The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-03-13

grave into which they sink. Then there
is alcoholism, it's piled up demijohns
and beer barrels and hogsheads of fiery
death, barricade high and long as the
Alleghanies and Rockies and Sierra Ne
vadas, pouring forth day and night their
ammunition of wretchedness and woe.
When German wants to take drink,
he takes beer. When an Englishman
wants to take drink, he takes ale.
When a Seotchman wants to take a
drink, he takes whisky. But when an
American wants to take drink he takes
anything he can lay his hands on.
Foes to BE Overcome.
Plenty of statistics to tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkards die. But who
will give us the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel of this
worst demon of the centuries? How
many hopes blasted? How many chill
dren turned out ON the world accursed
with the stigma of debauched ances-
tryP Until the worm of the distillery
becomes the worm that never dies and the
smoke of the heated wine watts becomes
the smoke of the torment thSs ascendeth
up forever and ever Alcoholism, swear
ing-not with hand uplifted toward
heaven, for from that direction it can
get no help. but with right hand stretch
| ed down toward the perdition from
which it came up-swearing that 1T
will not cease as long as there are any
| homesteads to despoil, any magnificent
men aud women to destroy, any immor-
tai souls to damn, any more nations to
balk, any more civilizations to extln-
| guish.
Then there is what in America we
! call socialism, in France communism
and in Russia nihilism, the three
names for one and the same thing, and
| having but two doctrines in its creed.
First there is no God; second, there
shall be no rights of property. One OF
their chief journals printed this senti-
ment: Dynamite can be made out OF
| the dead bodies of capitalists as we'll as
out of hogs. (" One Of the leaders of com
munism left inscribed on his prison
wall where he had been justly incar-
cerated, these words "When once you
are dead, there is an end Of everything.
Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
you can-only don't let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of these
lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore
it when they cannot get work, but those
of whom speak will not do work when
they can get it. tried to employ one
who asked me for money. l said.
"Down in my cellar I have some wood
to saw, and I will pay you for it. " For
a little while heard the saw going, and
then heard it no more went down
stairs and found the wood, but the
workman had disappeared, taking for
company both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nlhll1sm
mean, "Too wicked to acknowledge God
and too lazy to earn living, and
among the mightiest obstacles to be over
come are those organized elements OF
domestic social and political ruin.
Myriads of Battlements.
There also are the Businesses of inf
delity and atheism and fraud and polltl
cal corruption and multiform, hydra
headed, million armed denominations al
over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and healthful newspapers and gooc
and healthful books and our chief de-
pendence for intelligence and Christian
achievement is upon them, what wore
among the more than 100, 900 words IL
our vocabulary can describe the work OF
that archangel of mischief, corrupt
literature? What man, attempting any
thing for God and humanity, has ESCAPED
a stroke of it's filthy wing? What goot
cause has escaped its Underwent? Wha
other obstacle in all the land so appal
ling? But cannot name more than one
half the battlements, the bastlons, the
intrenchments, the redoubts, the fortlti
cations to be stormed and overcome II thu
country is ever taken for God. The sta
tistics are so awful that if we had moth
ing but the multiplication table and th'
arithmetic the attempt to evangellz'
America would be an absurdity higher
than the tower of Babel before 1t drop
ned on the plain of Shinar. Where arr
the drilled troops to march against thos'
Notifications as long as the continent
Where are the batteries that can be un
limbered against these walls? Wher
, are the guns of large enough cahber t
storm these gates? Well, let us lool
around and see, the first of all, who
our leader and will be our leader unit
the work is done Garibaldi, with ], OO'
Italians, could do more than anothe
commander with 10000 Italians. Gen
, eral Sherman, on one side, and Stone
wall jackson, ON the other, each will
10, 900 troops, could do more than SOM
other generals with 90, 900 troops. LII
rough boat in which Washington crossed
the icy Delaware with few half frozel
troops was mightier than the ship o
war that during the American Revolu
: ton came through the Narrows, gul
3 at each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate
| Our leader, like most great leaders
D was born in an obscure place, and j
5 was an humble home, about five mile
/ from Jerusalem. Those who were out
{ doors that night said that there wa
stellar commotion, and music that cam
D out of the clouds. as though the from
door of heaven had been set open, ant