The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-04


ing the separate snowfakes OF indlvid'
ual suffrage into an avalanche enough
to crush all the allied powers of dark
ness. Besides that, your vote Is for
1888 or 1892, and will not affect No
vember, 1884. for this year the cleo
ton will be swept by majority such
as has not been seen since the year
when American politics sacrificed on
its cruel altar my personal friend anu
GRANDEsT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS,
HORACE GREELEY.
In speaking as l said / would in
this brief course of Sabbath morning
sermons about the things that threat
en- the destruction of American insii-
buttons, could compass the subject
without speaking of drunkenness? Is
il a State evil or a National evil!
Does it belong to the East or to the
West, to the North or to the South!
Alas! mel There is not river OF
America in which its tears do not How
and It's suicides have not plunged.
What ruined that Southern planta-
ton, once It's every field a for
tune, the proprietor and
his family few years ago the most
affiuent guests of summer watering
places? What sent into decay that
New England farm, the roseate cheeks
that bloomed at the foot of the Green
Mountains, turned into the pallor OF
drudge? What hath smitten every
street of every town and city OF this
continent with moral pestilence
What will OH the first Tuesday in
November in every state in the Union
send thousands of men to the ballot
box maudlin and incompetent and
and filthy and blasphem'
Gus? Strong drink To prove that
the evil is national, / call up Maine
of the north, Iowa of the west and
Georgia, of the south. Eyes" say'
Maine. sit is so much of All evil W.
have. as a state, anathemized it,
Eyes" says Iowa, "by constitutions
amendment, We have forbidden it.
YES" says Georgia, "we have IL
ninety counties of our state
MADE THE SALE OF 1T A CRIMINALITY.
How many in all parts of the lane
are waiting 10 see if something Is 60
ing to he done for their relief? Firs
OF ali. tens of thousands of drunkards
who can not walk ten minutes in an,
direction In our cities without havIn!
the temptation glaring before thei
ewes or appealing TO their nostrlls, an'
they fighting against it with enfeeble'
will and diseased appetite, first con
ouering then surrendering, conquer
Ing again and surrendering again
CRYING, "How long, oh. Lord, ho'
long before these internal solicitation
shall be removed?" Mothers ar
waiting 10 see if something can b
done-their boys, once with homes
: breaths, that breath now always oil:
,, guised, their eyes once clear, no.
filmy and bloodshot, the good hour
they kept exchanged for a rafting G
. the night-key long after the cit
Waterman has gone by to see tina
everything is safely locked up. An
the high expectations
. THAT THE soN WOULD DO soMETHIN
as artisan or merchant or professions
o man, and would be an honor 10 tn
: family name long after the mother
( wrinkled hands had been folded froi
: her last toil-this expectation ex
!. changed for a startled look at nigh
f: when the door bell rings, lest some
l thing has happened, and the wish tbs
= the scarlet fsver of twenty years az
had been fatal, for then he woul
e have gone safely to the Saviour's arms
But, poor old soul, she is left TO sc
a the truth of what Solomon said: 81
|, foolish son is the heaviness OK b
+ mother"
fl What a funeral it will make whe
that boy is
e CARRIED HOME DEAD!
She will say: SIS this the boy
|, used to fondle and sing to all nigl
: long when he was sick? Is this Il
: bow held to the altar of baptism
- Is this tie boy for whom | toiled ii
the blood came out of the tips of 81
> fingers that he might have a goo
> starting and a home? Lord, VIII
,. hast Thou kept me alive to see this
Surely those swollen hands are nj
the hands that used to wander Owe
. my face while l rocked him to sleel
= Surely that bloaied brow is not I'll
= = one that so rapturously kissed. POI
! boy! How tired he locke! l wOnd'
. who struck him there on the temple
, 7 wonder if he uttered dying praye
= Wake up, my sn! Can't you hei