Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-03-06

,1,su rrcction snd then add to that host all
tise armies Of living drunk ards, five and
ton abreast, and then If l 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 and ride until he fell
from exhaustion, and you would take an
other and another, and YOU would ride
along hour after hour and day after day.
Great host, in regiments, in brigades.
Great armies ot them. And then if you
bad voice stcntorian enough to make them
all hear, and you cc;ild give the command,
"Forward. march!" their first tramp would
make the earth t-cmble. do not care
which way you look in the community to-
day the evil is increasing.
HEREDITARY APPETITE.
] call attention to Lhe iuct that there are
thousands of pcopl" born with "A thirst for
strong drink! fact too often ignored.
Along some ancestral lines there runs the
river Of temptation. There are children
whose swaddlng clothes are torn Off the
shroud of death Many a father has made
will of this SOFT: an the name of God,
amen ! b2uucqth to my children my
houses aud lands and estates; share and
share snail they alike. Hereto ! ailiX my
hand and seal in the presence OF wit ncsses."
And vet perhaps hat very man has made
another will that the people have never
read, and that has not been proved in the
courts. That will put i'll writing would
read something ike this: "In the name of
disease and appetite and death, amen. l
bcqueath to my children NY evil habits,
my tankarts shall he theirs my wine cup
Shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation
shall he theirs Share and share alike shall
they in the ufamy. Hereto | aflix my
hand aud seal in the presence of all the APP
plaudinE harpies of hell"
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 hittcrs. II is bitters for this
md b;tier> for tha, and bitters for some
other thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thraldom of alcohol
ism coming from that source, are going
down and some daya man sits with the
bottle of blacl; bitters Oh his table, and the
cork flies out, and after it flies Il lcnd and
clutches the man by his throat and says.
"Aha! have been after you for ten years.
! have got You now. Down with YOU!
/ down with vou,' l}ittcrs. All! yes They
make mans family bitter and his home
/ bitter and his disposition bitter aud his
death bitter and his hell bitter. Kitters!
/ a vast army, all the time increasing.
/ 1t seems to me it is aDoIt time for the
/ Il ,OC0, 800 professors of rrlj -ion in America
20 iahe sues. ~ - I''"E ~ oc an o''' anu
out p9o'le WIN ruiNeil"'Ns anu soor'e'! ,
between heaven and he'll, between God and
t"e GFF"' l""V Sues "''''e '"c'c - any
lur'her h"''V''l "''""""'r' GAZE sues De
ioTe your Npi arr S-''''N'i anu V'c ne"
nome "I your "''-"'rI -"9 uoWi un'cr
the h!e"u'I'Nfn OF an I'ho' Yea h"SH"i"'
lake sues ""''e your Voice. your PEN
your prayer !o"' N''' may ,i"Ne amy il''iu-
ehce IN aiItsL'"R l"' - PNI"'Ion "i inns
nam"h' II me l'o0V.,V professors Oh re
HH'"h sh"li' 'ihe SUES on INNS S"nJec, IL
"oiiu hou Oe Ne'! ''uE "'l"'t the ues'iy
OF thls haIlon Wou'u oe ueclueu III the riShO
uIreclloh'
TIE CURSE OF STRONG DIl,K.
Is drunkenness state or national evilI
/ Does it belong to the north, or does 1t be
long to the south; Does it belong to the
cast or does IL belong 10 the ST. MI
there is not m American river Into which
its tears hava not fallen &uu into which ite
suicides have not rIHuF"L What ruined
that southeu plantt iGn:-tv4.y field a
1 fortune, the proprietor and his family once
the most a.liucnt supporters of summer
watering places. Whrt threw that New
/ England farm into decay and turned tie
roseatc checks that doomed ut the fuot OF
the Green hipuntainS into the palIor OF
Ieopairy What has smitten every street
Of every village, town and city Of this con-
tncHt with Il moral pv,jilcncu' strong
drink.
To prove that this is n national evil call