The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-07-01
pR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
RUN THE WORST ENEMY OF THE
WORKING CLASSES.

wages 70 put IL In a bag VITA holes" Has-
gal, l., 81:
In Persia, during tho reign of Darius
Hystaspes, the people did not prosper They
made money but they could not keep il.
They were like man who has sack
which he puts money into, not knowing that
the sack has been torn or worm-eaten, or Is
In some way incapacitated to hold valuables.
As no puts the CON In one end of the sack i5
drops olt of the o,her. They earned wages
but they lost them, or, as theprophet puts it;
"He that earneth WAGES earnsth wages to
put it In bag With hoeS,n What has
become of the billions and billions Of dol
lars paid as wages to the working class
OF this countryf Many of the moneys have
gone for the purchase Of warlrobes, for the
purchase Of homestea1s, for the support OF
families, for tho edu alton of childr n, for
the meeting Of the necessities of Life, for pro-
viding comfort for time OF old age, and
rightly spent, Chri tianly spent What has
become Of the other billions and billions OF
the wages paid to the working classes OF this
countryi Many Of them fooisaly wasted,
wasted at gaming tables, wasted in intoxi-
Giants, put into bag with hundred holes.
Gather up the moneys that have been spent
by the working classes o. this country during
the last thirty yea for rum and tobacco,
and will build for the workngmen, every
workingman, house, surrounding it with a
garden, clothing his sons in broa lcloth and
his daughters in silks, standing at his front
door a prancing span of bays or sorrels,
and insuring his life so that his place can be
kept up after his death. II Ia tho city Of
Brooklyn the people have expended sl7,C0O,-
0o0 in one year for strong drink, aad ono
half Of that money has Eesn spent by thu
wage earning classes, then one-half the
wages of this city has gonu for rum. stand
before the Christian church and before tho
American people to-day to declare that the
most persistent and overwhelming enemy o.,
the working classes is into icating liquor. IL
is worse enemy than monopoly IS wor
enemy than associated capital, it Is the pest
OF the century. and has boycotted and is boy
cotting the body, mind and soul of American
industry. 1t snatches away a large Percent.
age of the wages of this country. 1t meets
the laboiing man and operative on his way
to work in the morning, with hale. III sol CT
tations, and at the noon spell and
when the wages are paid it takes much Of
that which ought to go for the support of
the family and sacrifices it to the saloon
keeper. We have now in these cities saloons
that have what they call free lunch, and for
scents the laboring man may have his glass
OF intoxicating liquor and one or two articles
OF food, aud you wonder how the saloonist
can afford that: will tell you how he af-
foids it. The laborer does not stop with one
glass or one cup. His thirst is kindled and
he drinks on and drinks on and becomes a
patron Of that establishment, and drink
more and more until he goes into the grave,
and his wife and children go to the poor.
house. Within 300yartls of old Sands Stree.
Methodist Church, Brooklyn-that Gibraltar
of Christianity, that fortress of Goodness
and the truth decade after decade that Old
historical church, in which John Summer
field Numbered ON Righteousness, temperance
and judgment to come-wthin o0J
yards of old Sands Street Methodist
church, there are TO- day fifty-four drinking
saloons and an application for another. 1t
has been estimated that if the groggeries and
the rum shops of this country were put side
by side they would make solid block from
New York to Chicago. The liquor traffic is
gathering up its forces and crying out: For
ward march! take possession of the ballot
box, take possession of the city halls, take
possession Of the Legislatures, take posse 81 IN
OF the Congress of the United States, carture
the whole law for intoxiration." VIII you
tell me what chance there is for the faboring
classes Of this country while this iniluity
the vitriolic, damnable stuff down the Threats
of hundreds of thousands of tine working
class, and while a strike Injuries both employer
and employee, l this day proclaim universal
strike against strong drink. which strike il
kept up will release the working class and be
the salvation OF the nation. Any healthy
man in America, if he will be industrious foi
twenty years and abstain from strong drink
and be saving, NAV be his own capitalist on
small scale. This country spends annually
/ in strong drink one billion, five hundred mil
lion and fifty thousand dollars. A large par
of that money is expended by the laborne
classes. In Great Britain there are expended
annually one hundred million pound, or five
hundred million dollars. Oh, workingmer
<T ,L,tI hoo 90
day, or whether these words shall in somt
other way come to you, g ask you to s;
down snd ada up hsw mucf 70,
have expended during your lifetime fo
rum and tobacco. and then ask you
fellow workmen how much they hav
expended for rum and tobacco, and add it al
up and realize that by cooperative asso ia
ton you might have been your own capitalist
instead OF answering the beck and whim 0
of others. Anything that taxes from tn
working classes of America their physica
strength is robbery. Now, a man VIII
stimulates has not as much energy and phys
1cal endurance as a man who refuses T.
stimulate. My father told me how he be
came temperance man. He said: II be
came Temperate man when everybody
drank, because OF what saw in the harr 70
field, where found that though l was ply;
lea ly weaker than other m n be ,ause OF Ion
sickness, could endure mora than my CON
rades in the harvest field; l could work harde
AID work longer, and be less fatigued g
night; they took stimulants, l took none.
A brick maker in England, having in HI
employ many men, investigated the subject
am he gives as the result CT his invest gat OF
1.-THE beer drinker who made hefewest bricE
made 659,000. The abstainer who made I'll
fewe bricks made 10000. The difference
behalf CT the abstainer over the indulge
STOOD" There came time of great wear
ness in the British Parliament an the session
were so long and from week to week, tbs
nearly al the mentors of the Parliamel
were either sick or worn out OF the q;
members only two went through undamage,
They were teetotalerS. In time of wa
soldiers who go forth with wa or or coffee
the canteen can march longer and mah
braver fight than the soldiers who carr
whisky in the canteen. Rum is great hel
for man to fight if he has only one col
testant and that at the street corner; but if
man goes forth to fight for Col and
country, he wants no rum about him. Whe
the Rus ian army goes out a corporal pass
along the line and smells the breath of eac
solder, and if there be in the breath IL
slightest suggestion of liquor the man is sci
back to the barracks. Why's He cann
stand the battle, he cannot stand the marc
All our yonng men understand this. VIII
they are preparing for the regatta, for Il
ball club, for the athletic wrestling, the
abstain from strong drink 1t is most il
portant that all my friends who are toilii
with hand and foot and brain understal
they can do more work without rum thu
they can do with it. The workingman WI
puts down his wages and then puts doV
right beside them his expenses and max
, them .u,t equal is not wise. / know laboril
men who are in perfect fid"et until tn
have sIent their last dollar. Tie followil
Circumstance cane under my own observ
ton: A Young man was gett ng $500 or 81
, salary. Day of marriage came. His wi
inherited $500 from her grandfather. s
: expended every dollar in a wed ling equi
ment. Then they rented loom. Ten {
! young man found it necessary to take eve
ing employment. He was already near
worn out from overwork; but now to t
! day must night employment be added, UNI
his evesight was nearly extinguished and
health nearly gone. Why did he add mig
endowment to the day emp oymenti
l get n ore money. What did he wa
10 get more money fort To put aw
! for . rainy dayl Oh no. TO get his life
! ~ur~d 80 that if he died his wife would /
be a beggar! No, oh no. He had this oti
grand and glorious enterprise on hand:
wanted to get and he did get, by this ext
a labor $3.50 with which to purchase his wifi,
= sealskin coat. Worthy of a mans high
endeavorl The sister of the bride heard
4 the achievement and she was not to
A.lipSoJ Che waa porniuu her living w