Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-27

He Says Alcoholism Is the Greatest Foe
to the Working Classes-His Subject Is.
"a Bag with Holes = A Drunkard's
Grave.
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-This sermon Of
DR.. Talmage is an arraignment of i'm
providence In all classes, and Of alcohol
Ism as the greatest enemy of the working
people. The text is Haggai 1, 8, "He that
earneth wages, earneth wages TO put it In
to bag with holes"
In Persia, under the reign Of Darius
Hystasres, the people did not prosper. They
made money, but did not keep it. They
were like people who have sack IN which
they put money, not knowing that the
sack is torn or eaten Of moths, or in some
way made incapable of holding yaluables.
As fast as the coin was put in ono end of
the sack it dropped out of the other. 1t
made no difference how much wages they
got, for they lost them. "He that earn
eth wages, earneth wages to put it into a
bug with holes"
What has become of the billions and bill
lions of dollars in this country paid to the
working classes2 Some of these moneys
have gone for house rent, or the purchase
of homesteads, or wardrobe, or family ex
penses, or the necessities of life, or to pro-
vide comforts in old age. What has be-
come of other billionsp Wasted in foolish
outlay. Wasted at the gaming table.
Wasted In intoxicants. Put into a bag
with hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for drink during the
last 30 years, and will build for every
workingman house and lay out for him
garden and clothc his sons in broadcloth
and his daughters in silks, and place at
his front door prancing span of sorrels
or bays and secure him policy of life in
surance, so that the present home may be
well maintained after he is dead. The
most persistent, most overpowering enemy
of the working classes is intoxicating
liquor. 1t is the anarchist Of the centuries
and has boycotted, and is now boycotting
the body and mind and soul of American
labor. 1t is to it worse foe than mo
| nopoly and worse than associated capital
1t annually swindles industry out of Q
large percentage of its earnings. 1t hold.
out its blasting solicitations to the me
chanio or operative on his wny to work
| and at tho noon spell, and on his way
homo at eventide; on Saturday, when tht
wages are paid, it snatches large part o.
| the money that might come into the fam
lily and sacrifices it among the saloor
| keepers. Stand the saloons of this country
| side by side, and it is carefully estimated
that they would reach from New York tt
| Chicago. Forward, march," says th'
drink power, land take possession of tht
American nation"
| All For Drink.
The drink business is pouring its vitriol
ic and damnable liquids down the throat
| of hundreds of thousands of laborers, ant
while the ordinary strikes are ruinous botl
to employers and employees, proclaim
strike universal against strong drink
which, If kept up, will be the relief of tn
working classes and the salvation of tn
nation. 1 will undertake to say that ther
is not healthy laborer in the Unitet
States who, within the next ten years,
be will refuse all Intoxicating beverag
and be saving, may not become capital
ist on small scale. Our country in
year spends 81 900, ,050. 900 for drink. o
course the working classes do a great dea
Of this expenditure Careful statistic
show that the wage earning classes o
Great Britain expend In liquors 100000,
600, or S500,000,000 year. Sit dow
and calculate, o workingman, how muc
you have expended in these directions
Add it all up. Add ~upswhat your neigh
bors have expended, and realize that In
stead of answering the beck of other pee
pie you might have been your own capi
talist. When you deplete workingman'
physical energy you deplete his capital
The stimulated workman gives out befof
tho unstimulated workman. My fathe
said: II became temperance man i
early life because noticed in the harves
field that, though was physically weake
than other workmen, could hold ou
longer than they. They took stimulants
took none" A brickmaker in Englan
gives his experience in regard to this mat
ter among men in his employ. He says
after investigation: 1.-THE beer drinke
who made the fewest bricks made $50, ,00(
and the abstainer who mado the fewes
bricks 746,O00. The difference in behal
of the abstainer over the indulger 81, 900.
When an army goes out to the battle, tn
soldier who has water or coffee in his car
teen marches easier and fights better tina
the soldier who has whisky in his canteer
Drink helps man to fight when he ha
only one contestant, and that at the stree
corner. But when he goes forth to mair
tain some great battle for God and hi
country, he wants no drink about him
When the Russians 60 to war corpora
passes along the line and smells the breat
Of every soldier. If there be in his breat
q taint of Intoxicating liquor, the man
sent back to the barracks. Whyp He car
not endure fatigue. All our young me
know this. When they are preparing fl
regatta or for o ball club or for an atl
letic wrestling, they abstain. Our worl
ing people will be wiser after awhile, an
the money they fling away on hurtful II
dulgences they will put into co-operatiy
association and so become capitalists.
the working man put down his wages au
then take his expenses and spread thel
out SO they will just equal, he is not wis
know working men who are in a perfet
fldget until they get rid of their last dollal
A Sealskin Coat.
F.. The following circumstances came undt
our observation: A young man worke
hard to earn his 5000 or $70O yearly. Ma
riage day came. The bride had inherite
$500 from her grandfather. She spent ,e'
cry dollar of it on the wedding dress. The
they rented two rooms in third stor,
Then the young man took extra evenin
employment; almost exhausted with tt
days work, yet took evening employmen
1t almost extinguished his eyesight. VII
did he add evening employment to the da
employment To get money. Why di
he want to get money! To lay up SOM
thing for rainy day? No. To get his Iii
insured, so that in case of his death h
wife would not be q beggarP No. He pl
the extra evening work to the day woI
that he might get $50 to GET his wife
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