Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-03-05


ten abreast, and then if | could have you
mount horse and ride along that line for
review, you would ride that horse until he
dropped from exhaustion, and you would
mount another horse ard ride until he fell
from exhaustion, and you would take an
other and another. ami you would ride
along hour after hour and day after day.
Great host, in regiments, in brigades.
Great armies Of them. And then if you
bad voice stentorian enough to make them
NIL hear, and you eould give the command,
Forward, maFchp' their first tramp would
make the earth tremble. | do not care
which way you look in the community to-
day the evil IS increasing
HEREDITARY APPETITE.
| 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
STROUD 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 ! adix my
/ hand and seal IN the presence of witnesses"
/ 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 something like this I'm the name of
disease 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 reputation
shall he theirs. Share and share alike shall
they in the infamy. Hereto | atiiX my
hand and seal in the presence Of all the ap-
planding harpes Of he'll"
From the multitude OF those who have
the evil habit born with them this army is
being augmented And am sorry to say
that a great many Of the drug stores are
abettng this evil, and alcohol is sold under
the name Of bitters 1t is bitters for this
aud bitters for that and bitters for some
other thing, and good men deceived, not
kno wing there is any thralldom Of alcohol
ism coming from that source, are going
down, and some day man sits with the
bottle Of black bitters on his table, and the
cork flies out, and after it flies u tiend and
clutches the man by his throat and says;
"Ahal have been after You for ten years.
have got you now Down with you!
down with your Rtters! All. yes. They
make a mans family bitter aud his home
bitter and his disposition bitter and his
death bitter aud his hell bitter Bittersl
A vast army, all the time increasing.
Ii seems to me it is about time for the
Il, OOO,O COO professors Of religion IN America
TO take sides. Il is going TO be an cut and
out battle with drunkenness and sobfiety,
between heaven snt. hell, between God and
the devil Take sides before there Is any
further national decadencc; 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 lhhu
cnce In trresting the despoiation Of this
nation. II the l7O01,000 professors Of re
lipion should take sides on this subject il
would not be very long before the destiny
Of this mutton would be decided IN the right
direction
THE CURSE or sTRoNG DRINK.
Is drunkenness a state or national evil
Does il belong to the north, or does II be
long to the SOUTH Does it belong to The
east, or does it belong to the weat' All
there is not an American river into which
It's tears have not fallen and into which it
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantationS-everyi Held
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
4 the most afiiuent supporters OF SUMMED
watering places. What threw that New
Fngland farm into decay and turned TIN
roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot o
the Green Mountains into the pallor o
despairy What has smitten every stree
, of every village, town and city Of this con
! tipent with moral pestilencei Stronl
drink
n prove that this is "A national evil cal
mn two states in opposite directions Main
ana Georgia Let them testify in regar'
10 this. State Of Maine says, y II is so grea
! an evil IN here we have mathematical
rs n state. state 81 Georgia says, : Il IS $
; great an evil down here that ninety coun
{ Ties Of this state have made the sale Of IN
4 roxicating drink a criminality 50 tn
{ word comes up from all parts Of the land
! Either drunkenness viii be destroyed i
! this country or the American goYernmen
3 v,ill be destroyed Drunkenness and FIRE
!! institutions are coming into a death graz
pie.
e Gather UP the money that the workin
4 classes have spent for rum during the las
, thirty wears. and will build for ever
!, worltingman house, and lay out for hir
G n garden. and clothe his SONS n broadclot
a and his daughters in silks, and stand at hl
! front door a prancing span OF sorreis Q
HAYS. and secure him policy OF life Insul
{ ance so that the present home may be we
5 maintained after he is dead The most pei
Il sistent. most overpowering enemy OF tn
S working classes is Intoxicating liquor
e l. the anarchist Of the centuries, and ha
boycotted and is now boycotting the bod
II and mind and soul of American labor.
Is annually swindles industry out OF larg
/ narrepfare of its earnings. 1t holds GU
Is ;ts blasting solicitations TO the mechanic c
% lucrative on his way to work, and at til
ie noon smell. and on his way home at ever
.. tide. On Saturday, when the wages al
II Maid. it snatches large part OF the none
re tbst might come to the family and sacr
N 6ces it among the saloon keepers Stan
d 49,, eaIoons OF this country side by sid
le and it is carefully estimated thai the
le T.onld reach from New York 70 Chicago.
d This evil is pouring its vitrlolic an
re aa,,nnhle LIQUORS down tie threats {
d bnngrg.d, Of thousands of lnboregs, an