The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-30
Door opens. Ficnd, brandisling his
fist, cries. "Oat ont: What are you
doing herr"
TRANSFORMED DY RUN.

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it. Rum c.nbrutcd tho man. Rum sold
the shawl. Rum tore up the carpets.
Rum shook his list. Rum deso;stcd the
hearth. Rum changed that paradise
into n hell
sketch twoinen that you know very
well. The first graduated from one OF
our literary Institutions. His father,
mother. brothers ind sisters were pres
ent 10 500 him graduate. They heard
the app,audi.,s thundcrs that greeted
his speech. They saw the bouquets
tossed to his feet. They saw the de
gree conferred and the diploma given.
He never loo!lci 50 we'll. Evcrybod!
said What n noble brow. What a
fine eve. What graceful manners What
brilliant prospects" All the world
open; before him and cries "llurrah!
hurrah
Man the second lies in the station
house. The doctor has just been sent
for TO bind up the g;.shes received in a
fight. His hair is matted, and makes
him look like wild beast His lip Is
bloody and cut. Who is this battered
and bruised wretch that was picked up
by the police and carried In, drunk and
foul and bleeding! Did | call him man
the seconds He il man the first. Rum
transformed him Ram destroyed his
prospects. Rum disappointed parental
cxpcc;atiou. Rum whitehead those gar
ments Of commencement day. Rum
cut his lip. Rum dashed out his man
hood. Rum. accursed rum!
THEY ALL FALL BEFORE IT.
This foul thing gives one swing to it
scythe and our best merchants fall;
their stores are sold and they sink into
dIshonorcd graves. Again it swings its
scythc, and some of our best physicians
fall into suifcrings that their wiscst pro
scriptions cannot cure Again ii swings
its scythc. and ministers of tho Gospel
fall from tho heights of Zion with
long rcsounding crash OF ruin and
shame Some of your own households
have already been shaken. Perhaps
YOU can hardly admit it; but Where was
your SON last nightt Where WAS he
Friday nightt Where was he Thurs
day night "Wednesday niSht' Tuesday
night Monday night: Nay, lave not
Some OF you in your own bodies felt
the power Of this habit You think
that you could stop! Arc you sure
you could! Go on little further and
| am sure YOU cannot think II sonc
Of You should try to break away you
would lind chain OH the right wrist
and OH, on the left; one on the right
foot and another on the left. This ser
yent does not begin t. hurt until it has
wound raind and round. Then it be-
gins II tighten and strange and
crush, unit! the bones crack, and the
blood tric.Hlcs, and the eyes start from
their sockets. and tn l:.nglc; wretch
cries. 20 God! O cod. help! help"
But il is TOO late; and not even the
fires Of woe can melt the chain when
once i, is fully fastened.
have shown you the evil beast
The question Is, Who will hunt him
down and how shall We shoot lilni |
answer first, by getting our children
right on this subject Let them grow
up with an utter aversion Ia strong
dr;u!s. Take care how You administer
i; even as medicine. If YOU find that
tIirt have IL natural love for il, ~ some
have. put in Il glass Of it soine horrid
stuff and make it utterly nauscous-
Teach them us faithfully us you do the
Bible ,llat RUN is u flcnd Take them
70 ,!.c allnsllouSc and show them the
wl.c;l: and ruin it works Walk with
them into the homes that have been
scouyged by il; II Il drtnkanl hath
fal!en into ditch take them right up
where they can see his face. bruised,
savagc and swollen, and say, Look,
NY son; rum did that. Looking out
OF your window at some one who, in
tux;catcJ 70 madness, gees through the
street braudishing his fist, blaspheIn
in God Il lowing. defying. shouting.
rccti:.3. rlvin9 and foaining maniac,
say to yoursou Look; that man was
once n child like you" As you 20
by tie greg shop let them
Ii! ~ that that Is tic place where
uic:l are slain, and tl.e!: wives made
p..:',s.s. and their children slaves
IItii OCT to your clildre. all warnings,
ell rewards all counsels. .cst in after
days they break your Ecarc and curse
your fray llir: y man laughed ut my
taJ!.1r FOR his scrupulous temperance
PRINCIPLES and said: II am more lib
eral tam YOU. ALWAYS give my chill
dren the sugar in the glass odtcr we
have been taking /, drink. Three of
his SONS have died drunkards and the
fourth is ilnbccile through Incorporate
habits.
HOW 70 FIGHT IT.
Again, We will battle this evil by
voting only for sober men. How many
men are there who can rise above the
feelings OF Nartisanship and demand
that or officials shall be sober lnclif
maintain that the question of So
briefly is higher than the question OF
availability, and that however eminent
IL mans services ,nay be, if nc have
habits of intoX!cation ne is unfit for
any Office in tic gift of II Christian peo-
pie. Our laws will be l.. better than
the men WHO make tilcn, Spend u few
days at Harrisburg ca Albany or
Washington. and you will find out
why upon the%e subjects it Ia impossi-
bic to get righteous cnactments.
Again, we will war upon this evil by
organized societies. The friends OF the
rum traffic havo banded together. an
nuully issue thIr circulars raise fabu-
lous sums of molscy to advance their
interests. and by grips. passwords,