The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-02-03

murder, ascsrtsining all the circumstances
surrounding Il, and within two hours after
that mans bloody corpss had bsen taken
away by order Of tbs coroner, aud after the
serVsnt had mOpped up tho blood from the
floor the horrible gambling was again going
on In all its terrible intensity. %, how hor-
RIB Ell
"You are training your sons, whom you
put tness carLs into their hands, to outer
on lives Ike that, and they will bccoms
mur ierers IN thsn mad infatuation for
cards.
you ara turning them looss with thsir
passions rant, without having trained them
70 god .iuess, 10 obedience and rigbteousnssl,
ana tDey Ars tur ned out on the community
as hDertinea, the very mention OF whose
names will bring the blush OF shame 10 tho
cheek or womAnuood some OF tbes3 young
fellows 80 10 places where they dare not tell
their mother VI thsir father they hays besn,
and places the name VI which they would
not have nAinsi 10 tho presence Of tboir pure
sisters
why, only few days ago ons Of your
leading papers here reported tho fact that
ous OF theB' libertinos visitei oDs Of tboss
horrible DsgDios, snJ ran af1ul Of his own
sister Oh, my God, what revelation for
any man
l5am Jonas-"Shs hal as much right
"Ycs, she was there with as much right as
he was
"Only few years ago member Of proud
and chivalrous family Of Virginia neari his
sister was Ia ono Of thOss1 uOrri0lf dBns,
and he vent n the houSe, AMI entering tbs
room whers she sat hs shot tins miserable
creature to the heart, and the jury OF his
country men who tried him acquitted him.
"DrunkenneEa and debauchsry have made
fearful nroa1s ana drafts upon this people
Of Americi ever since ths country was
Ieopled at all. A man might stand here uu-
til daylight Tomorrow painting for you tbs
dismal, horrible diJrama Of the rsprsnls
that liquor and dcbauChery have made ON
tho psople ot this city alone, ami yet IN that
time noe toll IL all.
"A man ~ this city, unfer tho Influence
OF the damnIng Had OF degra Intion, with
all bis passions aroused, found TO his cosy--
a. OJO--whnJ II cost and how much IL WAS
" urth for a man 10 20 into these places ami
submit himself 10 these horrible sius The
Other day th5 newspapers recorded what II
cost a man 10 revel IN this dnmnabla filid at
the barr wnen ne returned 70 his hum.
bio home aud found that his vito, In her
despair at his condition, aud awake to the
bopeI gsna5s OF his cas-, had committed sui
eide, an loft a reccr1 Of the CAUSE behind
her
"rhs other day, in San Francisco, as the
wires reported IL, IA man wont hone drunt,
and entering MS home beat his wife cruelty,
and then beat his little infant chill, his
daughter, In hsr mOthsrs arms, aud then
the brute took the money she had received
for her labor at tho tub asl went out again
o tho dramsh0p 10 debauch himself still
further, AMI the child died In the poor
mother arms
"The mother in hsr frenzy and madness n
the agony she suffered, that her husband
bad thus mur Tered hsr lovely one, ran
through the streets with the dead holy OF
the infant In hor arms and went TO the ga
loon where her brutal husband was, and
rushing up to the counter sh3 laid her doal
babe ON 1t, unler the very eyes OF the horri-
fed bnr-keepar, aud said: 'Sea how your
damnabo traffic has caus3d my husband to
murd'r his child But she suffered an
agony her weakened system coal not stand
any longer, aud one OF the blood vessels Of
her body gave way under tho terrible strain
and she fell dead Mt the counter hersslf Her
husband the father OF her murdered child,
and now tho murderer Of them both-was
sitting at "A beer table in the rear half sod
dened with his drunkenness, and when he
realized what an awful thing he had caused
TO be Uerpatratod he threw up his
hands and said: My God, / have
murdered my wifO aud childr and
before no cOull 10 prevented he drew
corpse was taken away from the saloon, aud
afterwards all three were buried together In
n lowly grave; and the papers reported
that the miserable scoundrel who produced
nil this misery did not even close his bar
room while tho funeral procession was pass.
ing his place,
"Yct you demand nothing from a traffic
Ike this IN the state Of Ohio; traffic that
is producing crino no less horrible than that
of every day right here in your own com
muulty, ami you throw your doors wida
open TO II, and let IL come In to debauch, dis
grace and dishonor aud dethrono the reasons
Of your sons, and make them the very off
securing Of earth and the vagabonds OF
belt Aud yet say that sin costs nothing,
That folly makes no reprisals on people in
this day aud generation
"HOu are leaving behiul you heritage
OF sin Tor your generation aud your chill
dren. You are leaving them with a heritage
ot woe before them. You ara leaving them
In the madness aud insanity OF this worlds |
follies, ami you go 10 render an imperfect
account of your Stewardship your father |
hood, your motherhood here, How many
OF these palatal homes in this city have |
been built through the chicanery and pecu- |
laIions and fraudulent trans actions and pro- |
fessional meudacity and tue sinful trckery |
that Is rant In every department OF bust |
hess in thin country. How many of these |
palatlal rosiiences built upon these founda-
lion stones of iuiquity bring happiness to
their &C 'upantsi
"You build thom exteriorally with all the
atornmentS architecture can give them
You furnish their interiors with the Spoils
)f tho studios ant Vt,li'rs OF all countries;
you rausecg Cnlni aud Japan and Persia
and Turkey aud q i the artistic AMI manu-
featuring tenters e the worlds bazars anl
narts for elegant furniture and rugs and
carpets, aud yet the very means by which
you have gained the money for these Things
mas dehauched and perverted your soul, aud
when you enter IL the spirit of your life
comes in and haunts you. and there is gloom
md hlackneSs in all corners OF thu adihce
III would shrink from the task tonight Of
a ting the confessions OF the women OF this
own II they could he by the angels made TO
peak the truth aud have IL reported in
AMI translated aloud from this
and you could hear them exclaim
,HSionately that they would rather have
he cd days OF poverty and innocence and
purity and contentm'nt back than continue
o longer live in the elegance and splendor
II the sinful surroundings in which they
low reside
sherman Abandonu the West