The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Awful List of Crimes Com.
mitted.

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this Indictment of the saloon
On, that from every hilltop and
valley, from mountain and prai.
RE, from city and hamlet, from
Lakes to Gulf, and from sea to
sea, there might this day arise
|The united voice of our sixty
llllons of people in most
solemn Declaration of Indepen-
dence of this cruel King, whose
injuries and usurpations threaten
the destruction of our free Gov.
eminent. AS did our fathers
when they resolved to throw off
the absolute tyranny Of a bad
King, so let us give certain facts
to a candid world. This mons
ter, sitting supreme in the poll
tics OF this country, has enacted
laws authorizing him to open in
all our towns and cities slaugh-
ter-houses of men, women and
children and of all virtue.
He has enacted laws permit
ting him to transform men into
beasts.
He is i'll the direct cause OF
nlne-tenths of the woes and sor-
rows which blight and curse our
people.
He, hiding his monstrous de-
formity under the forms of law
enacted by his own yassals, over
whose head he cracks the slave
dsiver's lash in halls of legisla-
ton, maintains at our expense
an army of miscreants who, at
the very doors of our homes and
in the shadows Of our sane
tuaries, prosecute the work of
murder and death.
He has despoiled labor, bur
dened property with excessive
taxation, impoverished whole
communities, hindered educa-
ton, corrupted morals, fostered
crimes, aided all classes of vice
and wrong, and plunged his I'M
happy victims into shame and
degradation.
He would have us transmit to
our children % heritage of dis
tilleries, breweries and saloons,
and chain to the weary backs of
society increasing burdens of
paflpers, criminals, idiots and
insane.
He seizes and debauches in
nocent children, tears sons from
the arms of sorrowing mothers,
and bears them away to dis
honored graves. He Wrings hot
tears from 9the eyes of widows
whose husbands he has sacrificed
at the shrine of the drunkards'
Meloch.
He sits supreme in the Ma
tional Congress and makes laws
in tie country's capital.
He governs courts of justice,
and makes ministers of the law
and legislatures his lackeys.
He silences the preacher in his
pulpit and muzzlessthe editor at
his desk.
He wastes, directly and in
directly, in his revels annually
more than q thousand millions
of our dollars, and marshals in
bis staggering procession to
death and hell a haIf-million of
our people.
He is a cold, heartless, cruel
murderer and assassin of the
deepest dye. 2
He counts his victims by mil
lions. lis butcheries go on daily
and nightly within sight Of the
portals Of our homes. We can
hear the shrieks of his victims
and the wall of the bereayed.
He is the bowling, prowling,
destroying wolf, with scorching,
fierce breath, descending upon
every fold, singing and devour-
ing our best love. Let us rise in
our united might aseslid our an
cestors III Old Windham at the
call of Israel Putnam on Pom
fret Heights in the last century.
Let us hunt this wolf to his den
and shoot him.-General Fisk,
in independent.
Alexandria Town Talk Al
though we have been working
hard for over five years in draw
ing the attention Of the world to
Rapides parish and Alexandra,
We have never asked the assis-
lance of the Police Jury nor OF
Alexandria Town Council. We
now ask them to assist MS IN 9
small way financially, in max
ing Town Talk Trade and I'm
migration edition the greatest
ADVERT sement Rapides parish