The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-12

Cognac, crooked schnapps, crooked
beer, crooked wine, crooked whisky
because it makes mans path crooked,
and his life crooked, and his death
crooked, and his eternity crooked.
If 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 l could have you mount a
horse and ride along that line for re-
view, you would ride that horse until
he 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 drink-a fact too often
ignored. Along some ancestral lines
there runs the river of temptation.
There are children whose swaddling
clothes are torn off the shroud of death.
Many father has made a will of. this
sort: 'In the name of God, amen |
bequeath to my children my houses
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike. Hereto l affix 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; "In the name of dis
ease and appetite and DEATH amen. i
bequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tankards shall be theirs, my wine
cup shall be theirs, my destroyed repu
tation shall be theirs; share and share
alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto
l affix my hand and seal in the pres
ence of oil the applauding harpies of
he'll"
THE DEMON OF THE DRUG STORE.
From the multitude of those who
have the evil habit born with them
this army is being augmented. And
am sorry to say that great many of
the drug stores are abetting this evil,
and alcohol is sold under the name of
bitters. 1t is bittes for this, and bit
tiers for that, and bitters for some other
thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thralldom of alco-
holism coming from that source, are
going down, and some day man sits
with the bottle of black bitters on his
table, and the cork flies out, and after
it flies fiend and clutches the man by
his throat and says, "Aha! | have been
after you for ten years. I have got
you now Down with you down with
youw Bitters! All, yes They make
a mans family bitter, and his home
bitter, and his disposition bitter, and
his death bitter, and his hell bitter
Bittersl vast army, all the time in
creasing
1t seems to me it is about time for
the II, 600, 600 professors of religion in
America to take sides. 1t is going to be
an out-and-out battle with drunken
ness and sobriety, between heaven and
hell, between God and the devil Take
sides before there is any further nation
al decadence, take sides before your
sons are sacrificed and the new home of
your daughter goes down under the al
coholism of an inebriated husband.
Take sides while your voice, your pen,
your prayer, your vote may have any
influence in arresting the despoliation
of this nation. If the II, 600, 600 pro-
fessors of religion should take sides on
this subject it would not be very long
before the destiny of this nation would
be decided in the right direction.
Is drunkenness state or national
evil? Does it belong to the north, or
does it belong to the south2 Does it
belong to the east, or does it belong to
the west2 Ali there is not an Ameri-
can river into which it's tears have not
fallen, and into which it's suicides have
not plunged. What ruined that south
en plantation every field fortune,
the proprietor and his family once the
most affluent supporters of summer
watering places2 What threw that
New England farm into decay, and
turned the rossate cheeks that bloomed
at the foot al the Green mountaini
into the pallor of despairl What has
5 smitten every street of every village,
town and city of this continent with Q
moral pestilence2 Strong drink
To prove that this is national evil
8 call up two states in opposite direction.
t Maine and Georgia. Let them testify
in regard to this. State of Maine says
1T is so great an evil up here we have
! mathematical it as state" State O.
Georgia says: cit is so great an evi
uO"h hChO oioho hihOey SouH"So "a oi''
l state have made the sale of intoxicat
ing drink criminality" So the wore
comes up from all parts of the land
] Either drunkenness will be destroyed
I in this country or the American gov
eminent will be destroyed. Drunken
/ ness and free institutions are comins
into death grapple.
POVERTY COMES AS AN ARMED MAN.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum durin.
the last thirty years, and I will built
for every workingman house, ant
lay out for him a garden, and cloth,
his sons in broadcloth and his daughter
in silk, and stand at his front door
prancing span of sorrels or bays, an,
secure him policy of life insurance 81
: that the present home may be wei
= maintained after he is dead The mos
:, persistent, most oyerpowering enemy o
: the working classes is intoxicatin,
: liquor. 1t is the anarchist of tn
= centuries. and has boycotted and