Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-12-11


appearance, and whilst the children are
lin rags, the mother wears hopeless e1-
preston, and tears are on her pallid fea-
lures, now reft of the glow of health ana
happiness once there i'll beauty. And in
your anxiety to study the picture more
closely. Won discover the man to be like
ness of Yourself, and the sad matroLly
mother to be that beautiful prairie bud,
once the idol of your heart in'earlier and
more Joyous days, and near the group
YOU read 1890, one decade only and oh,
how changed.
Oh thou ruthless still-fiend how long
wilt thou number thy victims by Heca-
tombS! How long wilt thou cause the
heart of love TO writhe in the anguished
thrOes of crushed affection, and blast and
withcr the bright seedling-gcms of hope
in earth fairest scenes, with the sight Of
dear ones slain by the destroyer; man
hood wrecked and honor lost and gone
forever,an hope the last best prop of the
grief-stricken heart, submerged in the
fathomless abyss of despair's fell domain
never again to reappear and cheer and
vivify by its life-giving presence the hap
less home of the desolated inebriate.
May Heaven avert from this fair land,
the home of freedom and our fathers, .he
terror and woe now trooping in the train
of this fell destroyer of the bodies and
souls of men; and these are not the cX-
ceptions but the rules, the exceptions are
in the total abstinence line.
Are YOU men! you the Heaven appoint
ed protectors OF timid gentle women:
Stately trellises you around which en-
Irvine in clinging devotion, the graceful
tcndrils of lovely wOman's purest, deep
est heart affections. Do you, their plight
cd loving lords, wha hold in your manly
hearts the courage, the strength and the
will to shield her from harm and danger :;
yet in an evil hour Of vacillation and
reckless betrayal, parley with her enemy
and cast her into the horrid loathed en-
brace of the deadly foe that has slain her
peace?
Mark this,ye Hierarchs Of the domestic
altar, and think well what may be the
marginal lines that are daily being scored
against you, in the immutable record OF
Gods in1icXible justice.
some women of weak heads and weaker
hearts DO so sucCumb to the destroyer;
thinking in their diSpair, that there is
nothing better for them in life, than to
give up and die. But my tried sister, is
mere wisdom in yielding to the very foe
that has slain your peace, and destroyed
your happiness! In giving up the noble
contest for integrity of virtue and purity
of life, YOU Weld all the prepomdcrcncc
existing in your favor, and when You
shall have been weighed in the balance
and found wanting" Will YOU find you
thus have fulfilled, as best you might,
your destiny and duties, like her who has
fought adversely with brave, enduring
heart? And with eyes fixed on Heaven
has sought strength OF Jehovah, and come
out invincible, bringing her "sheavcS, Z"
her loved ones with her, rescued by the
OmnipOtcnt power of faith and prayer!
No. my tried sister yield not, tho you are
thrown into the furnace, and Satan make
the cruciblc hot around you. and your
life be wasted, and your heart shunken,
even to the vital spark of Divinity that
dwclls within it. yet shall that vital spark
expand into fruition, anda glorious finale
be AWARDED you.
No. | would not SuCcumb whilst God
bid, YOU "hold the Fort" bat like Jacob
of OLD, would watch and wait and pray
until lie should answer your pleadingS
and you stand accepted i'll his presence
having prevailed.
From whom think YOU will be derived
the future Statesmen thai shall guide this
be from the YirluOus firm, duty abiding
mothers OF America, who, like Cornella
OF old, 'whcn asked for their jewels
points To their SonS:' From whom will
be derived the profound thinkers, the
cruditc teachers, in all the grades of in
trliectual requirements and pursuit! H.
Guiding thar grandeur of eloqucncc emil
mating from cultivated, vigorous Thought
mud brain Shall il not be from Oti-ShOOtS
OF yirtuouS pro"enitorS?
And still the cry is heard for license,
license. "For what" queries poor
heart broken mother, ito dcbauch my son
and send him 90 the pcniJentiary
"LiccnSe has sent my father toa drunk
ards grave" moancd apallid half clad
Girl exhausted with labor to earn bread
for her mother, less brother and sisters.
Oh! YES; ''licguse" growled a noble
Youth chatting with anger, "to have my
suffering, gentle sister, maitreatcd and
manned Tor life, bya di4sipatcd charlai-
tain husband.
Misery and license! Oh. terrible IL
cense To make ana sell rnm and ruin to
any and all who may buy it. And here
comes in that monster representative of
$4,000, 900, OF currency, the BEER Assoc
CIArIoN. " That the public cNchequer re-
Qurcs this daily sacrifice of human VIC
tins. That the Slate Golfers "rc greatly
depleted by this curtailmcnt OF drunk
cucs,- The materials for toper-making
being kept, at all times, in abundant sup
ply on their shelves and III their cel!aas.
Indeed, an argument this to weigh
With high toned respectable American
citizens. We except those Foreigners
whU come to our shores, and who calcu-
L.. ,ff,t.G ,atl
and who understand citizenship to mean
nothing more thnn Il lcgalized oppOrtuni-
tv to rob every mans pocket, and blast
every mans soul that comes within his
" ithering pesti!erous influence.
We appeal to you, American Fellow
Citizens. Will You he willing to fill the
Public Golfers with the price of the souls
of YOUR cOuhtrymcn. The hUsbandS-thc
fathers-the sons, brothers and lovers OF
your mother land? Don't be deceived.
The base foreigners that comes TO these
shores love our land only for the money
they can accumulate, and not for the price
less boon OF libcrty-of being free men
they can here enjoy. The boon of selling
beer is the glory and end of their swinish
being, and SuiliccS them from all deficits.
Let us here analizc this beer and whis-
KEY revenue, and view it in its true col
ora. How much, think you, goes out of
the accumulated public funds annually,
to keep up this licensed selling and drink
ing OF Intoxicating liquors?
We begin by calculating the crime it
cngcudcrs, the officers TO be paid to arrest
and guard these victims of the liquor
traffic, the expense of the arrests and
trials of the fclons made by this influence,
WHO were otherwise good and honest men
until caught in these dens, the Liquor Sa-
looms, and in an evil hour ensnared and
made criminals. The money to build
jails. poor houses, penitentiaricss, the
gallowses TO hang them. and the fees OF