Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-04-27
Temperance Column.
EDITED by W. Gu. or sllcEFOor
Some Temperance Straw,

put iAlO words Of
iifing power 4 terrible indictmen,
against the sin Of drunkenness AMI
the indictment reads as forcihI,
against the good people Of Idaho ami
biaekfoot as i does against the good
people Of Fairharbor away off on the
Atlantic coast where Jack lived HE
short and stormy lie.
Jack was fisherman and the ~,
q Z fisherman, bis mother was a pious
little woman, meek patient and lone.
suffering after the manner o. the
typical drunkard's wife And when
her husband TO celebrate Jacks birth
went on what be called, d netarpal
tear, and fell iron mast because
he was drunk and 80 was drowned
she laid her face on the baby and
tried 10 say her prayers and found
she could rot pray, she cried 50. For
she Was fond Of her husband although
to got drunk. because he got drunk.
one i tempted to say, Her heart had
gone the way Of the hearts Of drunk.
ards wives, she loved il proportion
20 her misery and gave on equation
with what she lost All the woman IN
her noihepi Der husband when she
could no longer witely worship him.
Jack was a big Foaring baby, and
he became a restless boy. His mothers
gentle and unnoilied femiaily was
helpless before the problem Of this
wholly masculine little being. She
said Jack decided man 10 manage
him. lie smoked Al six; be lived in
the stables and On TOE shanes al
eight She sent him To pack mackerel
Coz slry nerr put 10 il 70 keep soul
and body iogclhe, and be brought
h0me such habits 81 speech as even
tho PaithasboF woman had never
beard. Prom her lis,le boy her baby,
no, SCI Old enough 10 be out Of short
trousers and scarcely ont q kits had
be l,cra YOURS my lady; Al the pretty
aye vhcn one s.ill .aslens lace collars
ruand their nccks and has them under
shelter b. dark, and hears their pray.
crs. and challenges the breath Of
heaven lest Il blow too rudcly on
some delicate hbp Of soul or body
from her li,ile boy At eight years old,
shs mother hn, learned the abysscs
d vulgariiy IN ! seapor, town.
at ten be Was sent to the Grand
Bank ashing bis arss voyage was IN
March. be 20, badly frOsibilien and
The skipper vas rough be was knock.
"a about a good deal, and had the
measles b. himself in bis berth, and
The men jccrcd him or let him alone
and he cried q little for his mother
and wished be hadn't kicked her aud
then 20, well and forget Il 9 be
learned to svagger like the men and
apcd their talk and shared their grog
and did their hard work and learned
their songs and when he was twelve
the curse Of bis hcrcdiiy came upon
him and he began to drink; and So
the pi,itul true story gees on ana on
showing how out Of poverty ana
uurance are born immortal Souls
heirs 10 vice and crime unuiterable I
R,ru 10 temptation with alcholized
brain.cells and narcotined conscience
wbnt chance does The child Of tue
have to stand up and oe +"
man among menf ,.n
What chance when at every s.ep
the saloon door stands invitingIy agar
ami the temptcr Whispers Come, Just
nne drink won't hurt You, pity u you
cant have your drink OF whiske.
while your rich neighbor sips MS
wine every day. 49,. aro
What right have those VINO ~, ~
aBorn in the purple, to thrust oO .,'.
tho ,oilers2 AZ the last day thus q pe.,
,Ion win meet the careless and se'i .sn
''on III ,.,'a ! voice Of doom dAd the
nlsa az personal liberty, VIII w ~
excuse then. ,v .,us.n enid
III yoa was treated like tolAsi ,,, s@e
poor jack, but you amt You're Y TN,
W. ~, = soaked. You're wrecked You y, re-
nsts i stole. You're drove on ~ w., ,"c
nv ~. Tbore's always banker IN Tue
Ivy ~ sonr stomick. And 1t Is On
pm y, . these, on the weak, the simple y,
lSc helpless, that our great i, liquor y the
Ut as arr founded, cemented IN 'ne
tcrtsts Wv -, ,,,inrr on stead. !