The Iola register., 1890-08-08

prospects Rum disappointed parental
expectation. Rum withered those gar
lands of commencement day. Rum GU
his lip. Rum dashed out his manhood
Rum, accursed ruml
This foul thing gives one swing to it,
scythe and our best merchants fall; theil
stores are sold and they sink into dis
honored graves. Again it swings it,
scythe and some of our best physician:
fall into sufferings that their wisest pre-
scriptions can not cure. Again it swing:
its scythe and ministers of the Gospe
fall from the heights of Zion with Ions
resounding crash of ruin and shame
Some of your own households have al
ready been shaken. Perhaps you car
hardly admit it; but where was your sor
last night? Where was he Friday night
Where was he Thursday night? Wednes
day night? Tuesday night? Monday
night? Nay, have not some of you in
your own bodies felt the power of thi:
habit?
1 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 ght or
this subject Let them grow up with
an utter aversion to strong drink. Take
care how you administer it even as
medicine. If you find that they have a
natural love for it, as some have, put in
a glass of it some horrid stuff and make
it utterly nauseous. Teach them, as
faithfully as you dc the Bible, that rum
is fiend Take 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. If 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'
Looking out of your window at some
one who, intoxicated to madness, goes
through the street brandishig his fist,
disappearing 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 grogshop, let them know that
that is the place where men are slain,
and their wives made paupers, and their
children slaves Hold out to your
children all warnings, all rewards, all
counsels, lest in after days they break
your heart and curse your gray hairs
Again: We will battle this evil by
voting only for sober men. How many
men are there who can rise above the
feelings of partisanship, and demand
that our officials shall be sober men?
maintain that the question of sobri-
ETY. is higher than the question of avail
ability; and that, however eminent a
mans services may be. il he have habits
of intoxication, he is unfit for any office
in the gift OF Christian people.
Again: We will war upon this evil
by organized societies. The friends of
the rum traffic have banded together;
annually issue their circulars; raise
fabulous sums of money to advance
their interests, and by grips, passwords,
signs and stratagems, set at defiance
public morals Let us confront, them
with organizations just as secret, and If
need be with grips, and passwords, and
signs, maintain our position. There is
no need that our philanthropic societies
tell all their plans. / am in favor of all
lawful strategy in the carrying on of
this conflict
Again: We will try the power of the
pledge. There are thousands of men
who have been saved by putting their
names to such document know it is
annha6 hnf fhnro
who, having once promised thing, do
It ''SOme have broken the pledge"
Yes; they were liars Bnt all men are
not liars. 1 do not say that it is the
luty of all persons to make such sigma
ture; but do say that it would be the
salvation of many Of you.
Again: We expect great things from
nebriate asylums. They have already
lone glorious work. i think that we
,re coming at last to treat inebriation
IS it ought to be treated, namely: AS an
awful disease, self-infiicted, to be sure,
put nevertheless a disease. Once fast
ened upon a man, sermons won't cure
him; temperance lectures will not erad-
cate it; religious tracts will not remove
It; the Gospel of Christ will not arrest
t. Once under the power of this awful
thirst the man is bound to go on; and,
4 the foaming glass were on the other
'ide of perditon he would wade through
he fires of hell to get it.
Stand not, when the thirst is on him,
,etween man and his cups. Clear the
rack for him. Away with the child
'en; He would tread their life out.
Away with the wife; he would dash her
% death. Away with the cross; he
would run it down. Away with the
Bible; he would tear it up for the winds.
Away with Heaven; he considers it
worthless as a straw. ''Give me the
rink! Give it to mel Though the hands
# blood pass up the bowl. and the soul
rembles over the pit-the drink. give
t to me. Though it be pale with tears;
hough the froth of everlasting anguish
loaf on the foam-give it to me! drink
% my wife's woo, to my children's rags:
o my eternal banishment from God, and
rope, and Heavent Give it to me. the
Irink!'
Again, we will contend against these
wills by trying to persuade the respect
bile classes Of society to the banish-
nent of alcoholic beverages. You who
move in elegant and refined associa-
ions; you who drink the best liquors;
rou who never drink -lntil you lose your
balance, let us look each other in the
ace on this subject You have, under
Sod, in your power the redemption of
his land from drunkenness. Empty
Tour cellars and wine closets Of the bev-
rage and then come out and give US
Tour hand, your vote, your prayers,
Tour sympathies. Do that ard / will
promise three things: First, that you
will find unspeakable happiness il hav-
ng done your duty. Secondly, you will