The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-28

the armies of living drunkarcts, five and
ten abreast, aud then if l could have you
mount horse and ride along that line for
review, you would ride that horse until he
dropped from exhaustion, and you would
mount another horse aid ride until he fell
from exhaustion, and you would take an
other and another, and you would ride
along hour after hour and day after day
Great host, in regiments, in brigadess
Great armies of them. And then if you
had voice stentorian enough TO make them
all hear, and you could give the command,
Forward, marchP' their first tramp would
make the earth tremble. l do not care
which way you look in the community to
day the evil is increasing
HEREDITARY APPETITE.
l call attention to the fact that there are
thousands of people born with a 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 a father has made
a will of this sort: 'In the name of God.
amen. l beQueath to my children my
houses and lands and estates; share and
share shall they alike. Hereto 1 aff1x my
hand and seal in the presencsof witnesses
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 something like this: "In the name of
disease 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 reputation
shall be theirs. Share and share alike shall
they in the infamy. Hereto L affix my
hand and seal in the presence of all the ap
plaudiug harp:es of hell"
From the multitude of those who have
f1Eao h.lIli tlar,n
being augmented. And L am sorry to say
that great many of the drug stores are
abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold unGer
the name of bitters. 1t is bitters for this
and bitters for that and bitters for some
other thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any thralldom of alcohol
ism coming from that source, are going
down, and some day 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:
"Ahal have been after you for ten years.
! have got you now. Down with youi
down with your Bitters Ahl yes. They
make 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 increasing
1t seems to me it is about time for the
II, ,OO0, 600 professors of religion in America
to take Sides 1t is going to be an out and
out battle with drunkenness and sobriety.
between heaven and hell, between God and
the devil. Take sides before there is any
further national decadence; take sides be
fore your sons are sacrificed and the new
home of your daughter goes down under
the alcoholism of an imbruted husband.
Take sides while your voice, your pen,
your prayer, your vote may have any infiu-
ence in arresting the despoliation of this
nation. If the 100000 professors of re
hgion 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
THE CURSE OF STRONG DRINK.
Is drunkenness state or national evil?
Does it belong to the north, or does it be
long to the south? Does it belong to the
east, or does it belong to the west? Ahl
there is not An American river into which
its tears have not fallen and into which its
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantation?-every field a
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
the most afhuent supporters of summer
watering places. What threw that New
England farm into decay and 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 con-
tinent with a moral pestilence? Strong
drink
To prove that this is a national evil call
up two states in opposite edirections-Maine
and Georgia. Let them testify in regard
to this. State of Maine says, 'It is so great
an evil up here we have anathematized it
as state" State of Georgia says, ''It is SO
great an evil down here that ninety coun.
ties of this state have made the sale of in
toxicating 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 government
will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free
institutions coming into a death crap
pie
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years, and 1 will build for every
workingman house, and lay out for him
garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth
and his daughters in silks and stand at his
front door a prancing span of sorrels or
bays, and secure him policy of life insur>
ance so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead. The most per
sistent, most overpowering enemy of the
working classes is Intoxicating liquor 1t
is the anarchist of the centuries and has
boycotted and is now boycotting the body
and mind and soul of American labor 1t
annually swindles industry out of a large
percentage of it's earnings. 1t holds out
it's blasting solicitations to the mechanic or
operative Oh MS way 70 WORK, ana at the
noon SPELL and on his way home at even
tide. On Saturday, when the wages are
paid, it snatches large part of the money
that might come to the family and sacri-
fees it among the saloon keepers. Stand
the saloons of this country side by side,
and it is carefully estimated that theJ
would reach from New York to Chicago
This evil is pouring its vitrioIc and
damnable liquors down the throats of
hundreds of thousands of laborers, and
while the ordinary strikes are runous
both to employers and employees, pro-
claim a universal strike against strong
drink, which strike, if kept up, will be the