The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-08
Outwitted-Aro Triumphant.

So far the Devil of the Bowl seems to
have well nigh outwitted us all. The
general government, the State govern
ments, municipal authorities, temper
ance societies and churches have failed
to subject King Alcohol to satisfactory
control. His wholesale destruction OF
life, property and all else that men hold
dear, has gone ON increasing for more
than century, despite all the efforts
which mankind have made to free them.
selves from his ravages. Yet men have
come at last to know that they them
selves first warmed the deadly viper
into life, and have ever since been nur
turing it in their own bosom. Wash
ington made bargain with his servant
to let him have so much money, sc
many times year, that he might pro-
cure it as the means of getting drunk
at stipulated seasons,-the agreement
implying that the servant must get
drunk and that the master ought to
help him into that state. OF course
the price of the ssdrunks" was deducted
| from wages. So, the States of this Union
sell the privilege to their citizens to
drink and be drunk as often as they
please for a certain sum of money. The
State and the saloon-keeper get the
money the drinker pays for his drains
but the health, the time, the intellect
the conscience, the manhood and the
everlasting life which the drinker often
loses, are lost to the world forever.
Mankind are at last aroused to a sense
of their true relations to this monster
fiend. They made him, and they car
and will destroy him. Neither party
ties, mere cries about liberty, can any
| longer prevent men from prohibiting
themselves from setting deadfalls fol
their neighbor. They are determined
no longer to incur the curse of putting
the bottle to their neighbor's mouths
and making them drunk. Light is in
creasing. Men have come to see thai
while some may have the liberty ts
drink, others have the liberty of ceas
ing to frame mischief by law" They
will no longer be partakers of othe
is the most highly authorized business
in the State of Mississippi Few preach
ers of the gospel have a majority of th,
voters on their church rolls. All whisk,
sellers do have a majority of voters t.
back them But this profitless ans
guilty sort of responsibility which vo
tiers are persuaded they ought no longe
to bear. Judgment is convinced, con
science is aroused, and nine men out D
every ten feel, a. they never felt before
that they are verify guilty concernin,
their brother in this matter of estah
fishing saloons
/ We have nothing to say against 81
loon keepers At q great price the.
obtain the profitable liberty to sell pois
on, and they have hard time" try
| ing to keep law which an angel, Ii
their circumstances, could not keer
They are the peoples agents But th
people have heard the voice Of wisdor
and of love, saying to them, HSanctio
4 no more saloons. That voice they VII
obey. The saloon Is doomed. as surel
| Is philanthropy and duty rule the cor
duct of patriots and froemen.
One Of the most glorious victori<
ever zchieved III America will Be th1
lin which self denial and brotherly kinS
. ne sh1II triumph oxer avarice -
nppetite, and ~ shall 40 mere, A
moneys AZ IN thS nomc of GI1x1l lIered IN
s1I i3H6l e1z neiEh EhbQE in16 3I!Is