The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-23
mo. 80.

in vision, tuey etumo S
For all tables arc full OF ve'nis suu
dizziness 60 that there q no P,aco
clean.n Habakkuk 2: Is, "WoH 70 nun
that putteth the bottle to NE nessno00s,s
mouth" IN First Corinthians, iU<i,
the drunksrds cup is called tne cup -
devils. God says, mo drunksrd na.n
eternal life dwelling in him. Inus
Won see what God thinks Of u.
Not less than sixty thsusa.d persons
are killed every year BY whiskoy' an
the name Of God, ! ask you, how dare
You help in any way to murder menI
Much less, those OF you who profess 20 %
christians how dare you holp IN any,
way to murder eternaily Immortal
so9lsf Think, my brother, before you
;nto the face Of God, and thus thinking
von can come to only one determination,
and that will be. T viii not be . partici-
pating criminal in any way IN murues'ns
the bodies and souls OF men.
i Yes. it is glorious thing TO be
freeman. when chat freedom 10 exercaeee
for Gods glory; but IL is a awfui
thing when that freedom 10 exorcasea
: in dishonoring God and helping the
devil. and becoming ourselves partici-
, pators in the crimes produced ~ WINS
) key.
iliesf There are one hundred thOus-
|, and homes to-day in the United States
I that are brethels Of hell because e
= drunkenness in them, II We may ca.
9 such places by the sacrsd name q
; home. How many wives, mothers ana
, children turn their tear-straincd, ago
!, mixing. pleading faces, TO you, saying
= sgive me my husband, father, OF broth
a er. the noble men they arc naturally,
d by placing rum out Of their reach; bat,
It al. do not send them homo to ~ BY
4 veur votes. the deam0ns-the DEVILS
a. that whiskey makes them" And. 1nss
4 here. / want burned inte year mind -
:, Won will never forget it, the fAlsehood
1s Of tho statement you often hear mado,
n that if you will let it alone, It Vail Ies
I'd Won alone. Thsre AxD In the United
he states to-day twenty-sevsn thouean4
ha widows, made widows ~ whtskey.
~ Thero arc two hundred thousand or
- phans made such by whiskey. The
u- wife let it alone, but sbe has ne has
az hand. Tho little children let = alone,
\ but they have no father. ~ J vzite
Is this. how many wives arc being 6eatea
,ol numerically By drunken brute1 hew
- mauy children have laceTatea, bleeding
-, backs, inflicted by IN arm gntded ~
~ brain fteusied with rumS weuid DO
have tho heart broken sobs and gronn
i'll Chat 1 heard fhll from the lips cf on
I've moor helpless wife In Grant parisl
,ce come up against me in the judgment Q
rds goa IoE q. soo ~ "a nv ~
nrs we woI ~ 81 n. - rsltyv dime
!. colo ~ ~! - 60 -.ir. I'm 80
there w. ~ =. ., 0I0" ~. hois ~ IN
h. eeay. Iey WV S ~. .stsrn nj
pocket ana ioee' SsSss;nr. Z
l;ca 1uls. IN neem' ssyS 49, sIs.is
! or the famiIy' Issy "m .a.i vhen e
~ damned in heiL HAN sne c =. -.
-. the United Stases ~ ee :. - ..,,..,~,
key We nave = Pey 49, 49, ~ -.
4.rsl judges, eherins' CONT, J!i' s -
,nnr oners ! nave cons'' 1870 ~ rsSree
-. Others that our - = J. oou.1 = - ~,
,cnr at loass 0ne-na.! sno.o n. ~.s.d
nm key. No, tho devil nesss "a ar -
rnal oi&geI 10 sasa - ~. vi If -. nio.e'r
that 0sss ~ y "'o''s = - =.
key What has Il doue for oar county
4 by Il 10 proverbial that oar pouues ::
MOI corrupt. Whiskey has done caoss
,st | this line than any and everything o.;
rra- INIT together. II u the prime f:csor
livo- nearly all csrruptiOus. Bus 90 -
80 aav. at pays an su0rln0ua revenue
the government, and thus roduccs o. 7,
taxes.n Yes, it pays revenue % z
government Of about dtty four niliio ?,
81 dollars but il costa tho people Of 9