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

querihg, theh surrendcrlng, conquerinJ
again and surrendering again, and crying;
"How long, o Lord how long before
these infamous solicitations shall be gone'
And how muny mothers are waiting to sea
II this national curse cannot lift! Obi IL
that the boy who had the honest breath
/ who comes homo with breath vitiatcd or
disguised? What a change! How quickly
those habits OF early coming home have
been exchanged for tho rafting OF tho
night-key in the door long after the last
Waterman has gone by and tr.oi to SEQ
that everything was closed up for thd
night Oh what change for that young
man who we had hoped would do some,
thing In merchandise, or In art's'nship, or
In profession that would do honor 10 the
family name long after mothers wrinlsled
hands arc folded from the last toll All
that exchanged for startled look whom tho
door~ben rings, lest something has
happened; and tho wish that the scarlet
fever twenty years ago had boon 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 heavi.
ness TO his mother.
oh! what funeral II will DO when that
boy Is brought homo deadl And how
| A''NhN' "ha CIV bhcIo anu say IL luis NV
boy that used ~ fondlo and that walked
tho floor with In tho night when no was
sick? Is this tho boy that held to tho
baptismai font for baptismP Is this the
boy for whom l toiled until the blood
burst from the tips Of my fingers, that no
might have good home? Lord, why hast
thou lot mo 1.-Two 10 SEQ thlsp Can Il ba
that these swollen hands arc the ones that
used to wander over my face whom rocking
him to sloepp Can IL be that this swollen
brow 10 that l once 80 rapturously kissed?
Poor boy! how tired no does look. l won
der who struck him that blow across tho
temples? wonder II he uttered "a dying
prayer Wake up, my SON. don't you
hear me? Wake up! OH no can't hear
mo. Dead! dead deadl % Absalom, my
son, my sou, would God that l had died
for thee, o Absalom, my son, my sonp"
am not much OF u mathematician, and
! cannot estimate IL; but Ia there anyone
hero quick enough at figures TO estimate
how many mothers there arc waiting for
something to DO done. Ay, thoro are many
wives waiting for domestic rescue. He
promised something different from that
when, after tho long acquaintance and the
careful scrutiny Of character, tho hand and
tho heart were offered aud accepted.
What hell on earth woman lives In who
has "a drunken husbandl O Death, how
lovely thou art 10 her, and how soft aud
warm thy skeleton handl Tho sepulchro
ut midnight In winter In kings
drawlng-room compared with that woman's
home. IL Ia not 80 much tho blow on tho
head that hurts as the blow on the heart.
Tho rum fend came to.that beautiful home,
and opened the door and stood there, aud
said; II curse this dwelling with an unre-
lonting curse. l curse that father into u
maniac. l curse that mother into pau
por. | curse those sons into vagabonds. I
curse those daughters into prohigates.
Cursed DO bread tray and cradle. Cursed
be couch aud chair, and family bible with
record OF marriages and births aud deaths
Curse upon cursop' Obi how many wives
are there waiting TO 500 II something cannot
DO done 10 shake these frostS OF tho second
death OF tho orange blossoms! Yen, God Is
waiting, the God who works through hui
man Observation-Disclosures, waiting 10 sec
whether this nation is going to overthrow
this evil aud II II refuse TO do 40, God will
wipo out the nation as no did Pheuicia, as
be did Rome, as ho did Thebes, rs he did
Babylon. Ay, no Is waiting TO SEQ what
the Church of God will do. II 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 q billion dollars q year
TO take care Of tho 800, 900 paupers, aud
tho 3l5, 900 criminals, and tho 30, 900 idiots
and 10 bury tho 20, 900 drunkards. Prota-
goras boosted that out OF the sixty years Of
his life forty years no had spent in running
youth; but this evil may make the more in-
famous boast that ali It's life II has been
running tho bodies. minds and souls OF the
human race
Put on your spectaeIes and ta)te candle
and examine tho platforms OF the two load
ing political parties OF this country, and
SEQ what they are doing for the arrest Of
this evil and for tho overthrow of this
abomnat on. Resolutions against Nor
monism. against political corruption. about
protection against competition with foreign
Industries, but not ono word about proteo-
ton Of family and church and nation
against tho 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
Christcndom marching shoulder to shoulderi
How very short time it would take them
10 put down this evil, II 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 the
English. Generals Ponsonby and Picton
fallen. Sabrcs broken, flags surrendered,
Scots Grays annihilated. 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! we'll teach that
little Englishman O lesson. Ninety chances
out Of hundred are in our favor. Mag
nifcent! magnihcentp He even sent
messages to Paris to say no 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 Austerlitz OF triumph, shall have its
Waterloo of defeat. Alcoholism having
lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel break
err Of human hearts, crazed with the disas-'
ter. will be- found feeling in vain for the
stirrup on which to remount its foaming
charger. $50. o Lord, let thine enemies
perishw
Police Judge (who is trying to find
out the trade Of the accused)
are you. anyhow" Prisoner-"Ash
yer honor hash no doubt obsherved'
I'm (hic) little off this morning"
Politician (angrily) These news.