Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-14
THE WORST FOE OF LABOR
Is Strong Drink---A Powerful Ser
mon by Or. Talmaqs
ON THE DROWNING VICE OF THE AGE
Vivid Picture Of the Life Of DamnatiOn to
Which the 0runkard Con-
signs Himself.
Special 10 the Register.

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his series of sermons on "The Labor Ques
ton" His subject was, Strong Drink the
Worst Foe of Labor" The opening hymn
was:
$50 let our lips aud lives express
The Holy Gospel We profess;
So let our works and virtue shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine"
After explaining appropriate passages
of Scripture, Dr. Tslmags took his text
from Hsggai, chapter l, v, Vi: HE that
earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into
a bag with holes" DR.. Tslmage said:
In Persia under the reign Of Darius
Hystspus the pepls did not prosper. They
made money bat did not keep it. They
we're like people who have a sack in which
they put money, not knowing that the sack
is torn or eaten of moths or in some way
made incapable of holding valus5les As
fast IS the coin was put in one end OF the
sack it dropped out of the other 1t made
no difference how much wages they got,
for the lost th;m. He that earneth wages,
earneth wages to put 1t
INTO A BAG WITH HOLES
What has become OF the billions and bill
lions of dollars 10 this country paid to the
working clssses2 Some of the money
have gone for house rent or the purchase
of homestesds, or wardrobe, or family ex-
penses. or the necessities OF iter or to pro
vide comforts in old age. What has become
OF other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay
Wasted st the gaming table. Wasted IN
intoxicants. Put into bag with hun
cred holes. Gather up the money
that the hard working classes
have spent for rum during the last thirty
wears and | will build for every working
man q house, and Icy out for him gar.
den, aud clothe his sons in brosdcloth and
his daughters in silks, and stand at his
froat door a praucing span OF sorrels or
BAYS, and secure him policy OF life insur.
sncs so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead. The most
persistent, most oyerpowering enemy OF
the working classes is Intoxicating liquor.
Il is the anarchist of the centuries and has
boycotted and il now boycotting the body
and mind and soul of American labor. 1t
is to it q worse foe than monopoly and
worse than associated capital. 1t annually
swindles industry out of large percentage
of its earnings. 1t holds out its blasting
solicitations to the mechanic or operative
on his way to work, and at the noon-spell
and on his way home at eventide or Saturday
when the wages are paid, it snstches large
part Of the uCIey that might come to the
family and sacrifices ii among the saloon
keepers. Within eight hundred yards Of
Sand Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn,
it has fitry.iogr saloons and is plotting now
for another. Stand the saloons Of this coun-
try side By side, and it is carefully estimat
ed they would reach from New York to
Chicago. FORWARD march, says the rum
power, and take possession Of lhe Amerl-
can nation
TIE RUN BUSINESS
il pouring it's Viriolic and dsmnable
LIQUIDS down the tdroslS Of hundreds OF
thousands OF lsborers, and while the ordin-
ary strikes are ruinous both to employers
and employees, | proclaim a universal
strike against strong drink, which 1t kept
uu will be ths rali2t Of the working classes
and the salvation OF the nstiuE. will IN
lertake 10 say that there Is not healthy
lsborer 10 the United States who within
The next ten wears, if be will refuse all in
toNicsGn7 bovarsge aud be saving, may
not become i capitalist &C. y small
scale. Our country 20 p
year spends one billion, i've handted mill
! ion and fifty thousand dollars tor rlm. or
eos.rso tSe working classes do great deal
ofrhis expenditure. Careful statistics show
that the wage. earning classes o, Greet
Britain expeud in liquors, one hundred
million pounds, or FIVE hundred million
dollars . yes-. Sit down aud calculate,
o working man how Iaush gag have ex-
pended in these directions. Add it oil up.
Add up what VOC peighbors have exz
| aanded, and realize that instead OF answer
inc the ;oec,k: of other people you might
have bSsi: your own CAP.
When you depicts = To,s;ugTsn's phys-
cal energy you deplete his capital.
rHs STIMULATED WORKMAN GIVES OUT
before the uusti simulated workman.
Nv father said, u became a temper
ance man in early lie because J noticed
in the harvest field that though | was
uhysicslly weaker than other workmen,
could hold out longer than they. They
took stimulsnts, / took none
A brick maker in England gives his ex-
psrience in regard to this matter among
men in his employ. he says after investi-
gatian: The beer drinker who made the
fewest bricks made $4,000; the s5stsiner
who made the fewest bricks, $4,000. The
difference in behalf of the sbstAiner over
the indulger, $1,000"
There came very exhaustiDg time in
the British Psrlismeat The session was
prolonged until nearly ell the meRbers got
siSk or worn out. Out of six hundred and
Gfty two members only two went through
undsmsged; they were teetotsllers.
When an army goes out to the battle the
soldier who has water or coffee in bis can
teen marches easier and fights better than
the soldier who has whisky in bis csnteen.
Ram helps a man to fight when he has
only one contestant anu tnht at lne suee'
corner. But when he goes forth tc
maintain some great battle for God and bis
country. he wants no rum about him.
When the Russisus 60 to war corporal
passes along the line aud smells the breath
of every soldier. If there be in his breath
taint Of intoxic ating liquor the msn i;
sent back to the barracks Why2 He
cannot endure fatigue. All our young
men know this. When they are preparing
, for a regatta or for ball club or for Al
athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our work
ing reople win be wiser after awhile, snC
she money thy ding away on hurtful in
diligence they will pat into eoepeEstv'
, associations aud 30 become cspitslists. l
the workiugmsn put down his wages and
then take his expenses and spread then
ont 90 they will just equal, he ia not wise
Il I know working men who are in 8 perfec
6dget until they get rid Of their last dol
lar.
AN ISCIDESr.