The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-07-30
TALNAGE'S SERMON.
Fifth Discourse OF the Series on
'aThe Labor Question"

Laborer-The Penalties Insepsrable
From the Indulgence Of the Habit
Tho Advantages OF Abstinence.
subject Of the fifth discourse of his series
on "The Labor Question "Strong Drink
the Worst Foe of Labor, /" and illustrated IL
from the following text:
lie that earneth wages. earneth wages to
put 1t into bag with holes-GHaggai, l.. s.
| DIR. Talmage said: In Persia, under the
reign of Darius Hystaspes, the people did
not prosper They made money, but did
not keep 1t. They were like people who
have a sack in which they put money, not
moving that the sack is torn or eaten of
moths or in some way made incapable Of
holding valuables. As fast as the coin
was put in one end of the sack it dropped
| out Of the other. Il made no difference
how much wages they got, for they lost
| themi
What has become OF the billions and
billions OF dollars in this country paid to
the working classes2 Some Of these moneys
have gone for house rent, or the purchase
of homesteads or wardrobe, or family ex-
penses or the necessities Of private life, or
become Of other billions. Wasked IN fool.
ish outlay. Wasted at the gaming table.
Wasted in intoxicants. Put into bag
with > hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years and will buy for every
workingman q house, and lay out for him
q garden, and clothe his sons in broad.
cloth and his daughters In silks, and stand
at his front door a prancing span of sor-
rels or bays, and secure him q policy Of
life insurance, SO that the present home
may be well maintained after he ID dead.
Tho most persistent, most overpowering
enemy Of the working classes IL intoxi.
eating liquor. It Is the Anarchist Of the
centuries, and has boycotted and 10 now
boycotting the body and mind and soul Of
American labor. It Il to It . worse foe
than monopoly and worse than associa ted
capital. It annually swindles industry
out Of large percentage of its earnings.
It holds out It's blasting solicitations to the
mechanic or operative on his way to WORK,
and at the noon-spell, and on his way
home ut even-tide; on Saturday, when the
wages are paid, It snatches q large part Of
the money that might come to the family
and sacrifices it among the saloon. keepers.
Within eight hundred yards Of Sand Street
Methodist Church, Brooklyn, it has fifty
four saloons and is plotting now for an
other. Stand the saloons Of this country
side by side, and 1t Is carefully estimated
that they would reach from New York to
Chicago. Forward march, !" says the rum
power, land take possession Of the Amer.
lean Nation"
The rum business 10 pouring ito vitriolic
damnable liquids down the throats Of hun.
dreds and thousands of laborers, and while
the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to
employers and employees, proclaim Q
universal strike against strong drink,
which, II kept up, win be the relief Of the
working classes and the salvation of the
Nation. / win undertake 10 say that there
ID not healthy laborer in the United
States who, within the next tan years, II
he win refuse all intoxicating beverage
and b saving, may not become Q capital.
LIST on small scale. Our country In year
spends 81 500, $50 900 for rum. OF course
the working classes do sig reat deal OF this
expenditure. Careful statistics show that
the wage-earning classes of Great Britain |
sxpend in liquors 500, 000, 900 . year. Sit |
down and calculate. o, workingman, how |
much have you expended In the direc- |
tionsl Add Il al up. Add up what your
neighbors have expended, and realize that |
instead Of answering the heck Of other |
people you might have been your own |
capitalist.
= When you deplsts workingman's phys
icai energy You deplete his capital. The
stimulated workman gives out before the |
workman.
Ny father said: 81 became . temperate |
man In early life because noticed In the |
harvest that, though was physically |
weaker than other workmen, could hold /
out longer than they. They took stimu-
lants; took none."
A brickma ker in England gives his sx.
4erience In regard to this matter among
men in his employ. He says, after In
vestigatfon: "The bear drinker who made I
the fewest bricks made e5e, 900; the ab.
stainer who made the fewest bricks. TIA.
700. The difference In behalf OF the ab-
'tatnsr over the indulgsr, $780,"
There came very exhausting time In
HE Britifh Parliament. The session was
prolonged until nearly all the members got
'ick or worn osi.. Cat Of So members only
Two went throu n aniamaged; they ware
The following circumstances came unde
'w observation: A young man worked
N Sar~. III. sS3oo /