Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-26

THE TEMPERANCE PRESS.

v a.
81 EfeszI ties have operated IN
Sih EN] bringing the temperance
AALAH 4 reform up to it's con-
EE5l5SI manding position. Able
men have written md
spoken, aud from the ros:rum and the
pulpit, public opinion has been edu-
Gated; but the great engin" has been
the press. This giant friend o. man In
a free country has scattered its light. lis
facts, arguments and appeals into mi
lions of hearts and homes. 1t has in
voked a storm, slowly, bat mona the
less effectu,l. The mutterinss OF years
past are deepening into startling pea!s,
and the rel language ot popular lndig-
nation and wrath gl'w omin"usiF
bright across the sky. The deep OF
nubIic op;uion is rocking to its depths.
TIE temperance press, at hrSt siFcg
Cling with almost Overwhelming Gill
culties, has flo Wy increased IN hhiilN
aud power, and to-day eNerts CON
trolling Influence upon publlc senti-
ment, The literature of our reform Is
characte~ and clothing great truths IN
pure and more attractive garh, anu
never was there a wider fed for the
exercise of intellectual effort. We lonk
around and behold on every side the
works of destruction; scenes which
would mock the artist pencil are OF
daily occurrance. The desnlated nome
with its heart broken wife aud mother,
with her pale cheek channeled win
tears OF unutterable woe, as she bends
weeDingover the drunken wreck OF her
Youths idol; the child group shIvering
in the blast or clinging to that mother,
as they moan for bread; th4 orphans
turned out. with no friend but God, in
to the wide world youth wrecked ana
parsipd with premature age; manhooi
reeIinp an,id the ruins of mini an"
moral beauty, the sepulc .re "f th"u<-
and hopes; genius drivrling III Iii icy
and crumbling into run; the vlrtuous
and noble-miuded turning away from
truth and honor. and plunging into
every vice; the parent ana cltlZeh
wandering away from home-heaVen.
through a ievi us and dark pilgrimage,
to dishonered grave; the home-l iol
shivered and broken, the altar cast
down. and an Elem Transformed int"
hell: childhood and innocence thrust
ont from the love-light Of n mothers
eve. to waIiow in all that is low and
vile. crime. with its internal "ha! ha"'
as it stalks forth it's work OF death
with it's rel hand dripping with the
hot and smoking life-tide Of its victim.
These. and ten thousand other comoI-
nations of warp and woof, are woven
into tales of wondrouS intensity anu
mower. The howell, the dramshop, the
subterranean den, and the mansion "i
fashion and W ealth, have all furnished
the material for tales of startling in
terest.
The success of every grand reform
depends upon education, and we. a.
workers in the greatest OF all reforms
should put forth every effort to place
temperance literature IN the hands oil
all classes. VIM. CLARK,
Cha,idock College.
OPINIONS OF ENGLISH JUDGES.
Almost every crime has It's origin
more or less in drinking. = Judgt
Quincy.
Ninety-nine cases out of every hun
dred are caused by drink.-Judge Frs
kline.
fit were not for drink you lJury
and / would have nothing to do
Judge Pdttison.
IRoNToN CAMP, No. $50, Sons o
Veterans, meets every 1st and Sd Thursda
evening, each month. and every Iuesda
syering for drill. ARNOLD HODGE,
]. ATrERBERRY. Capt. Commanding.
First Sergeant.
Children Cry for
Pitchers CaStoria.