The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-20

patty in words OF fire and language su.
perior TO anything dare aspire to, INV
views on this subject, | beg YOU to
read carefully the following from ono OF
tho greatest statesmen and philosophers
OF modern times:
WORDS OF FIRE.
Editoriu! Ntu York Tribune, March 1, ISL
ut has boon said that the end OF good
government is the greatest happiness to
tho greatest number. II this DO true it
must be owned that no government OK
tant is satisfactorily conducted. None
loyal to God and the people.) For OBJ
servation shows as rule politica! en-
erGy is expended upon secondary con-
Germs while politicians employ all their
dexterity in avoiding action upon the
great problems which most deeply in.
volve the destiny OF tho masses.
There is to-day in the English
speaking countries no such tremendous
far reaching. vital question as that OF
drunkenness.
IN its Implications aud effects it
orershadows all else. 1t lies at the
centre OF all social and political mis-
chief. 1t paralyzes benitlcen, energies
in every direction. It neutralizes edu.
cational agencies. II silences the voice
Of religion. 1t battles penal reform.
1t obstruc.s political reform.
1T rears alott mass OF evilly inspired
power which n. every salient point
threatens social and national advance;
which gives to Ignorance and vice n
greater potency than intelligence and
virtue can command; which deptives
the poor OF the advantages OF modern
progress; which debauches and degrades
millions, brutalizing and saddeniug
them below the plane OF healthy saw
agery, and filling the centers OF popula.
ton with creatures whose condition al
most excuses the immortality which
renders them dangerous to their gen
Grafton.
"A!l these OWLS. all this mischief, all
this destruction OF human souls and IN.
teilCcts 90 on among us daily aud hour.
~. There are mono go ignorant and
inattentiye as not to have personal ex-
perieuce OF some OF them. Some hearth
darkeued, some family scattered. some
loving heart broken. Some promising
career ruined, some deed OF shame.
Yet how hard i. is to get this gigantic
evil attacked seriously?
Temperance organizations have in
deed been fighting it for years, yet pop
ular inertia ian apathy worse than op-
posltion) has resisted their utmost
efforts.
What are doctrinal points, for ex-
ample, compared to this ever present,
ever active insidious influence? What
are sec.arian differences by tho side OF
this national curse?
"Can the churches fold their hands
| and hattcr themselves that their dutios
are fulfilled while the masses prefer the
| saloon to tho pulpit and while rum
rules in politics and society?
Are tho higher educational agencies
doing all in their power to advance civ
ilization while they ignore this obstacle
TO progress?
Can any political organization be
| said TO represent the beat aspirations
and tho strongest needs OF the people
while this abiding source OF misery,
crino and poverty is allowed to spread
and flourish? There is needed some
thing Of that sacred tiro which kindled
into incxtinguishable heat the zeal of
tho nbolitlonists, which compelled the
abandonment OF human slavery to rouse
the national indignation and abhorrcnco
against this very much greater OWL"
Nothing short OF this it is to be
feared wall impel time serving pol1i-
clans to approach in spirit OF earnest
ness subject which is distastoful to
thom mainiy because they think they
cannot afford to be without tho help
anu support OF tho class who dorive
from tho degradation OF tho foolish and
ignorant the means whereby they con.
tinue to rule and plundor those whose
sagacity Is not proof against their
snares."
| Hero you aco it ia plainly stated that
1t is not hard times that fill prisons,
but immortality growing out OF the
liquor traflice that lies at tho centric
OF all social mischief. 1t is not because
mon are out OF employment, though
that fact is unQuestionablo, but because
OF tho supremacy OF tho drink traffic
that lies ut tho 'ccntro OF all political
mischief" Nor is it because OF fnan.
| clal depression, but because Of that
traffic which that great Republican
newspaper declares "debauches and de-
grades millions. brutnlizing and snd.
dening thom below tho plano OF healthy
saragory." Which awful curso must
| soon DO recognized and dcthronod by
tho Christian patriotism OF this nation,
or it will be. as it deserves to DO, turned
into holl with othors that forget God.
Kindly yours,
4. K. CAnsKADoS.
Radical HI. KCYscr, ". "a. Ftb. II.