Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-03-05

querinR, thch surrenderlng, conQucrinJ
| again and surrendering again, and crying;
"How long, Lord how long before
| these infamous solicitations shall be- gone"
And how muny mothers are waiting TO seq
| II this national curse cannot lift! oh! IL
that tho boy who had the honest breath
who comes homo with breath vitiated or
disguised? What a change! How Quickly
those habits OF early coming home have
been exchanged for tho rafting OF the
night-key in the door long after the last
Waterman has gone by and tr.od TO SEQ
that everything was closed up for thd
night Oh what q change for that young
man who we had hoped would do some-
thing In merchandise, or In art'sanship, or
In profession that would do honor TO the
family name long after mothers wrinlSled
hands are folded from the last toll All
that exchanged for startled look whom tho
door-bcll rings, lest something has
happened; and the wish that the scarlet
fever twenty years ago had been fatal, for
then he would have gone directly TO the
bosom OF his Saviour. But alas poor old
soul she has lived TO experience what
Solomon said; "a foolish son IL a heavi-
ness TO his mother.
Oh! what funeral II will DO when that
boy Is brought homo deadi And how
h'NhN' wa huuiu uuu sNys IN tula MY
boy that used a. fondlo and that walked
tho floor with in tho night when no was
sick? Is this tho boy that held to tho
baptismal font for baptism? Is this the
boy for whom l toiled until the blood
burst from the tips Of my fingers, that he
might have good home? Lord, why hast
thou let mo 1.-Two 10 SEQ this? Can II bS
that these swollen hands arc tho ones that
used TO wander over my face when rocking
him TO sloepr Can II be that this swollea
brow Is that l once so rapturously kissed2
Poor boyl how tired he does look. won
! der who struck him that blow across tho
temples? wonder II he uttered dying
prayer Wake up, my son; don't you
hear mor Wake upl Oil he can't hear
me. Dead! deadl dcadl % hbsnlom, my
son, my sou, would God that | had died
for thee, o Absalom, my son, my SOM"
am not much OF n mathematician, and
I cannot estimate IL; but IL there anyone
here quick enough at figures TO estimate
how many mothers there are waiting for
something to DO done. Ay, there are many
wives waiting for domestic rescue He
promised something different from that
when, after tho long acquaintance and the
careful scrutiny OF character, the hand aud
tho heart were offered aud accepted
What u hol on earth woman lives In who
has drunken husbandl q Death, howl
lovely thou art 10 her, and how soft aud
warm thy skeleton hand The sepulchre
Mt midnight In winter is kings
drawing-room compared with that woman's
homo. II Ia not 80 much tho blow on tho
head that hurts as the blow on the heart.
Tho rum iend came to,that beautiful home,
and opened tho door and stood there, aud
said: II curse this dwelling with an unro-
lonting curse. l curse that father into
maniac curse that mother into pau
pcr. l curse those sous into vagabonds.
curse those daughters into protiigates.
Crrsed DO bread-tray and cradle. Cursed
be couch aud chair, and family bible with
record OF marriages and births aud deaths.
Curse upon cursop OH how many wives
are there waiting TO 500 II something cannot
DO done 10 shake these frosts OF the second
death OF tho orange blossomsl Yea, God Is
waiting, tho God who works through hui
man instrumentalities, waiting 10 SEQ
whether this nation is going to overthrow
this owl; aud II II refuse TO do SO, God will
wipo out the nation as no did Phnuicia, as
he did Rome, as ho did Thebcs, as no did
Babylon. Ay, no is waiting TO SEQ what
the Church Of God will do. IL tho Church
does not do its work, then he will wipe IL
out as no did tho Church OF Ephesus,
Church OF Thyatira, Church OF Sardis. Tho
Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches
today stand side by side with an impotent
look gazing on this evil, which costs this
country more than billion dollars a year
10 take caro- of tho 800, 900 paupcrs, aud
tho $40, 900 criminals and tho 30, 900 idiots
and TO bury tho 10, 900 drunkards. Prota-
goras boosted that out of tho sixty years OF
his life forty years he had spent In running
youth; but this evil may make tho more in
famous boast that all its life II has been
running tho bodies, minds and souls OF tho
human race.
Put on your spectaclos and take candle
and examine the platforms OF the two lead
ing political parties OF this country, and
sec what they are doing for the arrest Of
this evil and for the overthrow of this
abomlnat on. Resolutions against Nor
monism. against political corruption. about
protection against competition with foreign
industries, but rot one word about proteo-
ton OF family and church and nation
against the scalding blasting. all-consum-
ing, damning tariff OF strong drink put up
on every financial, individual, spiritual,
moral, national interest.
look In another direction. Tho Church
Of God Is the grandest and most glorious
institution on earth. What has II In solid
phalanx accomplished for the overthrow OF
| drunkenness? Think OF three hundred
| thousand churches and Sunday-schools in
| Christendom marching shoulder TO shoulder
| How very short time 1t would take them
| 10 put down this evil, IL all the churches OF
! God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were
armed on this subject.
But this evil will be arrested. Butcher
came up Just before night and saved the
day at Waterloo. At four o'clock In the
afternoon 1t looked very badly for tho
English. Generals Ponsonby and Picton
fallen. Sabrcs broken, flags surrendered,
| Scots Grays annihlated. Only forty-two
men left out OF tho German brigade. Tho
English army falling back and falling
back. Napoleon rubbed his hands together,
and said: .'Ahal aha! wen teach that
| little Englishman lesson. Ninety chances
| out OF hundred are in our favor Mag
nihcent! magnifcentp' He even sent
| messages to Paris to say he had won tho
day. But before shutdown Butcher camo
UP, and he who had been the conqueror OF
Austerlitz became the victim of Waterloo.
! That name which had shaken all Europe
! and filed even America with apprehension;
| that name went down. and Napoleon,
muddy and hatless, and crazed with his
disasters, was found feeling for the stir
rup OF horse, that he might mount and
resume the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial.
and it is conqueror, and there are good
people who say the night OF national over
throw Is coming, and that 1t Is almost
night. But before shutdown the Conqueror
| OF earth and heaven will ride in on the
white horse, and alcoholism, which has had
its Austerltz of triumph, shall have its,
Waterloo of defeat. Alcoholism having
lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel break
or Of human hearts, crazed with the disas-
ter, will DO found feeling in vain for the
stirrvp on which to remount its foaming
charger. $50. o Lord. let thine enemies
perishp'
Police Judge (who is trying to find
out the trade of the accused) -"What
are you. anyhow" Prisoner-"Ash
yer honor hash no doubt obsheryed'
I'm (hic) little off this morning"
Politician (angrily) These news