The Bottineau pioneer., 1890-08-02

/ power 81 this hsbit? You tbint that ~,
could stop2 Are .vou sure Won couid? "a
i On little further, and an a,,re
you cannot think, II some Of YOU
shos.. shou.o try to e break away. You wonld find
the left one on ths right foot. . nnd mn a.. ~
i other on the left. This serpent does NOT he
gn 70 hurt until II has wound round ana
Found Then 1T begins to tighten and
strangle, and crush. uutil the bonee crack
ana the blood trickles, and the eyes start
| rom their sockets. and the manried wretch
/ cries 'O Godl helpl helpi" BUTT ID too late:
chain once it is fully fastened. ID
/ have shown you the evil beast. The ones.
tion is who will hunt him down, and how
shall we shoot him? answer frst. by ref.
ting our children right on this subject, Let
them grow up with an utter aversion to
strong drink. Take care how you admins.
ter Il even as medicine. II you find that they
nav nave natural love for It, as some have, put
In q glass Of 1t some horrid stuff. and make
| u utterly nauseous. Teach them, 40 faith
| fully as you do the Bible, that rum ID 3 flend.
Take them to the almshouse, and show them
the wreck and ruin it works Walk with
them into the houses that have been scourged
BY it. If 9 drunkard has fallen into d ditch,
take them right up where they can see his
lace, bruised, savage. and swollen and say: i
Look, my son, Rum did that Look.
ing ont Of your win.iow at some one who,s
intoxicated to madness, goes through the
street, brandishinR his fist, blaspheminR
God, bowling, defying, shouting, rceling,
raying and fOaming maniac. say to your
son, Look; that man was once child like
you. Az you 60 BY the grogsliop, let them
n hot hn% rr% s~
slain, and their wives made paupers, and
their children slAyos. Hold out to, your
children all Warnings, all rewards, all coun-
sells, lest in after days they break your heart
and curse your gray hairs. a man laughed
8 ut my father for his scrupulous temperance
principles, and said: q am more liberal
than you. always give my children the
sugar in the glass after We have been taking
drink. ]" Three of his sons have died drunk
ards, and the fourth is imbecile through in
temperate habits. 8ss
Again: We will battle this evil By. voting
only for sober men. How many men are
there who can rise above the feelings of par.
tisanship and demand that our officials
sshnlI he sober men? 81 5.F
9 maintain that the question Of sobrietv is
higher than the question Of availability; and
that, however eminent q mains services may
be, If he have habits of intoxication he is nm
fit for any Office in the gilt OF q Christian
people. Our laws will be no better than the
men who make them. Srend few days ot
Harrisburg. or Albany or Washington, and
syou will find out why, upon these subjects,
il is Impossible to get righteous enactments.
# Again. We will war upon this evil by or,
ganizing societies. The friends Of the rum
traffic have banded together; annually iseus
their circulars; raise fabulous sums Of money
to nd vance their interests; and by grips,
passwords. signs and STRAIT agems set at de-
fiance public morals. Let us confront them
wirll organizations just as secret, and, il need
be, with grips, and passwords, and signs,
maintain our position. There is no need
that our pliilanthropic societies tell all their
plans. am in favor of oil lawful strategy
In the carrying on OF this conflict. wish to
God We could lny under the wine casks q
train which, once ignited. would shake the
earth with the explosion b; this monstrous
Again: We win try the power Of the pledge.
There are thousands oi men who have been
saved by putting their names tosuch adocu-
ment 81 s
Iknow it islaughed at; but there are some
men who, having once promised thing, do
it. Some have broken the pledge. Yes;
they were liars. Bnt all men are not liars.
n do not sny it is the duty OF all persons to
make such signature; but / do say that it
would be the salvation of mnny OF you. The
glorious work OF Theobald Mathew can new
er be estimated. AT his hand O0O. 900
people took the pledge, and multitudes in
ireland, England, Scotland and America have
kept ii till this day. The pledge signed to
thousands has been the proclamation of
emancipation. u
Again; We expect great things from In
ebriate asylnms. They have already done q
glorions work. think we are coming at
last to treat inebriation ns it ought to be
treated, namely as IN awful disease, selfin-
f1ietad 20 he et1rA b1t neyartheIess a dispaAe