The Worthington advance., 1881-02-17

With battle Ak and bloody nag unfurled,
Cleaving the skull OF every weaker race,
Beware! for though the Red Man f,nds no God.
TO keep bis waning rae race above the sod,
Yet every wrong to White, or Black. or Red.
! For every Black Man killed In slavery's name,
Two White Men perished when the crisis came,
And hall the wealth amassed by unpaid TIL.
! Went down in wars grim waste, and debt, and
And is the Red Man. though foredoomed to fall.
Less dear to Him who made and loves us ALL
SEVERANCE O.V DE-
Hon. NJ. J. Severance, of Mankato,
recently delivered a lecture Oh temper
ance at Red Wing, taking radical
| ground against drunkenness us distin-
guislled from liquor selling. lie said:
lie did not believe in women crowd
ing in among beer kegs and praying
with the bloated vender, nor that the
Great Ruler would lay aside the great
plans of the Universe in oruer to ans wer
such prayers. The drunkard had been
petted too much, patted Oh the back.
put to bed and kissed to sleep. War
had been made on the vender and on
tho liquor and drunkenness called
disease. Suck course had no more
effect than feeding teaspoOnful Of
slipperyelm tea to \ cast iron rllinocer-
OS.
He took the ground that drunkenness
was crime and said:
He believed in defining drunkenness
to be 4 crime III the statute books, and
to punish the first offence with fine;
the second offence with Imprisonment
i'll the county Jail for six months; and
the third offence with imprisonment in
the States prison for Il period not less
than one year at hard labor. He would
disfranchise the drunkard, for he was not
competent to exercise the rights of i'll
teiligent citizenship, and if he brought
the incapacity upon himself. he ought
not to ask 1t, and If it were disease,
that he could not prevent, then he
should not have the right, any more
than the maniac. He should rather be
like one suffering from hylrophobia,
who begs in his lucid intervals that he
may be ftttered, to prevent him, in his
tits OF raging madness, from biting his
wife and children. This is the law in
Switzerland. No man convicted Of
drunkenness can vote there until lie has
certificate from the proper official that
he has reformed.
We have no doubt that this will
sound novel to the temperance extrem-
lists of Worthington. The plan here
has been to pet the drunkarl and de-
nounce the vendor. The drunltard has
only to profess repentance. ask the
sympathy of church people, and then,
as Mr.. Severance says, ''he will be pat
ted on the back, pnt to bed and kissed
TO sleep.' Then he gets liquor by the
quantity, drinks again, processes repen-
tance, and is again ''kissed to Sleep"
There is food for serious reflection in
the suggestion of MI. Severance. Wor-
thington has been noted as 4 radical
temperance town, and has never toler-
ated an open saloon. Notwithstanding
this fact, there has been much drinking
and drunkenness in the place. 1t has
not been SO open rs in places where s;.-
looms have been licensed, but any one
in Worthington can lay his finger on a
half dozen men who have been intoxi-
Gated frequently during the past six or
eight years, some Of them every few
days or weeks during that time.
This shows how impossible it is to
prevent drunkenness by laws directed
exclusively against the vendor.
In last weeks journal, DR.. Barber
intimates that the ADVANCE is a filthy
concern anyhow, and he prays to lie de-
IN ;c1,
would quit rushing into print and at
tacking us, tor he provokes us into be-
ing ''sassy' and telling OH him every
time he does 80. Now, this charge of
filth" lays him wide open. The filth"
is his own and he had better shiny OH
his own side. A few years ago when we
lived along side of him he dumped the
slops from his kitchen and chamber
right up against our house all winter.
In the Spring he stuck his head into our
front door and ordered us in 4 sQueaking
voice to clean tlE.t stuff away. We
told him to clean his own stuff away.
Then he went and Uniformed on u.s."
and here came D. Shell, Peter Thomp-
san and G. L. Sutton, grave and rever-
end members of the village council, to
order US to clean that stuff" away.
We took them out and showed them
how it was himself" that Barber had
been throwing dirt on us all winter.
Then Dan Shell and G. z. Sutton came
very near ''bursting" with laughter,
but they had to preserve the dignity of
their Office, and they advised a division
of the dirt. Barber then scratched a.
round and hauled part of it away.
We do wish Barber would let us a.
lone. We have so many funny things
to tell on him that we'll have everybody
laughing at him the first thing he
knows.
DR.. Barber, in last weeks Journal,
administers to us the severest castiga-
tion we have had since our blessed
mother padded us with shingle. He
intimates that we are Il dog" that the
ADVANCE is 4 ''slum, "and fears that he
may some day become our bed fellow.
From such an uncalled-for and un-
heard-of calamity he prays the immort-
al powers to ''forefend" him. And well
he may. He knows we are business on
hug. Ever since he came up to us on
the sidewalk and undertook to whip US
for introducing Spiritualism into Wor-
thington, he knows how affectionate
and warm We are in the matter Of ad-
mlnistering All embrace. We are ju t
fierce, so to speak, on a hug. On tliat
occasion we hugged him till he was
black i'll the face. There isn't Il young
lady within ten milos of Worthincton
who wouldn't give her gaiter boots to
have us hug her half rs hard rs we hug
ged Barber on that occasion. No Won
der he prays the immortal powers to de-