Telegram-herald., 1890-07-28
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Tks d.c1sr Ezs i1st teen sent for - bind
NJ tse gsshes received IA = & zht Hls hair
i mated aud razkss kim lock nke . wild
beSst. H.s Up : bloody and sQt- Who Is
this battered and bruised wretch that Sas
picked Up by TIE polce. and carried In
dxunk and foul and bleeding, DID call
him man the ssconds He il man the nrsti
Rasn transformed him Hum destroyed
bis prospects. Ram disappointed parental
sxpectation. Rum wllheFed those garlands
OF eonmeneeuent day. Rum cut his lip.
Rurn dashed out his manhood kam-ac-
cursed rami
This foul thing gives ore swing u It's
scythe and our best merchants fail. Their
stores are sold and they sink into dlshon-
ored graves. Again il swings its scythe,
and some Of our best physicians fall into
sufferings that their wisest prescriptions
cannot cure. Again il swings its scythe,
and ministers Of the gospel fall from the
heights Of Zion, with long resounding
crash Of ruin AID shame. Some OF your
own households have already been shaken.
Perhaps you can hardly admit II, but
where was your son last night' Where
was he Friday night, Where was he
Thursday night, Wednesday nigbt' Tues
day nighti Monday night, Nay. have not
sorne OF you in your own bodies felt the
power Of this habit, You think that you
could stop' Are you sure you coold' Go
on little further. and am sure you can
not / think il some Of you should try TO
break away you would find chain on the
right wrist and one on the left; one on the
right foot and another on the left. This
berpent does not begin 70 hurt until IL has
wound round and round. Then it begins
TO tighten aud strangle and crush until
the bones crack, and the blood trickles,
and the eyes start from their sockets, and
the mangled wretch cries, 30 God! O Godl
helpi helpV' But it is too late, and not
even the fires of woe can melt the chain
when once it is fully fastened.
WHO WILL HU,gT HIN DOWN.
have shown you the evil beast. The
question is, Who will hunt him down and
how shall we shoot him' | answer Grst,
by getting our children right on this sub
ject. Let them grow up with an utter
aversion to strong drink. Take care how
you admipister IL, even as medicine. II
you find that they have natural love FOR
it, as some have. put in n glass OF IL some
| horrid stuff, and make it utterly nauseous.
Teach them as faithfully as you do the
Bible that rum is fiend. Tele them TO the
almshouse and show them the wreck and
ruin IL works Walk with them into the
homes that have been scourged by it. IL a
drunkard hath fallen into a ditch take
| them right up where they can see his face.
bruised, savage and swollen, and say:
look, my son. Rum did thatr' Look
ing out of your window at some one who,
intoxicated to madness, goes through the
! street brandishing his fist, blaspheming
God, bowling, defyinG, shouting, reeling,
raving 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 pau
pers, and their children slaves Hold ont
| to your children all warnings. all rewards,
| all counsels, lest ia after days they break
| your heart and curse your gray hairs. A
man laughed at my father for his scrupu-
| Ions temperance principles, and said: Il am
more liberal than you. / always give my
children the sugar in the glass after we have
| been taking drink" Three OF the sons
! have died drunkards and the fourth is i'm
| becile through intemperate habits.
VOTE RIGHT.
Again. we will battle this evil by voting
| only for sober men. How many men are
! there who can rise above the feelings OF
| partisarship and demand that our officials
shall be sober menS
maintain that the question of sobriety
| is higher than the question of availability,
| and that however eminent mans serv-
ices may be. if be have habits of intoxica-
! ton he is unfit for any Office in the gift OF
Christian people Our laws will be no
better than the men who make them.
| Spend few days at Harrisburg or Albany
or Washington and you will find out why
upon these subjects it 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 toge,s r; 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 organizations just as secret,
/ and, il need be, with grips and pass words
I and signs maintain our position. There
il no need that our philanthropic societies
k tell all their plans. | am in favor OF all
lawful strategy in the carrying on Of this
/ conflict / wish to God we couli lay under
/ the wine casks train which, once ignited,
would shake the esrth with the explosion
Of this monstrous iniquityl
Again, we will try the power OF the
I pledge. There are thousands Of men who
have been saved by putting their names to
such n document. / know IL Is laughed at,
but there are some men who, having olce
promised thing. do it. Some have
broken the pledge" Yes: they were liars
Bat all men are not liars. | do not say
that il Is the duty Of all persons TO make
| such signature, bat do say that it would
be the salvation OF many Of y-i The
I glorious work OF TheObald Mathew can
never be estimated At his hand four
millions Of people took the pledge, and
/ multitudes in Ireland, England. Scotland
and Amsrica have kept il till this day.
The pledge signed to thousands has been
tae proclamation of e1nsncipation-
NERBTATE AsTLvNs.
Again, we expect great tbiRgs from IN
I ebriate ssYlums. They have already done
2 glorious work. think that We are CON
ing at last 70 treat ins5ristion as it ought
70 be treated. namely A. An awfal disease.
self inflicted. 20 be sure. bat nevertheless a
disease. Once fastened upon a man ser
mons wo1't cure him: ten peran-e lectures
will rot eradicate Il. religions tracts Will
net remove it. the Gospel Of Christ viii
not arrest T. Once under the power of
this awful thirst The man j. bouad to q
ou, end X the fosming glass were On the
other side of periitioa he would wade
through the fres cf bell - set T. A
yoang nan ia prison hsd sueh strcnz
thirst for intoxicating liquors that he cut
OF his hand 81 thz wrsss. called f0r a boul