Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-03-07

i.rocess to prove to this audience that a
drunken nation cannot long be q FREQ
Il alton. call your attention to the
$ .ct that drunkenness is not subsiding;
j ,rtainly that it is not at standstill,
ut that it Is on an onward march, and
+ is double quick. There is more
run swallowed in this country, and of
worse kind, than was ever swallowed
nee the first distillcry began it's work
IT death. Where there was onedrunk-
n home there are ten drunken homes.
Where there was one drunkard's grave
llere are twenty drunknrds graves. 1t
on the increase. Talk about crooked
shisl1y-by which men mean the wills
y that does not pay the tax to govern
hient-I tell you oil strong drink is
crooked Crooked Otard. crooked
Cognac. crooked schnapps. crooked
beer, crooked wine, crooked whisky.
because it makes mans path crooked,
and his i life CROOKED, sand zd,is:sdelth
led, stfis cter1itt
flie dead drunkards and have them
come to resurrection, and then add to
t!lat host all the armies of living
drunkards, five and ten abreast. and
then if could have you mount a
horse and ride along that line for re-
view. you would ride that horse until
lie dropped from exhaustion, and you
would mount another horse and ride
until lie fell from exhaustion, and you
would take another and another, and
you would ride along hour after hour
and day after day. Great host. in regi-
ments. in brigades. Great armies of
them. And then if You had voice
stentorlan enough to make them all
hear, and You could give the command.
Forward, lnarcL!" their first trump
would make the earth trclnblo. | do
not care which way you look in the
community today, the evil is increas-
ing.
call attention to tho fact that there
are thousands of people born with
thirst for strong drinll-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 STROUD of death.
Many 81 father has made Il will of this
sort: "In the name of God. amen. I
bequeatl to my children my houses
and lands and estates; share and share
shall they alike. Hereto | affix my
hand and seal in the presence of wit
neSscs", 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 in writing would read some
thing like this: In the name Of dis
ease and appetite and death, amen. l
bequcath to my children my evil l.abits,
my tankards shall be theirs. my vino
cup shall be theirs. my destroyed repu-
tation shall be theirs; STARE and share
alike shall they in the infamy. Hereto
l affix my hand and seal in the pres
encc 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 arlny 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
bittera 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-
holisln coming from that source, are
going down, and some day. nun sits
with the bottle of black btters on his
table, and the cork flies out, and after
it flies nend 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" BittersI All, yes. They make
mans family bitter, and his home
bitter, and his disposition bitter, and
bis death bitter, and his he'll bitter.
Bittersl A vast army, all the timo in
creasing.
It seems to me it is about time for
the II, 900, 900 professors of religion in
America to take sides. 1t is going to be
On out-and-out battle with drunken
ness and sobricty, between heaven and
hell, between God md the devil. Take
sides before there is any further nation
al decadence, take sides before your
sons are sacrificed md the new home Of
your daughter goes down under the al
coholism of IN incbriatcd husband.
Take sides while your voice, your pen,
your prayer, your vote may have any
influence in arrcsting the dcspoliation
of this nation. If the II, 900, 900 pro-
fessors 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 state or national
evil9 Does it belong to the north, or
does 1t belong to the south2 Does it
belong to the east, Or does it belong to
the wcst2 ALI! there is not an Amcri-
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 fortune,
the proprietor and his family once the
most afiuent supporters of summer
watering placcsa What threw that
New England farm into decay, and
turned the roscata checks that bloomcG
at the foot OF the Green mountains
into the pallor OF despair? What has
smittcn every street of every village,
town and city of this continent with a
moral pcstilcncc7 Strong drink
To prove that this is national evil |
call up two states in opposite directions