News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-05

| horse and ride along that line Tor n
view, you would ride that horse unit
he dropped from exhaustion, and yo
would mount another horse and rid
until he fell from exhaustion, and yo
would take another and another, an
you would ride along hour after hou
and day after day, Great host, in reg
ments, in brigades. Great armies c
them. And then if you had vote
stentorian enough to make them al
hear, and you could give the command
Forward marchl' their first tram
would make the earth tremble. d
not care which way you look in tn
community today, the evil is increas
ing.
| call attention to the fact that Their
are thousands of people born with
thirst for strong drink-a fact too Otter
ignored. Along some ancestral line:
There are children whose swaddlin:
clothes are torn off the shroud of death
Many q father has made will of thi
sort: In the name of God, amen.
bequeath to my children my house:
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike. Hereto | 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
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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 repu-
tation shall be theirs; share and share
alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto
I affix my hand and seal in the pres
ence of all the applauding harpies of
| hell "
THE DEMON OF THE DRUG STORE.
From the multitude of those who
have the evil habit born with them
this arlny is being augmented. And l
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 bitters for this, and bit
tiers for that, and bitters for some other
thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thralldom of alec
holism coming from that source, are
going down, and some day a 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. | have got
you now. Down with you down with
your 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 A vast army, all the time in
creasing.
1t seems to me it is about time for
the II, 900, 900 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, 900, 900 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 a state or national
evil2 Does it belong to the north, or
does it belong to the south2 Does it
belong to the cast, or does it belong to
the west? All there is not an Ameri-
can river into which its tears have not
fallen, and into which its suicides have
not plunged. What ruined that south
ern plantation-overy field fortune,
the proprietor and his family once the
most attluent supporters of summer
watering places? What threw that
New England farm into decay, and
turned the roSeate cheeks that bloomed
at the foot Of the Green mountains
into the pallor of despair9 What has
smitten every street of every village,
town and city of this continent with a
moral pestilence? Strong drink!
To prove that this is national evil l
call up two states in opposite directions
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 q state" State of
Georgia says: ''It is so great an evil
down here that ninety counties of this
state have made the sale of intoxicat- |
ing drink a criminality" So the word |
comes up from all parts of the land |
Either drunkenness will be DESTROYED |
In this country or the American gov |
eminent will be destroyed Drunken
ness and free institutions are coming |
into death grapple.
POVERTY COMES AS AN ARMED MAN.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the last thirty years, and / will build
for every workingman q house, and
lay out for him a garden, and clothe
his sons in broadcloth and his daughters
in silk, and stand at his front door a
prancing span of sorrels or bays, and
secure him q policy of life insurance so
that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead The most
persistent, most overpowering enemy of
the working classes is intoxicating
liquor. 1t is the anarchist of the
centuries, and has boycotted and is
now boyco5ting the body and mind and
soul of American labor. 1t annually
'windles industry out of a large per-
eentage of its earnings. 1t holds out
its blasting solicitations to the me-
;hanic or operative on his way to work.
and at the noon spell and on his way
home at eventide. On Saturday, when
the wages are paid, it snatches a large
part of the money that might come to
The family and sacrifices it among the
saloon keepers. Stand the saloons of
This country side by side, and it is
estimated that they would
reach from New York to Chicago.
This evil is pouring its vitriolic and
damnable liquors down the Threats
ot hundreds of thousands of laborers.
and while the ordinary strikes are ruin
BUS TO both employers and employees, /
proclaim q universal strike against
strong drink, which strike, if kept up.
Will be the relief of the working classes
md the salvation of the nation. I will
Undertake to say that there is not a
healthy laborer in the United States
who, within the next twenty years. if
ne VIII refuse all intoxicating beverages