Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-15
rcon,inued nom nrs, poge.
ABSOLUTELY PURE

CHAPTER of SORROWS are these:
.Th,>e men are gradually, nut
sureIy. being sucked down into the
ouicksind of modern life. They
stretch out their grimy hands to us
in vain appeal, not for charity but
for work.
WnrS, work Ii il always WORK
that they ask. Tue Divine curse is
TO them the most blessed of bene
dictiors. 'ln the sweat nf thy hrow
thou shalt eat thv bred, hui alas
for these forlorn sons of Adam, they
fail to fiud the bread to eat, for s"ci-
civ has no work for them 20 do.
They have not even leave tn sweat.
IA well rs discussing how thest
moor wanderers shonid in the seconn
Adam 'all be made alive, ought VT
not to put forth some effort to efiecl
their restoration tn that share in the
heritage of labor which is theirs h\
right of descent from first Adam :"
Considerable space is given in th'
chapter following: to "A description
of the struggle for existence, aud %
the hard-hips ami disappointment
which often result in suicide, bu'
pftener iu vice and crime. Th'
scenes at the dock yards, where men,
famished and desperate, fight like
wolves for a place in the eyes of the
employer, are graphically portrayed.
These things must I've told. The dis
ease must I've diagnosed before I'll,
remedy can he applied. Some nj
the strongest pages uf the b'"s ar'
given to this work, but for the pur
poses OF this article enough has been
written. The shadow is dark, bui
out of il grows another, darker still.
covering like = pail all the dead
hopes and aspirations of those whom
fate has surrendered IT, sin.
HOW THE oUICASTs OF SOCIETY GO
Down IN THE WHIRLPOOL.
One uf the strongest aud mos
graphic chapters in the book l. that
under the head of Tine Nr.luus.
The writer is partial confirmation
and d partial refutatiun OF P"pe's
lines, He has seen vice so often
that lie is familiar with its face; lie
has eldured II. has pittied II, hut not
enibr ,ce,l il, aud has never ceased Ia
regard il a. ~ creature uf such hid
eou- mien rs To Le hated need. bul
10 be sren." He has studied IL III
both 1t, phases, physical and phycho-
logical, aud has concluded that,
beginning in misfortune, it Is pre-
served by leridity.
"Tne difficulty of dealing witt
druukards and harlnts is alno-
insurnioIntable." says he. "Wer,
Ii uot that / utterly repudiate ~ /;
Fundamental denial Of the essentia
principle of the Christian religion
the popular pseudo scientific doctrin.
that any man or woman is past sav
ing b. the grace of God and the
power of the Holy Spirit, | woult
sometimes be disposed TO dispail
when contemplating these victims
of the devil. For thousands ulol
thousands OF these poor wrelciIe'
are as Bishop South truly said, mot
so much born into this world a;
damned into it The bastard OF i
ha;io., born in brntiiel, sucked OF
gin, and familiar from earliest III
fancy with all the besiialiiies o
d,.bauch, violated before she is IL
and driven out into the streets bS
her muthera II year or two later, ~ha
chance is there for such a girl in thi'
world say nothing about the
next? Yet such CASE is not eXeep
tional There are many suci
differing in detail, but in essentials
the same. And with boys it !.
almost az bad. There are thousands
who were begottan when both par
ents Were besot,ed with drink, who's,
mOthers saturated themselves will
alcohol every day Of their pregnanc,
who may be ssld to have sucked il
taste for strong drink in his moth
er's milk. and who We're surrounded
from childhood with opportunitle
and indictments To- drink. How Cal
we marvel that tic constitution thu
disp' sed To inienperance finds TIN
stiniulous of drink indi-pensible?
Statistics abound hut they seldom
tell Us what We want To knUw. w
know how many public houses her
are il the land, and how many ar
rests the police make for drunken
ness i'm every year, but beyond tha
We know very lIttie. Everyon
knows that for every man arrest
ed for drunkenness there are al less
l0-and sometimes 2O-wlio 90 hom
Intoxicated. In London. for in
stance, there are II 600 drink shop
aud every year there are 2O,Wp
persons arrested for drunkenness
But who can for IA moment belirv
that there are only 10000 more %
less habitual drnnr ards ia London
BY habiiual diunkard ! do not neal
one who is always drunk, but on,
who ID so much under the dominion
Of the evil habit that he can not IN