The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-10-12

l their lips, and still the crime rolls
D on, up through parlors, up through
7 chandeliers with lights all ablaze;
e and through the pictured corridors
of the club-rooms, ETC.; out through
busy exchanges where oath meets
i, oath, and down through all the
haunts of sin, mingling with the
= rattling dice and cracking 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
seething, boiling surge, filings it's
hot spray into tue face. of long
suffering God. The ship captain
damns his crew, and the merchant
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
E cEthat gets him too late to the rail
train. l arraign profane swearing
and blasphemy, two names for the
same thing, as being one of the gi
gantic crimes of this land, and for
it's extirpation it does seem as if it
were about time for God to arise.
Then look a moment at
J THE EVIL OF DRUNKENNESS.
Whether you live in Brooklyn, or
New York, or Chicago, or Cincin
natl, or Savannah, or Boston, or in
any of the cities of this land, count
up the saloons ON that street as
compared with five years ago, and
see they are growing far out of pro-
portion to the increase of the popu-
lation. You people who are so pre-
else and particular lest there should
be some imprudence 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 a
demoniac. The rum fiend has de-
spoiled 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 fames Pile on the
corpses! More men, women and
children to sacrifice! Let us have
whole generations on the fire of evil
habit; and at the sound of the cor
not, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery
and dulcimer let all people fall down
and worship King Alcohol, or you
shall be cast into the fiery furnace
under some political platform!
l indict the evil as the fratricide,
the patricide, the matricide, the ux-
orcide, the reeicide of the century.
Yet under what
INNOCENT AND DELUsIvE AND MIRTH-
AUL NAMES
alcoholism deceiyes the people! 1t
is a 'cordial.n It is "bitters.' 1t |
is an "eye-opener." 1t is an "appe
tier II is a "settler." 1t is a
''digester.' 1t is an ''invigorator."
1t is ''night-cap" Why don't they
put ON the right labels-"Essence Of
Perdition," conscience Stupefier,"
Five Drachms of Heartache,' ''Tears
of Orphanage," "Blooa of Souls"
"Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy,"
"Venom of the Worm that Never
Dies?" Only once in Q while is there
anything in the title of liquors to
even hint their atrocity, as in the
case of sour mash! That see ad-
vertised all over. 1t is an honest
name and any one can understand
it. Sour mash! That is, it makes
mans disposition sour, and his
associations sour, and his prospects
sour; and then it is good to-mash
his body, and mash his soul, and
mash his business, and mash his
family. Sour mash. One honest
name at last for an intoxicant! But
through lying labels Of many of the
apothecaries' shops good people who
are only little undertone in health,
and wanting Of the invigoration,
have willingly got on their tongues
the fangs Of the cobra, that stings
to death so large ratio of the hu
man race.
Others are 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 is progressing,
and treat when the purchase is
made and treat as he leaves town.
Others to drown their trouble sub
merge themselves with this worse
trouble. Oh, the world is battered,
and bruised, and blasted with this
growing evil. 1t is more and more
entranced and fortified, They have
millions Of dollars subscribed to
marshal and advance the alcoholic
forces. They nominate, and elect,
and govern the vast majority of of
fee holders Of this cONntry, On
their side they have enlisted the
migbtiest power of the centuries.
And behind them stand all the myr-
lads of the neither world, Satanic
and Apollyonic, and diabolic. 1t is
beyond all human effort to over
throw this Bastile of decanters or
capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs.
And while l approve of all human
agencies of reform, | would not ut
terly despair if we had nothing
else. Bnt what cheers me is that
our best troops are yet to come. Our
chief artillery Is in reserve. Our
greatest commander has not yet full
Ily taken the field. If all hell is on
their side all heaven if on our side.
Now, ''Let God arise, and let His en-
emies be scattered
Then look at the
IMPURITIES OF THESE GREAT CITIES.
/ Ever and anon there are in the
newspapers explosions of social life
that make the story of SOdOm quite
respectable; for such things, Christ
! saws. were more tolerable for Sodom