Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-01
ELDORADO SPRINGS.

EDITOR INTELLIGENCER: - Fresh
bloomed beauty reigns supreme
over our brush clad city, while the
warm sunshine and gentle breezes bid
the buds come forth to re- decorate the
forests which had cast off their robes III
obedience to the king of the Arctic
storms.
The germs of health and prosperity
begin TO show forth renewed vIgor and
activity.
Wonderful changes have been
wrought in our midst in the last three
months in the way of revivas in finance,
religion and temperance, and in the
latter we claim 4 world wide and uu-
paralleled banner of success. Widows
hearts have been made glad by their
children having been rescued from that
inevitable abyss of eternal woes from
which the inebriate never returns.
Wives have been comforted; mothers
have been made glad; sisters have re-
ioiced; brothers made happy and the
community turned topsy turvey as if by
some magic wand. Captain Dan
Shields, the invincible foe to alcohol,
has just concluded series of lectures
i'll our midst which has put more than
a semi if not almost a total quietus OH
the broad, stalking, damnable, ,debauch-
ing and iniquitious reign of spiri.us
fermenti. Political strife, ,animosity and
dlscord no longer sever the ties of
home protection, but IN hoc stgno rim
ces is on the banner of home under
which liberty lies. Seven hundred and
eighty of our citizens are now basking
in the sunlight of liberty under the
banner of "God, Home and Native
Land" We believe that chicanery
and political schemes to the personal
aggrandizement of individuals are
damaging TO ourselves, our homes and
our country and should no longer be
tolerated. People become SO in :ensed
and deluded by partisan strife that
they look beyond where their interests
lie. First our person second our fami-
ly; third, our township; fourth, our
county: fifth, our congressional dis
trict; sixth, our state; and seventh our
nation, should be our motto. But this
order Is generally reversed by COM
mcncing at Washington. Home rule
and home protection should be the
modus operandi of every brave hearted
ami true American citizen. Captain
Shields organized here the banner [. o,
Il. L. lodge of the world, with chaste
membership of five hundred and fifty
five. The captain, with great talent,
wonderful courage, profound logic and
startling facts, seizing the great toma-
hawk ofjusiice and right never fails to
bring down the satanic victim of the
age-lntemperance. The whisky traffic
and saloon advocates recede from him
like irosts from the autumn sun. ANY
community desiring saloons abolished
and the morals OF their young men rails
ed to higher plane, Incorporate men
who ridicuie ID. X. Shields before
hey see him, reluctantly part with him
With fearful eyes and joyful, pcnitcnt
hearts, secure his services and we give
you our word that in two weeks you
Will think that Il thunderbult OF ciectri-
tied truths and convictions is miracu-
IouSly turned loose from the eternal
>ou.ce cf Justice. We as town can
not say too much Tor him. He goes
from us with our best wishes for sue
cess elsewhere, and ut any future time
he viii be more than welcome to return
to the field where the harvest has begun.
We only have one regret tor his lacking
ability and We're. he omnipresent
our regrets would cease mid the
shadows of gratitude. T. j. a.