National Republican., 1886-10-04
Woodward & LethreD,
1913 f Street N. w.

his lower jaw dropped, smoke issued from
mouth and Dostrils, aud the heat Of his
body was so intense 1t drove back those
who would come near. Scores of people
have visited the scene aud saw the BIAS
phemer In awful process Of expiring.
Do not think that because God has been
silent In your case, Oh, profane swearer
that he is dead. Is there nothing now in
the peculiar feeling Of your tongue, or
nothing In the numbness OF your brain that
indicates that God may come to avenge
your blasphemies, or is already avenging
themp But these cases j have noticed /
believe are only few cases where there are
hundreds, Families keep them still
to avoid the horrible conspicuity.
Physicians suppress them through lprofes-
sional confidence. 1t is very, very, very
long roll that contains the names OF those
who died with blasphemies on their lips;
and still the crime rolls on, up through
parlore, up througi chandeliers, with
lights all ablaze, and through the pictured
corridors of club rooms, &C., out through
busy exchanges, where oath meets oath,
mingliDg with the rafting dice and crack
ing billiard balls, and the laughter of her
who hath forgotten the covenant of her
God; and round the city, and round the
continent, and round the earth q seething,
boiling surge filings its hot spray into the
fGce OF long-suffering God. And the
ship captain damns his crew, and the mer-
chant damns his clerks, and the master
builder damns his men, and the hack driver
damns his horse, and the traveller damns
the stone that bruises his foot, or the mud
that soils his shoes, or the defective time
piece that gets him too late to the rail train.
j arraign profane swearing and blasphemy,
two names for the same thing, us being one
OF the gigantic crimes OF this land, aud for
its eXtirpation II does seem as II It were
about time for God to arise.
Then look moment at the evil OF drunk
enness. Whether you live in Brooklyn, or
New York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or
Savannah, or Boston, or In any Of the cities
OF this land, count up the saloons on that
street as compared with the saloons five
years ago, and see they are growing far out
of proportion TO the increase OF the p0pula-
tion. You people who are so precise and
particular lest there should be some i'm
prudence or rashness In attacking the rum
traffic will have your son some night
pitched into your front door dead drunk,
or your daughter will come home with her
children because her husband has by strong
drink been turned into demoniac. The
rum friend has despoiled whole streets Of
good homes IN all our cities. Fathers,
brothers, sons, on the funeral pyre of strong
drink Fasten tighter the Victims STIR
up the flames Pile on the corpses More
men, women, and children for the sacriHce!
Let us have whole generations on fire Of
evil habit; and at the sound OF the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulci-
mer; let oil the people fall down and wor-
ship king alcohol, or you shall be cast into
the fiery furnace under some political plat
form
indIct this evil as the fratriclde, the
patriclde, the matricide, the uxoriclde, the
regicide Of the century. Yet under what
innocent and delusive and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives the, people. 1t is a
"cordial;" II Is "bitters;n IL Is an "eye-
opener" it is an ''appetIzer;" It is 0di-
gester;" 1t is an "lnyigorator;n 1t is a
nsettler;' 1t is ''night,c cap" Why don't
they put on the right labels-"essence OF
perdltlon,n "cOnscience stupeder," .nve
drachms Of heartache,n "tsars Of orphan
age,n "blood Of souls" "scabs Of an eter-
nal leprosy,n "yenom OF the worm that
never diesf" Only once In while is there
anything In tho title OF liquors TO even
hint their atrocity, as In the case OF sour
mash. That see advertised all over. 1t
10 an honest name, and any one can under
stand IL. Sour mash That Is, IL makes a
mans disposition sour. and his associations
sour, and his prospects sour; and then II Is
good to mash his body, and mash his s)ul,
and mash his business, aud mash his family.
sour mashl one honest name at last Tor
an intoxicant! But, through lying labels
oimany OF ottheapotheearies' shops, good peo-
pie who are only a little undertonc in health,
and wanting OF some inyigoraton, have
unwlttlDgly got on their tongue the fangs
Of this cobra, that stlngs TO death so large
ratio Of the human race.
Others ure ruined by the common and all
destructive habit OF treating customers.
And It Is a treat on their coming to town,
and treat while the bargaining progresses,
and treat when the purchase is made, and