Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-16
ALCOHOL.
The Red Dragon, which, with sharp
Horns and Gloven Rosfs,
Roams Up and Down Throughout the Length
and Breadth Of Our Land srsring
None Who Come IN
Hisway.
SERMON BY REV. 7. DEwlTTTALMAGE.


drew the third part OF the stars of heaven"
Some interpretators take this red dragon
OF the text TO be one thing, and some an
other and as there seems q wide differenceof
opinion, feel at liberty to take Il as sug-
geStive Of the great monster OF Intemper-
enee, wide .iawed and iron .hoofed, fiery, all
deyouring with at least ten horns to hook
and pierce and wound, and by taking pos
session Of many governments il may be
said to have seven crowns, and by the aum-
Der Of kings and queens, and orators and
poets and other illustrieus persons whom
il has brought down from the armament of
power il may be said to have drawn the
third part of the stars of heaven after it.
Alcoholism, worst of all red dragons. In
my sermon Of last Sabbath, while repre-
bending the political parties Of this day for
their present degradation, l said that the
two great political parties had done their
work, and that we should before long
Have q New Party.
The Republican party was formed to kill
slavery. Slavery is dead and damned. The
Republican party having achieved what it
started for, had better pass out Of existence.
The Democratic party was founded by
Thomas Jefferson to oppose the adoption of
laws Of primogeniture, by which the Oldest
son got all Of the inheritance, and to drive
out of the land all foreign titles, and to
give equal rights TO all classes of people.
Having fully accomplished thar work, its
mission seems ended. We are now ready
for psrty organized for a new, particular,
supreme, GOd-given work. l showed you
last Sabbath that such party must first of
all acknowledge God in its platforms, in its
ensigns, in its plans and purposes; that it
must also be the foe OF national wasteful-
ness aud the friend Of national economy.
come now to say that il needs not only to
whisper, but to thunder against the curse
of curses, the abomination of abomina-
tons, the infernalism of infernalisms-
IntemPeranee Of the Land
and by national prohibition go forth to
slay the red dragon of alcoholism. II you
think that the triumph of prohibition in
Iowa and Wisconsin and Kansas is a
fanatical paroxySm you are greatly mis-.
taken. In six years the prohibition party
will hold the balance Of power in every
State of the American Union, not perhaps
having the majority of votes, but the
balance Of power, so that no man can be
Governor. or Lieutenant Governor. or Sec
retary of State, or Judge of the Court of APP
peals until he be pronounced against the
red dragon, and in twelve years il will have
its President in the White House. No
party ever rose as rapidly as this party is
rising. The anti-slayery party, which finally
rose under a mountain OF Scorn and con-
tempt till il took possession, of the Presi-
Dental chair and both houses OF Congress,
made not one-fourth the speed of this anti
rum crusade. Why, slavery was pet
lamb compared with this red dragon.
All the families which. have by intemper-
ance been robbed OF fathers, sons and
brothers, and all the States which have had
their mightiest men despoiled by this
iniquity, and the churches of Ged which
have found the chief obstacle to their adj
yancement in this awful habit of strong
drink, and all the intelligence and all the
virtue and all the enthusiasm OF the conti-
nent will
PACK themselves Into an Avalanche
that shall come crushing down upon the
greatest evil that ever cursed the nations.
Now give the politicians of America fair
warning of what is coming. Better lead oil
than come in afterwards among the strag-
glerS. Prominent men OF both parties,
North. South, East and West fOresee the
rising tide of this great reformation, and
they are getting ready to fight the red drag
on. There may be many defeats before the
day of victory, but victory will come as sure
as God lives, end this land was not intend
ed for one great drunkery. nominate for
President and Vice President in 1884, car
ing not which is the first or which the sec
ond name on the ticket, although one IS a
Republican and the other a Democrat, the
one n Western man and the other South
ern man, two pronounced prohibltlonists,
Governor st. John, of Kansas, and Govern
or Colguitt. of Georgia. II is Nighttime
that the far West were honOred with such
an office, and now that the war is all over
let US show that We realize il is all over by
calling to the highest or next to the highest
office the illustrious Georgian. o. my Lord
and my God, what a country this would be
with no dram shops in it! In Thy great
mercy hasten il.
No dram shops. then no jails and no poor
houses. Few desolate hOmesteads, few
broken hearts No woman brought up m
elegance, afterwards married To men who
set them, with pale cheeks and shriveled
arms and consuming lung aud hollow eye
and fainting strength, to fight back the
wolf whese nOstril, thrust through the bro
ken window pane,
Snua-s for The Blood OF Her Helpless
Babes
Let the temperance societies OF the land
cease quarreling, and the 10000 members
of those societies in this one State OF New
York Join the hundreds OF thousands OF
members of temperance societies In other
States, and the millions of people in the
United States who, not belonging to any
Temperance society, still feeling that some
thing must be done for the Sobriety and
disenthralment of this nation, and in one
half the time that have spoken of as nee
essary for the achievement OF the work IL
will be done. We want hrst of all to de-
mand an amendment to the constitution
of the United States, passed by three
fourths of the States as directed IN the Con-
stitution, forbidding the manufacture ana
sale of alcoholic liquors, except for med
ical, scientific, artistic or mechanical pur-
poses in ali the States and Territories, and
torbidding the importation of all for
eign LIQUORS except for the aforesaid pur-
noses Next wear or the year after let
great convention be called 70 demand such
an amendment, and to nominate national
officers. As last winter at great temper
ance meeting held in this house Governor
Colauitt and Governor st. John addressed
the people, and now invite the holding OF
snch a convention in this city and in this
house. Mere State enactment is not enough
Drive the evil out of one State, and you
NAV drive itint 10 another. Make ii
National Enactment -
and Won drive it into the Atlantic on one
side and into the Pacific on the other. Let
there be no room from the Canadas to the
Gulf and from sea to sea for the feet Of the
That The individual States have ell oon-
stitutional rights to prohibit the manafac-
tuFe and sale of alcohol vas established ey
the opinion Of Judge Mclean OF the United
States Supreme Court, Judge Woodby,
Judge Grier. Judge Daniel, Justice Catron,
Chief Justice Shaw OF Massachusetts,, CHIEF
Justice Harrington Of Delaware, Chief jus,
tioe Mason of Nebraska, aud alter Daniel
Webster and Rufus Choste had argued the
ease before the supreme Court OF the Uni"
ted States, the highest tribunal OF the land
JusIice Taney, supported BY all the judges
Of the Court, rendered this decision: i see
nothing in the Federal Constitution or laws
nf CONGRESS 10 prohibit q State Legislature
from Prohibiting the traffic altogether.
The right of the State 70 extirpass this evii
= settled, but we want the boldness and
the persistence and the aggregate force Oh
ali the good people Of the United states to
demand an srneffdment 10 the Constitution
of tbe United States, That amendment
PASSED the weaker States would be helped
by the stronger States, the ,e'aes by tue
country districts. and you and would hve
TO see the day when it Nould be as unusua
10 see a man destroyed by drunkenness rs
a case Of suicide by taking Paris green: DO
Won tell me that the government OF the
tinted States cannot afford such prohibi-