Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-29
against this growing and destruct-
i've evil Of the present day and help

against this growing and destruct-
i've evil Of the present day and help
to reiterate the voice Of warning
from one end Of this vast Continent
TO the other.
This is the more necessary, as the
vice has Of late years, assumed a
more bold and daring stand, and
INCREASINGLY carries on its work Of
destruction in the very face Of the
sun.
Neither the thunders of the d.
vino law, nor the disapprovation Of
public sentiment have yet been able
to drive or shame this vice from the
land.
Time was, indeed, when it was
deemed 90 disgraceful for a man to
be guilty Of intoxication that those
who were drunken were drunken
| in the nights; but at this age Of inn
| provement and refinement, this vice
has received and does still often re-
ceive the sanction Of the daylight
examples Of many Of the rich and
otherwise influential parts Of society
that it is no uncommon things to
see men lying intoxicated in our
streets in open day.
Public sentiment is not yet suffi-
GENTLY armed with the terrors of
disgrace and infamy to drive this
vile practice into the darkness of
midnight; but should the efforts
that are now making 60 on with a
steady tide of successful operation
the time is not far distant when in.
temperance shall again take its place
and character among the "unfruit-
full works OF darkness" There is
no doubt but that we will ever have
drunkenness while sin, strong drink
and sinners are found on the earth,
and it is an idea Of a very chimeri-
cal character to suppose that while
these remain, intemperance will
ever be wholly exterminated from
the earth.
| Mol while we haye temperate
drinks, we shall be infested with
drunkards; for the latter are manu-.
featured from the former.
| Much, however. may be done and
much indeed has already been
done to lessen the magnitude oil
| this national calamity and produce
the happiest effects on society.
| Many wife's heart has been dis
burdened Of an almost unsupport.
| able load Of grief, at the reformation
Of an incorporate husband; many
. parent whose gray hairs a profit.
gate son was bringing down with
sorrow to the grave, has been made
| to rejoice and say ut is enough
Joseph my son is yet alive, rejoice
| with me for my son was dead and
IL alive again was lost and is found.
| Many . habitation, before as des.
olate and dreary as the very cham,
Der Of death, has been lighted W
with the lamp Of prosperity and
the smiles Of friendship. Yea, BY
the fundamentally Of the friends
Of temperance.
Many . brand has been plucked
from the al deyouring fire and Civ,
en- back with great rejoicings to thu
bosom Of his friends and to The
church Of God. And to insure sue
CESS this work must be still pursu
Cd.
There must be "Line upon Line
and Precept upon Precept."
Among the victims upon whom
4 this iron handed giant likes bis nm
rs1enting grasp, are numbered, the
rich and the poor. the learned and
Tie Ignorant the noble and Thu
mean.
! On the hrn you may discover !,
~ tho prostrated fences and ths
l cattle nnruly and running II large
MA M baildings il decay. Yor
IN 4 IA the splendid mansion
W llnh le cottage, IA 81,