Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-20
THE DRINK DEVIL.
OPINIONS OF WISE MEN ON THE
QUESTION.

An Array of Witnesses That Should Garry
Conviction-short Sentences That Speak
Volumes.
The devil in solution.-Sir Wilfrid
Lawson.
The beverage the mother of SINS
Southey.
The evil is in the drink.-David Lewis,
J.P.
/ consider all spirits bad spirits.
Ashley Cooper.
Liquid fire and distilled damnation.-
Robert Hall.
The dynamite of modern civilization.
Hon. John D. Long.
Grape juice has killed more than grape
shot.-C. II. Spurgeon, D. D.
While you have the drink you will have
the drunkard.- George w. Balm.
1t is drink, drunk and a drunkard;
an appetite, taste, delirium. S.
w. Pratt.
Strong drink is not only the devils
way into man, but mans way to the
devil.-Adam Clark, D. D.
The great cause of social crime is drink
The great cause of poverty is drink.
Wher hear of family broken up and
ask the cause-drink. If go to the gal
lows and ask its victim the cause, the
answer-drink Then 1 ask myself in
perfect wonderment, Why do not men
put stop to this thing?-Bishop John
Ireland.
oppose drink because it opposes me-
The work try to do it undoes.-Bishop
G. D. Foss.
Drink battles us, confounds us, shames
us and mocks US at every point. The
public house holdsits triumphant course.
London Times.
Strong drink, by whatever name the
demon is styled, in whatever way it pre-
sents itself-this prevents our success.
Remove this obstacle, and our cause will
be onward and our labors will be blessed.
John Bright.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his
whistle. le.-Benjamin Franklin.
Drink is the parent of crime. 1t would
not be too much to say that if all drink
ing of fermented liquors could be done
away crime of every kind would fall to a
fourth of its present amount, and the
whole tone of moral feeling in the lower
orders might be indefinitely raised
Charles Buxton, M. P.
Drink is the fruitful source of crime
and pauperism.- Mathew.
Drink is a greater destroying force
than all other physical evils combined
HeDrv Ward Raachar n n
Impossible to relieve poverty until we
get rid of the curse of drink.-Lord
Shaftesbury.
Drink, the only terrible enemy whom
England has to fear.-Prince Leopold.
The most determined evil which af-
f1icts the clerical force and the officers Of
the government is the habit of using in
toxicating liquors.-Hon. L. NJ. Morrill,
in United States Senate.
Stupefies and besots.-Bismarck.
I expect to my dying day to fight the
drink evil with every lawful weapon
John B. Cough.
Choose rather to punish your appetites
than be punished by them.-Epictetus.
The real evil in our community is the
drinking of Intoxicating liquor.-Hon. O.
H. Platt, United States Senator.
Iwant it distinctly understood that nc
man can drink intoxicating liquors ii
public and remain a member of my staff
Governor Lounsbury of Connecticut.
If you swallow strong drink down, the
devil will swallow you down.-Adam
Clarke, D. D.
There is scarcely crime before me
that is not directly or indirectly caused
by strong drink.-Judge Coleridge.
Could the youth to whom the flavor
of the first wine is delicious look upon
my desolation; could he but feel the body
of death with which cry hourly, it were
enough to make him dash the sparkling
beverage to the earth in all the pride of
its mantling temptation. Lamb.
Whisky, good to preserve corpses,
ought never turn you into corpse. Do
not touch 1T. De Witt Talmage, D. d.
The drink which the distillers make is
but palatable poison. If their liquors are
so delicious that the people are tempted
to their own destruction, let US at least
be secure from their fatal draft by burst
ing the vials which contain them. Let
us crush at once those artists in human
slaughter who have reconciled their
countrymeu to sickness and ruin.-Lord
Chesterfield.
If the cases appearing in all the calen-
dars throughout England were taken, it
would be found that rs per cent of the
crime was traceable directly or indirect
ly to the inordinate love of hquor.-Jus-
tice Hawkins.
What makes these slums Of London
so horrible? I answer with certainty and
with confidence of one who knows
drink! tell the nation with conviction
founded ON experience that there will
be no remedy until You save these out
casts from the temptation of drink
Archdeacon F. A. Farrar.
Drink is the mother of want and the
nurse of crime.-Lord Brougham.
Nine-tenths Of our poverty, squalor,
vice and crime spring from this poison
ous tap root. Society, by its habits, Gus
toms and laws, has creased the slope
down which these poor creatures slideto
perdition. Booth of Salvation
Army.
1t (the drink tends to break up all So
cial order, prostrates all barriers of law,
sets fire to all violent human passions
and whelms all institutions of blessed
massachusetts,, civil and religious-in
one blasting, fiery tide of rum.-George
B. Cheever, ID. ID.
/ find that alcoholic drinks give no