The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-07
and saw the blasphemer in awful process Of

feeling of your tongue, or nothing IN thu
numbness of your brain, that indicates tha
God may come to avenge your blasphemies
or is already avenging them? But these case
have noticed, believe, only few case
where there are hundreds. Families keel
them still to avoid the horrible conspicuity
Physicians suppress them through profes
sional confidence. 1t is very, very, yer,
long roll that contains the names of those WIKI
died with blasphemies on their lips, and still
the crime rolls on, up through parlors, VI
through chandeliers with lights all ablaze
and through the pictured corridors of clul
rooms, etc, out through busy exchanges
where oath meets oath, and down through al
the haunts of sin, mingling with the rattlinf
dice and cracking billiard balls, and the
laughter of her who hath forgotten the cove
nant Of her God; and round the city, anC
round the continent, and round tile earth 2
seething, boiling surge filings its hot spray in
to the face of long suffering God And the
ship captain damns his crew, and the mer
chant damns his clerks, and the master builder
damns his men, and the hack driver darnns
his horse, and the traveller daInns the stone
that bruises his foot, or the mud that soils
his shoes, or the defective timepiece that gets
him too late to the rail train. arraign pro
fame swearing and blasphemy-two names
for the same thing-as being one of the
gigantic crimes of this land, and for its extir-
patton it does seem as if it were about time
for God to arise.
Then look moment at the evil of drunken.
ness. Whether you live in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or Savan-
nah, or Boston, or in any of the cities of this
land, count up the saloons on that street as
compared with the saloons five years ago,
and see they are growing far out of proper
tion to the increase of the population. You
people who are so precise 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 homo
with her children because her husband has. by
strong drink, been turned into demon. 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 victimsi Stir up the
famesi Pile on the corpses More men, wo-
men and children for the sacrificed Let us
have whole generations on fire of evil habit;
and at the sound OF the cornet. flute. harm
sackbut, pSaltery and dulcimer let all the peo-
pie fall down and worship King Alcohol or
you shall be cast into the fiery furnace under
some political platformi
lndiet this evil as the fratricide, the patri-
eide, the matricide, the uxorcide the regi-
eide of the century. Yet under what innocent
and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism
deceives the peoplel 1t is cordial" 1t is
"bitters." 1t is an @eye-opener." It is an
appetizer" 1t is @digester." 1t is an Gin
vigorator." 1t is Settler" 1t is a might
cap" Why doA't they put on the right
labels Essence of Perdition," GConscience
Stupefier," "Five Brachns of Heartache,"
"Tears of Orphanage," "Blood of Souls"
Gps ,S of mol a.
Worm that Never Diesi" Only once in a
while is there anything in the title of liquors
to eVsq hint their atrocity, as in the case of
sour mash That see advertised all over. It
is an honest name, and any one can under
stand it. Sour mash. That is, it makes a
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 mashl One honest name at last for an
intoxicant! But through lying labels of
many of the apothecaries' shops good people
who are only a little undertone in health, and
wanting Of some ipYigoration, have un-
Willingly got on their tongue the fapgs 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
it is a treat on their coming to town, and a
treat while the bargaining progresses, and a
treat when the purchase is made, and a treat
as 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 intrenehed 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 the
officeholders of this country. On their side
they have enlisted the mightiest political
power of the centuries And behind
them stand all the myrInidons of the
neither world = satanic and Apollyonic
and diaboIic It is beyond all human effort
to overthrow this Bastile of decanters or cap
ture this Gibraltar Of rum jugs And while
l approve of all human agencies Of reform
would utterly despair if we had nothing else,
But what cheers me is that our best troops
are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in re-
serve. Our greatest commander has not yet
fully taken the field If all hell is on their
side all heaven is on our side. Now, "Let
God arise, lot His enemies be scattered"
Then look at the impurities Of these great
cities Ever and anon there are in the news
papers explosions of social life that make the
story of Sodom quite respectable, for such
things, Christ says, were more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah than for the Chorazins
and Bethsaidas of greater light. 1t is no un
usual thing in our cities TO see men In high
position with two or three families, or refined
ladies willing solemnly to marry the very
swine of society if they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen years
ago were almost free from All sign
of the social evil, now night by night rivaling
upper Broadway in its lamboyant wicked
ness. The Bible all aflanle With denqnciation
against an impure life, but many of the
american ministry utterfng not one poIn1
blank word against this iniquity lest some old
libertine throw up his church pew. Machln-
cry organized in all the cities of the United
States and Canada by which to put yearly in
the grinding mill of this iniqniEy thousands Of
the unsuspecting of the country farm houses,
one procuress confessing last week In the
courts that she had supplied the Internal mar
ket with $50 souls in six months. Oh, for
five hundred Pail Mall Gazettes in America
to swing open the door Of this lazar-house of
social corruption! Exposure must come be-
fore extirpation.
While tho city van carries the scum OF this
sin from the prison to tho police court morn
ing by morning, it is full time, if we do not
want high American life to become Ike that
Of the court of Louis XIV, toput millionaire
Lotharios and the PonlpadouFs OF your brown
ton, and drive them out of respectable asso-
Citations. What prospect of social purihca-
ton can there be as long as at summer water
ing places it is usual to see a young woman OF
excellent rearing stand, and simper, and
giggle, and roll up her eyes sideways osfore
one of those first class satyrs of fashionable
life. and on the ball room floor join him IN
the square dance, the maternal chaperone
meanwhile beaming from the gall on the
scene? Matches are made in heaven, they
say. Not such matches, for the birthstone
indicates the opposite regiop.
The evil is overshadowing all cur cities, BY
some these immoralites are called peccadil-
loes, gaIlantries, eccentricities, and are rele-
gated to the realms of jocularity, and few
efforts are being made against it. God bless |
the 1'White Cross movement, as it Is called, |
the excellent and talented Miss Frances Will |
lard. its ablest advocate ON this side the sea,
an organization making mighty assault on
this evil God forward the tracts on this |
subject distributed by the religious tract
societies of the landl God help parents in the |
great work they are doing in trying to start
their children with pure principlesl God
help all legislators in their attempt to inhibit
this crimel
But is this aha Then it is only question
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