Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
CHORUS,
TOTAL DEPRAVlTY
illustrated in the Use Of Alcoholic
LIQUORS.

illustrated in the Use OF Alcoholic
Liquors.
The most infamous outrage of moral
sense and common sense is shown in
the offer of an tnsidious, dangerous and
poisonous material as an emblem of
good cheer and moral purity. The use
of alcoholic liquors has furnished viii
famous artifice to poison every good
influence, disseminate crime and de-
teriorate and disintegrate every fiber
of our physical structure. This vile
curse of alcohol can only be secured
by the change Of the best gifts of ma
ture through the worst stages of decay,
from rotten apple juice, ruined, de-
cayed grain, decomposed or ,pe Juice,
and other sweet and starchy SUBJ
stances, all these SO far changed and
putrefied that they have become inn
pregnated with a venemous poison, SO
noxious that the brain reels and nature
revolts in her effort to expel it as vile
intruder. So virulent is the poison,
that the whole system is aroused to an
active rebellion when it is compelled to
receive it into the stomach; so pun
gent and deadly, that all the faculties
of the body and brain are be-
numbed and stupefied with q deadly
tremor and often entire insensibility.
Even the delusive, Supplying charac-
ter of this poison would not be so OBJ
noXious were it confined to inebriation
alone; but its worst effects are shown
i'm stimulating the passions and there
by becoming the prolific source and
cause of nearly all the horrible crimes
and misery that exist in the world,
causing vast waste of property, and
the destruction of every vestige of
beauty and comfort in many homes of
our country. Yet this venomous, pois-
onous liquid, because of perverted
appetite and an unnatural craving for
its stimulating effects, has been toler-
ated and cherished by civilized COM
munities for centuries, as the very
elixir of life, the highest evidence of
good cheer and heightened friendship;
but it remained for some of the MEM
bers of the Christian Church to be so
efsectually demented and deluded with
this poisonous compound, so complete
ly bereft of all moral perception, so
blinded by the usages of society, and
SO benumbed and Invested of moral sem
sibilities as to tolerate and justify, and
even use this poisonous liquid as a
Christian sacrament and an emblem of
worship.
Could any delusion or moral obi
guilty be more effectively dangerous?
The most poisonous material found in
the whole world, the result of decay
and putrefaction, that cheats and de-
ceives with delirium of excitement,
is used as the best and most efficient
way to show our love for humanity,
our respect of virtue, and high aspira-
ton after holiness! We ask, in all sim
cerity, could any delusion or duplicity
or wickedness exceed this for enormity?
1t would seem that we had in this mat
ter given the strongest evidence of to-
tai moral depravity, or intensified,
concentrated moral turpitude. when
the very quintessence of the devil him.
self. this liquid poison, bearing the
guise of an angel of light is offered
to destroy his victims with pleasurable
exhilaration-an insidious liquid dyna-
mite to curse the world with all the
horrors of perdition. --Demorests Month