The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-06-26
w. c. 7. U. COLUMN,


A1oW III
re Sixty thousand. Sixty full req
Is ments, every man Of which will, be
,s fore twelve months shall have com
Ie pleted their course, lie down in In,
e grave OF a drunkard Every yea
5 during hepast decade has witnessed
the same sacrifice; and sixty regi-
0 ments stand behind this army read,
"a take It's place. 1t is to be re-
r crulted from our children and on.
children's h ldren. Tramp,
tramp, tramp'-the sounds come
TO Us IN the echoes Of the footsteps
of the army just expired; tramp,
tramp, tramp-the earth shakes
with the tread Of the host now pas
sing; tramp, tramp, tramp-comes
10 us from the camp of the recruits
A great tide Of life flows resistlessly
t. Its death. What in Gods name
are they fighting for? The privi-
lege OF pleasing an appetite, or con
forming to social usage, or filling
sixty thousand homes with shame
and sorrow. of loading the public
with the burden of pauperism. OF
crowdlng cur prison houses with
f-lons, of detracting from the pro-
dnctive industries OF the country. OF
running fortunes and breaking hopes.
of breeding disease and wretched-
ness, OF destroying both BODY and
soul in hell before their time.
The prosperity of the liquor in
terest, covering every department of
1t, depends entirely on the main
tenance of this army. 1t cannot
1--we without it. 1t never did live
without 1t. So long as the LIQUOR
interest maintains its present pros
porous condition it will cost Amer
ca the sacrifice Of sixty thousand .
men every year. The effect is in
separable from the cause. The
cost to the country Of the liquor
traffic Is sum so stupendous that
any figures which we should dare 4
% give would convict us of trifling =
The amount of life absolutely de-
troyed, the amount Of industry
acrificed, the amount of bread
Transformed into poison. the shame.
he unveiling sorrow, the crime. the =
'overty, the pauperism, the brutal =
Y, the wild waste of vital and finan
lal resources, make an aggregate
vast-so intellectually vast-that
ne only wonder is that the Ameri- u
an people do not rise as one man
nd declare that this great curse
nall exist no longer.
The truth is that there is no cues
on before the American people to- =
iy that begins 10 match in impor- q
nee the temperance question.
he question Of American slavery
as never anything but baby by
e side Of this; and we prophesv
at within ten years, if not within
re, the whole country will be- ~
wake to it, and divided upon it.
ne organizations Of the LIQUOR in
rest, the vast funds at lis COM
and, the individual feeling anon, .
ose whose business i pitted 4
ainst the national prosperity and Y
e public morals-these are enough
show that, upon one side of this
after, at least, the present con-
ion Of things, and the social and
lltlcal questions that lie in the
mediate future. are apprehended.
e liquor interest knows there is
be great struggle, and is pre-
ring to meet it. People, both in AL,
; country and in Great Britain,
beginning to see the enormity 80
this business-are beginning to II
lie that Christian civilization is
ua.ly poisoned at its fountain,
that there can be no publication
i urtil the source OF the poison n
Tried up.
temperance laws are being passed
the various Legislatures, which
must sustain, or 60 over, soul
body, to the liquor interest and
uence. Steps are being taken
behalf Of the public health,
rails, and prosperity, which they
st approve by voice and act, or
Y must consent to be left behind
left out. There can be no con-
sion and no compromise on the
OF temperance men, and no
rter to the foe. The great curse
'ur country and our race must
destroyed.
Meantime the tramp, tramp.
mp, sounds on-:he tramp Of
y thousand yearly victims.
ne are besotted and stupid, some
wild with hilarity and dance Z
" the dusty way; some reel [
y in pitiful weakness, some
ak their mad and murderous
ulses on one another, or on the y
less women and children whose
inies are united TO theirs: some
IN wat,e;Ja lal..l MI