The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-09

that there is any other remedy, or
that this is too severe. AL that is
demanded is concert Of action. Il
,oiU come. II is at the door. There
are men enough not hopelcssly de-
ba,tched to vote such iaps. They ,uiu
yet unite and rid the earth of this foul
monster. 1t lives, not because it
cannot be put to death, but be-
cause zoe haze not the aoiH to stranole
IL, Let Christeaadom arouse, and in
single day Of brace aoork, the land
aoiu be freed of tais vilest gang of
criminals that hacd ever cursed 1t,
and the prisons viii empty, and the
slums will dry up and the vicious
classes will vanish, and the miser-
les of poverty and wretchedness
will cease. If q Christian nation
so will, it can be done in one day.
If we will not, the Moloch will de-
YOUR our homes and our children.
Moderation is counseled. Moder-
alton! Who counsels moderation ?
Have we not tried temporizing
policies with this wild beast of
nameless passion long enough ?
Have we not sought to tame him
with moral suasion, to melt him with
tears of broken-hearted womanhood
and childhood, by appeals to
any latent humanity that might yet
be in him, by the homes he has
desolated, and the victims by mill
lions, he has inundated Have
we not resorted to measures of mild
repression only to see how futile
they are? Have we not bound
him with the withes of low license
and high license, and hampered
him with local option and obstruc-
tive legislation? Have we not
worn ourselves out with crusades
and petitions and circumstances
Have we not, despairing of any
success with the beast himself, ex-
hausted all possible methods of
rescuing his victims, only to find
him, at the end of hundred years
OF unsuccessful effort, still en-
trenched and defiant2
1t is seventy years since the
J great Beecher stirred Boston and
the nation with his startling ap.
peal. For half century the i'm.
passioned Cough has gone up and
down the land, creating, by his ap.
peals, that would move a heart OF
stone, moral sentiment. Thou.
sands of others have plead and
wept and prayed. For twenty
J years women have knelt on curb
f stones and entreated The State
r still pampers the beast, and turns
} him loose to raven and destroy
| Where he had novels, he has built
| palaces. The low GROCERY has
? lowered out into the gilded saloon
The scurvY miscreant, once de-
} spised but patronized, has become
the acknowledged gentleman o.
= fashion. He has moved from hic
: obscure quarters into the street;
where decent citizens live, and is
J toasted and feted by well-bred mer
| and women. He has formed an os
: tentatious league, and banks mil
| lions to defend his respectable pro
: fession. He calls conventions, and
sits, with parade, in deliberations
Of his rights and immunities, ano
the public press busies itself with
) reports of his proceedings ano
: speaks OF him with respect.
: Moderation, MOI Who talks Of
? moderation ia the coils of boa
: constructor? We have temporized
too long. 1t is time we talk and
/ act like men. A murderer, cold,
heartless, cruel, is among US. Not
the assassin Of one or of family
f His victims count by millions. His
= butcheries are progressing daily
and nightly within sight of our
dwellings. The screams of bis
victims, if we would but listen,
) would chase away sleep from our
eyes. He knows the fact; we know
} it. His sole and only business for
) which he lives, and by which be
lives, is first to debauch youth and
innocence, and then to hurry the
, doh ooorod buIz O uauipfo q drI1o l.