The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-03-05

crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked
Cognac, crooked schnappe. crooked
beer crooked vino, crooked whisky
because it makes mans path crooked,
and his life crooked, and his death
crooked, ard his eternity crooked.
IL could gather all the armies of
the dead drunkards and have them
come to resurrection, and then add to
that host all the armies of living
drunkards, five and ten abreast, and
then If / could have you mount a
horse and ride along that line for re
view, you would ride that horse until
ne dropped from exhaustion, and you
would mount another horse and ride
until he fell from exhaustion, and you
would take another and another, and
you would ride along hour after hour
and day after day. Great host, in regi-
ments, in brigades. Great armies of
them. And then if you had voice
stentorian enough to make them all
hear, and you could give the command,
Forward, march!" their first tramp
would make the earth tremble. do
not care which way you look in the
community today, the evil is increas-
ing.
call attention to the fact that there
are thousands of people born with
thirst for strong dKnl1-a fact too often
ignored. Along some ancestral lines
there runs the river of temptation.
Il
clothes are torn off the shroud of death.
Many a father has made will of this
sort: "1n the name of God, amen. |
bequeath to my children my houses
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike. Hereto l afiix my
hand and seal in the presence of wit
nesses" And yet perhaps that very
man has made another will that the
people have never read, and that has
not been proved in the courts. That
will put in writing would read some
thing like this: I'm the name OF dis
ease and appetite and death, amen.
bequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tankards shall be theirs, my wine
cup shall be theirs, my destroyed repa
tation shall be theirs; share and share
alike shall they in the infany. Hereto
I affix my hand and seal in the pres
ence of all the applauding hatpies of
hell"
THE DEMON OF THE DRUG SToRE.
From the multitude of those who
have the evil habit born with them
this army is being augmented. Ard
am sorry to say that a great many of
the drug stores are abetting this evil,
and alcohol Is sold under the name OF
bitters 1t is bitters for this, and bit
tiers for that, and bitters for some other
thing and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thralltlom of alco-
holisnl coming from that source, are
going down, and some day man sits
with the bottle of black bitters On hi.
table, and the cork flies out, and after
his throat and says. "Ahal havo beer
after you for ten years. l have got
you now. Down with you down witt
you" Bitters! All, yes. They make
n mans family bitter, and his home
bitter, and his disposition bitter, anc
| his death bitter, and his hell bitter
Bitters! 4 vast army, all the time in
creasing.
/ It seems to me it is about time fo
the II, 900, 600 professors of religion il
: America to take sides. 1t is going to b,
: an out-and-out battle with drunken
ness and sobriety, between heaven an(
hell, between God and the devil. TAX,
I sides before there is any further nation
/ al decadence, take sides before you
| sons are sacrificed and the new home o
3 your daughter goes down under the oil
! coholism of an inebIiated husband
] Take sides while your voice, your pen
t your prayer, your vote may have an,
J. influence in arresting the despoliatiol
: of this nation. If the II, 900, 900 pro
: fessers of religion should. take sides OF
T. this subject it would not be very lon
+ before the destiny of this nation woul'
C be decided in the right direction.
/ Is drunkenness a state or nationa
d evil4 Does it belong to the north, O
+ does it belong to the southl Does
d belong to the cast, or does it. belong t
b the westa All. there is not an Amer
9 can river into which its tears have nc
d fallen, and into which It's suicides hav
& not plunged. What ruined that south
ern plantation-every field a fortune
Il the proprietor and bis family once til
r most affiuent supporters of summe
Il watering places9 What threw tina
o New England farm into decay, an
e turned the roseate cheeks that bloome
IS at the foot of the Green mountain
d into the pallor of despair9 What hg
d smitten every street of every village
Is town and city of this continent with
|: moral pestilences Strong drink!
Is To prove that this is national evil
d call up two states in opposite direction
le Maine and Georgia Let them testif
st in regard to this. State of Maine say.
is ut is 50 great an evil up here we hay
it mathematical it as a state" State
ID Georgia says: "It is so great an CIV
- down here that ninety csscties of tn
n state have made the sale of intoxica
ps ing drink a criIninality." So the wo1
I'd comes up from all parts of the lanc
/ Either drunkenness win be destroye
b. in this country or the American 60
a. eminent will be destroyed. Drunkel
IN ness and free institutions are comir
Of into a death grapple.
i POVERTY COMES AS AN ARMED MAN
~ Gather up the money that the worl
70 ing classes have spent for rum durir
~ the last thirty years, and / will bui
y for every workingman house, ar
n lay out for him a garden, and clotl
n his sons in broadcioth md his daughte
e1 in silk, and stand OF his front door
prancfng span of sorrels or bays, ar
u secure him policy OF life insurance
10 that the present home may be we