The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-07-02


good or whether 1t be evil. ."-Eccl. 12:l4,
Ever. true to our original princlples-total
abstinence for the Individual, and prohibi-
tion for State and Nation"
A. the temperance congress recently
held in New York Mrs. Mary H. Hunt of
Boston opened the discussion of the topic
Temperance Work Among the Young"
She said, "No license system can prove
effective, because 1t is the nature Of alco-
hol to create an appetite. AS about 500,-
900 voters cast their first votes every year,
the importance Of educating these coming
voters is imperative"
Are there any boys in Welllngton9 II
so, are they being educated? If there are
boys In Wellington, and they are being
educated, who is the teachery Where is
the schoolhouse? Is it night or a day
school? There are In the United States
2,4S0,000 drunkards, of whom 10000 die
annually, while 10000 sober youth are
yearly doomed to replenish the ranks
Who is responsible for this? What am
doing to prevent it' Must my boy make
one of the 10000 yearly victims' Why
not? Somebody's boys must be sacrificed
Does the boy preparing for these ranks be-
gin with whiskeyY he would not become
drunkard If he did not drink that which
would intoxicate. Our saloons--beg par
don, our places without name-are legit-
innate places of business, well kept and
orderly. They ara schoolhouses, with
both front doors and back doors, where
our boys are cordially welcome and sweet
cider and hop tea are dispensed. If quick
and sure returns are desirable, by all
means permit the boys to attend. We
must furnish our proportion of the army
OF 10000 yearly needed to keep the ranks
Of the drunkardS' army full. 1t might be
well 10 have more schoolhouses. Glad
stone says at is our duty to make II easy
to do right and hard to do wrong"
Intoxicated persons are sometimes
seen in our streets, and others who are
spoken Of as "Mr. So and So, full" But
Wellington has no saloons; the citizens
are good logicians and mathematlcians
they know that "every dollar of revenue
collected from the liquor traffic costs the
community ten dollars" so they have said |
The saloon must 60" We are proud to
say that 1--WE have no saloons" Some of
our working men are readers. One of |
them said, recently, Mot less than one |
billion dollars is spent annually in this
country for intoxicating liquors. Most of
this comes out Of us working men. Is the
saloon making us rich or poor' Is IL our
friend or our enemY' What are you going
10 do about III l tell you the liquor deal
ers have got all the money out of me they
will ever get"
some OF US remember Col. Balm who
spoke here during the second amendment
He has a new version of "The
House that JACK Built" We quote Il for
"our girls. We do not know that "our
boys" need IL
COL. BAIS's "HoUsE THAT JACK BUIIr.r
Whist makes drunkards' Strong drink.
Who sells the drink' The saloon keeper.
What created the ssloon' The law.
Who makes the lawsH The legislators
Who makes the legislators' The people
L is the house Jack built, and | do
not say 1t now as dld when boy. say
low:
ntemperance is the ire the Devil built.
itrong drink is the fuel,
hat feeds the nre the Devil built.
'reweres and dlstilleries are the Ayes
hat cut the fuel,
hat feeds the ire the Devil built
aloons and beer gardens are the stones
hat whet the axes,
hat cut the fuel,
hat feeds the nre the Devil built.
license laws are the molds,
80 Ss'' 'hV aAco anu shape the stones
hat whet the edges.
hat cut the fuel.
hat feeds the nre the Devil built.
olitical parties are the patentees,
Fho patented the molds,
ast the axes and shaped the stones,
hat whet the edges,
hat cut the fuel,
hat feeds the nre the Devil built. =
nd Prohibition party ballots are the sledge r
hammers,
estined to destroy the molds,
reak the axes, 1
mash the stones, {
hat whet the edges,
hat cut the fuel.
hat feeds the fire the Devil built. l
MRS. MARY d. SANTLEY. q
Obituary. +
Died. at his late residence, June 7. 1seo h