Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-07

power of this habit You think that yol
could stops Are Won sure you could? Go OF
little further and / am sure you cannot.
think if some of you should try to breal
away you would find chain on the RICH
wrist and one on the left; one on the RICH
foot and another on the left. This serpen
does not begin to hurt until it has wounC
round and round. Then it begins to tighter
and strangle and crush until the bones crack
and the blood trickles and their eyes star
from their sockets, and the mangled wretch
cries; 20 Godi o God! helpl helpp But il
is too late. and not even the fires of woe car
melt the chain when once it is fully fastened
have shown you the evil beast. The ques
ton is, Who will hunt him down and how
shall we shoot him? l answer first, by get
ting our children right on this subject. Let
them grow up with an utter aversion t.
strong drink. Take care how you admins
ter it, even as medicine. If you find that
they have a natural love for il, as some have,
put in glass Of it some hurrid stuff, and
make it utterly nauseous. Teach them as
faithfully as you do the Bible that rum is a
fiend. Take them to the almshouse and show
them the wreck and ruin 1t works. Walk
with them into the homes that have been
scourged by it. II drunkard had fallen in
to ditch take them right up where they can
see his face, bruised, savage and swollen, and
say: Look, my son. Rum did thatp Look
intoxicated to madness, goes through the
street brandishing his fist, disappearing God,
a bowling, defying, shouting, Keeling, raw
ing and foaming maniac, say to your son:
Look that man was once child like you"
As you go by the grog shop let them know
that that is the place where men are slain, and
their wives made paupers and their children
slaves. Hold out TO your children all warm
ings, all rewards, all counsels, lest in after
Ia L haa ri fsTrrz Uofl
gray hairs. A man laughed at my father
for his scrupulous temperance principles
and said; Il am more liberal than you.
always give my children the sugar in the
glass after we have been taking a drink"
Three of the sons have died drunkards and
the fourth is imbecile through intempe rate
habits
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 shall
be sober men?
maintain that the question of sobriety Is
higher than the question Of availability, and
that however eminent a mans services may
be, il he have habits of intoxication he is un-
fit for any Office in the gift of a Christian
people. Our laws will be no better than the
men who make them. Spend few days at
Harrisburg or Albany or Washington and
is impossible to get righteous enactments.
Again. we will war upon this evil by or
ganized societies. The friends of the rum
traffic have banded together; annually issue
their circulars; raise fabulous sums of money
to advance their interests and by grips pass
words, signs and stratagems set at defiance
public morals. Let us confront them with
just as secret and, IL need be-
with grips and pass words and signs MAIN
tain our position. There is no need that our
societies tell all their plans.
am in favor of all lawful strategy in the car
rying ON of this conflict. / wish TO God we
could lay under the wine casks a train which,
once ignited, would shake the earth with the
explosion Of this monstrous iniquityi
Again, we viii try the power of the
pledge. There are thousands of men who
have been saved by putting their names to
such document. know it is laughed at,
but there are some men who, having once
promised thing do it. ''Some have
broken the pledge.n Yes; they were liars.
But all men are not liars | do not say that
t is the duty of all persons TO make such
Signature but | do say that it would be the
'alvation of many of you. The glorious work
If Theobald Mathew can never be estimated.
At his hand four millions of people took the
pledge, and multitudes in Ireland England.
Scotland and America have kept it till this
lay. The pledge signed to thousands has
been the proclamation of emancipation.
Again, we expect great things from inc
pirate asylums. They have already done a
glorious work. l think that we are coming
It last to treat inebriation as it ought to be
reated, namely, as an awful disease self in
iicted, to be sure, but nevertheless disease
)nce fastened upon a man sermons won't
'ure him; temperance lectures will not eradi-
ate IL; religious tracts will not remove It;
he Gospel OF Christ win not arrest it. Once |
lnder the power of this awful thirst the man
$ bound to go on; and II the foaming glass
we're on the other side Of perdition he would |
wade through the fires Of hell to get it, A 4
'oung man in prison had such strong thirst 1
or intoxicating liquors that he cut Off his 4
land at the wrist, called for bowl of brandy 1
n order to stop the bleeding, thrust his /
wrist into the bowl, and then drank the con-
ents.
Stand not when the thirst is on him be-
ween man and his cups Clear the track 1
or him. Away with the children; he would /
read their life out. Away with the wife;
q would dash her to death. Away with the
ross; he would run it down. Away with the
'ible; he would tear it up for the winds.
way with heaven; he considers it worth
sss as straw. 'Cfive me the drink Give
to mel Though the hands of blood pass up
he bowl and the soul trembles over the pit
the drink give it to mel Though it be
ale with tears; though the froth OF everlast-
az anguish float on the foam-give it to mel
drink to my wife's woe, to my children's
ags, to my eternal Punishment from God
nd hope and heavenl Give it to me! the
rink p
Again, we will contend against these evils
y trying to persuade the respectable classes
I society to the Punishment of alcoholic
averages. You who move in elegant and
efined associations; you who drink the best
quors; you who never drink until you loss
our balance, let US look each other in the
ace on this subject. You have under God
] your power the redemption of this land
rom drunkenness. Empty your cellars aud
zine closets of the beverage and then come out
nd give us your hand your vote your pray
rs, your sympathies. Do that and will prom
Ie three things: First That you win find un.
peakable happiness in having done your
uty; second, you will probably save some
your own child; third, you
ill not in your last hour regret that you
lade the sacrifice, if sacrifice it be.
As long as you make drinking respectable
rinking customs will prevail, and the plow-
hare of death, drawn by terrible disasters,
ill 60 on, turning up this whole continent
Hom end to end with the long, deep, awful
1rrow of druneards' graves.
Oil how this rum fiend would Ike TO 20
nd hang up skeleton in your beautiful