The Progress., 1897-01-23
The Mount of 1neOrtAcy


can it ever become plalnt
The Mount of InebriAcy.
Another mountain of hindrance is that .
If Dositive and outspOker inlmora!s. lhere
is the mountain of inebriacy. 1t Is Pliso
with kegs and demiJohns ana uecaAtets
and hoesheads, on which SIT the VICTIMS
of that traffic whose one business Is 10 roo
earth and heaven of the most generous anu
large hearted and splendid of the human
go If their business was to take only
the mean and stingy and contempt!ple ana
useless we would not say mucA aSs'i'-S'
the work for there are tens OF thousaAus
of men and women who are nuisance u
the world, and their Cb!lterat,on from hu-
man society would DC an advantage 10 an
that is good. The removal OF these iliofdi
deficits would not arouse ID US 1nuch OF d
nrotest But insobriety takes the best
The mountain of inebriacy stands IN the
1ay of the kingdom of God, ana numerous
of thousands of men but for that mn
| drance would step right into the ranks OF
! the Lords host and march heaven"ara,
each one taking regiment With him. ihe
mountain of inebriacy is not an ordlnaI!
| mountain but 1t is armed. 1t is line or
! fortresses continually blazing away its de-
structive forces upon all our nelghbor-
! hoods towns and cities, their yoiieys OF
death poured down upon the homes ana
churches Under this power more than
| eAA''
try every year imprisoned, and an army OF
| 600 600 drunkards almost shake the earth
with their staggering tread. 1t causes In
this country 800 murders and 400 sulcloes
q YEAR, This mountain of inebriacy has
not only assaulted the land, but bombaTd-
ed the shipping of the sea, and some OF the
most appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic
md Pacific coasts have been the result.
What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle, on
the way from Liverpool to Dublin, de-
stroying 100 human livess A drunken sea
captain What blew up the Ben Sherrod
| on the Mississippi and sent loo to horrl-
BILE death? A drunken crew. What drove
On the break ers steamer making its way
from New York to Charleston and sent
whole families on the way home from
summer watering places to the merclless
depths of the sea? A drunken sea captain
Gather up from the depths Of the rivers
and lakes and oceans the bones OF those
shipwrecked by intoxicated captains ane
, crews and you could build out of them s
temple of horrors, all the pillars and al
t tars and floors and ceilings fashioned O
= human skulls Is it possible that such
S mountain of inebriacy can ever be made
Q plain?
S The Mountain of Crime.
Yonder also is the mountain of crime
q with it's strata of fraud and lnalpractic
4 and Inalfeasance and blackmail and bur
; plary and piracy and embezzlement an
r Ubertinisln and theft, all its heights man
b ned with the desperadoes, the cutthroa's
a the pickpockets, the thimble riggers, til
n corsairs, the wreckers, the bandits, til
y trickst the forgers, the thugs, the gal
d roters the fire fiends, the dynamiters, tn
J. shoplifters, the kleptomaniacs, the pyrt
J. maniacs, the dipsomaniacs, the smuggler:
\. the kidnapers, the Jack Sheppards, til
~ Robert Macaires and the Macbeths of vi
y, laiuy. The crimes of the world! Am DC
< right in calling them, when piled up t.
y sether, mountain? But we cannot brin
a. ourselves to appreciate great heights e:
v cept by comparison. You think OF Moul
ct Washington as high, especially those
NJ YOU who assembled as of old, on mule baci
- or more recently by rail train, to the II
Of Top House. oh, no. That is not high. FL
= it is only about 5000 feet whereas risir
g. on this western hemisphere are Climb
IN razo 81 900 feet high, and Mount Sahaln
of %, 600 feet high, and Mount Sarota. "a, 81
at feet high. But that is not the hisbe