Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-02-18
THE EFFECTS OF INTEMPER-
ANCE ON MAN SOCIALLY.
Essay Read by e. j. Durbin, Before
Christian Endeavor Society
Sunday, January II, 1902.
published by Request.)

Temperance, like religion, is an old sub
ject. say old because it has been both in
the pulpit and on the street torn to pieces.
These pieces In turn are analysed and re-
analysed, examined and re-examined, yet
each time the process of investigation is
gone through new points are found and
listening to the advocate are new hearers.
1t is only within the last few generations
that drinking was thought to be of much
consequence, in fact no more was thought of
seeing a man intoxicated than seeing him
smokea cigar to-day. Take in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth and one writer of the period
says courtiers of the Queen who sat around
the royal board would drink, and drink, and
drink until they slid under the table and lay
there like swine.
Intemperance.is not subject for an essay,
for it is too complicated, and it may be di-
vided into three branches when enumerat-
ing its effects on man, namely /. Moral
ly. 2. Physically. 3. Socially.
would like one or more of my friends
here to take the branches thus named as
subjects to write on. The theme I have
written or rather have tried to write about,
is the effects of Intemperance on Man So
.cially."
Nothing brings man down 10 disgrace,
bars him from society and lowers him in the
estimation Of the good andIthe wise, as the
use of liquor. I need not dwell here on the
dire effects of the use of strong drink TO The
home. Home is understood to be habi-
tation, an abode, place of Joy, but home is
not home where the serpent drink has coil.
ed itself.
Many young men have been charmed by
the serpent that many times silently reeps
into happy homes: many wife sinks iuto
lowly grave; many an atrocious mu rder is
committed and many are the cries for bread
ascending from the lips of the little one,
who are half clothed, half starsed and neg
iected in the novels of our great cites, by
that serpent of the Worm of the Still.
Go to the prisons and the asyluns and
ask the superintendent of those institutions
to give you list of the inmates therein end
opposite each name the cause he or she ia
thus confined, and you will find that seven
out of ten cases are directly traCeable TO
drink.
One time in Chicago, was Standing on
the corner of Clark and Adams sts., the
post Office block, and heard young man
behind me remark Look there, wilyou,
see her fight p My eye followed his direc-
tion and there going to the police station
was the patrol wagon and In it were tn ZEE
officers of the law holding a woman in A
dlunken fit; she was seated on one of the
side seats with a policeman on each side OF
her and one standing over her with a n ace,
She looked more like beast than IN nan
being and in her mad efforts, ciawing, + gh,
ing and crying at the men vile ep tf,ets.
She looked exhausted but again she rallied;
she seemed to have what puglists call theii
second strength, and again she cried and
struggled. 1t was a pitifu sight: her face
was covered with blood, her hair flying wild
in the wind, and at last she became m
manageable and the officer gave her blow
across the head; she tainted beneath the
brutal at soke and sank powerless in The bot
block of the station and turned away, ii
was too much to bear. She was a woman.
once child, but see her now, the cifse of
drunkenness Is on her soul, and IN Reyela.
tions we find ''no dTunkard csa euter the
Kingdom of Heaven"
am told that there are drinking places
for women in our large cities, and some OF
the women who style themselves ladies aud
who rank with the aristocra cy to-day 20 in
these places to drink, smoke cigarettes and
plaVcards-not for amusement but for gain
for many of them are very rich and have
such craze for gambling that they often
pawn their jewels to settle up their accounts
at these PLACES unknown to the police, and
where few dynamite bombs might do
soms very good work.
After seeing all this we can not but inyol.