Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-02

/ m9ntS, IN DrlgaueS. UreSG armies OF
them. And then if you had voice
stentorian enough to make them all
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
community today, the evil is increas-
ing.
call attention to the fact that there
are thousands of people born with
thirst for strong drink-a fact too often
! ignored. Along some ancestral lines
! there runs the river of temptation
! There are children whose swaddling
clothes are torn off the shroud of death.
Many father has made will of this
sort: ''In the name of God, amen. I
! bequeath to my children my houses
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike Hereto | afix 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 III writing would read some
thing like this: In the name of dis
ease and appetite and death, amen. |
bequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tankards 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. Hereto
| afiix my hand and seal in the pres
ence of all the applauding harpies of
| hell"
THE DEMON OF THE DRUG STORE.
From the multitude of those who
have the evil habit born with them
| this 2rIny is being augmented. And [
am sorry to say that a great many of
| the drug stores are abetting this evil,
and alcohol is sold under the name of
bitters 1t is bitters for this, and bit
tiers for that and bitters for some other
thing, and good men deceived, not
| knowing there is any thralldom of alco-
| hOlism coming from that source, are
| going down, and some day q man sits
with the bottle of black bitters on his
table, and the cork flies out, and after
| it flies a fiend 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
you'll" Bitters! All, yes. They make
a mans family bitter, and his home
| bitter, and his disposition bitter, and
his death bitter and his hell bitter.
| Bitters A vast army, all the time in
creasing.
| 1t seems to me it is about time for
| the II, 600, 900 professors of religion in
America to take sides. 1t is going to be
| an out-and-Out battle with drunken
ness and sobriety, between heaven and
hell, between God and the devil Take
sides before there is any further nation
al decadence, take sides before your
sons are sacrificed and the new home of
| your daughter goes down under the al
coholisn of an inebriated husband.
! Take sides while your voice, your pen.
your prayer your vote may have any
| influence in arresting the despoliation
! of this nation. If the II, 900, 900 pro-
| fess0rs of religion 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.
Is drunkenness a state or national
| evil? Does it belong to the north, or
| does it belong to the south? Does it
| belong to the east, or does it belong to
| the west1 All there is not an Ameri-
can river into which its tears have not
fallen, and into which its suicides have
not plunged. What ruined that south
| ern plantation-every field a fortune,
the proprietor and his family once the
| most affiuent supporters of summer
watering places? What threw that
New England farm into decay, ana
| turned the roseate cheeks that bloomed
at the foot of The Green mountains
into the pallOr OF despair? What has
smitten every street of every village,
town and city of this continent with a
moral pestilence3 Strong drink!
To prove that this is a national evil
call up two states in opposite directions
Maine 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: sit is SO great an evil
down here that ninety counties of this
state have made the sale of intOxicat-
ing drink a criminality." So the word
comes up from all parts of the land.
Either drunkenness will be destroyed
in this country or the American gov
eminent will be destroyed. Drunken
ness and free institutions are coming
into a death grapple.
POVERTY COMES AS AN ARMED MAN.
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the last thirty years, and l will build
for every workingman q house, and
lay out for him a garden, and clothe
his sons in broadcloth and his daughters
in silk, and stand at his front door
prancing span of sorrels 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 overpowering enemy of
the working classes is intoxicating
| liquor. 1t is the anarchist of the
| centuries, and has boycotted and is
now boyeotting the body and mind and
soul of American labor. 1t annually
swindles industry out of a large per
centage of its earnings 1t holds out
| it's blasting solicitations to the me-
chanic or operative on his way to work,
| and at the noon spell and on his way
home at eventide. On Saturday, when
the wages are paid, it snatches 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 that they would
reach from New York to Chicago.
This evil is pouring its vitriolic and
damnable liquors down the Threats
| of hundreds of thousands of laborers,
and while the ordinary strikes are ruin
GUS to both employers and employees,
proclaim a universal strike against
strong drink, which strike, if kept up,
will be the relief of the working classes
and the salvation of the nation. / will
undertake to say that there is not
healthy laborer in the United States
who, within the next twenty years, if
he will refuse all Intoxicating beverages
and be saving, may not become CAPT
| talist on a small scale.
Oh! how many are waiting to see if