Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-06

dead drunk, or your daughter will come
| home with her children because her husband
! has by strong drink been turned into de-
moniac.
! The rum fiend has despoiled whole streets
of good homes in all our cities. Fathers,
brothers, sons, on the funeral pyre of strong
drink! Fasten tighter the victimsl Stir up
the flames! Pile on the corpses! More
men, women and children for the sacrifceI
Let us have whole generations on fire of
evil habit; and at the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer
let all the people fall down and worship
King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into the
fiery furnace under some political platform.
indict this evil as the fratricide, the pa
reglclde of the century. Yet under what
innocent and delusive and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives the people! 1t is
cordial" 1t is "bitters." 1t is an "eye-
opener" It is an appetizer" 1t is "di-
gester." 1t is an "invigorator." 1t is a
Settler" 1t is ''night-eap." Why don't
they put on the right labels-'essence of
perdition, conscience stupefer," "fve
drachms of heartache," clears of orphan
age" "blood of souls, "scabs of an eternal
leprosy," venom of the worm that never
diesT' Only once in while is there any
thing IN the title of liquors to even hint
their atrocity, as in the case of sour mash. |
That L see advertised all over. 1t is an |
honest name, and any one can understand |
it. Sour mash! That is, it makes a mans |
disposition sour, 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 in |
toxlcant! But through lying labels of many
of the apothecaries' shops good people who
are only little undertone in health, and
wanting of some invigoration, have unwit-
tlngly got on their tongue the fangs of this
cobra, that stings to death so large ratio
of the human race.
Others are ruined by the common and all
destructive habit of treating customers.
And 1t is a treat on their coming to town,
and treat while the bargaining progresses,
and treat when the purchase is made, and
q treat when he leaves town. Others, to
drown their troubles, submerge themselves
with this worse trouble. Oh the world is
battered and bruised and blasted with this
growing evil! 1t is more and more en-
jrenched and fortified. They have millions
Of dollars subscribed to marshal and ad-
Tance the alcoholic forces. They nominate
Ind elect and govern the vast majority of
he office holders of this country. On their
lde they have enlisted the mightiest polit
cal power of the centuries. And behind
hem stand all the myrmidons of the neither
world, Satanic, and Apollyonic, and diabolic.
t is beyond all human effort to throw
his Bastile of decanters or captare this
Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while approve
u all human agencies of reform, would
Utterly despair if we had nothing else. But
What cheers me is that our best troops are
ret to come. Our chief artillery is in re-
erve. Our greatest commander has not vet
ullY taken the field. If all hell is on their
lde; all heaven is on our side. Now, "Let
IOd arise, and let his enemies be scattered.''