The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-06

shall they alike. Hereto aftix my
hand and seal in the presence of wit
nesses-'' 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 some
thing like this: I'm the name OF dis
ease and appetite and death, amen,
bequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tanlzards shall be theirs, my wine
cup shall be theirs my destroyed repu-
tatiOn shall be theirs. Share and share
alike shall they in the infamy."
From the multitude of those who
have the evil habit born with them
this army is being augmented. And
am sorry to say that great many OF
the drug stores are abetting this evil
and alcohol Is sold under the name OF
bitters-
1t seems to me it is about time for the
Il, 600, 600 professors of religion in Amer
lea to 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 decadence,
take sides before your sons are sacri-
feed and the new home of your daugh-
ter goes down under the alcoholism OF
an EN- bruted husband. Take sides
while your voice, Your pen, your prayer,
your vote may have any influence in
arresting the despoliatiOn of this ma
ton. If the Il, 600, 900 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.
To prove that this is a national evil
I call up two states in opposite direc-
tions-AIaine and Georgia. Let them
testify in regard to this. State of
Maine says: 1T is so great an evil up
here we have mathematical it as a
state" State of Georgia says: 1T is
so great an evil down here that ninety
counties of this state have made the
sale of Intoxicating drink a criminal
ity." 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 de-
stroyed. Drunkenness and free institu-
tons are coming into a death grapple.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the last thirty years, and will build
for every worllingman house, and lay
out for him a garden, and clothe his
sons in brOadcIOth and his daughters in
silks, and stand at his front door a
prancing span of sorre1s or bays, and
secure him a policy of life insurance, so
that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead The most
persistent, most over-pOvering enemy
of the working classes is Intoxicating
liquor. 1t is the anarchist of the centu-
ries and has bOycOtted and is now boy
cotting the body and mind and soul of
American labor.
And how many mothers are waiting
/ to see if this national curse cannot lift
| Oh! is that the boy who had the honest
breath who comes home with breath
/ vitiated or disguised? What a change
/ ing home have been exchanged for the
rafting of the night-key in the door
! long after the last Waterman has gone
| by and tried to see that everything was
| closed up for the night! Oh! what q
| change for that young man who we had
| hoped would do something in merchan-
| disc, or in craftsmanship, or in a profession
! that would do honor to the family name
| long after mothers vrinkled hands are
folded from the last toll! All that eX
changed for startled look when the
| door-beu rings, lest something has hap
pened; and the wish that the scarlet
| fever twenty years ago had been fatal
for then he would have gone directly K
the bosom of his Saviour. But, alas
| poor old soul. she has lived to expert
ence what Solomon said: "a foolish sor
| is a heaviness to his mother
O, what a funeral it will be when that
| boy is brought home dead! And how
mother viii sit there and say: rs this
| my boy that used to fOndle and that
| walked the floor with in the night wheI
| he was sick? Is this the boy that I held
to the baptisnal font for baptism? L:
this the boy for whom toiled until the
blood burst from the tips of my finger.
that he might have good start and (
| good hOme?" I am not much of a mathe
matician and cannot estimate it. but
is there any one here quick enough a
figures to estimate how many mother:
there are waiting for something to be-
done?
Ay, there are many wives waiting fol
domestic rescue. He promised some
thing different from that when, after
the long acquaintance and the careful
scrutiny OF character, the hand and tn,
heart were offered and accepted Wha-
a hell on earth a woman lives in yvh(
has a drunken husbandi o, death, how
lovely thou art to her and how soft ana
warm the skeleton handi The sepul
4 / oEza Of - l-inurs.