The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-05

live up to the living hour, achieving the
right that cries now for victory with ouI
faces yet towards a grand future. In the
old world, if a man did anything great his
generations unborn could live on his name
and estate. Thus they became worthless
ness. We must not be Europcanized. We
must be Alnericanized, Because a party
has done a great thing in the past-the
Democrat party setting its face against the
Europeanizing tendency in the past; the
Republican party setting It's face against
slayery's extension, God working through
it more than it attempted-we must
not live on their great anne 1t is
foolish. 1t is to miss the grand to-day in
admiring a ileeting yesterday. Catch
inspiration from the past but live in the
present. Live for the future. For honor's
sake don't let a politician trade with your
%prejudices! Professional politicians are
parasites. Let a party win by principle
and for principle, and you will find the
political parasite there. He will manipu-
late the caucus, and he will reap the re-
wards of principle without ever having
fought its battle. say don't let him have
four prejudice as his stock IN trade, SO
that he can say | control SO many votes;
| will give them to you this year, If you
will give me yours next. And SO you vote,
and he rakcs in the offices. 1t might re-
mind us of the monkey dancing and the
man who holds it by the chain gathering
in the pennies.
Is there, can there be any other question
so overslladowing as this? 1t wastes body.
1t wastes brain. II wastes soul. 1t wastes
manhood. 1t wastes citizenship. 1t wastes
money. In this country $944, 900, 900 year
ly drink bill. In Great Britain $661, 640,-
600 yearly drink bill. 1t is making us
poor. 1t wastes the unborn generation! A
fine looking, healthy appearing man lived
OIL until fifty. Every day he drank. But
he never was drunk. He was pointed to
as IN example of Il moderate drinker; of
health in moderate drinking. A relation
of his in Halls Journal Of Health told the
other side. When about fifty years old he
died, but took a slow and painful year in
which to die. For months before he died
he could eat nothing without distress;
when he died his Intervals were one mass
of disease. But that was not all. lie left
his family a legacy of five thousand dol
lars a year. Put a more awful legacy than
that he left them. One of his daughters
took fifteen years to die with sorotnla.
their teens. One is in the mac house.
Another is lettering on the brink OF the
grave. Another is left, the only one with
all her senses, but leach is as weak as
water What an internal reaping, that
from the sowing OF moderate drinking.
Sow q drunkard, reap idiocy, scrofnla,
consumption, insanity, death in aecursed
children. A moderate drinker dropped
dead. At his dissection they found that
''the whole covering of his brain was thick
ened; its cavities were filled with a fluid
tllit dit liOI btlOhS W inv iii AtOtSh W mn
a half dozen men with apoplcxy; a
great portion of one lung was in a
state of gangrenc, and nearly all the other
was hardened, and useless blood and yell
low matter plastered the inner covering of
the lungs, while angry red patches Of dc
structive inflammation were scattered
along tic whole alimentary canal. Why
there was enough of death in that mans
body to kill twenty men! The doctor who
talks about guzzling liquor every day be
ing healthy, is a perfect disgrace to the
medical name, and ought to be turned
out to break rock for the turnpike during
tie term of his natural life, at a shilling a
day and board himself.
knew a young man, fine, noble looking
but yet a drinker. l do not know that he
was cvcr drunk. But it killed him at last
And his brotIcr-in-law told me that when
the llea rise was on the way to cemetery,
the corpse swelled up and spilled buckets
full of fluid along the way. What a fear
full mass Of corruption his drinking made
of him. There was once 4 minister who
advocated moderate drinking from his pull
pit, and himself pracliced it. He had two
wealthy members like minded. Often did
the saloons toast this mans health. The
result is that his sons and the sons oftlcse
two members became d~runkards. some OF
them in a d~runkard's grave now, and the
others, il not already there, following af-
ter.
By our poor rum-wasted, whisky
blighted brothers, let us swear the curse
shall be wiped out. By the awful inherit
anee of serofula and insanity and idiocy Of
the drunkard's children, let us swear
eternal enmity to the cursor By the tears
and the agony of million hearts and
thousand homes let us vow before
God that we war the evil for its ex-
termination. If | could tonight show
you blightcd character and wrecked
homes, some s~crofulous, idiotic, insane
children of the drunkard; if | could
show you the sad work of hell which this
curse is working, it would be enough. Mo-
one of You but that would marshall to this
crusade with an enthusiasm and self sacri
fee which would dwarf the wonders o.
that other crusade of the centuries agone
Better that the hands that make and legal
ize and sell this curse of hell would palsy