The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-16
Temperance Reading.
THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG.

| The following is the concluding por-
lion of recent sermon by Prof David
/ Swing, of Chicago: .r .' .....
| And yet there is II blmder of our race
more cruel than that of the sword. 1t
| IS rende ed less i'm lressivc from The
| fact that it has been lecturcd upon and
! wranGled over mall parts of the land,
! and mas often been rendered an uuWel-
come til ame Of remark by the quantity
OF ill-ad,ised speech and action that
have grown up aroundit But notivith-
I standing the unpopular tv OF Temper
arce lectures the truth stands that when
| the human mind learned to d still and
| brew drinks it committed n greater fol-
| ly than when il invented the weapons Of
war. The cup is more destructive than
cannon and muSket, not only carrying
more persons to the grave, but TO "A lie
and death OF a greater dishOrOr, for the
| poets have always sung some sweet
strains over the last rest n.y. place OF the
soldier; but no poet has ever had the
courage to cast any flowers un0u a
drunkard grave. The dual quality of
| the very soil is il,Ust1a.ed in these fat,ll
drinks of the human race. The grains
which will make the bread for the table
of the home will also help compose q
| drink fully capable o: scattering forever
those wont to meet ut the table in
| supreme contentment. Not only were
Adam and Eve ready to fall into sin,
| but the !ield OF corn or wheat stands
ready to become harvest of sin.
Strange earth equally ready to grow
| the opium that kills, or the fruits and
breads that enrich and cheer the mind;
equally ready to p Olu 9 drinks that
will crush the heart, or the food that
makes man great and happy. In the
far East. where thOuSan Is of acres of
roses are grown for the oy OF their per
fumes, there as many acres o. poppos
are grown for the delirium and ruin Of
the multitude. Mark the two fields:
the one of roses from which the 0hd1.
is eXtrac ed that fragrance may be car
| ried over the world and that the noblest
OF all overs may seem to bloom in the
m DIST of wntcr-ih the room where the
cultivated mind reads, or talks, or
sleeps As the notebook holds the
music Of Beethoven, as language re-
tains the genius OF Homer or Virgil, so
tbs altar holds the spirits OF rose, that
are dead. A true perfume is the i'm
mortality of the rose. When the eve
sees many thousands Of acres OF these
flowers growing thus to honor, il
blesses the hidden majesty Of sun and
,Oil and the genius of man; but when
the same heart behods the same human
mind planting 10000 acres of poison
plants which will extract money from
the [ hineSe or other vi TINS of fol V,
then does it realize that there are two
paths across this worid-a path of right
and path of infinite wrong As the
ORIENT yields thus its two harrests. one
OF rich perfumes and one of the opiatc
poiSons, so the vast West grows the
grains that create powe. full race and
the drinks that ha ten to destroy it.
When Aenol hon was writ ng down
the customs of some Wild tribes,
through which he had to make
his long march, he stated that in
the mOunta rs of Armenia the natives
made popular drink from fermentcd
barley. "In their homes under the
ground this Dir nix was contained in
large vessels, and when one would drink
he must put HE mouth q, road aud
suck like an OK. Without any admixt-
IRE of water it seemed harsh, but was
to its taste" In these words we lind
the common beer OF to day, and see
that twenty-four hundred years ago it
was getting ready for an invasion of
Germany to tramplc il under foot more
cruelty than did the armies of c psar
PlinY describes also the coming enemy
in these words: The native, who in
habit the West OF Europe made drink
from grain and water with which they
into icated themselves. The people of
Spain so brew this liquor that it will
keep good q long time = and then
Pliny adds these words of great mean
ing: so. exquisite is the cunning of
mankind in gratifying their vicious ap-
petites that they have thus invented
method to cause water itse 10 produce
intoXication." Thus we see Il Roman
scientist noting the fact that the human
mind was as cum NO to invent evil as
to invent good, and that the genus
that can discover the telegraph and the
properties OF steam, and thus help make
civilization, can discover opium, and
whisky and beer. and thus be a Medca
who can at once be TIL mother and the
murderer of her sons, Tn path of pri-
NdJc anu puuit WlO ~ mus so BfOaUCnBu
that the German Nation has abundant
company in these years In the English
and Americans who have accepted of the
genius thatcan make water into IA poison.
When one cannot advocate total abr
stinence as Il duty and may admit that
man may seek some pleasure in his
drink as he seeks some in his food, and
need not any more always drink water
than he need u ways eat only bread and |
meat, yet such is not the kind Of deli |
cate treatment the millions beStow upon
drinks. They brutalike self and quickly |
become slaves of their dram. and all
else fades away to leave time and |
money for the destructive cup. En- |
gland alone manufactures 25.O0O.00O i
barrels Of beer annually, of which only |
one-tiftieth part is exported. Thus the |.
money value of 2i,0OO,O00 barrels OF |
malt drinks is fung away by the people, ,
rich and poor, high and low, in the ISL |
ands of the Queen. Add the Ii luor
traffic of our Nation to these figures and !
we have apawiul illustrat on of the folly |
Of man, of his fitness TO be G Their q
philosopher or fool, his fitness to weave |
for his children garments of happiness
or of sorrow. . ...... ... ..'., ,.....
The SO ca led German unity upon the |
beer que 'tion should fall to pieces in