Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-02-09

soon they learn to stupefy themselves
with the poison; your hearts would
melt with pity and you would cry out,
} "God be merciful to us sinners for
what else are we il we know these
} things and lift no hand to remedy
them. Shame upon business and a
habit which preys npon the weak and
helpless, and shame upon people
which permit them IL have never
seen any of the evils of drunkenness"
some people say with satisfied air
The evil may exist but they doubt it;
it does not come near them. "Haying
eyes, they see not, having ears they
hear not" Else how can they help
seeing what is everywhere too con
spicious
l remember once when child go
ing from my country home where
there was no saloon within fifteen
miles and drunken person was never
seen to a large town. To country
child, visit to the town is wonder
full event and my sister and / tiptoed
along on the sidewalks full of eager
curiosity and delight; our childish
eyes taking in all that was new and
strange. As we passed small dwell
ing house we saw woman come reel
ing out, her face red, her tangled hair
hanging over her shoulders; in one
hand she held stout board, she call
ed childs name savagely and thin,
frightened looking little girl ran
around the house to her, stake that, 4"
screamed the woman and the board
fell on those small, shrinking should.
ers, that bowed head, the thin hands
reached up in piteous appeal. The
child did not cry aloud, think what
training had been hers, little child
not ten years old, the blood ran down
her face as the drunken mother beat
and cursed her, and she shrank with
in herself and moaned; that scene
burned itself into my heart and mind. /
If had never seen any more of the
harm that liquor does could never
forget that pitiful scene or be other
than a temperance woman. But the
harm that liquor does is everywhere,
it is in Idaho, it is in Blackfoot. The
drink evil is a despotism that makes
itself felt around the world. 1t is a
against which we must use
our own strength and that right speed
ily. You and do not feel these mis-
cries, our children are warmly clad,
well fed and lovingly tended, but be
we christians or infidels can we not
open our hearts and take up the cause |
of children whose lives are ground
down by the drink evil? Look back :
to your own childhood and recall the ,
love and care that shielded you; point J
ed you to right ways, patiently bore ,
with your faults, then tell me what :
would you have been without that
love and care? If kicks and curses {
had been your daily portion what ,
would you have made of your life? {
Oh we must throw off this seIfishness. !,
we must do away with liquor for the
children's sake. ''No oppression or
degradation scourges people with I
such terrible and memorable severity Z
ls that which comes from voluntary
self inflicted misery" No people have T
ever been so debased as those who 4
we're corrupt and were satisfied with s
heir corruption. No tyrant can en-
'lave us like the one that sits in our a
own bosom and rules us by our weak
Wills or lawless desires to do wrong.
The evil that We permit will after :
while turn and read us. God has
aid whatsoever man soweth that
hall he reap" "We cannot SOW to
he liquor traffic and reap sober
'eople. The only traffic ON earth
which makes an outcast of man
We have sowed until our granaries-
he jails and asylums and imbecile
Institutions are full to overlooking.
What can we do?
One thing the feeblest and busiest
t US can do and that is, stand up
nd be counted for temnerance talk