The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

nad voice stentorlan enough TO make them
ali hear, and YOU could give the command,
Forward, march, their first tramp
would make the earth tremble. do not
care which way you look in the communi-
ty TO-DAY the evil is increasing
call attention to the fact that there are
thousands OF people born with thirst Tor
strong drink-a fact too often ignored.
Among some ancestral lines there runs
the river OF temptation. There are chill
dren whose ddiing-clothes a. torn off
the shrond OF death. MANY father has
made a will of this sort: "Iu the name OF
God, amen. | bequeath to my children
my houses and lands and estates; share
and share shall they ike. Hereto | affix
my hand and seal IN the presence of wit
nesses." And vet 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:
'ln the name OF disease and appetite and
death, amen. bequeath TO my children
my evil habits, my tankards shall De
theirs, NV destroyed reputation shall be
theirs. Share and share alike shall t.ey
in the infauiy. Hereto l affix my hand
and seal in the presence Of all the APP
plauding harpies os 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 abetting this evil, and alcohol il sold
unGer the name OF bitters. 1t is bitters
for this, and bitters for that, and Ditters
for some other thing, aud good men de-
ceived, not knowing there is any thraldom
OF alcoholism coming from that source,
are going down, and some day man sits
- a. IL A.. L..
tab e, and the cork flies out. and after it
flies a fiend and clutches the man by lis
throat and says: "Aha! have been after
you Tor ten wears. / have got you now.
Down with YOU Down with YOU. Bit
teTsl All yes They make @ man g fam
iiy bitter, aud his home bitter. snd bis
disposition bitter, and his death bitter,
and his hell bitter Bittersl A vast army.
all the time increasing.
1t seems to me it is about time for the
1900, 900 professors of religion IN America
TO take sides 1t is going to be an out and
out battle with drunkenness and sobrieiy,
between heaven and hell, between God
and the devil. Take sides before there Is
any further national decadence, take sides
before your sons are sacrificed and the
new home of your daughter goes down I'M
der the alcoholism of an embruted hus-
hand. Take sides while your voice, your
pen, your prayer your vote may have any
influence in arrestIng the despoliation of
this nation II the II, 200, 600 professors of
religion should take sides on this subjec.
it would not be very long before the des-
tiny of this nation would be decided in
the right direction.
Is drunkenness q state or national evil?
Does 1t belong TO the North or does it be-
long to the South? Does IL belong TO the
East or does it belong to the West? ALL
there Is not an American river into which
it's tears have not fallen and into which its
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantation every field a
fortune, the proprietor and lis family
once the most affiuent supporters of sum
mer watering places. What threw that
New England farm into decay aud turned
the rOseate cheeks that bioomed at the
foot OF the Green mountains into the pal
lor OF despair? What has smitten every
street of every village, town and city of
this continent with moral pestilence?
Strong drink.
To prove that this is a national evil l
call up two states in opposite directions
Maine and Georgia. Let them testify in
regard to this. state OF Maine says: at is
so great an evil up here we have anath-
ematlZed it a. state" State of Georgia
SAYS: at is SO great an evil down here
that ninety counties of this state have
made the sac of Intoxicating drink
criminality.' So the word comes up from
oil parts of the land. Either drunkenness
will be destroyed in this country or the
American government will be destroyed.
Drunkenness and free institutions are
coming into photographic.
Gather up he money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years, anu | will build for every
workingman house, and lay out for him
n garden, and clothe his Sons in broad
cloth and his daughters in silks. and stand
at his front door prancing span of sOrreis
or bays, and secure him policy OF life in
surance, so that the present home may be
we'll maintained alter he is dead. The
most persistent, most Overpowering ene-
my OF the working classes Is Intoxicating
liquor. Ii is the anarchist OF the centuries,
and has boycotted and is now bovcotting
the body and mind and soul of American
labor. Ii annually swind es industry out
OF a large percentage OF It's earnings. 1t
holds out its blasting solicitations TO the
mechanic or operative on his way to work.
and at the nOon-spell. and on his wav
home at eventIde. On Saturday, when
tine wages are paid, il snalches a large
part OF the money that might come TO the
family and sacrifices it among the saloon
keepers. Stand the saloons Of this country
side by side, and, it is carefully estimated,
they would reach from New York TO Chi
cagO.
This evil is pouring its vitriolic and
damnable liquors down the Threats of
hundreds OF thousands OF labOrers, and
while the ordinary strikes are ruinous
both to emp oyers and employees, l pro-
claim a universal strike against strong
drink, which strike, IL kept up, will
be the relief OF the working classes and the
salvation of the nation. l will undertake
to say that there is not healthy laborer
IN the United States, who within the next
twenty years, il he will refuse all intoxi-
eating beverages and be saving, may not
become a capitalist on a small scale.
Oh how many are waiting 10 see il
something cannot be done for the stop
ping OF intemperance Thousands of
drunkards waiting who cannot 20 ten
minutes in any direction without having
the temptation glazing before their eyes
or appealing 10 their nostril9, they fight
ing against il with enfeebled will and dis
eased appetite, conquering, then surren-
dering, cOnquering again and surrender
ing again, and crying: "How long, o
Lord how long before these infamous
solicitations shall be gonel" And how
many mothers are waiting to see il this
national curse cannot lift Oh, ia that
the boy who had the honest breath who