Milford chronicle., 1891-03-06
HEREDITARY APPETITE.

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thousands Of people born with thirst fo
strong drink-a fact too often ignored
Along some ancestral lines there runs rh
river of temptation. There are childre
whose swaddhng clothes are torn off th
shroud of death. Many father has mad
a will Of this sort: I'm the name Of God
amen. / bequeath to my children m
houses and lands and estates; share an
share shall they alike. Hereto / afiix m
hand and seal in the presence of witnesses.
And yet perhaps that very man has mad
another will that the people have neve
read, and that has not been proved in th
courts. That will put in writing woul'
read something like this; I'm the name o
disease aud appetite and death, amen.
bequeath to my children my evil habits
my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cul
shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation
shall be theirs. Share and share alike shal
they in the infamy. Hereto l afix m,
hand and seal in the presence Of all the ap
plauding harpies of bell"
From the multitude Of those who havl
the evil habit born with them this army il
being augmented. And am sorry to SAY
that great many of the drug stores ar,
abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold undel
the name Of bitters. It is bitters for thil
and bitters for that and bitters for som'
other thing, and good men deceived, no
knowing there is any thralldOm Of alcohol
ism coming from that source, are goinl
down, and some day a man sits with the
bottle of black bitters on his table, and the
] cork aies out, and after it flies a iiend anC
I clutches the man by his throat and says
1 "Ahai / have been after you for ten years
| have got you now. Down with you
down with YOUR Bittersi Ahl yes. They
/ make mans family bitter and his home
! bitter and his disposition bitter and his
/ death bitter and his hell bitter. Bitters
/ A vast army, all the time increasing.
4 1t seems to me it is about time for the
1 II ,OOO, 600 professors of religion in America
1 Co take sides 1t is going to be an out and
out battle with drunkenness and sObriety
/ between heaven and hell, between God and
the devil Take sides before there is any
| further national decadence; take sides be
fore your sons are sacrificed and the new
home of your daughter goes down under
the alcoholism of an imbruted husband
Take sides while your voice. your pen,
your prayer, your vote may have any influ-
ence in arresting the despoliation Of this
nation. If the 100000 professors Of re
ligion 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.
THE CURSE OF STRONG DRINK.
Is drunkenness a state or national evill
Does it belong to the north, or does it be-
long to the south? Does it belong to the
east, or does it belong to the west2 Ahl
there is not an American river into which
its tears have not fallen and into which its
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantatiOn?-every field a
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
the most affiuent supporters of summer
watering places. What threw that New
England farm into decay and turned the
roseatc cheeks that bloOmed at the foot of
the Green Mountains into the pallor Of
despair? What has smitten every street
Of every village, town and city Of this CON
tinent with a moral pestilence2 Strong
drink.
To prove that this is national evil cali
up two states in opposite directions Maine
and Georgia. Let them testify in regard
to this. State of Maine says, at is 50 great
an evil up here we have mathematical it
as a state" State of Georgia says, "lt is so
great an evil down here that ninety coun-
ties of this state have made the sale of in
toxicating drink criminality" So the
word comes up from all parts Of the land.
Either drunkenness will be destroyed in
this country or the American government
will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free
institutions are coming into death Crap
pie
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years, and 1 will build for every
workingman n house, and lay out for him
a garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth
and his daughters in silks and stand at his
front door a prancing span Of sorrels or
bays, and secure him policy of life insur-
ance so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead. The most per
sistent, most overpowering enemy of the
working classes is Intoxicating liquor It
is the anarchist of the centuries and has
boycotted and is now boycotting the body
and mind and soul Of American labor. 1t
annually swindles industry out of a large
percentage Of its earnings. 1t holds out
its blasting solicitations to the mechanicor
operative on his way to work, and at the
noon spell, and on his way home at even
tide. On Saturday, when the wages are
paid, it snatches large part OF the money
that might come to the family and sacri-
fees It among the saloon keepers. Stand
the saloons of this country side by side,
and it is carefully estimated that they
would reach from New York to Chicago.
This evil is pouring its vitriolic and
damnable liquors down the throats of
hundreds of thousands of laborers, and
willie the ordinary strikes are ruinous
both to employers and employees, | pro
claim universal strike against strong
drink, which strike, if kept up, will be the
relief OF the working classes aud the saliva
ton Of the nation. will undertake to say
that there is not a healthy laborer in the
United States who, within the next twenty I
years, if he will refuse all intoxicating
beverages and be saving may not become |
D capitalist on a small scale.
CANNOT SOMETHING BE DONE?
oh, how many are waiting to see if some |
thing cannot be done for the stopping Of |
Thousands of drunkards 1
waiting who cannot go ten minutes in any |
Erection without rhayipg the temptation
glanng before theiP eyes or appealing to 4
sheir nostrils, they lighting against it with
viii and diseased appetite, con4
luering, then surreHdering, coaquering [
again and surrendering agidn, and crying,
How long. o Lord how long before these
infamous solicitations shall be gonep I
And how many mothers are waiting to see
f this national curse eannot lift? Oh, is
hat the boy who had the honest breath .
Who comes home with breath yitiated or
disguised? What a changel How quickly
hose habits Of early coming home have
'een exchanged for the rattling Of the
hight key hume DOOR long after the last
gatehman has gone BY and tried 20 SEQ
hat everything was closed up for the
light
OH what o change for that young man,
yho we had hoped would do something in
or in artisanshiD or in "a pro-
ession that would DO honor to the family
lame. long after mothers wrinkled hands
ne folded from the last TOLL All that ex-
hanged for startled look when the door
'ell rings, lest something has happeneai
nd the wish that the scarlet fever twenty
ears ago had been fatal, for then be would
lave gone directly to the bosom Of his
iaYiouE llut alasl poor old soul, she has
iVed to experience what Solomon said. "A
oolish son is a heayiness to his motherp
OH what a funeral it will be when that
10Y is brought home deadi And how, ,moth-
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