The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-02

JodTS IL udb WEuiR lEOLh IL OJoo VI
and orphans, nor for the blood
1t has dashed on the Christian Church,
for the catastrophe of the MILLIONS
1t has destroyed forever.
l sketch two houses in this street.
The first is bright as home can be-. The
comes at nightfall, and the chill
dren run out to meet him. Luxuriant
evening meal. Graduation, and SYM
and laughter. Music in the par
lor. Fine pictures on the wall. Costly
books on the stand. Well clad house
hold. Plenty of every thing to make
home happy.
House second: Piano sold yesterday
by the sheriff. Wife's furs at pawn
brokers' shop. Clock gone. Daughters
jewelry sold to get -four. Carpets gone
off the floor. Daughters in faded and
patched dresses. Wife sewing for the
stores. Little child with an ugly wound
on her face, struck in an angry blow.
Deep shadow Of wretchedness falling in
every room. Door bell rings. Little
children hide. Daughters turn pale.
Wife holds her breath. laundering step
in the hall. Door opens. Fiend, brand
ishing his fist, cries: 'Out! out! What
are you doing here?"
Did l call this house the second? MOI
1t is the same house. Rum transformed
1t. Rum embruted the man. Rum sold
the shawl. Rum tore up the carpets.
Rum shook his fist. Rum desolated the
hearth. Rum changed that paradise in
to q hell
sketch two men that you know very
we'll. The first graduated from one OF
our literary institutions. His father.
mother. brothers and sisters we're pres
emit to see him graduate. They heard
the a~pplauding thunders that greeted
his speech. They saw the bouquets
tossed to his feet They Jaw the degree
conferred and the diploma given. He
never looked 30 we'll. Every body said:
"What q noble browl What a fine eye!
What graceful mannersi What brilliant
prospectsl" All the world opens before
him and cries: "Hurrah! hurrah!
Man the second: Lies in the station
house. The doctor has just been sent
for to bind up the gashes received In q
| fight. His hair Is matted and makes
| him look like q 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 second? He Is man the first! Rum
transformed him. Rum destroyed his
prospects. Rum disappointed parental
expectation. Rum withered those gar
lands Of commencement day. Rum cut
his lip. Rum dashed out his manhood.
Rum, accursed rum!
This foul thing gives one swing to Its
scythe and our best merchants fall; their
stores are sold and they sink into dis
honored graves. Again 1t swings Its
scythe and some Of our best physicians
fall Into sufferings that their wisest pre-
scriptions can not cure. Again it swings
its scythe and ministers of the Gospel
fall from the heights of Zion with long
resounding crash OF ruin and shame
Some OF your own households have al
ready been shaken. Perhaps you can
hardly admit 1t; but where was your son
last might? Where was he Friday nights
Where was he Thursday nightP Wednes'
day night? Tuesday nightP Monday
night? Nay. have not some OF you IN
your own bodies felt the power OF this
habit?
have shown you the evil beast. The
question Is, who will hunt him down
and how shall we shoot him? answer
FIRST, by getting our children right OF
this subject Let them grow up will
an utter aversion to strong drink. Take
care how you administer 1t even al
medicine. II you find that they have
natural love for Ii, as some have. put II
a glass of it some horrid stuff and make
Il utterly nauseoua. Teach them. a.
faithfully as you do the Bible. that run
In a fend. Take them to the almshons'
and show them the wreck and ruin |
works. Walk with them into b home
that have been scourged by It II
drunkard hath fallen into a ditch, TAX
them right up where they can see hi
face, bruised, savage and swollen. ant
say: Look, my son. Rum did thats
Looking out OF your window at SOM
one who, intoxicated to madness, goe
through the street brandishig his fist
disappearing God, Q bowling. defying
shouting, Keeling. raving and foamipI
maniac, say to your son: Look. tina
man was once q child like YOU" As 20
90 by the grogshop, let them know tina
that Is the place where men are slain
and their wives made paupers, and the
children slaves. Hold out to you
children ali warnings. all rewards, a.
co~unssls. lest in after days they breal
your heart and curse your gray hairs,
Again: We will battle this evil b
voting only for sober men, How man
men are there who can rise above tn
feelings Of partisanship, and deman
: that our officials shall be sober men?
maintain that the question Of sobr
: ETY. Is higher than the question OF avail
: ability; and that however eminent
mans services may be. II he have habit
: of intoxication, he is unfit for any offic
: in the gift OF a Christian people.
Again: We will war upon this ey
: by organized societies. The friends
: the rum traffic have banded togethe
: annually issue their circHlarsi rail-
!. fabulous sums of money to advan'
= their interests, and by grips. password
: signs and stratagems, set at defiant
= public morals. Let US confront the
= with organizations just as secret, and
need be with grips, and passwords, al
= signs, msintain our position. There
y no need that our philanthropic societi
tell all their plans. am in favor of a
lawful strategy in the carrying on
. this conflict
:. Again: We will try the power Of tt
pledge. There are thousands of me
: who have been saved by putting the
names to such o document know II
= laughed at; but there are some M
who, having once promised 0 thing,
- It sSome have broken the pledge
= Yes; they were liars. But all men a
1, not liars. do not say that 1t is Il
duty Of all persons to make such sign
!. ture; but I do say that it would be Il
- salvation OF many OF yop.
y Again: We expect great things fro
n inebriats asylpms. They have alreac
done q glorious work, think that
are coming at last to treat iRebriati
as 1t ought + be treated, namely: Az
awful disease, self-inficted, to be sal
!. but nevertheless q disease. Once IA
- eRsd upon q man, sermons won't Gu
- him; temperance lectures will not era
70 icate IT.; religious tracts will not reno
~ It; the Gospel OF Christ will not arr
- 1t. Once under the power OF this aw.
thirst the man Is bound to go on; al
II the foaming glass were on the 9th
20 side OF perdition he would wade throu
- the fires of hell to get IT.
Stand not, when the thirst ia on hi
between q man and his cups. Clear
track for him. Away with the Chi
~ rem; He would tread their life o
- Away with the wife; he would dash |
to death. Away with the cross;
Z, would run it down. Away with