The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30

streets. There is Just enough heat
in the front for the beautiful flowers
to grow. BY the way, Satan spends
a great deal of moEey beautifyine
these vestibules of hell. Even a
little ways back the elegant cur
Itains and fixtures are not scorched
but the smell of birthstone pervades
the place, and the sickening roar of
the seething, raging "lake" is heard
we'll back in the "palace.
A young lawyer enters with his
companions.
said Just enough heat was in
the front to permit the existence OF
flowers. This "flower" of the grad
uating class has noticed the peculiar
smell, but does not know it is burn
ing birthstone. He is fascinated.
He takes a dainty glass of port.
Again, and he passes the lovely
chenille curtains. His olifactory
nerves are deadened now to the odol
of birthstone. Each time he goes q
little further back. The fresh look
has left his face, his speeches at the
bar are less brilliant; he loses a
case in court; he goes home drunk
Don't varnish the truth. Don't
say 'under the influence OF strong
drink" or Intoxicated" but use
the right word drunk and emphasize
it, too. He then tries to "brac ?
up" but again he falls. Again
and again he rises only to go down
again before his mighty foes. |
said foes. Are there more than
one? Yes. There are three work
ing Individually n con b n I'd to ac-
complish his overthrow. The devil
the u. ;. government, and the
liquor traffic have formed a corpora
ton, the object of which is to ex-
change whisky for souls and money,
the devil to get the souls, the gov
ernment and the saloons get the
money.
His home is thing OF the past.
Mother and father have long since
been laid to rest, and if truth were
written on their tombstones it would
read: "Rum damned their son, and
slew them"
But do not the people say this is
the land of homes, the nation that
protects homes? Tha: is what they
say, but legalized saloons, and pro-
tected homes never did, never will !,
and never can exist under one
banner.
The Stars and Stripes do not wave
over the 'lland of the free and the
home of the brave" but over the
land of rum and the novels of its
slaves.
This drunkard, for drunkard he
is now, dies al last in the torments
OF delirium tremens, and the wife
and children are thrown on charity
This picture is not overdrawn.
One hundred and twenty-five
thousand men die every year from
the effects Of rum, and the men of
this nation vote TO continue the
partnership with the devil to fill the
Golfers of hell.
Oh, this terrible revenue! Shall
we continue to pay it, not draw it,
but pay it with human souls? Our
supreme court has virtually decided
the traffic laws unconstitutional
and yet protesting Christians and
ministers vote to sustain that which
God and the supreme justice of the
United States have said are wrong.
Can you do it and be innocent? No,
sir; you cannot. God will hold
you responsible for your vote.
Do | blame the saloonkeeper?
Do | blame the drunkard?
Not half so much as | blame the
man, protesting Christ, who votes
to perpetuate a party, or empower
with Office any man whose princi-
pies or example are in harmony
with or even friendly toward the
iendish business.
The Bible says: "At last it bit
eth like serpent and stingeth like
IN adder. -
This nation has deliberately made
he contract, and the "bite" has
come in the labor question, the tariff
question, and many others, which
will be settled, only when we, as a
nation, settle the liquor question.
May God give us grace to redeem
his land from the blasting breath
If hell, and wipe from the nation
the curse of drunkenness!
Satan is pleased if he can keep us
ooking at the tariff and monetary
bills as the robbers of the laborer,
while the real Observation-Disclosures
by those it slays.
You might cut lions tail off,
,rop his ears and clip his name, but
ne is lion still and will kill you.
The mass Of evils and national