Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-30


memory come on my soul, would prefer to
havo roll over on me the Alps and the Hima-
layas.
But while sometimes there are sons who
turn out very badly, coming from good
homes want to tell you for your encourage
ment 1t is great exception. Yet an unhapL
py and undisciplined home Is the poisonous
caldron from which a vast multitude drink
their death.
II. l remark that another caldron Of in.
iquity Is nn indolent life. All tho rail trains
down the Hudson River yesterday, ali the
rail trains on the Pennsylvania route, all the
trains on the Long Island road brought to
these cities young men to begin COM
mercial life. Some Of them arc here
this morning, doubt not. Do you know
what one OF your great temptations is
going to beS 1t is the example of indolent
people in our cities. They are in all our
cities. They dress better than some who are
industrious. They have access to all places
OF amusement-plenty of money, and vet
Idle. They hang around our great hotels
the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor, tho
Brunswick, the Stuyvesant, the Gilsey
House-an our beautiful hotels, you find
them around there any day-men who do
nothing, never earn anything, yet well
dressed, having plenty. Why should walk?
Why should you work. Why drudge and toll
in bank and shop and Office, or on the scaf-
folding, or by tie anvil, when these men get
along so well and do not work.
Some Of then hang around the city halls Of
our great cities, toothpick in their mouth,
waiting for some crumb to fall from the
Office holders table. Some of them hang
around the city hall for the city van bring
hg criminals from the station houses. They
stand there and gloat over it-really enjoy
che disgrace and suffering of these poor
creatures as they get out of the city van and
20 into tho courts.
Where do they get their money? That IS
what you ask. That is what / ask. Only
four ways of getting money-only four: by
inheritance, by earning it, by begging it, by
stealing it; and there are vast multitude
among us who get their living not by iri-
heritance, or by earning it, nor by begging
il. l do not like to take the responsibility OF
laying how they get it'll
Now, these men are constant temptation.
why ouotuu / JOn anu wear myself out in
the hank, or the Office, or the store, or the
shop, or tho factory? These men have moth
Ing to do, They get along great deal bet
ter. And that is the temptation under
which great many young men fall. They
bsc1n to conSort with these men, these idlerS,
md they go down the samo awful sleeps.
The number Of men in our cities who arc
trying to get their living by their wits and
by sleight OF hand is all the time increasing.
a New York merchant saw n young man,
ono Of his clerks, in half disguise, going into
d very low place Of amusement. Tho mer-
chant said to himself: 6 I must look out for
that clerk; he is going in bad company and
going in bad places; Imust look out for him."
A few months passed on and one morning the
merchant entered his store and this clerk Of
whom / have been speaking came up
in assumed constornation and said "Oh,
sir, the store has been on fire; have put out
the fire, but there are a great many goods
lost; we have had q great crowd Of people
coming and going" Then the merchant
took the clerk by the collar and said: II
have had enough Of this; you cannot deceive
me; Where are those goods you stoleT Tho
young man instantly confessed his villainy.
. the numbers of people in these great cities
whoa trying to get their living not honestly!
And they are mighty temptation to the in
dustrious young man who cannot understand
it. While these others have it so easy they
have it SO hard. Horatius Of olden time was
told that he could have just as much ground as
he could plow around with yoke Of oxen in
one day. He hooked up the oxen to the plow
and he cut very large circle and plowed un-
til he came to the same point where he started,
and all thatproperty was his. But have to tell
you to-day that just so much financial, Just
SO much moral just so much spiritual pos
session you will have as you compass with
yollr own Industries, and just so much as
from the morning of your life to the evening
OF your life you can plow around with your
own hard work. ''Go to the ant, thou slug
gard; consider her ways and be wise" One
of the most awful caldronS of death to-day is
an indolent life. Thank God that you have
to work.
III. Once more remark: that the dram
shop is a great caldron of iniquity in our
time. Anacharsis said thas the vine bore
three grapes: the first was Pleasure. the next
was Drunkenness, and the next Misery
Every saloon above ground or under ground
is q fountain Of iniquity. 1t may have
license and it may go along quite respectfully
for a while, but after while the cover will
fall of and the color of the iniquity will be
displayed.
"Oh," says some one, "you ought to be
easier on such traffic when it pays such
large revenue to the government, and helps
support your schools and your great institu-
tions of mercy" And then [ think Of what
William L. Gladstone soid-I think it was
the first time he was chancellor oe the ex-
chequer-when mon engaged in the ruinous
traffic came to him and said their business
ought to have more consideration from the
fact that it paid such large revenue to tho
English government, Mr.. Gladstone said
Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves about
the revenue; give me thirty millions of sober
people, and we'll have revenue enough and
surplus"
We might in this country-this traffic per-
ished-haye less revenue, but wo would have
more happy homes and we would have mora
peace, and we would have fewer people in
the penitentiary, and there would be tens Of
thousands OF men who ore now on the rood
to hell who would start on the road to heaven.
But the financial ruin is a very small
part Of it. This iniquity of which speak
takes everything that is sacred out of
the family, everything that is holy
in religion everything that is infinite in tho
soul and tra,nples it under foot The
marriage day has come. The twain
sounds Gay feet so up and down
the edrawing-room. Did ever vessel launch on
such bright and beautiful sea? The scene
changes. Dingy garrett. No fire. On a
broken chair o sorrowful wife. Last hope
gone. Poor, forsaken, trodden under foot,
sho knows all thesorrow of being adrunkards 8
wife. "Oh," she says, ''he was the kndest
man that ever lived, he was no noble, he was
so good! God never made a grauder man
than he was but the drink did it, the drink
did itp Some day she will press
her hands against her temples and cry: "Oh,
my brain, my brain~ or she win go out on
the abutment of the bridge some moonlight
night and look down on the CLASSY surface
and wonder if under that CLASSY surface there
is not some rest for broken heart.
4 young man, through the intercsssicn Of
metropolitan friends, gets q place in bank
or store. He is going to leave his country
home. That morning they are up carly in
the cd homestead. The trunk is on the
wagon. Mother says: 'My son, ! put 9
Bible in the trunk, ! hope you will read it
rften." She wipes the tears away with her
apron. "Oh,p he says, ''come, don't you be