Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-06

s .ia guy. Hereto l at1x nv hand and
5ea' IN the presence of all the annland-
| '1s harpirs of HE'LL
| -, rom Tue multitude of those who h,yn
IN eN'l Eabit born with them this army
10 o.li,g augmented. And am sorry "a
ns NAV Il great many of the drug stores
Wy aoettlng this evil, and alcohol ia sold
"',,.ef me name OF btters.
Az seems to me it is about time for tho
seventeen million professors of religion
-, "a america to take sides. 1t is going to
oe 'lh out an out battle with drunken
, heSs ana sotsiety, between Heaven and
a ne''' between God and the devil Take
s s oelore there is any further national,
eseaueAcc: take sides before YOUR sons
are , sacrificed aud the new home of your
uau3hter goes down under the alcoholism
oi ah lmbrutcd husband. Take sides
"il',e you: voice, your pen, your PRAYER.
| soui vote may have any Influence in ar
11esstihs the despoliatlon of this nation.
| I'm, ~ me seventeen million professors of re-
ils'oh should take sides on this subject it
"ouia not be very long before tho destiny
I, .. .lliS nation would be decided in tho
| right direction.
ID drunkenness state or national cyiIo
DOCS 1t belong to the North or does it be.
lohg 10 the South? Does it belong To
Inc East, or does it belong to the West?
Al. thcrc is not an American river into
| "iiieh It's tears have not fallen and into
M ,.,a Its suicides have not plunged
"has ruined that southern plantation?
every field fortune, the proprietor
ah MS family once the most a!1luent
supporters of summer watering places
What threw that New England farm
! INTO decay and turned the roseate cheeks
| tnat ooomed at the foot of the Green
Mountains into the palor of despairo
WHAT has smittcn every street OF every
village, town and city of this continent
win moral pestilcnce? Strong drink.
40 prove that this is q national evil |
can up two States in opposite directions
Maine and Georgia. Let them testify
IN regard to this. State of Maine saws.
ut is so great an evil up here VIC have
mathematical it as a State" State of
georgia says, sit is so great an evil down
here that ninety counties of this State
nave made the sale of Intoxicating drink
criminality.'' SO the word comes up
IRON all parts OF the land. Either drunk
cnncsS will be destroyed in this country
or the American Government will be de-
stroycd. Drunkenness and FREQ institu-
| SiotiS ulS CoHilHee luGO IL ucuJn HruDDlc.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during tho
last thirty years, and will build for CIV.
cry worlilngman house, and lay out for
aim q garden, and clothe his sons in
oroadcloth and his daughters in silks,
and stand at his front door a prancing
span of sorrcls or bays, and secure him q
policy of life insurance SO that the pres.
| NJ h<,,
he is dead. The most persistent, most
overpowcring enemy of the working
classes is Intoxicating liquor. 1t is the
anarchist of the centuries, and has boy
cotted and is now boycotting the body
and mind and soul of American labor
1t annually swindlcs industry out Of ;
large percentage of it's earnings. 1t hold
out its blasting solicitations to the me
and at the noon spell, and OH his wa,
the wages are paid, it snatches a larg
| the family and sacrifices it among tn
saloon keepers. Stand the saloons o
this country side by side, and it is care
fully estimated that they would reacl
! from New York to Chicago.
| This evil is pouring it's vitriolic an,
damnable liquors down the throats O
hundreds of thousands of laborcrs, an,
while the ordinary strikes are ruinou
both to employers and employees, l pro
claim a universal strike against stron,
drink, which strike, if kept up, will b.
the relief of the working classes and tn
salvation of the nation. will undertake,
to say that there is not healthy lahore
in the United States who, within tn,
next twenty years, if he will refuse al
Intoxicating beverages and be saving
may not become a capitalist on small
scale.
Oh, how many are waiting to see j.
something cannot be done for the stop
ping of intemperance! Thousands O.
drunkards waiting who cannot 20 tel
minutes in any direction without having
the temptation glaring before their eye
or appealing to their nostrils. they fight
ing against it with cnfccbled will ant
diseased appetite, conquering, then sur
rendering, conquering again and sur
rendering again, and crying, elbow long
o Lord! how long before these solicita
lions shall be gone!'' And how man.
mothers are waiting to see if thi!
national curse cannot lift? Oh, is tina
the boy who had the honest breath who
comes home with breath vitiated or dis
guised? hat change! How quickly
those habits of early coming home have
been exchanged for the rattling Of thu
night key in the door long after the las
watchman has gone by and tried to SCI
that everything was closed up for TIL
night!
Oh! what change for that youns
man, who we had hoped would do some
thing in merchandise or in craftsmanship
or in profession that would do homo
to the family name, long after mother
wrinklcd hands are folded from the las
toll! All that exchanged for startled
looked when the door-bell rings, les
something has happened; and the wisl
that the scarlet fever twenty years age
had been fatal, for then he would have
gone directly to the bosom of hi
Saviour. But alas! poor old soul, sht
has lived to experience what Solomon
said, "a foolish son is a heaviness to hi:
mother"
Oh! what funeral it will be whcl
that boy is brought home dead! Anc
how mother will sit there and say: II:
this my boy that used to fondle, apt
that walked the floor with i'll the nigh
when he was sick? Is this the boy tha
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