Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
M. c. T. u. NOTES.
DON'T FORGET TO PRAY.

91V andchrist'ans nave walk
ed up to the polls and
voted the party ticket. The.y voted
for members of the State Legislature,
who will go TO the State capitals and
discuss questions of interest to the
State, over bottles of wine and draw
poker tables. They have voted for
men who have spent their money in
bar-rooms and saloons to catch the
ssfiood>wood" vote. They have voted
for men who are the known champl-
ons o: the liquor traffic, patrons of the
bar-rooms, and frequenters of the
hrothels.
The rumsellers have set up the
drinks, and the dens of hell have had
glorious time celebrating the election
of these legislators who will protect the
traffic, but who received the almost
united support of the Christians.
Now for another 364 days of prayer
for souls. Now for another 364 days OF
work to relieve fallen humanity. Now
for another 1854 days of pledge-signlng
and temperance meetings, then on cleo
tiOH udN-tuc OUcti WV ~ O.
the traffic new extension of power,
vote to undo all you have done, out
don't forget to pray.
Now is the time for temperance ~
men to stand in temperance meetings,
curse the rumseliers, denounce drink
ers, and damn the traffic. Now is the
time for men to wiring their hands In
agony, shed tears (crocodile) of pity
over ruined homes, broken hearts anu
lost souls. Now is the time for men to
stand on street corners, shout them
selves hoarse because their community
is a sink of crime and a cesspool of hell.
Now is the time to bewail polluted anu
ruined manhood. Now is the time to
hold temperance meetings, to sing, talk,
plead, work and pray for the temper
ance cause. Keep it up for 564 days,
then go to the polls on election day the
365th day.. and vote for members OF
the Legislature and State Senate who
drink, gamble, and indulge in all vices
which predominant at State capitals
Do all this, but in the name of all that's
sacred don't forget to pray.
Get drunkards to sign the pledge,
then vote for men who On their ''can-
vass,ng tours" through the country
will treat the reformed drunkard. urge
him to drink, get him to break his
pledge, send him back to the gutter,
vote for the man who will undo all
YOU have done," but don't forget to
pray.
Do all this, and then wonder why
the dram-shop still holds out against
all your work and spreads its seeds of
destruction. Pray for souls with your
lips, but damn them with your votes.
Talk like Christians, but vote like
devils.
ASHAMED OF THEIR DEEDS.
The keeper of meat-market does
not hide from view his well-fattened,
choice meats. Often splendid quar-
ter of beef hangs over the sidewalk.
And not only i'm the meat-market, but
also in the grocery and clothing-store
articles to be sold are amply placed on
exhibition. But the saloon makes use
of the scr Gems, and does its work in the
dark as much as possible. Why?|
Some people, regarded respectable,
when within the saloon, because of the
screens, .can be kept from exposure,
and some boys just commencing to
drink can thereby conceal their mis-
cheivous beginnings from the public.
These wells indicate that drinkers and
sellers of liquors are ashamed of their
deeds of darkness. And why are they
ashamed of drinking and selling even
in moderate quantities? They know
or ought to know, that for the past fifty
years the best life insurance companies
of England have insured moderate
drinkers and total abstainers in sepa-
rate sections. and they have given
bonus to the section of total abstainers
Oft, IS, II, and even % per cent. over
that paid to the section of moderate
drinkers.-B. j. Hoadtey, a. II.
DANGEROUS DRINKS.
A bartender plaintively bewailed the
necessity of having to rub CONCEALED
drops of sticky beer off the bar. "But
If let it remain" said he, in the tone
of one seeking compassion, "they rot
the wood"
"They rot the wood, do they?" fierce
ly repeated a beer-bibber. "Then what,
i'm the name of common sense, does
beer do to my stomach"
Replied the manipulation of drinks:
at is beyond me to tell. OF one thing
I am confident, and that is, mans
stomach lis made of cast-iron. Else
wise how could he Withstand the fluids
he pours into it? Let me show you
something" He placed piece of raw
meat on the counter and dropped upon
it small measure of an imported GIN
ger ale. In five minutes the meat had
parted into little pieces as though
hacked by dull knife.-Philadelphia
Netos.
CARRYING DRINKING MEN.
Marrying men to reform them has
never been successful plan on the
mart of the women. Girls are worth
loo much unmarried to sacrifice them
selves to beat sense into the head of
ony man ON GOu'S fOOtStOOI. Such a