Connecticut western news., 1882-10-25
DIR. TALMAGE'S RED DRAGON.
The Ten Horns and Seven Crowns of
 Drunkenness Pictured.


 dragons" said Dr. Talmage Sunday morning. ''Some commentators think the red dragon of Revelations means one thing and some another. There is such wide difference of opinion that feel at liberty to think it may be sug- gestive of the great monster of intem perance, fiery, all devou1ing, ever burning, with it's ten horns hooking and lacerating society. By it's taking pos session of so many Governments it may be said to wear seven crowns, and by its striking down Kings and Queens, ora tors, poets, soldiers, men and women, from all forms of power it may be said to draw third part of the stars of hea- ven after it. Lsst Sunday I repre- hended the degradation of two political parties of the day, and suggested that the loss of both of them would not be 8 very great loss. This morning take step further, and say that a party like either of them ought not only to whis- per, but to thunder against the curse of curses, the abomination of abomina- tions, the infernalism of infernalisms, the intemperance of this country, and that with National, and not State pro- hibition, it ought to go forth to slay this red dragon.
 ''The cause is progressing so that twelve years from now prohibition will have it's President in the White House. I tell you that American slavery was a pet lamb as compared with this red dragon. All families which have been robbed of fathers, brothers and sons, all States of the Union that have been despoiled of their mightiest men, all churches, all the intelligence, all the patriotism, and all the enthusiasm of the land will pack itself into an ava lanche that will come crushing down upon this, the worst evil that ever af- hicted 8 nation.
 'I notify the politicians of America that this is coming. Better for them to lead off than follow afterward with the stragglers. Victory will come as sure as there is God in heaven. l nomi- nate for President and Vice. President in 1884, and I care not which is first or second name on the ticket, although one is Republican and the other Demo- crat, the one Western man and the other 8 Southern man, both sterling prohibitionists-G St. John, of Kansas, and Governor Colqu1tt, of Georgia. Oh, my Lord and my God, what country this would be if there was not 8 dramshop in it, with no wom- an in it who has been ..takens from the home of luxury to the home of the drunkard, and left with shrivelled arm, and hollow eye, and pallid cheek, and consuming lung, to fight back the wolf that thrusts it's nostrils through the window pane, snufing for the blood of her helpless babes
 "Let the millions of men who belong to temperance societies enlist for the salvation and disenthralment of this country, and the work will be done in less time than I take to tell it. We want an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in all the States and Territories, except for medicinal, artistic, mechanic al, and scientific purposes. I invite a national convention to inaugurate this amendment, to meet in Brooklyn in this house of God. A great battle is l +n ho Tot bition, and then one-half the iniquity tumbles off into the Atlantic Ocean, and the other half into the Pacific, to be drowned in two oceans of cold water In all this country, from Canada to the G ulf, there will not be room enough fol this red dragon to put one of it's feet. Il has already been decided that a State has the right to prohibit the manufac ture of intoxicating liquor. Let all the people of this country demand na tional enactment that liquor shall no be manufactured for sale in any part O. the United States. r
 "'Oh,' says someone. The United States collects millions of dollars O. taxes from the manufacture and sale O hquor' Does it? Where the liquor traffic pays one dollar it steals ten dol lars in the cost of criminal trials, pris ons and hospitals, to take care os tho victims. The government makes a, much out of it as you would if you solt 8 man knife and he should strike tn, first blow at your sons heart or if yo1 should sell man box of matches anl he should with the first match start fire that should burn your house down
 "One million drunkards in a year 200, ,0O0 children helpless 300, ,OOO run lunatics four-fifths of the crime of tn United States chargeable to rum drink ing; ninety-nine hundreths of tn children that are kept from school neg lected by drunken parents; twelve hun dred million dollars annually spent fo rum ! Talk about crooked whisky, tell you all whisky is crooked, and ther is crooked wine, crooked Cognat crooked schnapps, crooked everything
 it's all crooked. I here and now pro 7 claim war for the rest of my life againt this abomination, and, for State pro f. hibltion and National prohibition. Civ
 us such a law in the Atlantic State, F and we would do as the Forty miner f did. We would form Vigilance Con , mittee to enforce the law. Give | B prohibition in Brooklyn, and, son
 Sabbath morning, standing in tn
 place I would have a battalion of stror a men who would go forth, aud, in u y name of the Lord God Almighty, V