Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-09

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 Indebtedness and woe.
When German wants to take drink,
he takes beer. When an Englishman
wants to take a drink, he takes ale
When a Scotchman wants to take a
drink, he takes whisky. But when an
American wants to take a 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 b1astedf How many chill
dren turned out on the world accursed
with the stigma of debauched ances-
try? 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 that 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 and women to destroy, any lmmCr-
tai souls to damn, any more natlOnS to
balk, any more civilizations to eXtin-
guish.
Then there is what in America we
call socialism, in France commuI1am
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, We 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 I speak will not do work when
they can get it. I tried to employ one
who asked me for money. I said,
"Down in my cellar / have some wooo
to saw, and I will pay you for it. - For
a little while heard the saw going, and
T I
stairs and found the wood, but the
workman had disappeared, taking for
company both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
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 BattIements.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity and atheism and fraud and politi,
cal corruption and multiform, hydra
headed, million armed denominations ali
over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and healthful newspapers and good
and healthful books and our chief de-
achievement is upon them, what word
among the more than 100000 words in
our vocabulary can describe the work OF
that archangel of mischief, corrupt
literature? What man, attempting any
thing for God and humanity, has escaped
stroke of it's filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped it's Underwent? What
other obstacle in all the land SO appal-
ling? But [ cannot name more than one
half the battlements, the bastiOns, the
intrenchments, the redOubtS, the fOrtlfi-
cations to be stOrmed and overcome 1t this
country is ever taken for God. The sta
tistics are so awful that if we had moth
ing but the multiplication table and the
arithmetic the attempt to evangeliZe
America would be an absurdity higher
than the tower of Babel before it drop
ped on the plain Of Shinar. Where are
the drilled troops to march against those
Notifications as long as the continent!
Where are the batteries that can be I'M
limbered against these walls? Where
are the guns of large enough cahber tc
storm these gates? Well, let US look
around and see, the first of all, who is
our leader and will be our leader until
the work is done. Garibaldi, with 1 900
Italians, could do more than another
commander with 10, 900 Italians. Gen
eral Sherman, on one side, and Stone.
wall jackson, on the other, each with
10000 troops, could do more than some
other generals with 10000 troops. The
rough boat in which Washington crossed
the icy Delaware with few half frozen
troops was mightier than the ship OF
war that during the American Revolu-
ton came through the Narrows, gun
at each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate.
Our leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, and 1T
was an humble home, about five miles