The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-14
TEMPERANCE.
SERMON ON TEMPERANCE,

DI' APaTFo"S wants INC Liquor frame
Restrained by the Power of Enforced
Laws-The Liquor Seller Essentially a
Law BreaEer.
Central Music Hall was crowded last
evening when DIR. Barrows delivered an
address on Temperance The title of
his subject was "Broken Lives, Broken
Homes, and Broken Laws in Our City,"
His text was taken from the following
passage of Scripture:
HE lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his
Den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he
into his net.'-PSGlm y, 9.
Referring to the daV as the anniver-
sary of the birthday of Washington. DIR.
Barrows said it was a dav that mirbt
well be utilized in calling to duty
patriotic citizens. In 1894 Washington
had used the power of the Government
to put down the whisky riot in Pennsvl-
vania, and before 1894 he hoped the coun-
try would be able to put down the liquor
traffic that ruthlessly trampled the laws
of the land under its feet. All men did
not condemn drunkenness. But it was
terrible thing to be slave to appetite,
to put that in the mouth which would
steal away the brain and transform us
into beasts. For want of a better
name, he would call the spirit of wine
the devil"
From a financial standpoint the liquor
traffic was the greatest evil in America,
and 1t was the same in other lands
More money was expended for liquor
than for bread. The descendants of the
Anglo-SaXon race had been saturated
with liquor for ages. and many of them
| hoped to be drunk to all eternity.
Americans were class in which alcohol
produced drunkenness, because they
were eXcitable, and mixed the vilest de-
coctions with their drinks. They were
very sensitive people. They wasted
S9OO,000,OO0 annually in liquor If
Secretary McCulloch, or the nameless
Secretary of the Treasury of the coming
President, We're to put that amount in a
vessel and sink it they would be called
robbers. Yet this amount of money
was annually taken from wives and
children, when it should be expended
for homes, clothing, and shoes to pro-
tect bare feet But instead of this it
was handed over to the potato-bug
leeches of society, who were not pro-
ducerS of any thing but idiots, imbeciles
and drunkardS. 1t would be better to
sink it in the sea. And what were they
going to do about it? Everything a
righteous people ought to do. Throw
their influence in favor of total absti-
nence and dry up the fountains of
| drinking. 1t was not prudent to in
dul0e in moderate drinking. Drunk
ards would stop if they could, and mod
crate drinkers could stop if they would.
There was no benevolence in encourage
ing anything that bound the chains
more tightly upon suffering humanity;
to bequeath to children that were to
come after an appetite for strong drink,
poison their blood, and send them down
to pOsterity drunkards. 1t was palpa-
bly, wrong 10 encourage manufacturers
of maniacs and murderers in their call
ing. No liQuOr-dealer believed in
drunkardS. They wanted the moderate
drjnker. When the world looked at
things as Christ did, they would not be
willing to let these evils exist. They
would wipe out the liquid hell and dis
titled damnation of to-day.
1t was hard for the Church, the speak
er said, to down intemperance when
the legislative bodies encouraged it.
Coffee-houses might be erected in every
precinct, and the children all be sent to
school, but with the thirty-five hundred
saloons plying their business day and
night, full Of corruption, pausing not
for even the Sabbath breathing vice,
forming alliances with corrupt politics,
urged on by remorseless seliishness. it
was hard TO keep even with the rum
traffic. The law must be brought to
bear with a restraining hand. A law
not executed was worse than worthless.
1t brought itself into contempt. There
must be agencies that would see that
the laws We're enforced. Temperance
people must not fight each other but
cooperate and furnish the steam for
any temperance locomotive on the
track. Not drop of liquor had been
legally sold in Chicago for Years. The
iquor-seller was essentially law
breaker. He violated every provision
of the restraining statutes. The laws
should be executed, and under the ban
ner of the Citizens League all should
be willing to fight together. The peo-
pie should not humbly bow down to Il
tyranJ-a Belial-more ignorant than
any the world ever knew, that was
crushing ont the bodies: sand souls
nf mon (Hjcooo T;o1loc