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

caldrOn Is empty VIII III III osoih
and stir it again till the smoke OF II
Joins the other smoke, the smoke OF
the torment that ascendeth forever
ana ever Ha, ha! | drove nifty
ships on the banks of Newfoundland
and the Good wins. l defeated the
Northern armies at Fredericksburg.
/ slew five times as many Senators as
will next winter assemble at the
AmericaG Capitol, and five times as
many Lords as will this season gather
in the House of Peers. My testal
cup is
A BLEACHED HUMAN SKULL
and all the upholstery OF my palace Is
such a rich crimson because IL was
dipped in human gore. The mosalcs
Of nv Hoor are the bones OF children
whose life drunken parents dashed
out. NY favorite music, sWeeser
than TIE Deum or triumphal march,
it the cry of daughters turned out at
midnight on the street, because faith
er has got home from the carousai'
and the observation-disclosures shrek
of a sunken steamer because the cap
tain was not himself when ne put the
ship on the wrong course. Ha! ha!
Let me thrust the shovel again INTO
the caldron, and stir it again, ana
make it smoke again! Champion
fond am T. / have kindled more
fires. wrung out more agonies. stretch
ed out more midnight shadows, lifted
more Golgothas, rolled more Jugger-
nauts and damned more souls than any
other of the brotherhood diabolic-
THE GHAsTLIEsT EVIL OF AMERICA
IN day is drunkenness; the immediate
cause of it, the run traffic. The two
great political parties stand before IL
dumb. TIE Democratic party de-
clares it unconstitutional and IN
merican to prohibit the evil, and the
Republican party is too cONardly to
touch it lest thew lose the German
vote. III never preach again will
declare the whole counsel OF God on
this subject. =.
The first remark / have to make i;
that the evil is not suhsldlng, not Oh
the stand still, but on the forward
march. Beginning close by, remark
that / have seen more drunken people
in Brooklyn and New York within
six weeks than | have seen IN any
year of my lifetime There is in thi
country more liquor drank, and tina
Of a worse kind, than since the hrs
distlllery began its dever alton WEer'
there vas one grOggery there are hv'
Cracreries. Where there was on
ruined home there are ten demolished
Where. according to governments
foures, there were %, 900, 600 gallon
of beer sold in 1910 there were sol &,
600 600 gallons sold in 1888, and tn
3 OOO. 900 gallons of wine have be
, come %, 100000. Moreover, motto
that the evil is as thoroughly organic
ed as was ever any army, with com
mander-in-chief and staff officers an
infantry and cavalry and batterle
and advanced guards and standards
And every man who hereafter run
! for Office will be compelled TO commi
, himself either as the
) FIEND OR FOE FTHE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
/ hold in my hand circular OF
brewers association, which has bee
sent. or will be sent, to every candl
e date for office. All the presen
, nominees for the presidency and vice
! presidency have already received ii
Its first resolution reads as follows
"ResoIved: That as members OF
craft which in all enlightened coun
D tries is considered a needful and benz
D fetal branch of industry, and on
: which contributes to the force an
yigor of mankind by producing
: cheering and nourishing drink food
2 we recognize the dignity and usefu
ness of our calling, and are DESTROYS G
confirming it still more in the goo
n esteem of the intelligent, the wis
e and the humane"
In this circular the candidate TO
1 Office is called upon to fill a blan
e declaring himself friendly to the liquo
!. traffic If he do not fill it Alright an
= sign it he is doomed so far as tb
brewers association can doom bin
s and if he do not return the circular
b. the silence is taken for a negative
v THE EVIL OF THE TINE ADVANCES
:, and the fifteen million church men
!, bers in America will have to tax
}, sides in this conflict. 1t is going
b be an out and out battle betwee
: rum and sobriety, between heave
it and hell, between God and the dew
Y Better take sides before we have an
= further national decadence. Bett'