way.
l "Whenever see 9 drunken Irishman reel
ing about on the streets, as priest, regre
and weep for his sins, but declare, as al
. Irishman, l feel as if could strangle him will
these hands of mine for dsgracipg so grand
people, so honorable race, and so pure, heroic
and magnificent history ours"
Rev. NJ. Stafford, the great Temperate,
! Apostle of Lindsay, Canada says:
am in favor of the total removal from of
the face of the earth of the thing called alco
hol. If it were possible, would destroy thu
secret of its manufacture and hang any mar
who would attempt to re-dscover it. 1t il
said to be necessary for mechanical aud med
cinal purposes. Any mechanical, manufacture
ing or chemical ends attained by the use o
alcohol are of no account compared will
the wreck and the ruin caused by the intern a
stuff. The loss of human life caused by liquor
and especially the loss of Irish life, in Americs
alone; is too great to justify us in allowing il
to remain under any pretence whatever"
: And again, speaking ofprohibition, he says
"As said, this prohibition must be whole
sale. Even this local prohibition that has
!, | I,non -