The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-07
Extracts from a Speech delivered By
Father Walker, q Catholic Priest,
at Delaware, Ohio.

| at Delaware, Ohio
Thirdly: Man offers the greatest insult
in God that is in his power to do. Christ
being your Savior has a right to do all our
! love The drunkard destroys the power
Of Christ's love, and says, II will have
none ofyour mercies, I know you are nv
| Savior, my redeemer, that you died to
save me from ruin, but I despise your
mercies and your love, 1 will have none OF
them" This plague, this pest destroys all
! that Is IN HIM and sinks HIM into dark
| ness, not for million years, but through
all eternity The very demons of the very
lowest abyss will trample upon him
Is it only those who indulge in these
drinks that are guilty2 Woe unto him
that giveth drink to his friend, and pre-
senteth his gall, and maketh him drunk
that he may behold his Rakedness. These
words are inspired, and when God pre-.
nounces a woe, let the guilty tremble.
Who are included? All that give, and who
gives oftner than the salecnists 2 'Qui
Jactl per Ili1Gu1 fecit per Sc is an old uax-
m in law, the true English of which is,
"He who does an act through another
does it himself"
The saloonist knows that the drunken
man will do acts of violence, and having
made him drunk he is partaker of all his
sins. The drunkard protanes 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"
Same saloonists say they do not ask the
men to come to their saloons, it is clearly
a matter of their own choosing. Not so
You put up sign. You display the bot
ties Of wine and you advertise, you ask
every one by so doing to come and buy
your liquor, and you are participants in
the evils resulting from your sales.
Why are there so many places for the
sale of poison? ] can tell you, and you
cannot deny it. 1t is simply because the
lust of your heart, causes you TO abandon
honor-it Is an easy business to follow
money IN it. To those who traffic in beer
and ale-a slower poison than whisky and
rum, though none the less desdly-I
would say it is the lust of the avaricicus
heart that makes you cling to it, though
the ladies pray IN the street until their
knees become as callous as the camels
hoof
But is there no hope7 I think there is.
The whole people are aroused, the ladies
are taking noble part whereby the good
i
sanction this noble movement OF the Wo-
men. If they go on, using prayer all
through here and there they may seem to
make no headway, yet in the end they
shall see triumph. It is Gods will that
TLis business shall be put down, and say
to the noble women, GO on.
When Peter the Hermit went abroad
teaching the people, many thought he had
better be IN his cell reading his prayers,
but he kept at work. Suppose now that
Peter had succumbed, what would be the
result? Where would have been Italy,
France, and even England and America 2
The time will come when posterity will
say, God be praised for the noble work
in which our mothers engaged in freeing
this land from the monster evil of intem-
perance.
1t is said that priest has no right to
meddle with politics. Grant it. But as q
citizen I have a right to express my opIn-
ION. 1t becomes the duty Of every citizen
to put in Office only those who are In open
hostility TO the manufacture and traffic in
intoxicating drinks, and no man should
seek Office upon any other basis.
And now to you unfortunate creatures
that are engaged 10 the traffic OF this pest,
who have the name of Catholics-and the
name Is all you have Il say unto 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 abyss by those whom you have
damned, and their curses will fall upon
your heads, not for a day or a year or q
thousand years, but through all the ages
of eternity