People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30
Published by request.
Temperance.

We think. perhaps. and hope; the rest is
signs;
this all enemies Of temperance are smil-
ing;
Their victory is sure if no one ever tries.
Yes. they are perfectly willing that two
thirds the population,
Should just think temperance all the time
at home,
1.-THE agitated question never comes to legis-
ton.
Their damning business is secure; no harm
TO it will come.
Now morality and the times demand we act
incOncert.
And God will hold him guilty who is still,
While sixty thousand souls for whom Christ
died, are yearly
Being swept from earth by this curse, into
hell.
It's either right Or wrong if wrong; then let
us stop it,
Before Cod wrathful sinks the nation
quite.
There is no evil thing too bad Tor it to par
ent,
And its subtilely resisting all things right.
How long the church has struggled almost
vain, against it,
And yet its sanctioned, licensed by ma
tons laws.
Who is to blame? We are; yes God will hold
us guilty.
Indifference of the masses is the cause.
Wake up and blot this curse from out our
nation.
Too long have children cried and women
wept
This fall let every true mans vote read pro-
hibitiOn,
Long already has that just Gods vengeance
slept.
Christian brother, you who vote, do you pro-
hibit?
Have you sanctioned this protection since
you were twenty-One?
Saw you not your brothers struggle and his
downfall?
Can you hope to hear the welcome words
well dOnet
High license will not stop it; we have tried it.
Though it closes more than half the places
there,
Men get just as drunk at two saloons as
twenty,
And so they get it, that seems all they care.
Local option, tried, has also proved failure,
They go twenty miles for whisky, or cas-
Ter, send
Get enough on hand to last month, and
sharing,
Will just laugh at the law with friend.
Make the law read prohibition, then enforce
it.
Give the children bread and clothes and
proper schooling.
Cut it out, root and branch, distill and dealer.
We can legislate and easy stop this fooling
We've right to protect ourselves against it,
When an evil needs limit, there's proof
That it needs the nations strength set hard
against it;
To even limit them is curse enough
No, We can not hope to stop it altogether:
Neither can we stop the thieving that goes
Shall we license stealing, then protect it?
shall we?
No, nor this accused traffic, as we've done.
Mems liberty you also take when you say
they SHAH not steal
And all iuA to prevent your goods from be-
ing stolen.
salso wrong to cause our brothers down
fall,
Is earthly things worth more than the hui
man soul?
Public sentiment never rights a wrong. it
only tOlerates it,
Imagine if you can our true condition
had the signers of our indepenence waited
public sentiment
To lead out. Then on, on with prohibition.
Suppose this liquor never had been manufac-
tured.
And the people were industrious and good.
But fellow comes among them who wants
money,
And the dandy will not work as he should.
So he calls the men and boys into his parlors
And amuses them with games of cards and
dice,
lie is jolly. congenial and he makes the place
so pleasant.
Thus he leads them off into gambling and
vice.
Rut worse in oplpr IN amman, rha,,,
He prepares drink to lead them to his
shop,
Which creates such an appetite, yet deranges.
Soon their thirst compels them with him to
stop
There he takes from them the money they
have worked for,
Besides the time they're spending at his
place
Their families see very little of them,
While they sink in degradation and dis
grace
They now see they are ensnared; have been
made Victims
And hell becomes their portion and theiI
dread,
Their families, once comfortably settled
Are turned out in the street begging bread
Now men that have been good, begin to beat
their wives,
And mothers darling sons, freeze, out al
night,
The church is demoralized, the penitentiarie:
full;
And men murder one another and curse
and fight.
Children stop school for want Of proper cloth
ing;
There's hopeless wretchednessall around
Eve more to tell, but here ask the question,
Has he been OF any advantage to the town
Now his victims crying hOpelessly, Oh, stop
it,
Are put down by himself and christian {;
friends.