The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-27

by this very fact. An incident came UNI
der my own observation that illustrates
what ] have just been saying.
A boy came home one day crying Bit
terly. The mother asked him what was
the trouble and he told her that the other
boys said that his father was drunkard
and would not play with him. Imagine
if you can the thoughts of that mother
when she heard the cause of her boys
grief. That night she told the father of
the conversation. 1t troubled him. He
did not like to think that his boy was
driven away from the society of others
1t worried him but he was the cause of il
and there was but one way out of it. He
took that way and after a severe strug-
gle came off conquerer and is now man
among men and his boy need not stand
in the fathers shadow.
Yes, the effect of intemperance is two
fold. 1t has direct and an indirect eff
feet. When tree falls in the forest it
man falls by reason of Incorporate hab-
its he takes down others with him and
causes others to feel his shame.
We wonder how man can so degrade
himself and care so little for his man.
hood as to get caught in this trap of satan,
but let us have some charity for the man
and look beYond him and see the big
brewery and distillery in the distance.
Wrecked manhood is but the product of
those establishments and as long as their
machinery is permitted to operate just SO
long will we see this product and new
crop every year. 1t has been said that
to close the breweries and distilleries of
the country would be to throw thousands
out of employment. Very true we admit
that but it would also throw tens of
thousands out of misery.
1t has been a long established fact that
large per cent of the inmates of our
prisons, jails and warehouses owe their
incarceration to intemperance. 1t is re-
sponsible for more human misery than
any thing else in the world and is the
greatest Instrument Iof destruction. 1t
makes men brutes and imperils their
souls. 1t leaves blight upon every
thing it touches. 1t fills hearts with sor-
row and breaks up homes that would
otherwise be happy 1t takes bread out
of the children's mouths and puts it into
satan's tithing house. He who worships
at the shrine of Bacchus must surrender
all he holds most dear in this life. Home
and loved ones, kindred and friends must
all be surrendered. Think you that the
chain of habit is not strong when a man
will pawn his baby's shoes in order that
he may buy liquor Think you that fam
lily is not surrendered when man will
leave his wife and little ones starving
and spend his last cent for whiskey Has
not man sold himself to satan when APP
petite overcomes every noble sentiment
and he exchanges home for the saloon
When he enjoys the loud laugh and ques-
tionable stories of his companions in sin
better than he does the innocent laugh
and prattle of his children? Yes, and
the first glass was the first step down
grade. If he had never taken that he
would not have lost his manhood, for it
was easy taking the second step, after
taking the first, and through that first
step he has reached condition where APP
petite is his master. With self respect
gone, sensibilities blunted and an outcast
from decent society he is an object lesson
to the young and his very appearance
speaks louder than words that the wine
cup is dangerous thing to handle. But
familiarity with such objects has bred
contempt and the lesson is not needed.
The young man looks at his fallen brother
in disgust, thinks of his superior will
power and perhaps that very evening in
the company of convivial companions
looks upon the wine when it is red and
hesitates not to drink the poisoned cup,
never thinking that he too is on the road
to destruction. He says within himself.
al can drink or let it. alone" There was
a time when the man he saw in the ditch
said the same thing, but now he cannot
let it alone except when he has no money
with fierce raging thirst which win cause
him to do almost anything in order that
he may quench it with his favorite liquor.
When man feels that he can let it alone
he should do it and not wait until appetite
controls him and steals his manhood.
"Seest thou not what they do in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of Je-
rusalem 2" Yes, we do, and fashionable
society must answer for the ruin of
many young men and women. The pres
enee of the wine cup at the feast has
been the beginning of a terrible end for
many. A fair hand holding out the glass
has started many a young man full OF
promise of future usefulness down to
social, moral and eternal ruin. A fair
hand has given the fl st push downward
and bewitching eyes have accomplished
satan's purpose. The presence of wi {
at the banquet is an o. en- door to perd;
ton and many have walked through it
God speed the time when it shall vanish
forever and this trap with its tempting
bait he forever done away with.
Possibly, in the course of your expert
ence you have been walking a ong til,
street and have seen man kicked ou
through the door Of saloon into th,
street. With his money all gone the,
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