The Press., 1892-02-18

My rrlends the pa@tOr, goes 10 tne thoa- Ire, takes his whole family -only the good theatres do not accuse him, but tell him this, that if he takes a converted drunkard of his church with him into patronage of the theatre, he'll get him damned, probably.
 My other friend, also 8 pastor, smokes, do not scold him, but I tell him now, that if he takes his friend, the converted drnnkard, into the parsonage study to smoke, he puts him in deadly peril. A pastor ought to be good company for the weakest of his flock. do not mean to single out pastors, but of course If the pastor smokes, the pews will 'smell of to- baeco.n
 But are these men entitled to so much and such tender carer We'll, that word "entitled' is 8 risky word in gospel work. However, two things ought to be remem- !bered, viz: That such men are alone in being subject to temptation by the law of the land, for purposes of revenue. The law recognizes an assault in a mere breath, but licenses saloon, which to many 8 poor, enfeebled soul is assault, battery, captivity, duress, death, damnation. .
 And then, when drunkard ttquits', he must quit. Other sinners don't seem. to think it necessary to carry things to such extremes At all events brethren, "Re- member them that are bound, as bound with them. '
 En route, January II, 1899.
 .sThe Next Thing...
 BY MARION BEECH.
 Some one'' proves by record that ssfhraa thousand women In the United States have b0en slaughtered by thelr husbandsn during the past year, but some one" has not kept a record Of the women and children that fled, Tor the time being, and kept hidden from husbands and fathers that would have slaughtered them. etSome one' has not the record of those locked in police stations and city prisons over night to keep them from killing wives and children. And no one has ever kept record of the women and children in the country that have spent nights of horror In outhouses, granaries, eattle-shads and high lofts in harns-waiting tremblingly for the dawn; or of that young mother with babe in her arms, who wrapped it in 8 quilt and laid it in a fence corner, fear ing her maniac husband would fire the house, and then watched outside the wirr- dow while he upset the table, stamped the dishes under foot, and piled in one promiscuous heap the furniture and other treasures of her wedding outfit !; or of that father who held his infants hands over a lamps blaze, and laughed in maniac glee at seeing the mothers az ony for the shrieking child. Or of an other father, who. threw his ten-years'- old daughter cut in thesnow, ,at midnight, and when she had reached the nearest house, two miles away, her feet were SC badly frozen that she remained crippled for life. Or of that other fiend, who beat his sick wife with the dead body of his infant. The list of these well authenti- cated facts might be continued indefinite. ly; they are not isolated cases, but such as have their counterpart every day, and are multiplying every year under the dom ination of the liquor traffic, aided and abetted by our legislators. Now, suppose that beside each one jol these three thousand real wife killers w place twenty of those other insane ones and twenty will be found m. underestt mate of tho real number and we hays Esixty thousand. Now, are not those whs have tried to kill just as '.morally Insane, IS those that have killed 1? and about tn s.morally. ,. with the legislators by who's authority the traiping school for nurdel fiourishes? 5 Well, the state has the gaalows and thu pepitentiary with which to apsonlrnodatt the three thousand, and it has the panpel houses Tor their orphan ehildren. Ths
 towns and cities Hcenss the saie of Aq l uoa the state gives them the permit, th.
 state bears the. criminal expenses result ling therefrom and the burden q which Il
 drawn, largelys frara the ricpitaral pop
 ulatinn. ith 6roan and a growl tn, Itarmer draws his pyrse to paS taxes 10 the .thrse theusana ' but were that arm.
 Of sixty thousand, or more, of moral, linsane'' to be. cared Tor and paid for, ther' l would be such : rebellion anon the sshay seed. battallions as would cause anothe spolttical cyclone. ' Rather let the Killing continue. Tn sEstate legalises the making of drunken
 maniac husbapds t should, It the ieast
 allow their wives tho privilege of bein
 destroyed ntheir lives aof misary. La
 tho farmers groan so long, as they con l Itinue to voto to lsealize swifesmnrder they should be VI illine u pay tho haagiD Iexpepsss Our ovefnsnsnt lsesltzes th
 mapufactnre ef llquers IoF revenue. n 1 larger tho rnannl the larger th
 revenue; the greater tho amount cor
 sumed, the greater tho amount manufa< l tured. Would you wish to have Esixt
 thousand faithful patrons of our goverr