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

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eclipsed- She was very poor, and she sat
up working nearly all the night for a great
while until she bought sealskin coat.
have not heard. of the result on that street.
The street was full Of those who are on
small incomes, but suppose the contagion
spread, and that everybody had sealskin
coat, and that the people came out and
sried, practically, not literally, Though
the heavens fall, we must have a scalskin
coatp'
Twas out west and q minister of the
gospel told me in Iowa that his church
and the neighborhood had been impover-
ished by the fact that they put mortgages
on their farms In order to send their fam
lilies to the Philadelphia centennial 1t
was not respectable not to go to the Gen.
tennial. Between such evils and pauper-
ism there is a very short step. The vast
majority of children in your almsbouses
are there because their parents are drunk
IN, lazy or recklessly improyident.
/ have no sympathy for skinfiint saving,
but l plead for Christian prudence. You
say 1t is impt ible now to lay up any
thing for a rainy day. know it, but We
are at the daybreak of national prosperity
Some people think it is mean to turn the
gas low when they go cut of the parlor.
They feel embarrassed If the doorbell rings
before they have the hall lighted. They
apologize for the plain meal if you surprise
them at the table. Well, it is mean II 1t
is only to pile up miserly hoard, but II
1t be to educate your children, II il be to
give more help to your wife when she does
not feel strong, If 1t be to keep your fu-
neral day from being horrible beyond all
endurance because 1t is to be the disrup.
tion and annihilation of the domestic cir
Gle, II 1t be for that, then it is magnificent.
Breeds Poverty.
There ore those who arc kept in poverty
because of their own fault. They might
have been svell off, but they smoked OF
chewed up their earnings, or they lived
beyond their means, while others on the
same wages and on the same salaries went
on to competency. know a man who is
all the time complaining of his poverty
and crying out against rich men, while h
himself keeps two dogs, and chews and
smokes, and is full to the chin with whis
| ky and beer. Wilkins Micawber said tc
David Copper1eld: "Copperfeld, my boy
81 income; expenses, 20 shillings and
pence; result, misery. But, Copperfield
my boy, Ell income; expenses, 10 shilling'
and 6 ponce; result, happiness" But,
workingman, take your morning dram
and your noon dram and your evening
dram, and spend everything you have ovel
for tobacco and excursions, and you in
sure poverty for yourself and your childre1
| forever!
If by some generous fiat of the capitalists
of this country or by new law of thu
government of the United States 25 pei
cent or 30 per cent or 100 per cent wer'
added to the wages of the working classe
of America, it would be no advantage tt
hundreds of thousands of them unless the!
stopped strong drink. Aye, until the.
quit that evil habit, the more money th'
more ruin, the more wages, the more hole
in the bag.
My plea Is to those working people whit
are in dlsciplesbip to the whisky bottle
the beer jug and the wine flask. Ant
what say to them will not be more ap
propriate to the working classes than t.
the business classes, and the literary class
es, and the professional classes, and al
classes, and not with the people Of one ag
more than of all ages. Take one goo'
square look at the suffering Of the mai
whom strong drink has enthralled, and re
member that toward that goal multitude
are running. The disciple of alcoholism
suffers the loss Of self respect. just q
soon as man wakes up and finds that h
Is the captive Of strong drink, he feels de
meaned. do not care how recklessly h
| a CT ICy,1t Dor - hN doc
care. He cannot look q pure man i
the eye unless 1t is with positive force c
resolution. Three-fourths Of his nature
destroyed; his self respect Is gone; he say
things he would not otherwise say;
does things he would not otherwise de
When q man is nine-tenths gone wit
strong drink, the first thing he wants
do is to persuade you that he can stop an
time he wants to. He cannot. The Phi
istines have bound him hand and foot, an
shorn his locks, and put out his eyes, an
are making him grind in the mill of
great horror. He cannot stop. will prov
it. He knows that his course is bringin
ruin upon himself He loves himself.
he could stop, he would. He knows hi
course is bringing ruin upon his family
He loves them. He would stop If he coult
He cannot. Perhaps he could three month
or year ago; not now. just ask him
stop for month. He cannot. He know
10 cannot, so be does not try.
4 Drink Victims.
: had friend who was for Is years g
/ ing down under this evil habit. He ha
large means. He had given thousands c
J dollars to Bible societies and reforInator
institutions of all sorts. He was very ger
: ial, very generous and very lovable, an
, whenever he talked about this evil habi
he would say, 81 can stop any time" BIZ
he kept going on, going on down, dow1
i down. His family would say, 81 wish 70
! would STOP" "Why," he would reply, g
5 can stop any time if want to-" Aftt
: awhile he had delirium tremens. He ba
! +, it twice, and yet after that he said, @
: could stop at any time if I wanted to-
: He is dead now. What killed him? Drinl
: drink! And yet among his last utteranct
was, II can stop at any time" He di
: not stop it because he could not stop !
3 Oh, there Is point in inebriation beyoD
which If a man goes he cannot stop!
One of these victims said to Christia
, man: "Sir, if were told that couldn
get drink until tomorrow night unless
had oil my fingers cut off, would So,
Bring the hatchet and cut them 0
now.'" have dear friend in Philade
= phia whose nephew came to him one da,
! and when he was eXhorted about his ev
habit said: "Uncle, can't give 1t up.
! there stood a cannon and it was loade
and glass of wine were set on the mout
of that cannon, and knew that you woul
fire it off just as came up and took Il
!, glass, would start, for l must have it.
? Oh, it is sad thing for man to wake U
in this life and feel that he is a captive
, He says: II could have got rid of tn
, once, but can't now. might have live
an honorable life and died o Christia
death. But there is no hope for me nov
a There is no escape for me. Dead, but M
9 buried. am walking corpse. am q
: apparition of what 1 once was. I am
: Gagged immortal beating against the wire
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