Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-02
THE TEN PLAQUES.


hauStlOu, and You WOulu MOUNT dhotH
or horse aud ride until he fell from eN
haustion. and YOU would taAe another
and another. aud you would ride alonl
hour after hour, day after day Grea
hosts. I'm regiments, in brigadeS. Grea
armies of them. And then, If you had
voice stentorian enough To make then
lam hear. and YOU could give the com
mand. Forward, march, their tirst
tramp would make the earth tremble.
do not care which way you look in the
community to-day, the evil is increaS
ing.
Ican attention 10 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 of the Shroud of death.
MANY father has made 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 a1iX my
haud and seal in the pres
ence of witnesses And yet
perhaps that very man has made an
other will that the people have never
read and that has not been proved IN the
courts. That will put in writing would
read something like this: IN the name
OF disease and appetite and death,
amen. / bequeath 10 my children my
.evi. habits. my tankardS shall be theirs,
INV wine cup shall be theirs, my de-
stroyed reputation shall be theirs. Share
and share alike shall they ia the in
fanny. Hereto ailiX my hand and seal
iu the presence OF all the applauding
harpirs OF hell.
A NATIONAL EVIL.
Is drunkenness a State or national
,Nle Does il belong To the North, or
does 10 belong 20 the South? Does 1t
belong to the East, or does 10 belong tu
the Vest An there is not an AmerI-
cal river into which its tears have not
fallen and into which It's suicides have
not plunged. What ruiLed that south
rru plantatiOn?- every field fortune,
the proprietor and his family once the
most atiuent supporters OF our summer
wateriug-places. What threw that
New England farm into decay and
turned the roSeate checks that bloomed
al the foot of the Green Mountains into
the pallor of despair What has Smlt-
ten every street of every village, town
and city of this continent with moral
pe,tilcnce2 Strong drink.
To prove that this Is u national eNll
cali up TWO States iu opposite dlrec-
tionS Maine and Georgia. Let them
testify i'm regard 10 this. State oil
Maine saws: 1T is SD great an evil up
here we have mathematical 10 As Il
State" state of Georgia says; 1t Is
SID great am evil down here that ninety
COMMITTEES of this State have made the
tle sale of Intoxicating drink crlml-
nalitv." So the word comes up from all
mart, of the land. Either drunkenness
will Doe DESTROYED I'm this country or the
American government will be de-
Stroved. Drunkenness ana free inStl-
mtions are coming iutOa death-grapple.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the last thirty years. and l Will build
for every working man house. andJay
out for MIN a garden and clOthe his
sons I'm broadcloth and his daughters In
silks. and stand 10 his front door a
Drancipg span of sOrrelS OF bays, ana
secure him a policy of life insurance so
that the present home may bee well MAIN
tanned after he is dead. The most per
,istent. most oyerpowering enemy OF
the working classes is intoxicating
riegor. 10 is the anarchist OF the cen
turtles. aud has boycotted and IS now
boycottiue the body and mind aud soul
of American labor. Ii annually SwlndleS
Industry out of large percentage OF
its earnings. IL holds out IT'S blasting
solicitations 20 the mechanic or opera
tive ON his way TO work, and ut the
noon.speu aud ON his way home at
eyentide. ON Saturday, when the wages
are paid. ia suatcheS "a large part OF the
money THAI might come 10 the family
and sacrifices 10 among the SdloOnkeep-
cps. stand the saloons of this country
side hv side. aud 10 IS carefully eStl-
mated that they would reach from New
York to Chicago.
This evil is pouring its NltrloIlc ana
dauinab'r liquors down the throatS oil
hundreds of thousands of laborerS, ana
whl. the ordinary strikes are ruinOuS
both to employers and employees, l pro-
claim universal strike against strong
drink. which strike, &c kept APP, viii be
tho relief of the working classes ana
tl,. salvation of the nation. l VIII uu-
d,rtaNr 90 say that not healthy labor
er .u the United States who' wlthih
thc ucNt twenty years, II he VIII re-
fuse AN intoxicating beverages and be
saving. may not become capltAlISl on
a small scale.
THE EvIL TO EE ARRESTED.
hut thi, evil will De arrested. Bluch-
er came up just before night ana saved
the day M Waterloo. AT o'clock IN
the afternoon il looked very badly Tor
m. English. Generals Ponsonby and
Pi,ton fallen. SabreS broken. flags sur
rendered. Scots GrayS annihllated.
ONLY forty-two men left out OF the Yer
man brigade. The English army ling
back and falling back. Napoleon rubbed
his hands together, and said: Aha.
aha, we'll teach that little EngiiShman
a lesson. Ninety chances out OF
"a hundred are in our favor Magnlh-
cent, magnificent" He even sent mes
,ages 90 Paris To say he had won the
dav. But before shutdown Butcher came
iln and me who had been the conquereI
.of AuSterliz became the victim o.
Waterloo. That name which had shaken
all Europe and filled even America WIN
apprehcnSion. that name went down
and Napoleon. muddy and hatleSS' ano
rra5,d with his disasters, was tounc
feeling for the stirrup of "a horse, ina
I hc mi-ht mount and RESUME the con
/ bict
We'll. INV friends, alcoholism is i'm
uerial. and 10 is a cuuqucror. ana there
/ are GOOD people who say the night oil
national overthrow is coming, and ina
In is almost night. Butbcfore sundowl
tbe Conoueror of earth and Heaven vii
ride I'm ON the white horse, and alcohol
ism which has had its AuSterlitl oil trl
rmnh shall have lite Waterloo OF defeat
Alcoholism having lost IT'S crown In'
-rrizliv and cruel breaker oil humal
hearts. crazed with the disaster, VIII o
found feeling In vain for the Strrup oil
which 20 rcmOuut its iodmlng chdlect
$50. % Lord. let thine enemies PERISH.
MORGANTOwN.
r,,nourt of the Alpha Chapter OF the IN
Kama Psi Fraternity-Local Notes
,...iai l.l,qraa. 70 ne Register.
Noi.cAe,a-N. February =. - In
fr.t annual banquet vi West hirglni
/ Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Isl FRA
t.r,iiv was held last night at the Com
mercil Hotel. AZ $40 p. IA. the mem ~,
n b. tt.fth % hnuUtftUlI