Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-17

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his wife and children? She takes in
washing, when she can get il, or goes
out working on small wages, because
sorrow and privatior have left her in
capacitated to 90 a strong woman's
work.
The children are thin-bloodeS and
gaunt and pale and weak, standing
around in cold rooms, or pitching pen
MES on the street corner, and munchiDg
q slice of unbuttered bread when they
can get it, sworn at by passers-by be-
cause they do not get out of The way.
kicked onward toward manhood
or woInanhood, for which they
have no preparation, except n depraved
appetite and frail constitution. candi-
dates for alm-house and nitentiary.
Whatever other causes of poverty may
fail, the saloon may be depended on TO
furnish an ever-increasing throng of
paupers. Oh, ye grog-shops of Brook
lyn and New York and of all the citiesl
Ge mouths OF hell, when will we cease
to craunch and devour? There is no
danger OF this liquor business failing.
All other STYLES of business at times
fail. Dry goods stores go under. Hard
ware stores go under. Grocery stores
go under. Harness-makers fail, drug
gists fail, bankers fail, butchers fail
bakers fail, confectioners fail, but the
liquor dealer never II is the only Sc
cure business | know of
Why the permanance of the alcoholic
trade? Because, in the first place. the
men in that business, il tighs up for
money, only have to put into large
quantities OF water more strychnine
and logwood and nux vomica and
vitriol and other congenial concomi-
tants for adulteration. One quart of
the real genuine pandemoniac elixir
will do to mix up with several gallons
of milder damnation. Besides that,
these people can depend on an increase
of demand on the part of their custom
ers The more of the stuff they drink
the thirstier they are. Hard times,
which stop other businesses. only in
crease that business, for men go there
TO drown their troubles. They take
the spirits down to keep their spirits
up. There is an inclined plane down
which alcoholism slides its victims
| Claret champagne, port, cognac,
whisky, Tom and Jerry, sour mash,
on down until it is sort of
mixture of kerosene oil, turpen-
tine, toadstools, swill, essence of
the horse blankets and general
nastiness. With its red sword of flame
that liquor power marshals it's process
| sion, and they move on in ranks long
| enough to girdle the earth, and the
procession is headed by the nose
blotched, nerve shattered, rheum-eyed,
| duplicated, soul-scorched inebriates
! followed by the women, who, though
| brought up in comforta BILE homes, now
| go limping past with aches, and pains,
| and pallor, and hunger, and woe, fol-
! lowed by their children, barefoot I'M
| combed, freezing. and with n wretch
edness of time and eternity seemingly
compressed in their agoniZed features
| Forward, march, cries the LIQUOR
| business to that army without banner.
Keep that influence moving on and you
| VIII have the poor always with you.
| Report comes from one of the cities
w ere the majority of the inha bitants
ar, out of work and dependent on
| charity, yet last year they spent more
in that city for rum than they did for
clothing and groceries.
| Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of inn
! providence. A vast number of people
have such small incomes that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
surance one cent year 1t takes every
| farthing they can earn to spread the
Ia ole and clothe the family and edu-
cate the children, and if you blame
such people for improvidence, you en-
act cruelty On such a salary as
many clerks and employees and many
ministers of religion live, and on such
wages as many workmen receive, they
can not, in twenty years, lay up twenty
| cents. But you and ! know many who
have competent income and could pro-
vide somewhat for the future who live
up every dollar, and when they die.
their children go to the poor-house or
on the street. by the time the wife
gets the husband buried, she is in debt
to the undertaken and grave-digger for
that which she can never pay.
While the man lived he had his wine
parties and fairly stunk with tobacco,
and then expired, leaving his family
upon the charities of the world. Do
not send for me to come and conduct
the obsequies and read over such n car
cass the beautiful liturgy: Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord" for in
stead of that will turn over the leaves
OF the Bible TO /. Timothy, ", Is. where
/ hS says II dny provide not Tor his
own, and especially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith. and is
worse than an infdel" or | will turn
to jeremiah, xii. 10, where it saws:
lie shall &c buried with the burial OF
an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond
/ the gates OF Jerusalem" can not inn
agine any more unfair or meaner thing
than for man 20 get his sins pardoned
/ at the last minute, and then go to
| Heaven and live in q. mansion. and 90
riding about in golden chariot over
the golden streets, while his wife and
children, whom he might have provided
for, are tegRing for cold victuals at the
basement door OF an earthly city.
! IL seems TO me there ought TO be
| poor house somewhere on the outskirts
| OF Heaven where those guilty OF such
improvidence should bs kept for a while
on thin soup and gristle, instead Of sit
| ting down at the kings banquet II is
said that the church is a divine institu-
! ton. and believe it, Just as certainly
are the savings banks and the life
insurance companies divine institutions
| As out OF evil good often comes, so out
/ ~ the doctrine OF prot abilities calcu-
! lated by Prot lluRens and Prof Pascal