The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18

,oI / repeat. how can ron sweep oat
ss-,-rasa by turning on the hose pipe
,.har<oa with ink? Can weeds be rooted
-. T., sowing weedss I do not see how
rs, can sweep out he'll by flooding the
earth with liquid dsmnation.
uNrsr BE CRUSHED.
The plea is absurd. The saloon as an
institution must lie crushed and outlaw
"a Men will drink? Yes. fhey VIII
sneak round the corner and find u. fes-
pa, the weak and the Young will I've pro-
tec,ed. The poor viii lie rescued from
its clutches. All that Is necessary TO
hiring this question home to the hearts Of
e,,ar,- citizen is for il 10 touch his OWN
I;fe. An old man. says the Chicago
Journal. recently applied to a peniten'
tiary for the position of u guard lie was
told that he was too old. he said that be
had his second sight; that he had been n
dead shot in his youth: thu. lac was bet
ter shot now than ever; that no convict
could escape him. Finally after long
argument he was given trial. lie tod
the keeper that no had lost all his people;
that no must have the job. or nothing
opened before him. He was IN despair.
He was given a gun and put ON duty.
The next day the convicts were taken
across the fields 10 their work. Sudden
~ n convict leaped over a fence and
rolled down an eInbankment and made
a break for liberty. The old man lifted
his gun and shouted to the convict to
halt. Three times he called TO hmm to
halt. but on the prisoner sped. Then
came the crack of the old mans rifle,
and instantly the man fell. lie was
shot through the heart. The old guard
came up, and with a sigh looked 1t the
PROSTATE body, and when they turned
the dead man over and his face came
into view the old guard staggered back
with cry of horror. He recognized his
own son..
We are ready to weep oser such trag-
edy. We are willing to support the laws
which make it possible to shoot down a
man at the stockade, provided 1t is some
other mans child. We would not be
able to perform the work the old guard
I'D if we had to shoot our own boy, and
yet the principle is the same. The broth
erhood of man is great fact of the race.
Some of us feel that it is none Of our
business if saloons destroy other peoples
children. 1t is as much our business rs
if it were our own child. repeat again
this terrible indictment of the saloon.
1t should be made over and over again.
1t has never been controverted. 1t can
not be controverted:
The saloon cuts down youth in Its vigor, man.
hood in its strength and age in its weakness.
1t breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the
mother, extinguishes natural affections, grasses
conjuCal love, blots out fiiial attachments and
blasts parental hopes and brings down mourn
ing age in sorrow to the grave.
1t produces weakness, not strength; sickness,
not health; death, not life.
1t makes wives widows; children, orphans;
fathers, fiends-and all Of them paupcrs and
beggars.
epidemics, invites cholera, impsrts pestilence
and embraces consumption.
1t covers the land with fdleness, misery and
crime.
1t fills your jails, supplies your almshouses
and demands your asylums.
1t engenders controversies. fosters Quarrels
and cherishes riots.
1t crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes
victims to your scaffolds.
It Is the lifeblood of the gambler, the ele-
ment of the burglar, the prop OF the highway
man and the support Of the midnight inccn-
diary.
1t countenances the liar, respects the thief,
estoems the blasphemer.
1t violates obligations, reverences fraud, hon.
ors infamy.
1t defames benevolence, hates love, scorns
virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
1t incites the father to butcher his helpless
offspring, helps the husband to massacre his
wife and the child to grind the parricidal ak.
1t burns up men, consumes women, detests
life, curses God and despises heaven.
1t suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles
the jury box and stains the judicial ermine.
1t degrades the citizen, debases the legisla~
ture, dishonors the statesman and disarms the
patriot.
1t brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety;
despair. not hope; misery, not happiness, and
with the malevolence of a fiend it calmly sur
veys its frightful desolation, ard unsatisfied
with its havoc it kills peace, ruins morals,
blights confidence, Stays reputation and wipes
out national honor, then curses the world and
laughs at its ruin.
1t does all that and more-it murders the soul
1t is the sum of all vilainies, the father of all
crimes, the mother Of ell denominations, the
DEVILS best friend and Gods worst enemy.