The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-08
SOMERSET COUNTY, PA.
noSDAY KvESrSs SESSION..


ture, From Bar-room 10 Pulpit" He
said
LADIES -1ND GESTLENES 1t is related
that on one occasion an old and decrepit
stranger, came into an Eastern city,
and walked about the Market
Mace until he SAW some bird cages bought
one of them, opened it, and turned out
the bird. At first the wings Of the cap
tive refused to do its bidding, but at
length nature asserted itself it winged
its way up till it caught a sight of its ma
tive hills, and then winged its way afar
of 10 its native forests. So the old man
did aith all the birds, and when asked,
Why do you do this gr be replied, 1
was once 3 captive"
80 say to you was once a captive,
hound in the thraldom of an internal
traffic. l was reared by my mother in a
religious home was led to believe that
Ihad an interest in those things / went
to college, graduated with some distinc-
tiGn, rad law, and was admitted TO the
practice Of my chosen profession. had
abundant means, was well prepared for
the profession, but by and by saw that
men who were looked upon as leaders.
were in the habit Of indulging in those
things that had been taught to think
were all wrong. ] followed their exam
pie bad warnings that ought to have
needed / saw men totter to their fall !;
saw youths such as was dropped into
the grave. and saw their comrades pass
by their new-made graTes, and none ever
stop 70 plant an immortelle 10 their men,
ory. thought these were the mere SC
cidents Of fortune. and kept on. After
seventeen years Of most desperate evil, !
was at length turned away from that
curse. want to say that no man can
run course of vice such as did, can
saiurate every corpuscie Of his system
With the hellish poison, and abandon the
habit BY the mere strength of his own
naked will. l married q noble wife and
when she demonstrated with me, said,
g You don't understand these things !;
when We have laid up competence,
then we will discuss these smoral ques-
tions, and settle on some line of conduct
for the future But ! found long after,
that instead of reassuring her, / only
drove her 10 brood in solitude over her
troubles Children came TO me; | often
looked at them, but never thought that
my vices would oyershadow their entire
young lives. at length reached a point
at which | discovered that.I was no long
er master Of myself I tried physicians
but, though l took their medicines
faithfully, derived no benefit from
them; next | tried antidotes, with the
same result | procured an appointment
from President Hayes, to Paris there
fell into deeper debauchery grew i'll
| called in the best medical talent in
France to attend on me. ! got well, but
my horrid appetite still existed
| returned TO the United States
went deeper and deeper my habits
grew worse and worse. One night my
wife ven; TO Judge Hammond and asked
him to write oH; a notice to the bar
keepers Of Atlanta. forbidding them to
sell me liquor He did 81 the notices
were served did they heed them No
They took them and stuck them up in
every bar room in the city, and made
them The jest OF every drunken loafer in
the city, and then sold me just much
liquor as they had done before.
Why didn't the law stop them? Be
cause the law is not estoppel.
The Liquor dealers association. Of Kan
sas City, Mo, presented their petition to
Judge Field. personal friend of mine
he refused it as treasanable 10 the State,
and contrary to good morals and reli-
eion.
The same occurred at Columbus, Ohio,
when the Liquor dealers Of Cincinnati.
desired incorporation.
If the horsethieves Of the country
were 10 demand Incorporation, they
would be run out Of the country with
gatEing guns.
If the thieves and burglars of this
country we're to demand incorporation,
the people would rise in their might and
drum them into the sea. We don't want
any more law in this counrry-of the
kind we have.
Give me just Judge. honest Sheriffs,
honest Prosecuting Attorneys, and have
all honest Jurors in Pennsylvania and /
can take the present law Of Pennsylvania
and can run every liquor dealer out of
Pennsylvania, in six months and he won't
come back until the world burns down.
Then they say; What do you want with
law?
want law TO make honest Judges, and
other public officers by.
We hear in some places Prohibition,
Won't prohibit-dOn'i suppose you have
heard it here-but everywhere you hear
thafsame old red-nosed, flannel mouth
gang saying Prohibition won't prohitit.
Il ask him, where don't it prohibit2''
~Don't prohibit in Maine" sswhen were
you in Manner 1Never was in Maine"
"How do you know il don't prohibit77
Well heard so. | say, who did you vote
for for President years ago :" "why l
voted for James G. Blaine 81 say do
you know James g. Blaine is common
liar - Why; he asks; Because James
g. Blaine says it does prohibit in Maine"
Coming out from Chicago in the train
with sam Jones, several gentlemen we're
talking Of Prohibition, big, bavwind-
owed fellow got on and talking of Prohi-
biticn said he was going down 70 Illinois
to 90 into business agsin- ~What busi-
re 5 were you in in Iowa" 0 he'll, kept
saloon The other side Of the picture
IN old man removing his family from
brunswick, No, 10 Iowa totEy to raise
hi resnainingchildren free from thecurse
Of rum. Prohibition does prohibit every
where that the officers are no. pusillani-
nous knases. or peuured scOundreis