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-
moniao
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 victims Stir up
the famesl Pile on the oorpses! More
men, women and children for the sacrifice!
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 fratrioide, the pa
tricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, the
regicide of the century. Yet under what
innocent and delusve and mirthful names
alcoholism deceives the people! 1t is
cordial" 1t is "bitters." II is an "eye-
gester." 1t is an "invigorator," 1t is a
Settler" 1t is a "night-cap." Why don't
they put on the right labels-"essence of
perdition," conscience stupefier," five
drachms of heartache," tears of orphan
age" "blood of SOULS" "scabs of an eternal
leprosy, venom of the worm that never
dies2" Only once in while is there any
thing in the title of liquors to even hint
their atrooity, as in the case of sour mash.
That | see advertised all over. II is an
honest name, and any one can understand
IL. Sour mash! That is, it makes 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
toxicant! But through lying labels of many
of the apothecaries' shops good people who
are only n little undertone in health, and
wanting of some invigoration, have unwit-
tingly got on their tongue the fangs of this
cobra, that stings to death so large Il 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 treat while the bargaining progresses,
and treat when the purchase is made, and
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-
trenohed and fortified. They have millions
of dollars subscribed to marshal and ad-
and elect and govern the vast majority of
the otfice-ho!ders of this country. On their
side they have enlisted the mightiest polit
ical power of the centuries. And behind
them stand all the myrmidons of the neither
world, Satanic, and Apollyonio, and diabolic.
IL is beyond all human effort to throw
this Bastile of decanters or captare this
Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while approve
of all human agencies of reform, l 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, and let his enemies be scattered"