The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-10
NUMBER 50.

These words are inspired, and when God
prOnounces o woe, let the guilty trem-
bic. Who are included2 All that give,
and who gives oftener than. the saloon
ist? "Qai fact pr alum Jeeh per So" is
an old maxim in law, the true English
of which, IL. HHe who does an act
through another does il himself"
The saloonist knows that the drunk
en- man VIII do acts of violence, and
having made him drunk he is partaier
Of all his sins. The drunkard profanes
the name Of God daily in the saloon,
and he who gives him drink is partaker
of the sin, Thou shalt not take the
name Of the Lord thy God in vain"
Some saloonists cay they do not ask
the men to come to their saloons, il is
clearly matter of their own choosing.
Not SO, you put up sign. You display
the bottles of wine and you advertise,
you ask every one by so doing to come
and buy your liquor, and you are par
ticcipants in the evils resulting from your
sales.
Why are there 80 many places for the
sale Of these poisons? ] can tell YOU,
and youeanBot deny it. It is simply
because the lusts Of the heart, cause You
to abandon honor,-it is an easy bust
ness 10 follow-money in it. To those
who traffic in beer and ale--a slower pois-
on than whisky and rum, though none
the less deadly, would say It is the
lusts Of the avaricious heart that makes
yoIi cling To il, though the ladies pray
in the street until their knees become as
Gallons as the camels hoofl
But there is 10 hope? think there
is. The whole people are aroused, the
ladies are taking q noble part whereby
the good work viii go on towards the
end. / do sanction this noble movement
Of the women. If they go on; using
prayer all through, though here and
there they may seem 20 make no head
way, yet in the end, they will see tri-
umph. Il is Gods will that this bnsi-
ness shall be put down. and ! say to the
noble women, go on. When Peter the
Hermit went abroad teaching the peO-
pie, many thought he had better be IN
his cell reading bis prayers, but he kept
at work. suppose now that t'eter had
succumbed, what would have been the
result? Where would have been Italy,
France, and even England and Ameri-
ca? The time will come when posteri-
ty Will say, "GOd be praised for the no
bic work in which our mothers engaged
in freeing this land from the monster
evil of intemperance.
1t is said that priest has no right to
meddle with politics. Grant it. But as a
citizen ! have a right to express my
opinion. 1t becomes the duty of every
citizen to put in Office only those who
are in open hostility to the manufacture
and trafe in Intoxicating drinks. and no
man should seek office upon any other
basis.
And now TO you unfortunate creatures
that are engaged in the traffic Of this
pest, who have the name Of Catholics
and the name is all you have-I say un-
to you, that your money is blood money,
and if you continue in this business,
sooner or later, you will be welcomed
with curses in the lowest abyss by those
whom you have damned, and their curses
will fall upon your heads, not for day
or n year, or a thousand years, but
through all the endless ages of eternity
The speaker then referred TO a report
circulated, which was, that the priest
did not allow Catholics to sign a total
abstinence plege; he denounced the re-
port as not only utterly false, but that
the very reverse was true.
He then read letter from the Pope,
Plus the TX, to the Union" held at Bos-
ton, Mass, in 1873, wherein the Holy
Father nrges his children to vigorously
urge onward the "total abstinence move
ment"