The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-06

York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati. or Savan-
nah. OF 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
ton 70 the increase Of the population You
people who are 50 precise and particular lest
there should he some irnpr1ldence or rashness
in attacking the rum traffic, wiz have your
son some night pitched into your front door
dead drunk. OF your daughter win come home
with heTchildren because her husband has. by
strong drink, been Turned into a demon The
rum iiend has despo!lod whole streets Of good
bones in all our cities Fathers, brothers.
sons, On the funeral pyre OF strong drink!
Fasten tighter the yictins Stir I'D the
hamesi Pile on the coTFsesI More men, vvo-
men and children for the sacrificed Let as
have whole generations on fire Of evil habit;
and at the sound Of the cornet. flute, harp.
sacl.but. psaltcry and dueiner let all the pec,-
| pie fail down and worship King Alcohol or
| you shall be cast into the fiery furnace under
| some political platforrnl
Iindict this evil as the fratriciIe, the patri-
eide, the matricide, the uxorcide. the reai-
| eide Of the century Yet under what innocent
and decisive and mirthful names alcoholism
deceives the people, 1t is cordial Its
"bitteTs. 1t is an aeye-opener.n II is an
appetizer Il IS @digsstcr' II is an @in-
yiyoTator-' Il is settler It is a might
cap Why don't they put on the right
| labels Essence Of Periition, Conscience
I Stupeher, Five DracLIns Of Heartachen
Tears Of OIpbanage,n ~Blool Of Souls
"Scabs Of Eternal Leprosy.7 Venom of the
| Worm that Never Dies" Only once in
while is there anything in the title Of liquors
\ 70 even hint their atrocity, as in the case Of
| sour mash. That | sec advertised all over 1t
L & Il
stand il. Sour mash That is it makes a
mans disposition sour and his associations
sour, and his prospects sour; and then it is
good 10 mash bis body, and mash his soul,
and mash his business and mash bis family.
Sour mash One honest name at last for an
! intoxicauti But through lying labels Of
many Of the apothecaries' shops good peopIe
who are only a little undertone in health. and
wanting Of some invigoration, have I'M
Willingly got On their tongue the fangs of
this cobra, that stings to death 50 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
treat while the bargaining progresses, and
treat when the purchase is made, and 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 moro intreuched 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
oliceholders of this country. On their side
they have enlisted the mighticst political
power Of the centuries. And behind
them stand all the myrmidons of the
neither world - satanic and Apollyonie
I NJ u T. = A.
20 overthrow this Bastile of decanters or cap
ture this Gibraltar of rum jugs And while
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, let His enemies be scattered"
Then look at tho 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 BethsailGs of greater light 1t IS no I'M
usual thing in our cities to see men in high
position with two or three families, or refined
ladies willing solcmnly 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 hamboyant wicked
ness. The Bible all afiams with denunciation
against an impure life, bus many OF tina
American ministry uttering not one point
blank word against this iniquity lest some old
lihertine throw up his church pew. D1achin-
| cry organized in all the cities of the United
States and Canada by which to put yearly in
the grinding mill of this iniquity 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
10 swing open the door of this lazar- house of
social corruptioni Exposure must come be-
fore exthpation.
While the city van carries the scum of this
sin from the prison to the police court morn
ing by morning, it is full time, IL we do not
want high American life to become like that
of the court OF Louis XIV, put Millionaire
Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brown
stone palaces into van of popular indigna-
ton, and drive them out of respectable asso-
Citations. What prospect of social purifca-
ton can there be as long as at summer water
ing places 1t is usual 10 see young woman of
excellent rearing stand, and shipper, and
gigglc and roll mp her eyes sideways before
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 wall on the
scene' Matches are made in heaven, they
say. Not such matches, for the birthstone
indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities By
ra
loes gallantries, eccentricities, and rele-
gated TO the realms of POPULARITY, and few
efforts are being made against it. God bless
the white Gross" 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 land, God help parents in the
great work they are doing in trying to start
their children wiki pure principleSl God
help all legislators in their attempt to inhibit
this crimel
But is this ALA Then it is only question
of time when the last vestige of purity and
home will vanish out of sight Human arms,
human pens human voices, human talents
are not sufficient. begin to look up. / lis
ten for artillery rumbling down the sapphire
| boulevaris of heaven. | watch to see if in
| the morning light there be not the flash of de
scending scimeters. Oh, for God! Does ID
not seem time for his appearancel Is it not
time for all lands 70 cry out: ~Let God arise,
let His enemies Ire scatteredln
got letter few days ago asking me il
l did not think that the earthquake in
| Charleston was the divine chastisement
| that city for its sins That letter | answer
now by saving that if all our American cities
all 4b.air
horrible impurities the earth would
| long ago have cracked open into
crevices transcontinental and taken down
al our cities; and Brooklyn and
New York would have gone 50 far
under that the tip of our church spires would
be 500 feet below the surface. 1t is of the
Lords mercies that we have not been con-
snmed.
Not only are the affairs of this world
so a-twist a-jangle and racked that
/ there seems a need of the divine appear
ance, but there Is another reason Have
| you not noticed that in the history Of
this planet God turns a leaf about every two
thousand years God turned leaf and this
world was fitted for human residence. About
| two thousand more years passed along and
| God turned another leaf. and it was the del
| uge. About two thousand more years passed
| on. aud il was the appearance of Christ. Al
most two thousand more years have passed
! BY, and He win probably soon turn
another leaf What it shall be 1 cannot
say. 1t may be the demolition OF
all these monstrosities of turpitude
and the establishment of righteousness in all
the earth. He can do it. and He will do il
I am as confident as If it were already ac-
complished. How easily He can do it my
text Suggests. 1t does not ask God to strike
with His right hand, or stamp with His foot,
or hurt thunderbold OF His power. but just
TO get up from the throne on which He sits