The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-19
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of alcoholic malodors. On the petit
ton to the next Congress for the enact
ment of national law against the man
ufacture and sale and importation of
intOxicants, If such petition be well cir
culated, there would be the struggling
signature of hands tremulOus with dis
sipatiOns against which unsuccessful
battle has long been waged, signatures
written If need be, like the names of the
Scotch COvenanters,i in bl1Od dipped from
their own veins, IL that would make the
petition any more impOrtunate. That
was a wild scene last Tuesday, when a
mailman rushed through a crowd at
Broadway and Fourteenth street, and
with pair Of sharp cOmpasses stabbed
right and left till wounded men and
women filled the city ambulances. 1t
was we'll done when stout man threw
the maniac to the pavement and others
helped to make him powerless. But
there is the thOusand.armed maniac of
alcoholism rushing through the streets
of all cities, stabbing TO the heart whole
families, whole neiS ShbOrh0Ods, ,thewhOle
nation. Who will help the United States
Government throw the fOaming demo-
MAC? Who will help the wounded from
under the paw and tooth OF the red drR-
gOn? < "a
Belonging to this party Of National
Prohibition will be the physicians of
the United States. hold the names Of
1913 prominent physicians Of New York
and Brooklyn, asking tor State and Ma
tiOnal Legislation which shall seOnfine
the traffic in alcohol to purposes Of sci
ence and art and mechanism. Nine
hundred and ninety nine out of every
thousand doctors in the cities of Amer
lea would sign such document. They
know, as no other class OF men, the raw
been called to bind up the wounds of
the sOt tumbled into the statiOn-hOuses
and hospitals, but in the best, brightest
and wealthiest homes Of your cities
have stood and helped hold under costly
canopy and amid masterpiece pictures
and on the embroidered pillow the vic
Tins of delirium tremens, when. the
jungles of Africa pour into the diseased
imagination all the reptiles and perdt-
tiOn all its devils.
Belonging to such party would be
the women of America. Do you say
they can't VOteP They all vote. Are you
not willing to acknowledge that the
mothers and wives of America are the
mightiest influences extant? The women
carried Iowa and Kansas for State pro-
hibition. The women willyet carry the
United States for National Prohibition
and for God. Every man who has wife
who Is not fool is nightly influenced
by her sentiment. If man wants bus
mess advice he will go to business men
to get it; but if man wants advice 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 appre-
citation of what this red dragon is. 1t
has put one of its red feet on the nursery,
and another fore foot on the wardrobe;
one of its hind feet on the bread-tray,
and the other hind foot has been satu-
rated with the tears and blood Of de-
strOyed home. Women know what rum
Is by its fiery wake. Charles Dickens
laughed about the puneh-bOwl, and poets
have wreathed garlands about the wine
cup, and impersOnatOrs have made au-
diences roar at the staggering step of
the drunkard, but women seldom see
any fun in such dramatiZatiOn. They
see beyond the footlights the shOeless
feet of children, and their daughters by
destitutiOn turned over to infamy, and
cash across the wife's temples by the
broken glass of decanter, and disheV-
eled man standing mid-hOOr uttering
hallOO at which the children shrek and
the wife falls on her knees, praying to a
God who for ten years has not seemed to
care anything for her; one fist Of the
maniac dashing through the mirror at
which his bride had once arrayed her
lresses, the other hand casting the Bible
containing the marriage record into the
are, and with cracked lips cursing the
God who will yet avenge the cause Of
the suffering, though He seem great
while 70 postpone His Judgments. Not
finn In oil khof For Ia
to her not such side-splitting comedy a.
blOOd-curdling tragedy. We shall have
a million DebOrahs yet crying out to God
and to the Congress of the United States
for National prohibition. There are
some men yet to arise in the Senate Of
the United States or the House of Rep
resentatives, who, ordained by the lay
ing 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 American
Government be stretched out for the
stopping of this plague. And he will In
his speech intOne the plaint of hundreds
OF thousands Of homeless children, and
the grOan Of widOwh0od 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, q
lake OF tears and a lake Of blood, and
two scrolls, the one written like Eek
tePs scroll, within and without, with
lamentation, and mourning, and woe;
and the other scroll containing an
emancipation proclamation mightier
than that which Abraham Lincoln
signed, and giving freedom to more
slaves from worse bondage, and declar-
ing that under the majesty of the law,
as well as under the swords and blud-
geOns of an outraged nation, shall 90
down the red dragon which so long has