Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-23

against rich men. while be himself ks--Ts two
dogs, and chews aud smokes. AMI i full o.
the chin with whisky and beer. wilkins MI
cawber said O. David C0ppsrael &. "copper"
field. my how. one pound income. eNpeI-es
twenty shillings aud six pence: result.
misery. But. Copp-rdeld. my boy, one pound
income. expenses nineteen shillaE~ aud six
pence: result. happiness But, q working
man OF America. take your morning dram,
and your noon dram. aud Your evening dram,
and Sprn everything you have over for to-
bac,o aud excursions. AMI YOU insure pow
ertv for yourself anl YOUR children forever!
II bv some generous Hat % the capitalists
OF this country. or by new law OF the G lv-
eminent Of the United States. twenty-five
DER cent or 1ftv per cent, or ona hundred
per cent were aided 90 the wages Of the
working Glasses oi America, IL would ba no
advantage t. hun lrelS %. thousands % them
unless they stopped strong drink. Ave, I'M
I'll they quit that evil habit, the more money,
the more ruin. the more wages, the more
holes in the bag.
Nv plea thi, morning is to those working
people who are in dis .ipl'-hip to whisky
bottle, the bear-nug an the wine-faSS.
And what / say L. the n wall not be more Rp-
propriate 10 the working classes than 20 the
business GLASSES. and TIE literary classhs, aud
the professional classes. aud all classes, an l
not with the people Of on' age more than
OF IA hLf-s lhhF tlit Ehfl NAalf NUN ~
the suffering OF the man whom strong drink
has enthallel, and remember that toward
that goal mul:iiuies are running The dis
ciple OF alcoholism suffers the loss of self
r-suert.
Just as soon as n man wISr7 mp AMI finds
that he l. thu captive Of -trpa, drink. he feels
dnmaanel. / do NOT car' how reckless lie
acts. lie may say, Il don't care he does
care. He cannot look pure man in the eye
unless IL i with positive force Of resolution.
Three-fuurths uf his nature Is destroyed;
his sali-rrspett Is gone he says things he
would not otherwise say; he does things
he would not otherwise do. When
man j. ninr-teuths gone with strong
drink, the first thing he wants To do istO
persua le YOU that he eau stop any tim he
wants to. He cannot The PhilistineS have
bound him hand and foot, and shurn his
l,cks and put out his eyes, and are making
him grind in the mill ola great horror. He
cannot stop. | will proyeit. He knowst that
his course Is bringing ruin upon himself.
lie loves himself. II he could stop he wouii.
He knows his course is bringing ruin upon
/ his family He loves them. Hs would stop
/ il he could. He cannot Perhaps he could
| three months or year ago, not now. Just
/ ask him To- stop for a month. He cannot; he
/ knows he cauupt. 50 he does not try.
/ hal q friend vino was for fifteen years
| going down under this evil habit. He hal
| large means He hal given thpuSan Is Of
! dollars to Bible societies and reformatory
Institutions of all sorts He WAS very
genial. very generous, and very lovahl., aud
/ whenever he talked about this evil habit Ia"
/ wonld say, 81 can stop any time. But n
| kept going on, going on, down, down.
down. His family would say, II wish YOU
would stop "Why," he would reply, II
eau stop any time II want to- After u
while he hal delir,um treman>; he had it
] I ft.. tl. Ia afl a.
stop at any time ii | wanted to- j. dead
now. What killed him? Rum. Rum. Aud
vet among his last utterauceS was, II can
stop ut any time.' He did not stop it, be-
cause he could not stop it. On, thera Is a
point in inehriation beyond which il a man
goes he cannot stop.
! Ona Of these victims sail to n Clrt~tt1n
man. "Sir. if | were told that | couldn't get
drink until tomorrow night unless hat
ali my fingers cut off, woull saw, BIN;
the hatchet AMI cut them of now. lhlv
deAr frien | in Philadelphia whose nephew
came to him one day, AMI, when he was cX-
hortei about his evil habit, said, "Cu'le. |
eln't give it up. If thee stopl cln1)l
aud it was lollel, AMI a glass OF wine wer1
set on the mouth OF that cannon, AMI kn'w
hat you would fire it or rs | cane up an
took ths glass, | wOuli starr, for must
have it,"
Oh, it is n sal thing for nun to wake u
in this life and feel tn It he is captive, H.
says II could have got rid Of this AT once,
out | can't now. might have lived an hon
0ra5le life and diei IL CArlstiaa death: IN.
there Is no hope for mo now; there Is n
escape for me. Dead, but NOT buried. [ an
walking corpse, | AN an apparition OF what
once WAS am Gagged i'm Mortal be tttng
against the wires Of my cage in this direc-
ton; beating against the cage until there Is
bl0ol on the wires AMI blood upon nv soul,
vet not able to get out. Destroyed without
remedy"
Igo on, and say that the disciple of run
suffers from the lOSs OF health.
The older men 1.-THE congregation may re
member that some years ago DR.. SeweIl wen
through this country AMI eieotritiei the PEG
pie by his lectures, in which he showed tht
effects Of alcoholism on the human stomach
He had seven or eight diagrams by which h.
| showed the devastation OF strong drink upol
the physical system. There were Thousands
of people that turned back from that ulcer
Gus sketch, swearing eternal abstinence froI
= | everything that could intoXicate.
God only knows what the drunkarl SUI
fers. Pain files on every nerve, and travel
every muscle, and gnaws every bone, an
burns with every flame, and stiugs wit
every poison, and pulls at him with ever
torture. What reptiles crawl over his CREEP
ing limbs! What hends stand by his mid
ulBnt pllIOWt W nat RrOdus tear MS ca
What horrors shiyer through his soul! Tai
of the rack, talk OF the InqGistion, talk {
the funeral pyre. talk of the crushing jug
geruaut-he feels them all at once. Have yo
ever been in the ward OF the hospital wher
} these inebrates are dying, the stencil OF the
wounds driving back the attendants, the
voices sounding through the night? Til
keeper comes up and SAYS, Hush, now. b
still! Stop making all this nDise!' But
il ptfhptupl only for q moment for 500
, rs the keeper Is gone they begin again
: "Oh, God! Oh, God Help! Help! Run
Give me rum Help, Take them Off me-
Take them off me! Oh, G)dn' And then the
| shrek, and they rave, and they pluck OF
t their hair by handfuls. and bite their n
Il into the qui'k aud then they groan, an
t they Shrek ana they blaspheme, aud the
ask the keeper to kill the n-''Stab IN
r Smother mel Strange me- Take the devi
/ off met On, it is no fancy sketch! Thi
; thing is going ON now all up and down I'll
| land and tell you further that this is e
r ing to be the death that some of you vi
a die. l know it, | see it coming.
} Again, the inebrate suffers through Il
d loss of home.
: do not care how much he loves his wi
= and children, If his passion for strong drir
! has mastered him, he will do the most on
= ragaous things; and if he could not &
> | drink in any other way he would sell h
p family into eternal bondage. How mar
) homes have been broken mp in that way 1
q one but God knows. Oh. is there anythir
t that will so destroy man for this life al
t damn him for the life that is to come? Iha
o that strong drink. With all the concentrate
f energies of my soul | hate it. Do n
> tell me that u man can be happy when
i knows that he is breaking his wife's heart III
n clothing his children with rags. Why, the
n are on the roads and streets Of this land t.
It day little children, barefooted unwashe
= and unkempt-want on every patch of the
l. faded dress and on every wrinkle OF the
a prematurely old countenances, who wou
1t have been in churches to-day, and as we
aIoJ m 1,o,, o,a b,,t co. That sam, I