Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-16


that out of lis, 900 prisoners los, 900 were in
carcerated by their intemperance. 1t is es-
timated that ninety-nine-one hundredths
Of the children not going to school in this
country are the children of drunkards.
The cost Of and ruin by rum in this coun-
try is
$1,000, ,OOO, 900 Annually.
All! we hear good deal about crooked
whisky, by which reference is made to Ii
quors that escape paying revenue to the
Government, but all whisky is crooked
from the fact that it makes a mans path
crooked, his fortune crooked, his
business crooked, his health crook
ed, his disposition crooked, his
crooked gin, crooked wine. crooked cognac,
I crooked schnapps, crooked intoxicants of
all sorts. Talking and speech-making may
restore here and there one, but prohibition,
national prohibition, will stop the entire
curse. In Edwards counsy, Illinois, it was
decided twenty-seven years ago that they
would leave no rum in the county, and in
twenty-five years only one person was sent
to the penitentiary, and he committed
crime while drunk from rum got in another
county The most of the time the Jail has
been empty. There are only two or three
paupers in att the county. The tax is 80
per cent lower than the neighboring coun-
ties, though their tax rolls show more prop
erty than any other county in the State of
equal size. The court in that county sits
three days in the year.
Good citizens of the United States, I do
not know how you feel about it. but | am
tired Of paying taxes to fix up the work OF
these internal dram shops that are making
criminals and paupers by the tens of thou
sands. Out with them. Out with them
from the city, Out with them from the
/ Statel Out with them from the Nation!
But, you say, such law of extirpation
Co uId Not BE Executed If 1t Were
Passed.
Try it! 1t has been executed in different
parts Of Maine. in Massachusetts,, in Rhode
Island, in MafyiHkd, IN Colorado, in Iowa,
and In Kansas Give us such law of en-
tire prohibition in these Eastern States, and
if the authorities do not execute it we will
do as the Forty-niners did in California
when they formed a vigilance committee,
who made quick work of the offenders.
Give US such q law in Brooklyn, and il the
authorities do dot execute it, i will, some
Sunday, standing in this pulpit, gather
battalion Of strong men, and we will go out
and in the name of our homes, and in the
name of the Lord God Almighty, shut up
every grog shop in Brooklyn. But it will
| never be thoroughly accomplished until the
Nation awakes from its indifference
to its magnificent opportunity. But OF
whom would such a party be made up?
First of all of thousands OF drunkards
who, helpless in the presence of tempta-
| ton, would like those places OF allurement
forever removed from their eyes. These
men of appetite for strong drink cannot
run the gauntlet of so many inebriate res
taurants, so many wine cellars, so many
bar.rooms. These unfortunates cannot
from morning to night, get out OF the sight
of these places. They are in every street
OF every city, before them, behind them,
on either side OF them, an all-enCircling
fire of demoniac bOmbardment. For Gods
sake give these overwhelmed men
a chance to escape, and let il be possible for
a man to walk the streets without
inhalation of alcoholic malOdOrS.
Belonging to this party Of national prohi:
bition will be the physicians OF the United
States. | hold the names OF l23 prominent
physicians of New York andB rooklyn, ask
ing for State and national legislation which
shall contine the traffic in alcohol to pur-
poses of science and art and mechanics.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every
thousand doctors in the cities of Anne
rica will
Sign This Evil.
They have not only been called to bind
up the wounds of the Sot, tumbled into the
station houses and hospitals, but in the
best and brightest and wealthiest homes
of your cities have stood and helped hold
under costly canopy and amid master. piece
purchases and on the embroidered pillow,
the victims of delerium tremens, when the
iungleS Hof Africa pour into the diseased
Imagination all the reptiles and perdition
all its devils.
Belonging to such party would be the
women of America. Do you say they can't
vote? They all vote. Are you not willing
TO acknowledge that the mothers and wives
of America are the mightiest influences ex-
tant. The women Garfield Iowa and Kan
sss for State. prohibition. The women will
vet carry the United States for national
prohibition and for God. Every man that
has wife that is not fool is nightly in
fiuenCed by her sentiment II man
vents business advice he will go to busl-
ness man and get it, but If man wants ad-
vice on moral questions he asks his wife
unless he is resolved on immortality, and
then he asks advice from no one. Now, the
women of the land have intense apprecia-
lion of what this red dragon is. lthas put
one of its fore feet on the nursery, and an
other fore foot on the wardrobe, one OF its
hind feet on the bread tray and the other
hind foot has been saturated with the tears
and blood of a destroyed home. Women
know what rum is by its fiery wake. Chas.
Dickens laughed about the punch bowl,
and poets have
wreathed GarIands About the Wine
Cup.
and impersonators have made audiences
roar at the staggering step OF the drunkard,
but women seldom see any fun IN such
dramatization. They see beyond the foot.
lights the shoeleSs feet of children and
their daughters by destitution turned over
TO infamy, and a scar across the wife's TEN.
Piles by the broken glass of decanter and
a wild man standing mid-hoor uttering
halloo at which the children shrek and
the wife falls on her knees praying to God
who for ten years has not seemed to care
ANYTHING for her, one fist of the maniac
fashing through the mirror at which his
bride had once arranged her tresses, the
other hand casting the Bible, containing
the marriage record, into the fire, and With
cracked lips cursing the God who will yet
ayenge the cause of the suffering though
judgments. Not much fun in all that for
women. It is TO her not such side-splitting
comedy as bleod-eurdling tragedy. We
shall have a million Deborahs yet crying
out TO God and to the Congress of the
Uuited States for national prohibition.
There are some men vet to arise IN the
Senate Of the United States or the House
OF Representatives VINO, Oruaiueu oy tue
laying on of the hands of God Almighty
and the hands of all the righteous men and
women of America, shall demand that the
Right Arm OF the Americas Govern
uaeut
be stretched out for the stopping OF this
plague. And be will in his speech intone
the plant of hundreds of thousands of
homeless children and the groan of widow
hood that reaches from sea to sea and from
earth to heaven, and before the vision OF
those national legislators before whom he
pleads there will appear two lakes lake OF
tesrs and a lake OF blood, aud two scrolls,
the one written like Ezekiers scroll, within
and without with lamentation and MOURN
ing and woe, and the other scroll contatn-
ing an emancipation proclamation mighter
than that which Abraham Lincoln signed.
and giving freedom to more slaves from
worse bondage, and declaring that under
ska ~, a;astx, ~ tha lazr as well as undeF the