The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-03
Inexhaustlble Riches and Perpetual
Youth

IouIl
How found? Some sought it in the
wilds Of the west, and the Spaniards seek.
ing it were brought to the halls OF the
Montezumas; and Cortez, finding the gold
murdered Montezuma, but failed 10 find
the spring or fountain of perpetual youth.
Some five or six hundred years ago an al
chemist discovered the art of distilling
brandy from wine. He thought he had
found the tabled font and cried Eureka"
But alas alas! although brandy may have
saved few cholera patients, it has doomed
multiplied thousands TO AN early and mis-
cradle death. The Hon William Sullivan,
as early as 1892, delivered before the Mas
sachusetts Society for the Prevention of
lntemperancc the following remarkable
words
"In your researches after that which you
should have ut once known To be impossi
bic, by the laws Of nature, you have opened
fountain of misery which shall flow for
ages. You have not contented yourself
with pressing out the juices of the fruits
bestowed upon you, and converting them
into strong drink which you needed not,
but you have taken this strong drink and
the harvest which was given you for food
and have drawn from these II liquid which
is not food and will not nOurish nor sustain
your earthly frame. This liquid shall be IA
curse upon you and your descendants. 1t
shall be known wherever the arts of civil
cation are known. You shall call it the
Eltrtr IF Life. You shall believe it to be
nutritious to the body and glatldening TO
the soul. The love of ii shall grow with
the use of it. 1t shall soothe the solitary
hour and cheer the festive board. 1t shall
charm away your griefs and be the cause
of your rejoicings. 1t shall be bought and
sold, and make the dealer therein rich. 1t
shall yield abundant revenues to sovereign.
ty. Hospitality shall be dishonored in not
Offering it to the guest, and the guest shall
be disgraced in not receiving ii at the
hands of the host Butt shall visit your
limbs with palsy; it shall eXtinguish the
pride of man; il shall make the husband
hateful TO the wife, and the wife loathsome
to the husband; it shall annihilate the love
of offspring; it shall make members of 50
ciety shame and reproach to each 9th
er, and TO all among whom they dwell. 1t
shall steal from the virtuous and the hon
orable their good name, and shall make the
strong and the vigorous totter along the
streets of cities II shall pervert the law
of habit, designed to strengthen you in the
path of duty, and bind you in tie iron chain.
1t shall disgrace the judge upon the bench,
the minister in the sacred desk, and the
senator in his exalted seat 1t shall make
your food tasteless, your mouth to burn as
with fever, and your stomach 10 tremble
as with disease. 1t shall cause the besot,
ted mother To overlap her new born, un.
conscious that ii dies beneath the pressure
OF her weight; the natural cravings of the
who has passed, unheeded, 10 her last long
sleep. The son shall hide his face that he
may not behold his fathers depravity; and
the father shall see the object of his foud.
est hopes turn to Il foul and bloated carcass
that hurries 10 the grave. Ii shall turn the
children of men into raying maniacs; and
the broken ties of blood and affection shall
find no relief bu; in the friendly coming of
death. As the seed which man commits
to the earth comes forth in that which he
converts into spirit, so shall this product of
his own invention be as seed in his own
heart, TO bring forth violence, rdpine and
murder
REVERSE.
The light of reason shall at length break
upon the benighted and afflicted world.
The truth shall be told Ii shall be be-
lieved. The causes of calamity shall be
unveiled. The friends Of the human race
shall speak and be respected Rational
man shall be ashamed of his follies and
his crimes, and humbled 10 the dus, tina,