The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-27
W. G. u. u. COLUMN
Testimony.

,,on of ,emperance, In which they urge
Catholics everywhere to get out and keep
out of the saloon business. A bal'imore
bishop in deploring the extent 10 which
their members we're engaged In inc ua
dc explained that the very small capi'ai
required, the enormous profits realized ana
the very insignificant labor connected WIN
II. induced many Of their church emigran''
on reaching America, to choose that me'n.
cd Of gaining livelihood; and he urgeu
upon their pulpit and press to enlisn'eh
their people upon the wickedness OF Deing
DEALER or customer in these dens OF iniqui-
tv The Methodist Episcopal general con-
terepce nearly all the annual conferences
} the Society of Christian EndeaVor' 'ne 'n'
, ternational Epworth League conYen''on
, and religious bodies of every branch have
placed upon their records the most ad-
yanced resolutions of total abstinence ior
the individual and prohibition BY STATE
and nation.
The Congregationalist says: "Whata are.
buke to this nation, receiving millions OF
dollars annually from Its revenue on iiq'
uors, is conveyed by the queen OF NADIA
gascar, when she says in recent procia'
nation, Il cannot consent, as your queen
to take a single penny OF revenue from
that which destroys the souls and BODIES
of my subjects"
The owner of costly and attractive
building IN New York Citywho had kept.
not one of the low down dives, but one oil
those high license, elegant places Tor 40.
ing the same work, said: II have sold
liquor eleven years-long enough for me
to see the beginning and end OF its eftec'o
have seen a man take his first glass OF
liouor in my place, and afterward I'LL the
grave of suicide. have seen man after
man, wealthy and educated, come into my
saloon who cannot now buy his dinner. l
can recall twenty customers worth from
100000 to $5OO,UOO who are now without
money, place or friends" These consid'
erations induced him to leave the iniqui-
tous business.
A cultivated Christian lady in near city
the widow Of man who had died from
- the indirect effects of drink, the mother o.
one son handsome and brilliant in socia
qualities, who from an honored and trust
ed position in a banking house fell by thu
steps Of drunkard until he died OF de
lerium tremens; mother Of two more son
who have been oyer the same road with
out the last chapter; this woman said
any sons were not tempted by the saloor
They lad nothing to do in the Garlic
wears of their drinking with the coars
company and surroundings of the ordinar
drinking place; but 1t was the wine otiere
az the New Years calls and with the II
freshments at parties and receptions
fashionable society" Said she; mo le'
than eight young men, from wealthy an
reputable old families, friends and con
RI panions of my sons, within one YET
died either directly or indirectly fro
the effects of liquor" The suicide OF OF
of these was the crowning horror that
ges the intimacy of dissipation aroused VIII
TO conscience was left in her sons, now pa
on thirtyfye, and by the most strenuous eifo
uld of friends they are being assisted back
ted sobrie,y and a self.supporting manhoo
dge But what a risk, what Gethsemanes
oil anxiety attend every day for that moth
ada and the families Of her sons, lest I
Q in tempter meet them at some weak poi
and undo in an evening all the work
months.
7 of Could any of our young boys who
day drinking for sport, playing with dang
day Gus thing, just as little boys try to b'
oos. each other in daring to cross the railw
for before an approaching train, could any
after these see themselves farther advanced
They the drink habit, would they admire
ourt, picture! The hard look, the redness
eyes, the hesitancy and crookedness OF g
the increasing untidiness OF person,
emily shabby attire, the difficulty Of getting
.enth keeping business position, the grad
late decline in the quality Of associates, fins
thai dropped altogether from the recognit
N ey. Of the worthy or respectable, except tn
ment who approach him from motives OF
ooks and efforts 10 reform; "strife, brawlir
,tion hatred, bitterness, wounds without ca,
babblings without sense" woe and sorr
oc,ed utter degradation and an upmour
sufIl. DEATH these are his portion,
Near a capital city in this st
offer is the princely home and estate
he is an ex.member Of congress who with
wife are honored, intelligent, most ez
cent Christian people. Natural resoul
have supplemented by taste wealth and all
eason, the landscape gardener could do in b
y the tifying the magnificent acres Of one Of
most charming combinations Of woodl
hills, valley and water has been done;
ion oil here, If anywhere In this world one W
nat we think home would be an earthly !
wasO. disc, And 30 Il would haye been bu
one thing. Riches, honor, integrity
every Christian graces, superior acquirem
alter foreign travel, domestic affection,
had all these; but three years ago the
son died miserably, disgracefully, k