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

this land from drunkenness. Empty y
your cellars and wine closets Of the bev-
and hen come out and give US
your hand, your vote, your prayers,
your sympathies. Do that and | will
promise three things: First, that you
find unspeakable happiness in hay
ing done your duty. Secondly, you will
save somebody-perhaps your own child.
Thirdly, you will not, in your last hour,
a regret that you made the sacri-
flee, If sacrifice it be.
AS long as you make drinking respect
able drinking customs will prevail, and
the pillow share of death, drawn by the
terrible disasters, will go on turning up
this whole continent from end to end
with the long, deep, awful furrow OF
drunkards' graves.
There is no home so beautiful but it
may be devastated by the awful curse.
1t throws it's jargon into the sweetest
harmony. What was it that silenced
Sheridan, the English orator, and shat
tered the golden scepter with which he
swayed Parliaments and courts? What
foul sprite turned the sweet rhythm OF
Robert Burns into a tuneless babble?
What brought down the maj este form
of one who awed h American Senate
with his eloquence, and after awhile
carried him home dead drunk? What
was 1t that swamped the noble spirit OF
one of the heroes of the last war, until,
in a drunken fit, he reeled from the
deck of a Western steamer and was
drowned? There was one whose voice
we all loved to hear. He was one of the
most classic orators of the century.
People wondered why u man of so pure
a heart and so excellent a life should
have such a sad c~ountenance always.
They knew not that his wife was a sot.
l call upon those who are guilty OF
these indulgences to quit the path OF
death. o! what n change 1t would make
in your home! Do you see how every
thing there is being desolated? Would
you not like to bring back joy to your
| wife's heart and have your children
| come out to meet you with as much con-
hdence as once they showed? Would
YOU not like to rekindle the home lights
| that long ago were extinguished? 1t Is
not too late to change. 1t may not en-
| tirely obliterate from your soul the
memory OF wasted years and a ruined
reputation, nor smooth out from your
anxious brow the wrinkles which trouble
has plowed. 1t may not call back I'M
kind words uttered or rough deeds done;
for perhaps in those awful moments you
struck her! 1t may not take from your
memory the bitter thoughts connected
with some little grave. But 1t Is not
too late to ave yourself and secure for
God and your family the remainder OF
your fast going life.
But perhaps you have not utterly
gone astray. l may address one wit
may not have quite made up his mind
Let your better nature speak out. You
take one side or the other in the wal
against drunkenness. Have you the
courage to put your footdown right and
say to your companions and friends
81 will never drink intoxicating liquor
in all my life; nor will l countenanc'
the habit in others?" Have nothing t.
do with strong drink. 1t has turned thu
earth into a place of skulls, and ha
stood opening the gate to a lost world t.
let in its victims until now the doc
swings no more upon it's hinges, but
day and night, stands wide open to 10
In the ~agonized procession OF doomed
men.
Do I address one whose regular worl
in life is to administer to this appetite
For Gods sake get out of that business
II a woe be pronounced upon the ma
who gives his neighbor drink, how man.
woes must be hanging over the man VIII
Ices this every day and every hour
the day!
Do not think that because human GOV
eminent may license you that there
fore God licenses you. ] am surprise
to heal you men say that they respet
the Original package" decision, b
which the Supreme Court OF tn
United States allows rum to be take
into States like Kansas, which hay
) decided against the sale Of %iptoxicants
] have no respect for q wrong decision
I care not who makes it. The thre
Judges OF the Supreme Court who gay
a minority report against that decisio
| were right, and The Chief Justice WI
wrong. The right Of q State to defen
} itself against the rum traffic will yet
demonstrated, the Supreme Court no
w~ithstanding. Higher than the judicii
bench at Washington Is the THRONE
the Lord God Almighty. No enac
ment National. State or municipal. ca
! give you the right to carry on q bushes
t whose one effect is destruction.
God knows better than you do YOU
self the number of drinks you ha'
r poured out You keep O list but q mo
accurate list has been kept thar your
You may call it Burgundy, BOurbo
Heidsieck, sour mash or beer. iiod cal
It strong drink. Whether you sell 1t
Y Q low oyster cellar or behind the pc
Q ished counter Of o first class hotel, ii
divine curse is upon you, ] tell "
plainly that you will meet your GU
+ toners day when there will be
counter between yoH. When 20
a work Is done on earth end y,
3 enter the reward of your business,
@ the souls of the men whom you have d
stroyed will crowd around you and pc
II their bitterness into your cup. Tit
u will show You their wounds and SO
"You made them" apd point to the
70 unquenchable thirst and say, Fyop kt
% died it." and rattle their chains a
say, ''You forged it." Then their unit
10 groaps will smite yoEr ear, and with t
% hands out of which you onGe picked t
u s~ixpsDees and the dimes, they will p4
d you off the verge Of great precipic'
Is while rolling up from beneath q
breaking among the crags OF death, W
thunder, ''Woe to him that giveth
d neighbor drink!"
10 Casts Of Two Human Fiends.
IN RobespisFre and Marat are enigma
ir cal characters. THAR deeds were n,