The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-10-21

years ago, aud see they are growing far out
OF proportion to the Increase OF the popula,
ton, You people who are so precise and
particular lest there should DO some impru-
denco or rashness in attacking tho rum traf-
fic, will have your son pitched into your
front door dead drunk or your daughter VIII
come home with her children because her
husband has by strong drink been turned
into demoniac. The rum tend has de-
spoiled whole streets of good homes in all our
cities Fathers, brothers, sons on tho flu
neral pyre of strong drink. Fasten tighter
the victims Stir up the famesl Pile or
the corpses More mon, women and children
for the sacrificed Lot us have whole genera
tions ON fire Of evil habit and at the sound
of the cornet, harp, sackbut, psaltory and
dulcimer let all the people fall down and
worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast
into the fiery furnace under some political
platforml
l indict this evil as the fratricide, the pat
ricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, the
regicide of the century. Yet under what in
nocent and delusive aud mirthful names al
coholism deceives tho people 1t lisa cor,
dial,n 1t is "bitters." 1t lis an "eye-opener."
1t is an Appetizer 1t isa "digester." 1t
is an ',invigoorator:" 1t is a settler" 1t is
'nightcap." Why don't they put on the
right labels "Essence of perdition,n Con
science stupefer," give drachms of heart.
ache,n clears of orphanage, "Blood OF
souls" "Scabs of an eternal leprosy,"
venom of the worm that never dies" only
once in while is there anything in the title
Of LIQUORS to even hint their atrocity as in the
case of sour mash that SEQ advertised all over.
1t is an honest name and any one can under
stand IL. Sour-mash! That is, it makes a
mans disposition sour and his associations
sour and his prospects sour; aud 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 least for an In
toxcant. But through lying labels of many
of the apothecaries' shops good ,peop,e who
are only little undertone in health, ana
wanting of some invigorat'on have unwit-
tingly got on their tongue the fangs of this
cobra that stings to death so large ratio or
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 ana
treat while the bargaining progresses, and a
treat when the purchase is made, and treat
| as he leaves town. Others, to drown their
troubles, submerge themselves with this
worst trouble Oh, the world is battered
and bruised and blasted with this growing
! evil. 1t is more AMI more entrenchel ana
fortified. They have millions of dollars sub
ribbed to marshal and advance the alcoholic
| forces They nominate and elegt AMI gov
eru the vast aiorty Of the Office holders
of this country. On their side they have
enlisted tho mightiest political power of the
centuries, and behind them stand all the
myrmidons of the neither world, satanic, and
appollyonic, and djabolic 1t is beyond all
human effort to throw this bastile of decan-
ters or capture 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 artll-
lery is in reserve. Our greatest commander
has not yet fully taken the field. If all he'll
is on their side, all heaven is on our side.
Now "let God arise, and let His enemies be
scattered"
Then look at the impurities of these great
cities. Ever and anon there arc in the news
papers explosions Of social life that make the
story of Sodom quite respectable--ior such
things, Christ says, were more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah than for the Chorazins
and BethsaidaS of greater Ii yht. 1t is no I'M
usual thing in our cities TO see men IN high
positions with two or three families, or re-
fined ladies willing s2lemnly to marry the
very swine of society il 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 tamboyant wickedne IS.
The Bible afiame With denunciation
against an impure life, but three
fourths of the American ministry ut
tering not one point-blank word against
!
his church pew. Machinery organized in all
the cities Of the United States and Canada
b. which to put yearly in tho grinding mill
OF this iniquty thousands OF thu unsuspect-
ing Of the country farm houses, one procuresi
confessing last week in the courts that she
had supplied the Internal market with 10!
souls in six months. Oh for five hundred
Poll Mall GdzetjeS in America to swing
open the door of this hazardous of social
corruption! Exposure must come before ex-
tirpation
While the city van carries tho scum of this
gin from the prison to the police courts morn
ing by morning, it is full time, if we do not
want high American life to be ;ome like that
Of the court Louis Ky to put the millionaire
Lotharios and the Pom adours Of your brown
stone palaces into van of popular indigna-
ton and drive them out of respectable as
sociatons. What prospect of soc al puritca-
ton eau there be as long as at summer
watering places it is usual to see Young
woman of excellent rearing stand and simper
and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways be-
fore one Of those iirst-claSs satyrS o. fashion
able life and on the ballroom floor join him
Ia the square dance the maternal cha eron
meanwhile beaming fro II the wall on the
! scene. NATL are male in heaven, they
say. Not such matches; for the birthstone
indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities
by SbIie Ulies5 lllllilOi dlo d!e pbGtdlilJtS
gallantries, eccentrcities, and are re!ega.e;
to the realm of popularity, and few effort
are being made against it, God biess III
2 "White Cross" movement, as it is called th'
r excellent and taente1 Nj IS Frames Willard
: its ablest advocate on this side Of the sea, al
organization making mighty assault OF
this evil. God forward the tra,t Is on thu
= subject distributed by the religious trac
q societies of the world. God help parents il
u the great work they are doing ia trying Il
, start their children with pure principles
: God help all legislators in their attempt u
5 inhibit this crime
s But is this alll Then it is only questio
Q OF time when the last vestige OF purity an
t home will vanish out Of sight. Human arm
+ human pens, human voices, human talent
r are not sufficient | begin to look up, liste
d for artillery rumbling down the sapphire {
:, the boulevards OF heaven. watch to SEQ
: in the morning light there be not the fash
: descending scimetars. Oh for Godl Does
Y not seem time for his appearancel Is it n
:; time for all lands to cry out: "Let God arts
q and let His enemies be scatteredm
2 got letter few days ago asking me
q / did not think that tina earthquarle
}. Charleston was the divine chastisement {
y that city for its sins. That letter l answ
4 now by saying that il all our American citi
|. got all the punishment they deserve for the
?. horrible impurities, the earth would long as
d have cracked open into crev1ces TRANSPORT
a mental and taken down all our Cities al
). Brooklyn and New York would have gone
a. far under that the tips of our church spir
ia would be five hundred feat below the surfac
"a 1t is Of the Lords mercies that we have n
been consumed.
ii Not only are the affairs of this world
o a.twist and -jaugle that there seams a ne
% OF tae Divine appearance, but there is anoth
d reason Have Won not noticed that in t.
II history of this planet God turns leaf abo
Or every two thousand years. cd turned lie
4 and this world was fitted for human residenC
l. Abouttw thousand more years passel alol
8. and tod turned another leaf and it was t
Gu Deluge About two thousand more yea
lis pas ed on and it was the appearance of Chris
o. Almost two thousand IN 1rs years have pass
IN by and He will probably soon turn suoth
h leaf. What it shall be cannot say. 1t m
Ut be the demolition Of all these monstrositi
m of turpitude and the establishment
10 Righteousness in all the earth. He can do
d, and He will do it. ! am as confident a il
ld were already accomDlishsd. How easily