The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-08-18

mluiSneu drunkenness! MOI IN /
the slightest degree. Drunken,
ness is steadily. on the ncie
This vice, as all other vices which
Government fosters, grows con-
tinuously. High license, as far
as diminishing drunkenness is
concerned, does norhing OF the
kind. Gambling, consequent
upon high license, has fearfully
increased. The saloon-keeper
must have, in many eases, gam
bling annex in order to make his
business pay profit under the
high-license system. This vice is
making rapid progress through
out the State, and much of this
increase is directly traceable to
high license
High license tried again and
again and again, and yet here
we, IN the State of New York,
are 80 stultifying ourselves as to
! propose that the farce be re-
enacted. The hardest blow the
temperance reformation has had
in this century has been In the
fact that some reformers have
halted under the delusion OF this
high-icense movement. You
know what 1t is. II is the white
flag of truce sent out from AL
cohoIism to Prohibition, TO make
1.-THE battle pause long enongh to
lget the army of decanters aud
! demijohns better organized
Away with that flag of truce, or |
will fiie on it. Between these
two armies there can be
NO TRUCE.
On the one side are God and
sobrlety and the best interests of
the world, and on the other side
is the sworn enemy Of all righte-
business, and either rum must be
defeated or the Church and ciyili-
I zation. What are you trying tc
compromise with? oh, this
, black, destroying arch angel Of
. all diabolism, putting ono wing
: to the Pacific, putting the othcl
= wing to the Atlantic coast, III
$ filthy claws clutching into th,
K torn and bleeding heart string 0.
J, the Nutinn, as it cries out; "Hoy
J. long, o Lord, how long9" Com
k promise with it! You had bette
e compromise with the panther il
i lis Jungle, with the cyclone i
Il ITS flight, with an Egyptla
plague as it blotches an empire
with Apol'yon, for whom thI
! evil is recruiting officer, quarter
: master and commander in chic
, Oh, tell the politicians Q
! Amerlca--I tell the leaders o
: : our beautiful Republican part
7 and Of our glorious Democracy
& that the temperance movement
:, - going to hold
g THE BALANCE OF POWER
ID IN this country, and decide wi
W shall be the Mayors, and Il
i, Governors, and the Congressmci
of and the Presidents. / expect
o. liye to see President of Il
re United States elected on Pr
We hibition platform, Better get
,ir the track before the morning e
i'll press tran comes down With Il
% women's tcmperancs socletie
Of and the Sons of Temperance, al
he the Good Samaritans, and q
ed Good Templars, and the lol
na train of Christians and philanthr
pists and rcfurmcrs. Clear t
track The cow-catcher will
80 all piled up with smashed deca
~ ters, and the slaves of beer ba
: rels, and The splinters Of hi
g s, license platforms, and the ra
4 nf with people who sat on the fcn'
- :. and all the Vaccinations
- 4, briberies and outrages of
,as s Christendom. The time "
=. :" come when there will be only I
= dccanters left, and they will
',s 'a. up at the end of an alley like t,
=. - pins, and some reformer v
T., I take the round ball Of Prohi
- ~ ton, and he will give one re
= - but 1t will be Il ten-sirike.
4 ii My friends, this subject, look
- ae at from the side of worldly
: form. IS so bright; but looked
,th from the side of Christian
a. form Is
mo- ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN.
les God IS going to destroy drur
1se enness. Is there man sitting
the standing in this assembly W
the doubts that God is stronger Il
ISIS. the devilY
/ it Blucher came up just befs
night and saved the day at Wat
a loo. AT -four O'Clock in the aft
vas noon it looked very bad for
M English. Generals Poasonby q
hat PIcton fallen. Sahres brok'