Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-07

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.-n.. On the one hand are Joo ~
uSvt.,v and tbe best Interests OF the worry;
n,s az otber IN the sworn enemy on ~
v,.htsousness and either this army muss y
sovn or The church of God ana iree so''
rnment perish. c-s..
s.s,o.al Prshtsitisn surely Csn..s.
Oh this black destroying archangei o.
all di.bolism, one wing reaching 70 'ns
Pacific and the other TO the Atlantic IA
from beak and filthy claws, clutchins tne
torn and bleeding heart strings Oh tne No
tion that cries out: "How long, O, LORD
how LONG" Better try to compromise WIN
the panthers In their iungles, with the cy'
cloua In its fight with the Egyptian
plssue as il blotches an empire than VIA
Ipollyon for whom this evil Is recr9iaaiS,
officer, quaItermaster, and com manoef ~.
chief. NV friends, let rs fight 1t out on inc
old line and We will get the victory -
snre ne right is right. and wrong 10 wrong
and truth is truth, and falsehood In false.
hood. and God IL God. Are You so dear
thst Won cannot hear In the distance the
rnmblipp of the chariot Of victory over
400 900 voters in Ohio at the last election
for prohibition. Kansas on the right SIDE,
Iowa on the right side, Alabama ana
Georgia almost ready to fail into
line. Fifteen of the legislatures OF the
limited States discussing the temperance
question. The liquor trade so panic.
struck that it is trying to get Congress 70
alter the Constitution so that prohi6itory
laws shall be declared unconstitutional.
Two hundred and forty six towns OF MAY
sscbusetts out Of two hundred and nifty.
six declared against license. Not sign.
board in all the State OF Main offering 70
sell rum for sale, so that the crime 10 taere
put down besides other crimes. one
branch of the legislature OF our monopoly.
cursed New York, few weeks aao, only
thee votes of from passing a law giving
10 the people choics of prohibition. Last
Thursday week the Congress OF the United
States demolished the bonded whisky bill
by a vote OF one hundred and eighty-six 70
eiehty-three. although the liquor traffic had
voted 500 600 TO buy spectacles through
which our rulers might see the subject IN
the right light. give fair warning 70 the
politicians Of America, the leaders OF orr
beautiful Republican party and to the Clio:
rious Democracy that the temperance men
will very soon hold the balance OF power
in America, and they will determine who
shall be Mayors snd Governors and Con.
gressmen and Presidents. Better get on
the track before the morning express train
comes down with temperance societies ana
soIs OF temperance and good templars and
the long train loaded with reformers and
Christian philsnthropists and all the best
interests OF the world. Clear the track!
The cowcatcher will be piled up with
smashed decanters and the slaves OF beer
barrels and the splipters OF high license
platforms and the broken rail OF those who
sat on the fence and The demolished
homes, schemes, vaccinations and brides OF
all whiskydon!
The Last Great Reformer's work.
The time will come when the evil will
he so reduced that there will be only ten
wine TASKS left, and they will be set up at
the other end OF the alley for ten pins.
And one rrformer will take just one small
round ball OF prohibition and roll 1t till
down shall go the last vss;igss OF the sin
with tie ten.strike. But while the pros.
pect looked ut fro n the side of worldly re-
form is so bright, looked at from the
Christian eide it IS absolutely csrtain. God
will rise up and put hand ts this wicked
ness. Have you any doubt about His
being stronger than the devil? Blucher
came ND before nightfall and saved the day
for Wellington. At 4o'clock in the after.
noon il looked very badly for the English.
Gtncrsls Ponsonley and Picton fallen,
sabres broken, hsgs SURRENDERED, osotcn
grays enuihiIated, emily forty.two men
left OF the German battalion,
English line' falling back! Napoleon
laughed in triumph and said: This little
Englishman needs q lesson. We have
ninety chances out OF q hundred in our
favor. Magnificent Messengers are sent
to Paris with the news Of the French viz.
tory. But Butcher came up and before
night the conqueror Of Austerlitz was the
victim OF Waterloo. The man whose name
made Europe tremble and filed even
America with apprehension, is found
muddy and hatless, and crazed with de-
feat, feeling in the night for the stirrups OF
q horse that he may mount and resume the
contest. Now the rum traffic Is imperial
End corqueror aud many good people
sry that the night il coming, the night OF
the national overthrow; but before sun
down the conqu' ror of earth and heaven
will ride in a.. ale white horse, and the
rum traffic, which has had its Austerlitz OF
triumph, shall have its Waterloo OF de.
feat, aud the crown fallen from the brow
Of Alcoholism, the filthy and staggering
breaker Of human hearts. craZAi with his
disaster, shall feel in vain for a stirrup by
which TO rtmount.
HEADQUARTEEs for all kinds Of Garden.