The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-08
THE DRINK WOLF AND THE F.,rrIIrI-T,


THE DRINK WOLF AND THE FAITHFUL,
HOUND.
Some men went out hunting in an east
ern state in the earlier days. It WAS
their first experience; they had hound
with them and soon wolf was started.
The men had not bargained for this and
were considerably alarmed; not so the
dog; he sighted game and bounded in
pursuit. lie was q valuable hound and
the men feared they might lose him, but
ne followed fast and followed faster after
the wolf Pretty soon he was deep in
the woods and the men came along us
best they could, lar in the rear. They
tried to call Off their dog, but he pursued
the trail. They said it would have been
better to come up on the other side.
to have surrounded the wolf in some wav.
tohave waited until they had a stronger
force. They yelled to the dog (wasting
q good deal OF time and strength that
way) but on and on he went. Then they
cursed him with curses loud and deep,
but he was too farahead of them to hear
or heed, lie knew nothing except the
trail, and he cared for nothing save to
kill the wolf, The, ,yelp-of that dog dis
turbed the men as he ran on CRYING out
the louder, and finally, when they caught
up with him, he was in the desperate
grip, tooth to tooth, blood for blood,
lifeforl life. Hewas desperatel wounded,
but the throat OF the wolf was severed,
and the dog a victor; that wolf would
haunt the chicken coops no more.
Thinking upon this story, I am re-
minded OF a wolf thatprowis around the
homesteads OF this land. The great hunt
is going forward. There are loud halloas
and vast confusion; and behold! there IS
I.l ri Int t,,f t.y,>
| oil centuries and taken to the traii its
| yeip Is III a clear soprano key; it follows
| last and faster; men are afraid that
! harm may come to it; they think another
way might be better than this; they won
der il somehow the territory OF the wolf
cannot behedged IN; they fear that harm
will come to combinations with which
their ambitions are bound up; they are
forcalling OF the dog; but has scented the
game; its noseis on tho trail down close;
| its steps are swifter than the wand, it
| knows only one thing-to follow the wolf.
| No mortalm man can stop it. You cannot
persuade-you cannot coax-you can
not frighten, the dog has gone beyond
your reach. beyond your voice. Voters
! OF this Audience, you well know what |
| mean:-the liquor traffic is that wolf;
the w. G. T. y. has started in pursuit;
wherever the wolf goes, there we shall
follow. He is entrenched in social GUS
| tom, away we follow after him with the
totalapstinence pledge. Heis barricaded
in tho peoples ignorance: away we 60
| after him into the public schools with a
| Thus saith nature, thus saith reason,
against the drink habit. He is fortified
by law; away we go after him into the
legislature, His faYorite thicllet and hid
ing place is politics; away we &C to Ma
tlonal and state conventions, and no
matter how much OF contradiction we
have to endure, no matter how much
CALLING fire of harsh criticism, not easy
forgentle hearts to bear, beitremembered
that there is now on the track OF the
liquor wolf, a hound that does not know
how to be afraid, that has NOT sense
| enough to retreat, that makes OF this great
| chase q thing Of life and DEATH and will
follow the wolf until his deathwound
| has been given, and has last dropof blood
sprinkles the SHOWS of a winter civiliza.
ton.