Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-28

perance; that 1t takes the young man
from his home and from the heart of
mother and from the pure association of
his sisters and introduces him to tho
society of the beer saloon, making him
the companion of the depraved and
vicious. Surrounded by these depraved
associations and alcoholic stimulants he
lmbibes in the shape of beer, his moral
sense becomes depraved and his vilest
passions become encouraged and uncon-
trollable. He is hurried along by the
maddening effects of alcohol to distrac-
ton. Still the Brewers ASSOCIATION,
backed by capital of $500, 900, 900
INCALCULABLE POLITICAL INFLUENCE
and power demands the right to take
your sons and NINE from our hearth
stones. make criminals OF them and run
the ploughsharc of destruction through
our family circles. sending our gray
hairs in sorrow to the grave, that they
may prosper and iatten upon our broken
hearts and ruined households. Then
they have the etfrontery TO faunt their
banners in our face, and proclaim that
lager beer Is the great civilizer of man.
kind. / do not wish to come in contact
with the civilizing influences of lager
beer when it has been imbibed in suffi-
cient quantities to produce its peculiar
etfervescing influence on the minds OF
those who are under its control. Every
lager beer saloon that is opened in any
community is detrimental to that COM
munity in every conceivable way. 1t
makes no community-no individual
better. but it makes them worse. It
sends civilization into q lower scale and
turns those who imbibe il freely into
savages, preparing them for every law.
less deed while under its influence.
Tried by every law Of trade aud by
every moral law, and every just social
law the beer traffic is proved guilty of
being the enemy of the human race, as
certainly and surely as is the whisky
traffic. and no money power nor politi-
Cal luiluence can uphold forever such q
system OF wrong, which makes war up
on every interest dear to humanity. The
time of the triumph Of the right IS fast
approaching and gigantic as the beer
power is now, the day is coming when
right shall triumph over might. and
when the oppressed victims OF the beer
power shall go free. Then the song of
liberty shall go up from redeemed hui
manity to Him who alone has the power
to break every chain and let the oppres-
sed go free. May God hasten it in His
time. The oppressive spirit of the beer
power was iully manifested in the
TREATMENT GIVEN TO MR.. BEMIs,
editor of the National Prohibitionist.
Such conduct is disgrace to the civili-
cation of this age and country. and those
who resort to such methods of CARRYING
out their measures will yet find that
opinions cannot be crushed by offering
indignities to those who advocate them.
and that such violence must return upon
the heads of those who practice it, and
only hastens the overthrow of the cause
which they represent. We can afford to
stand by our principles, for, thank God,
we have principles to stand by-princi-
Piles as firm as the eternal pillars of
truth; and which are destined to stand
when empires founded in sin. and
supported by the revenues OF iniquity,
have perlshed. Let us as people be wise
enough to put iniquity away from our
hands and build our social and political
fabric upon the eternal rock Of truth
and justice, and then the blllows of de-
struction will dash in vain upon our
foundation. But if we build in unrighte-
BUSINESS it matters not how strong the
superstructure may appear. nor what
money power there may be back of us,
God will send the rain of His wrath up
on US and our house shall fall, because
it was founded on the sand and built in
unrIghteOusness.