Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-01-16

y. Cnurcn, fryeourx me-, ounuAy E'eu-
Ing, Dec. IL, on the Anniversary OF the n.
W. c. T. Union, by ]. Collins, PASTOR
Let US look q moment at facts, and
Rumsellers.
l. 1t cost 800. 0O0, 900 a year for
Ave years to crush the rebellion. Oh,
bankruptcy and blood was the cry then.
Now, each of the Is years since the var.
it has cost $3.50, 0OO, 900 for liquor
Here is more money by e2s 1000. 900.
and more misery tod. Hargrdres.
Why not .o~ cry out blood, murder.
taxes and bankruptcy Why not broth
Or Republican. Democrat and Greenback-
err
2. Look again. AL the -four and
meal, cotton goods. boots and shoes.
clothing, WOODEN goods, books and news
papers, and job printing in the United
States in one year cost Sole, 200, 900,
while drink cos, e7S9 ,0OO, 900; $780,
OOO,O 900 more than all these gOOds.-Dr.
Stebbins.
This is 34S for every man, woman
and child in the country. 1t would pay
the national deb, in less than three years.
DR.. Hdrgrarss.
Qui, drinking. and pay our debts
8. Rupsellers years work in the L.
S. is: 10000 die drunkards; 100000
men and women sent to prison; zoo,
0ee children made homeless SOC muir
ders and 400 suicides committed.-H
Greeley.
These men kA ZOOS persons week,
LA a day, an hour, and every ten
minutes.
Is this no, murder; Who Is guilty /:
Eighty and ninety per cent Of all pau
perism, crimes and misery. is due to Ii
quor.-Gor. Dir's reio.
4. Rumsellers pay sso, 100000 a
year into the treasury Of the United
States for the business Of making drunk
ards, paupers. idiots, fools, madmen, and
murderers Of the people. Deny it who
can How long will the people stand
this. The United States licenses rams-
sellers for Seo, OOo, 900 to XII men. wO-
men and children, aud the people are
taxed twenty times Csc, 900, 900 to pay
expenses of rum erimt.ol, Figure
that UP and see, o. the taxes Are
we sold to be slaughtered by rum
s. The opinions, the deep convictions
Of our best and vises. men, will COM
mand the respec. Of all honest. sober and
reasonable men. We give few Gov.
Morrill, of maine declares the traffic in IL
quor to be the gigantic CRIME Of crimes"
and certainly the inference is legitimate,
that the men in the traffic are the O.
gantie CRIMINALS Of CRIMINALS. Deny i,
who can lie, the apologt,: step on; and
be seen Rumsellers are prisoners
general. They murder His Majesty.
subjects by wholesale neither does their
eye pity or spare. They drive them to
he'll like sheep; and what is their gain
Is It no, the blood of these men, Who,
then, would envy their large estates and
sumptuous palaces A curse i, in the
midst Of them the curse Of God cleaves
20 the stones, the timber, the furniture
Of them The curse Of God is in their
gardens, their walks, their groves {; FIRE
that burns 10 the nethermost hell !
Blood. blood is there the foundation,
the floor, the walls, the roof are stained
with blood There is God in heaven.
Oh thou man Of blood therefore,
thy name shall soon be rooted out. Like
those whom thou hast destroyed, body
and sOui, thy memorial shall perish with
thee."-John Wesley,
Who can deny this Who will apol
ogise
II rum selling is not the work of the
devil, do no, know what it I, "Ye are
Of your father the devil. He was a n,,r-
derer from the beginning.-John 8 and
81. "Woe unto him tina, giveth his
neighbor drink; that puttest thy bottle
10 him and makest him drunken also. "
Heb. 2 and 10.
II tina, does not mean the rumseller,
! do not know what does God says ne
will destroy the works Of i" the devil"
your father" murderer" and "woe,"
etc. Who will cry radical, and cover
up gigantic crimes and criminals p
Let him step out and be marked with his
friends These men deal in what the
great Baptist. Robert Hall, called al
guid death and distilled damnation -
6. The radicaiisw Of the most ex-
treme prohibitionist would never hurt
the body or soul sof single man, or
waste a single dollar Of bis property. |
His principles would make heaven on