Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-02

.+ropt bp,.luse father has come nome
from tha carousal, and the seven hun
dr,J voiced shrek of the sinking
steamer. because the captain was not
himself when he put the ship on the
wrong course. Champion tiend am |!
have kindled more fires, have wruny
ont more agonies, have stretched out
more midnight shadows, | have opened
more Golgothas, | have rolled more
Juggernauts, have damned more
sonls than any other emissary of diabol
ism. Champion iend ain |
tvrEaPRRANCE is NOW INCREASING.
Drunkenness is the greatest evil of
this nation and it takes no logical
nrocess to prove to this audience that a
drunken nation cannot long be a free
nation. call your attention to the
fact that drunkenness is not subsiding
certainly that it is not at standstill,
but that it is on an onward march, and
It is a double quick There is more
rum swallowed in this country, and of
worse kind, than was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began its work
of death Where there was one drunk
en- home there are ten drunken homes
Where there was one drunkard's grave
there are twenty drunkards' graves. 1t
is on the increase. Talk about crooked
whisky-by which men mean the whis-
ky that does not pay the tax to govern
ment-I tell you all strong drink is
crooked. Crooked Otard, crooked
Cognac crooked schnapps, crooked
beer crooked wine, crooked whisky
because it makes a mans path crooked,
and his life crooked, and his death
crooked, and his eternity crooked.
II 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, marchP 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 I'm the name of God, amen. |
bequeath to my children my houses
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike. Hereto | affix my
hand and seal in the presence of wit
hesses " 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
VIII put in writing would read some
thlng like this; 'In the name of dis
ease and appetite and death, amen.
oequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tankards shall be theirs, my wine
cup shall be theirs, my destroyed repu-
auon shall be theirs; share and share
ankeehall they in the infamy. Hereto
ai1x my hand and seal in the pres
hell"
THE DEMON OF THR DRUG STORE.
from the multitude of those who l
nave the evil habit born with them t
uis army is being augmented. And l {
AN \ sorry to say that great many of t
"e uiug stores are abetting this evil
S.D %,u alcohol is sold under the name of |
o'''ers' 1t is bitters for this, and bit S
Iis ior that, and bitters for some other
uiihg, and good men deceived, not '
AAno"lng there is any thralldom of alco- a
DOiASm coming from that source, are /
eC'nS uown, and some day man sits 5
",'n tue bottle of black bitters on his t
:. sAo.e and the cork flies out, and after s
4, nirS nend and clutches the man by h
"a ''uoat and says, "Aha! have been
~ you Tor ten years. l have got
~ now. Down with you down with +
'DuI bittersl All, yes. They make b
h;t Ai family bitter, and his home d
~ % and his disposition bitter, and h
d.. ueath bitter, and his hell bitter. n
c,s'e' ''s' A vast army, all the time in b
tha - Ems ems to me it is about time for |
AuT'VVO,OOO professors of religion in ii
an ~ an. to take sides 1t is going TO be a
Ds~ Esnd-out battle with drunken "
hsU ~ soonety, between heaven and C
ad., S.Seen God and the devil. Take ii
Al d.ofe there is any further nation "a
sons 1ssaenee, take sides before your it
Jon, Aenhced and the new home of OF
eoboE. shter goes down under the al h
Talsss Oh an inebriated husband. 81
your 4 r- while your voice, your pen. p
hAD.Ip psyer' your vote may have any %
Of M. "a arresting the despoliation Ia
is.or- nation. If the II, OOO, 600 pro m
tbs s,I religion should take sides on lo
beto,p ~ ees Il would not be very long i
L SI.,sle a. sle destiny of this nation would a
IA 49, N the right direction